Robin N. Sinn
Scholarly Communications
Specialist
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
Laura I. Spears, PhD
Assessment Librarian
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
Christine Fruin
Scholarly
Communications
Librarian
(not attending)
THE STATUS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
WHY OPEN ACCESS FUNDS?•Promote Open Access on campus
•Demonstrate library/institution’s commitment to new publishing models
•Assist researchers without grant funding for APCs
•Humanities/social sciences disciplines
•Early Career Researchers
WHY SOME FUNDS CLOSE
THE STATUS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
•Need outstrips funding
•Decide to move money to other ways to support OA because they don’t feel that supporting APCs is an effective way to change the scholarly publishing landscape.
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING FUND (OAPF)
Fund Purpose: Support articles not covered by grants
or other funding sources
• Support available to any UF faculty, student or staff
• Maximum of $3,000 per year
• Maximum of $3,000 per peer‐reviewed research article published in
a journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Maximum of $1,500 per peer reviewed research article published in
a hybrid journal
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING FUND (OAPF)
Evaluation Measures
1) Quantification of the use of the funds
2) Evaluative comments from the participants
3) Citation counts of the articles
Publisher Grand Total
N Y
Public Library of Science $72,326 $0 $72,326
BioMed Central $51,931 $0 $51,931
Dove Medical Press $17,824 $0 $17,824
MDPI $7,660 $0 $7,660
Hindawi $7,608 $0 $7,608
Frontiers $5,278 $0 $5,278
Ecological Society of America $4,666 $0 $4,666
BMJ $2,933 $1,500 $4,433
Libertas Academica $4,108 $0 $4,108
Karger $1,047 $3,000 $4,047
Dove Press $3,960 $0 $3,960
Institute of Physics $2,339 $1,500 $3,839
Springer $1,415 $2,421 $3,836
JMIR $3,830 $0 $3,830
OMICS $2,587 $0 $2,587
Oxford University Press $726 $1,500 $2,226
Gunther Eysenbach $1,900 $0 $1,900
Resilience Alliance $1,900 $0 $1,900
American Institute of Physics $1,500 $0 $1,500
American Physical Society $1,500 $0 $1,500
InTech $1,496 $0 $1,496
Future Medicine $0 $1,343 $1,343
National Academy of Science $0 $1,265 $1,265
Canadian Center of Science and Education $1,100 $0 $1,100
Taylor & Francis $0 $1,040 $1,040
Inter-Research $0 $1,009 $1,009
Other (n=32) $7,236 $1,765 $9,001
Grand Total $206,870 $16,343 $223,213
Hybrid
2010-2013 Funds by PublisherPublisher Grand Total
N Y
Public Library of Science $21,685 $0 $21,685
Elsevier $14,846 $6,000 $20,846
Wiley-Blackwell $16,326 $1,500 $17,826
Nature Publishing $17,020 $0 $17,020
BioMed Central $14,968 $0 $14,968
Frontiers $12,507 $0 $12,507
MDPI $9,767 $0 $9,767
Oxford University Press $1,352 $6,048 $7,400
BMJ $6,850 $0 $6,850
Dove Press $6,385 $0 $6,385
Hindawi Publishing $3,600 $0 $3,600
Taylor & Francis $0 $3,000 $3,000
Impact Journals $2,850 $0 $2,850
JMIR/Journal of Medical Internet Research $2,520 $0 $2,520
eLife $2,500 $0 $2,500
Copernicus Publications $2,297 $0 $2,297
ASM $2,250 $0 $2,250
Pensoft Publishers $2,232 $0 $2,232
Insight Medical Publishin $1,519 $0 $1,519
Crop Science Society of A $0 $1,500 $1,500
Ecological Society of America $1,500 $0 $1,500
GSA $0 $1,500 $1,500
Springer $0 $1,500 $1,500
Resilience Alliance $975 $0 $975
Am. Society of Agronomy $0 $800 $800
Clute Institute $600 $0 $600
Reabic $562 $0 $562
Elmer Press $550 $0 $550
Co-action publishing $0 $0 $0
MIT Press $0 $0 $0
PubMed Central $0 $0 $0
the Society for Neurosci $0 $0 $0
Grand Total $145,661 $21,848 $167,509
2017 Funds by Publisher
Hybrid
Publisher Info Total Awarded # Approved
$1500 or Above $30,514 18
$1000-$1499 $158,003 128
$500-$999 $31,874 41
Up to $499 $2,822 11
No Award over $2000
2010-2013
Publisher Info
Total
Awarded
#
Approved
$2500 or Above $7,870 3
$1500 -$2499 $112,307 64
$1000-$1499 $38,013 29
$500-$999 $9,319 13
2017
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING FUND (OAPF)
Award
Amount Mode Median
2010-2013 $1,350 $1,200
2017 $1,350 $1,500
METRICS (Work in Progress)
CITATIONS THROUGH AUGUST 2016 (1ST FUND ONLY)
3 of the UFOAP funded articles were ranked as “Highly Cited” in the Thomson
Reuters Web of Science (Chester et al. 2012, Hu et al. 2011, Tongay et al. 2012).
As of 8/2016, 14 articles had been cited at least 30 times; 53 articles have been
cited between 10 and 29 times, and 80.3% of the publications have been cited
at least once.
15 of the 198 publications were in journals not indexed by the Web of Science,
and hence they are not included in this citation analysis.
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA OPEN ACCESS
PUBLISHING FUND (OAPF)
1ST SAMPLE FROM UF AUTHORS WHO PUBLISHED
IN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (N=533)
• Author Sources Include Elsevier (418) and BioMed Central (115) mined
using APIs
• Articles were published
between 2009-2016
• Articles include an
author who was employed
by UF at the time of
publication
% Count
1 time 17.2% 5
2-3 times 6.9% 2
More than 3 times 10.3% 3
Not sure 65.5% 19
Total 100.0% 29
If yes, how many times have you, either
individually or with co-authors, been
funded from the 2010-2012 UFOAP
Fund?
USAGE OF UF OAPF BY SAMPLE 1 AUTHORS
OTHER MODELS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING FUNDS –
QUESTIONS POSED TO THE UF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMMITTEE,
THE UF SENATE COUNCIL ON RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
1 – Tenured Faculty/Senior Researchers are excluded; eligibility is restricted to
tenure track faculty/early career researchers and graduate students.
2 – Reduce per article cap, from $3000 to something resembling the current
median, which is $1500 (2017); however, the modes for both cycles is the
same ($1350). In 2017, there have been 27 awards over $2000 while in 2010-
2013, only 5 were over $2000.
3- Insure that articles are original, peer-reviewed research article – not case
reports, book reviews and other documents that are not full scholarly
research
4-THERE IS A LOT OF DISCUSSION IF HYBRIDS SHOULD EVEN BE INCLUDED.
OTHER MODELS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING FUNDS –
QUESTIONS POSED TO THE UF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
COMMITTEE, THE UF SENATE COUNCIL ON RESEARCH AND
SCHOLARSHIP
5- In light of #4, there is discussion that the hybrid journal APC should be
funded at only 50% up to a cap of $1500
6- Dates of article inclusion. For example, for 2017, articles approved from
November 15 2016 onward were included in the program.
7- OAPF funds are exclusively for research articles where publication fees are
not covered by grants or other funding sources – to encourage building the
APC charge into the grant proposal.
8- There is no mechanism in place currently to verify that an APC request is not
supported by grant funding that can be used to cover it.
DISCUSSION & NEXT STEPS
1. Revise the data collected on the OAPF Application
2. Revise the criteria for approval
3. Survey the Faculty broadly for:
• Perceptions of open access mandates,• Research compliance, • Different types of publishing models, • Inclusion of Data Management Plans and access to data
sets, and • Thoughts on sustainability.
For administrators, the largest concern is sustainability and how
Open Access publishing models will influence and impact the
larger publishing environment, including overall licensing costs
and the flat or decreasing materials budgets.