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Jisc APC: OA Fees Pilot Lightning Talk: Carolyn Alderson, JISC Collections

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How the Jisc APC pilot started out JISC Collections

Helping institutions meet their objectives

OPEN ACCESS in the UK

Finch Report and recommendations

Government /Research Councils UK (RCUK) mandate

Implications for UK authors and institutions

Partnership with Open Access Key - OAK

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There are a number of challenges that authors, institutions, publishers and funders face in Gold Open Access Publishing:

Lack of OA publishing infrastructure

Disconnect between authors and their universities

Inefficient micropayment process

Poor repository submission

Insufficient reporting

Time and cost of administration involved

Gold OA Challenges

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Objectives of the Jisc APC Pilot

Testing a third party

– Efficiencies

– Identify the advantages (and disadvantages)

– Collate information about APCs

– Develop experience and expertise

– Identify, capture, monitor and disseminate data of interest to all stakeholders

– Identify and establish links with other systems or services

– Identify value-added services that complement Jisc APC

– Support organisations

– Identify opportunities for standardisation

– Business models and recommendations

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Jisc APC pilot - Institutions

Institutional interest

Meetings

Institutional Participation Agreement

Core benefits

– Trusted party

– Payment cycle

– Securely holding funds

– Financial reports

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Jisc APC pilot – Publishers

Publishers contacted

What’s involved?

Different stages

Questions raised

Publisher Participation Agreement

Latest information

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Jisc APC Pilot Stakeholders

Stakeholder Interest / stake

Jisc Collections Funder and project manager

OAK Project partner

Jisc APC steering group Project advisor

Funders Project participant

Jisc Project advisor

UK HEI Project participant

Publishers Project participant

Intermediaries Potential beneficiaries of the project

Research community outside the UK Potential beneficiaries of the project

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Pub 1

Pub 2

Pub 3

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Data Flow

Ubiquity

SAGE

PLOS

c.alderson@jisc-collections.ac.uk