Wise

A publisher's perspective on Open Access

1. A Publisher’s Perspective on Open Access
Alicia Wise, Director of Access & Policy
[email protected]
@wisealic

2. Over 95 journals
feature open archives
Elsevier open access publishing options for authors
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82 open access
journals
Over 1600 journals
support open access
•Fully peer reviewed and upon
publication immediately free to
access from ScienceDirect
•Permitted re-use defined by the
author's choice of Creative
Commons user licenses (CC BY,
CC-BY-NC-SA, or CC-BY-NC-ND)
•Publication fees vary from 500- 5000
US dollars
•Published with CrossMark® to
maintain the publication record
•Pre-prints anytime, anywhere
•Post-prints by agreement immediately
for internal/private use with public
sharing after embargo. Deposit in PMC
only for NIH grant recipients.
•Final published journal articles for gold
OA articles or by agreement
Gold open access Green open access Open archive
Posting policy
•The final published article is
available from our
ScienceDirect platform after an
embargo period
•This model of open access
works really well, but is under-
acknowledged as other
stakeholders don’t have to do
anything

3. Green Open Access Challenges
•Like the wild west with many questions:
•Agreements or policies
•Embargos
•Licensing
•Version
•Who deposits/links, when, and where
•Usage reporting
•Monitoring compliance with policies
•Enforcing policies
•Publishers could communicate better, e.g. how this model is paid for, why we all take
such different approaches, how this model could be made to work at scale
•Publishers have put forward constructive ideas for services and solutions, e.g.
CHORUS

4. Gold Open Access: challenges
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5. Publishing Process: What changes when going gold?

6. Creative Commons License Choices by Authors

7. New Agreements and Relationships
•Helps authors to comply with open access policies and fund APCs
•Publishers facilitate polices such as depositing in PubMedCentral
•Develop and test new models
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Why are they important?
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Finding OA content: Clear open access labeling

10. Flipping Journals
In 2014 Elsevier flipped 7 journals to open access
•Do authors want to publish OA?
•Has there been a rapid increase in
uptake of hybrid OA options?
•Can authors pay?
•Is there funding for APCs?
•Is it a rapidly expanding or dynamic field?
•Will the editors and reviewers support the
change and maintain quality and impact?
Vaccine in 2012 it published:
•1149 articles in total
•52 were published open access (4.5%)
Examples:
SCOPE 3 launched in 2013:
•Community driven project
•Established a central fund for open
access fees
•Collaborative approach with
publishers
•Elsevier flipped two established high
quality journals
How does it work?
•From January each year, the journals are e-only and
libraries will no longer have the option of subscribing to
these titles
•Authors are informed and papers published from January
onwards require an APC payment
•Print subscriptions for reference purposes are available at
a deeply discounted rate
•Based on the contract terms and conditions we adjust list
prices and exclude these titles from collection deals.
To flip or not to flip Community support
Key considerations:
•Can ALL authors afford APCs?
•Does the community support the change?
•Will the editorial standards remain the same?

11. No double dipping
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Elsevier has:
•Improved OA labels on ScienceDirect to clearly
indicate OA articles.
•Reduced the list price for 27 journals in 2014 due
to fall in numbers of subscription articles.
•Flipped 7 subscription journals to gold open
access. Reduced the list price by 3.7% in 2014,
due to a decline in the number of
subscription articles.
Molecular and Biochemical
Parasitology
We do not to charge subscribers for open access
articles and when calculating subscription prices
only take into account subscription articles – we do
not double dip
http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-
policies/no-double-dipping-policy
Elsevier’s policy
For example:

12. Growth of open access publishing
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•Expect that it will continue to grow and a ‘mixed’ industry of subscription and OA
•Growth rate dependent on external factors such as government, funder and institutional
policies and preferences.

13. We expect that Asian countries will contribute an increasing
share of global articles
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Source: Scopus. Projections based on 2008-2012 CAGR.
China to surpass
the US
India to surpass
the UK

14. This means that even if NL, UK, US transition to 100% gold
OA, there would still be growth of subscription content
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NL
UK
US
Source: Scopus. Projections based on 2008-2012 CAGR.
Global subscription content will continue to grow even if several major research countries transition
completely to OA.
In this hypothetical example, NL reaches 100% OA in 2016, UK in 2019, US in 2021

15. UK Example: Growth in the volume of titles accessed has far
outstripped growth in actual expenditure on access due to “all you can
eat” deals
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The number
of serial units
taken by UK
academic
libraries has
grown fast
over the last
10 years
Serials
Expenditure
growth is
outstripped
by Serial Unit
growth

16. UK Example: Journal print list prices significantly overstate what
universities pay per title
The list
prices of
journals
show
steady
increases
over the
last 10
years.
However,
the actual
effective
price paid
per journal
has
declined.

17. Researchers choose to publish OA in hybrid journals
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