LundOnline is a two day seminar aimed at college and university librarians and teachers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Melissa Holden, Open Access Business Developer, SAGE, attended this year. The following is her presentation.
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What’s the Big Deal with Open Access? Traditional Publishing Houses and OA” – Thoughts from Lund Online
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Open Access in the
Humanities and Social Sciences
A SAGE Perspective
Melissa Holden
Open Access Development Editor
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1. OA at SAGE
2. Open Access and the Librarian
3. The Avoidance of Double dipping
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OA at SAGE
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OA at SAGE: author choice
● Growing portfolio of gold OA journals
• CC BY for all, with author choice for other licences
● SAGE Choice (hybrid programme)
• CC BY or CC BY-NC
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SAGE is
Green
Compliant
Authors can deposit/archive the
version of the article accepted for
publication in their own institution’s
repository/personal website
immediately with no embargo
period
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Why SAGE Open?
The first HSS “mega
journal”
Premier destination
for quality OA
research in HSS
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SAGE: SA(ra)GE(orge)
SAGE was founded by Sara and
George Miller McCune in 1965
with a mission to support the
dissemination of scholarly
research and education
Sara’s will transfers ownership of
SAGE to a charities and
establishes a trust whose purpose
is to maintain the company as an
independent publisher for the
indefinite future
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Why SAGE Open?
Sara’s mission: support the dissemination of
scholarly research and education
• Campaign for Social Science and research
• US: oppose FIRST Act
• Nurturing interdisciplinary research
• Independence = long term view
• Experiment with OA and technology
• Open access publishing requires investment in back
office systems
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Monthly submission data
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Experiment with APCs in HSS
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$695 List Price
SAGE Open survey: Over 70% constituted personal payments
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DOAJ by subject
2,414 Social
Sciences OA
journals = 16%
Only 13% levy
APCs
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UK Funding
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US Funding if FIRST Act passes
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Building a broad, engaged community:
article editors and reviewers
23,770
registered
reviewers
7,400 invited to
review
3,572 reviewed
12,062 invited
article editors
2,100 agreed
article editors
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The challenge:
Explaining and educating
about SAGE Open and OA
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#ofDays
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Top considerations for submitting:
● SAGE’s reputation
● Subject fit
● Quality of previously published authors or
papers
● Internationality of journal
SAGE Open author survey:
71% of respondents said
SAGE Open was their first choice
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Citations
● Total cited SAGE Open articles 65
● SAGE Open articles cited
by ISI ranked journals 23
● Total citations 112
● Citations by ranked journals 31
● Most citations of one article 10
Over 730,000 downloads to 500 papers
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Experimenting with Drupal technology
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Lessons Learnt
● Academic selection mechanisms different in HSS
● Intellectual property is the idea itself
● Licensing - concerns over derivative use
● Immediacy not so crucial
● SAGE Open is additive - it has created a new vehicle
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THE OA LIBRARIAN
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Librarian OA extras
● Crucial role in disseminating OA content
● Some manage/allocate institutional/govt OA funding
● Promote researcher engagement with OA
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2013 UK librarian feedback
SAGE with Jisc
● Practical challenges with OA:
• How to allocate OA funding
• How to record and track APCs
• Researcher lack of awareness with gold OA
• Advising researchers on quality OA journals
www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/apc.pdf
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UK librarian recommendations
• Clearer guidance from funders about allocation
• Better information about licences and funder
compliance
• Robust APC management
• Make budgeting easy with clear publishers’
policies on double dipping
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Avoidance of double dipping:
Fundamentally simple
What’s the fairest way? For whom?
But how?
Journal of
Double
Dipping
Policy
Journal of
Double
Dipping
Policy
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Local vs Global
Try to satisfy all groups
to be fair
LOCAL UNIVERSITY
1. Individual/single
subscribers
2. Big deal subscribers
Journal of
Double
Dipping
Policy
APC
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Current SAGE statement
● 2012: <0.25% of papers were published SAGE Choice
● SAGE will not be charging subscribers for open access
content in hybrid journals where the author has paid an
APC
● We are working on a model to ensure fairness for the
2015 subscription year which we will be discussing with
our society publishing partners prior to implementation.
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians/subspricing.sp
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Summary
● SAGE is green compliant
● SAGE Open has created a new vehicle for OA
in HSS
● Experimenting with OA
● Librarians have a crucial OA role to play
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Thank you!
melissa.holden@sagepub.co.uk
David Ross, OA Executive Publisher
david.ross@sagepub.co.uk
Notas del editor
Opened for submissions Dec 2010Launched April 2011 with 6 papersOver 2,900 submissions from 104 countries to date1500 submissions in 2013500 articles publishedOver 730,000 Downloads
Over 2,900 submissions from 104 countries to dateTop publish countries – USA, Canada, Australia, UK and India
Cf 60% in biological and life science
BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilNERC – Natural EnvironmentSTFC - Science and Tech FacilitiesEPSRC- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilESRC - Economic and Social Research Council Arts and Humanities - AHRC
Next challenge was how to engage a community whose understanding of OA was limited.Decide to build a broach church. By not having a dedicated Ed board it’s a broad as it can be – i.e. it’s the whole community.
Explaining/educating what the criteria was
Community is engaging, reading and citing
Jisc is a registered charity and champion the use of digital technologies in UK education and research.
If a journal has over X% OA, then action is taken to adjust the subscription priceOA content is not counted in subscription pricingIf OA content inc, then the subscription price is adjustedIf OA content decreases, pricing will riseAPC waivers will be given to top subscribers proportional to the volume of OA content Based on prior 1/2/3 years OA data?Big deals subscribers? How many APCs paid per institution? Should society partners have a say Librarians: Make budgeting easy!