Supporting Open Access: institutional OA funds

Mary RobinsonSHERPA, University of Nottingham

21st January 2009

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html

Open access (OA) mandates

UK Research Councils

Charities & Independent fundersWellcome TrustBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UKEtc

InternationalEuropean Research Council

Open access (OA) mandates

UK: RCUKAHRCBBSRCESRCMRCNERCSTFC

UK: charities/ independent fundersBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UKWellcome Trustetc

InternationalGovernment and independent funders

www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet

Funder policies: Research Councils Directly-Incurred Costs

“For Research Council grants, publication fees may be included as a directly-incurred cost under the ‘Other’ costs heading on the standard electronic application form.”*

Indirect Costs: Full Economic Costs “If universities do set up such [publication] funds, they will

form part of the cost base used for calculating their standard rate for the indirect costs of research.”*

* RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees

JISC Open Access Publication Charge Surveys

Researchers:

Institution:

“6 institutions have a central OA fund, 4 have a School or Faculty or Departmental OA fund”

45%

31%

15%

4%

Funder OA grant

Grant

Employer/institution

Author

Case study: Nottingham OA fund Set up as a partnership between Research Innovation Services

(RIS) and Information Services Approved by University Research Committee in November 2006;

procedures document approved in March 2007 Administered centrally by RIS Designed to fund OA charges (for OA or hybrid journals) not

page/colour charges Available to all members of the University regardless of their

source of research funding Currently being monitored, but not rationed Promoted within institution along side repository Additional funds; not diverted from periodical purchases To date, low usage: 75 requests in 18 months, average cost per

article of about £1400

Other institutions? University of Amsterdam University of Calgary Canada Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/openaccessfund

Also University of Tilburg University of Delft

Are any of your institutions setting up a fund? Are your Universities checking for compliance with

mandates?

References SHERPA JULIET (funder policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/

SHERPA ROMEO (publisher copyright policies) http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo

RIN Briefing Note on Payment of Publication Fees

http://www.rin.ac.uk/files/Briefing%20Note%201%20-%20Payment%20of%20Publication%20Fees.pdf

JISC Open Access Publication Charge Surveys http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/aboutus/workinggroups/jiscoapubcharge.doc

Thank you