Open Access Mandates and Policies: The Basics

Mering, Margaret

doi:10.1080/00987913.2020.1760707

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“…The UK has the highest proportion of OA articles among the six countries, but the Netherlands and Norway are closing the gap. This finding is consistent with Mering's view that "European countries, especially the UK, have played a leading role in promoting OA" (Mering, 2020). Long before the launch of Plan S in 2018, OA publishing was raised on the European agenda in 2006, and the Lisbon Treaty clearly emphasized the European Union's commitment to OA publishing (European Parliament, 2007).…”

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Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

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Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article processing charges (APC), which create a new paywall on the researchers’ side. Publishing is part of the research process and thereby necessary to perform research. This study analyses the global trends towards paying to perform research by combing observed trends in publishing from 2015 to 2020 with an APC price list. APC expenses have sharply increased among six countries with different OA policies: the USA, China, the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Norway. The estimated global revenues from APC among major publishers now exceed 2 billion US dollars annually. Mergers and takeovers show that the industry is moving towards APC-based OA as the more profitable business model. Research publishing will be closed to those who cannot make an institution or project money payment. Our results lead to a discussion of whether APC is the best way to promote OA.

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“…They are practices, not ideals. against an APC paid by the article's author, the author's institution or funder, or the journal's publisher (Mering, 2020). Traditional subscription-based journals may also lift an embargo and allow OA after a certain time from the date of publication (i.e., delayed OA).…”

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“…As mandates for OA, such as the NIH Public Access Policy and Plan S (developed by cOAlition S), gain popular support, the nuances of OA publishing will increasingly dictate researchers' publication practices [9]. At the same time, there is no universal standard for obtaining funds to cover these charges, let alone regulation of the charges themselves [16].…”

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Faculty Attitudes Towards Article Processing Charges for Open Access Articles

Halevi

Walsh

2021

Pub Res Q

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Article Processing Charges (APCs) are significant charges for publishing Open Access (OA), and have no accepted standards for authors to source the funds or negotiate the charges. While there is a growing body of literature exploring academic authors’ perceptions of OA publishing, there is little data on how authors pay for APCs. The aim of this study was to examine how authors prepare for and fund APCs, as well as their perceptions of these charges. In early 2021 the authors deployed a survey to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty members via email. The survey was completed by 310 faculty, representing 10.6% of the active researcher population. Our findings show that about 50% of respondents include anticipated APC costs in grant applications, and that 16% of faculty will pay APCs using personal funds. Questions evaluating perception of APCs show that while the majority of respondents support the concept of Open Access, most believe that charges are too high and should not fall on authors.

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“…Plan S is an initiative that was implemented by Science Europe, a group of state funded scientists and researchers from 12 national European funding agencies referred to as "cOAlition S" (Plan, 2022). In 2021, as part of Plan S, a group of international funders (including UK Research and Innovation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and the World Health Organization) launched a major reform of the way funded research is published (Mering, 2020;Shamseer et al, 2021). Recipients of grants funded by agencies affiliated to Plan S are required to publish research in open access journals or platforms and make publications available via open access repositories (Plan, 2022).…”

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Open access and its potential impact on public health – A South African perspective

Strydom

Mellet

Rensburg

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Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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Traditionally, access to research information has been restricted through journal subscriptions. This means that research entities and individuals who were unable to afford subscription costs did not have access to journal articles. There has however been a progressive shift toward electronic access to journal publications and subsequently growth in the number of journals available globally. In the context of electronic journals, both open access and restricted access options exist. While the latter option is comparable to traditional, subscription-based paper journals, open access journal publications follow an “open science” publishing model allowing scholarly communications and outputs to be publicly available online at no cost to the reader. However, for readers to enjoy open access, publication costs are shifted elsewhere, typically onto academic institutions and authors. SARS-CoV-2, and the resulting COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the benefits of open science through accelerated research and unprecedented levels of collaboration and data sharing. South Africa is one of the leading open access countries on the African continent. This paper focuses on open access in the South African higher education research context with an emphasis on our Institution and our own experiences. It also addresses the financial implications of open access and provides possible solutions for reducing the cost of publication for researchers and their institutions. Privacy in open access and the role of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in medical research and secondary use of data in South Africa will also be discussed.

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Open Access Mandates and Policies: The Basics

Cited by 12 publications

References 2 publications

Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research

Faculty Attitudes Towards Article Processing Charges for Open Access Articles

Open access and its potential impact on public health – A South African perspective

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