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Robin N. Sinn

Scholarly Communications

Specialist

Sheridan Libraries

Johns Hopkins University

[email protected]

Laura I. Spears, PhD

Assessment Librarian

George A. Smathers Libraries

University of Florida

[email protected]

Christine Fruin

Scholarly

Communications

Librarian

[email protected]

(not attending)

mailto:[email protected]

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.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PUBLISHING ACTIVITY

2009-2013 PUBLISHING BY UF AUTHORS

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PUBLISHING ACTIVITY

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



Evaluation Measures

1) Quantification of the use of the funds

2) Evaluative comments from the participants

3) Citation counts of the articles



Grand Total Dispersed $390,722

THE UNIVERSITY

OF FLORIDA

OPEN ACCESS

PUBLISHING

FUND (OAPF)

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



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.



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

2ND SAMPLE - SURVEY OF 2017 UF OAPF FUND

2017 n=47 (N=99)

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE YOUR ARTICLE AVAILABLE AS OA?

Sample 1

Sample 2

IN ADDITION TO THE UF OAPF, CHECK ALL SOURCES OF OA FUNDING YOU HAVE RECEIVED.

Sample 2

Sample 1

WHAT CONCERNS DO YOU HAVE ABOUT OA PUBLISHING?

Sample 1

Sample 2

WHAT OTHER FEEDBACK DO YOU HAVE

ABOUT THE UF OAPF (SAMPLE 2 ONLY)?

% 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.

This presentation acknowledges the contributions of co-

investigators UF IT/Systems Analyst Robert Phillips

& UF libraries Dean Judy Russell.

This study was visualized by graduate student extraordinaire,

Linfang Yuan.

Photograph by Catherine Russell

Thank You!

Let’s answer those

questions!

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