The impact of open access publishing agreements at the University of Vienna in light of the Plan S requirements: a review of current status, challenges and perspectives

Pinhasi, Rita; Kromp, Brigitte; Blechl, G.; Hölbling, Lothar

doi:10.1629/uksg.523

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“…In addition, the project participants, including the University of Vienna, were better prepared than most to meet the Plan S requirements thanks to the wide-ranging transformative agreements and support for fully OA publishing venues, covering close to three-quarters of the relevant publishing output. 32 'The AT2OA publication dataset has emerged as probably the most important tool in negotiations'…”

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Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach

Pinhasi

Hölbling

Kromp

2021

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Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach

Pinhasi

Hölbling

Kromp

2021

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“…When choosing to adopt an OA business model, journals and authors need to sign detailed agreements that clarify the OA model, including the depository, the fee, and the authors' rights. There are four types of open access agreements for journals: Transformative Agreements (Borrego et al, 2021), the Pure Publishing Agreements (Pinhasi et al, 2020), the Subscribe to Open Agreements (Crow et al, 2020), and Membership Publishing Agreements (Hinchliffe, 2020).…”

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Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

Wei

Zhao

2022

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Although the open access citation advantage (OACA) has been discussed extensively, scholars lack a clear understanding of the mechanisms through which switching from subscription-based model to open access (OA) model affects the citation impact of a scholarly journal. Many journals have switched from subscription to OA, yet they later also flipped their preswitching articles (i.e., those under subscription model) to OA, thus leaving no subscription article to be compared with their postswitching OA counterparts. To detect the switching effect, our study instead focused on 60 journals that "reverse flipped" from OA to subscription. We use a difference-in-difference (DiD) analytical framework to analyze two propositions related to OACA, based on the bibliographic and citation data of pre-and postswitching publications in these journals. Our findings indicate that reverse flipping is unlikely to affect the journals' impact through changing the visibility of their articles. Instead, it could lead to a systematical shift in the submissions to the journals and thus considerably affect their impact. Our findings have important theoretical and practical implications for subsequent studies, funding agencies, and scholarly journals considering a reverse flip.

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Plan S and Open Access (OA) in Quebec: What Does the Revised FRQ OA Policy Mean for Researchers?

Harris,

Lange,

Lasou

2024

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Objective – Our article examines the effects of Quebec’s provincial funding agency (FRQ)’s revised 2022 OA policy on researchers. Following FRQ’s participation as a cOAlition S funding agency, which involves endorsing Plan S principles, we provide an overview of the OA options for researchers. We examine these options under the FRQ 2019 and FRQ 2022 policy years, account for the effect of transformative agreements (TA) on OA publishing options, as well as the financial implications for researchers under the revised policy. Methods – The researchers extracted a list of FRQ-funded publications from years 2020 to 2022 using the DOI registration agency Crossref. Using this sample set, the researchers quantitatively analyzed OA options under the previous policy and the revised one, comparing the two. To determine the effect of transformative agreements (TAs)s, we reviewed current agreements offered through Canada’s national licensing agency Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Results – We found that the self-archiving method for open access (OA) is reduced under the revised 2022 policy. Our results lead us to anticipate the pressure felt by authors who will be required to pay article processing charges (APCs) to meet grant requirements. Conclusion – The current publishing patterns of FRQ-funded researchers are primarily concentrated in hybrid journals not covered by transformative agreements. As such, researchers will face additional financial costs should these publishing patterns continue. Concerted efforts among all stakeholders (researchers, universities, libraries, and funders) are needed to sustainably transition to immediate OA.

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The impact of open access publishing agreements at the University of Vienna in light of the Plan S requirements: a review of current status, challenges and perspectives

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach

Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach

Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

Plan S and Open Access (OA) in Quebec: What Does the Revised FRQ OA Policy Mean for Researchers?

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