Abstract
A robust corpus exists on Open Access (OA) spending within libraries, however there is less literature on assessing OA expenditures across colleges and universities. Due to the nature of the fragmented and uneven investment in OA, researchers are likely not optimizing institutional resources on Article Processing Charges (APCs) as part of the open access environment. This article describes how personnel at University of Oregon Libraries built a Power BI model to encapsulate and visualize our institution’s open access outlay as well as apprise researchers of their options for selecting OA publication venues based on APCs and impact metrics.
References
Article Processing Charge Award | UO Libraries. (2024). https://library.uoregon.edu/department-of-open-research/article-processing-charge-award
Bakker, C., Langham-Putrow, A., & Riegelman, A. (2024). The Impact of Transformative Agreements on Publication Patterns: An Analysis Based on Agreements from the ESAC Registry. International Journal of Librarianship, 8(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol8.4.341
Borrego, Á. (2023). Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review. Learned Publishing, 36(3), 359–378. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1558
Bruns, A., & Taubert, N. (2021a). Investigating the blind spot of monitoring systems for article processing charges in full OA journals: An approach for the estimation of publication fees not covered by OpenAPC. Publications, 9(3), 41. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications9030041
Bruns, A., & Taubert, N. (2021b). Investigating the blind spot of monitoring systems for article processing charges in full OA journals: An approach for the estimation of publication fees not covered by OpenAPC (Preprint). Research Gate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351344288_Investigating_the_blind_spot_of_monitoring_systems_for_article_processing_charges_in_full_OA_journals_An_approach_for_the_estimation_of_publication_fees_not_covered_by_OpenAPC
Bryant, T., & Thomas, C. (2024). Black, Indigenous, and Faculty of Color Awareness of Open Access | Bryant | College & Research Libraries. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.85.1.7
Butler, L.-A., Matthias, L., Simard, M.-A., Mongeon, P., & Haustein, S. (2022). The oligopoly’s shift to open access publishing: How for-profit publishers benefit from gold and hybrid article processing charges. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du Congrès Annuel de l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1262
cOAlition S. (2023a). Moving away from APCs: A multi-stakeholder working group convened by cOAlition S, Jisc and PLOS | Plan S. https://www.coalition-s.org/moving-away-from-apcs/
cOAlition S. (2023b, September 27). Supporting Open Access for 20 years: Five issues that have slowed the transition to full and immediate OA | Plan S. https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/supporting-open-access-for-20-years-five-issues-that-have-slowed-the-transition-to-full-and-immediate-oa/
cOAlition S. (2024). “Plan S” and “cOAlition S” – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. https://www.coalition-s.org/wp-content/uploads/PlanS_Principles_and_Implementation_310519.pdf
Davis, P. (2021, May 24). Journal Citation Indicator. Just Another Tool in Clarivate’s Metrics Toolbox? The Scholarly Kitchen. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/05/24/journal-citation-indicator/
DiVittorio, K., & Gianelli, L. (2021). Ethical Financial Stewardship: One Library’s Examination of Vendors’ Business Practices – In the Library with the Lead Pipe. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/ethical-financial-stewardship/
Elliott, S. B., Siôn Romaine, Barbara Albee, and Cynthia M. (2023). Going for Gold, Deep in the Red. Library Journal. https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/going-for-gold-deep-in-the-red
Farley, A., Langham-Putrow, A., Shook, E., Sterman, L. B., & Wacha, M. (2021). Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted | Farley | College & Research Libraries News. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.7.298
Finch, E., Ozburn, L., & Thoms, B. (2023, March 1). APCs and 123s: Estimating How Much Your Faculty are Spending on Article Processing Charges. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lib_present/220
Halevi, G., & Walsh, S. (2021). Faculty Attitudes Towards Article Processing Charges for Open Access Articles. Publishing Research Quarterly, 37(3), 384–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-021-09820-x
Harris, S. (2019). Toward Global Equity in Scholarly Communication. Science Editor, 42(4), 114–116. https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/toward-global-equity-in-scholarly-communication/
Haustein, S., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., Hare, M., Butler, L.-A., & Schönfelder, N. (2024). Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551v1
Jahn, N., & Tullney, M. (2016). A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany. PeerJ, 4, e2323. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2323
Jilani, G., & Banerjee, S. (2023). Pearson correlation coefficient between article processing charges and journal indicators for gold open access articles by Indian authors: South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, 89(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.7553/89-1-2253
Khoo, S. Y.-S. (2019). Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis. LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries, 29(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10280
Klebel, T., & Ross-Hellauer, T. (2023). The APC-barrier and its effect on stratification in open access publishing. Quantitative Science Studies, 4(1), 22–43. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00245
Krauskopf, E. (2021). Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation. Learned Publishing, 34(4), 637–646. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1413
Morrison, H., Borges, L., Zhao, X., Kakou, T. L., & Shanbhoug, A. N. (2022). Change and growth in open access journal publishing and charging trends 2011–2021. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(12), 1793–1805. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24717
Niles, M. T., Schimanski, L. A., McKiernan, E. C., & Alperin, J. P. (2020). Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship to review, promotion and tenure expectations. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0228914. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228914
Open Access Scholarship Policy (Motion US 20/21-18). (2021). The University of Oregon Senate. https://senate.uoregon.edu/senate-motions/us2021-18-open-access-scholarship-policy
Pavan, C., & Barbosa, M. C. (2018). Article processing charge (APC) for publishing open access articles: The Brazilian scenario. Scientometrics, 117(2), 805–823. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2896-2
Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J., & Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ, 6. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375
PLOS. (2024). PLOS and DORA. PLOS. https://plos.org/publish/dora/
PLOS ONE. (2024). Journal Information | PLOS ONE. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/journal-information
Report from Equity in Open Access workshop #1: The APC debate, reflections and rainbows - OASPA. (2023, March 21). https://www.oaspa.org/news/report-from-equity-in-open-access-workshop-1-the-apc-debate-reflections-and-rainbows/
Robinson-Garcia, N., Costas, R., & Leeuwen, T. N. van. (2020). Open Access uptake by universities worldwide. PeerJ, 8, e9410. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9410
Roh, C., Inefuku, H. W., & Drabinski, E. (2020). Scholarly Communications and Social Justice. In M. P. Eve & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (pp. 41–52). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001
Scott, R. E., Harrington, C., & Dubnjakovic, A. (2021). Exploring Open Access Practices, Attitudes, and Policies in Academic Libraries. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 21(2), 365–388. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpml/128/
Senate Subcommittee on Open Access. (2020). Open Access White Paper. University of Oregon Libraries. https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/c/977/files/2020/05/SSOAWhitePaper-1.pdf
Senate Sub-Committee on Open Access. (2024). Open Access at the University of Oregon | Senate Sub-Committee on Open Access. https://openaccess.uoregon.edu/
Solomon, D., & Björk, B.-C. (2016). Article processing charges for open access publication—The situation for research intensive universities in the USA and Canada. PeerJ, 4, e2264. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2264
SPARC. (2024a). SPARC: Advancing Open Access, Open Data, Open Education. https://sparcopen.org/
SPARC. (2024b). Why It Matters: Open Access. SPARC. https://sparcopen.org/open-access/
Subscribe to Open. (2024). Subscribe to Open Community of Practice. Subscribe to Open. https://subscribetoopencommunity.org/
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. (2023). Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research (pp. 1–43). White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Open-Access-Publishing-of-Scientific-Research.pdf
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2024 International Journal of Librarianship