APCs in the Wild: could monitoring and tracking of OA payments help speed up the transition to OA?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/5.5584
Keywords: open access, transformative agreements, monitoring and tracking, APC payments, institutions, authors

Abstract

Accelerating progress towards full and immediate open access (OA) is reliant on being able to source adequate funding to cover the costs of gold OA. Monitoring and tracking OA payments has created a complex and challenging role for institutions, but is crucial in order to understand the complete picture of the cost of OA. Whilst some institutions have developed methods to monitor OA payments, there remain a high number of "APCs in the wild", or APC payments whose origins are difficult to track. In this presentation we will summarise research Springer Nature has undertaken to explore the tracking and monitoring of APC payments, including interviews and a survey of global librarians, and data from Springer Nature authors to better understand the sources of APC funding, and the motivations and challenges concerning the monitoring of APCs. We will focus on feedback from institutions on the routes to implement better tracking, and on the noted benefits of being able to do so in enabling a faster transition to OA.

 

Author Biography

Mithu Lucraft, Springer Nature

Mithu Lucraft is Director for Outreach and Open Research Marketing at Springer Nature. She has worked in academic publishing since 2004.  A passion for storytelling combined with a lasting commitment to scholarly communications has led her through a variety of Marketing and Communications roles, including at Oxford University Press, Sage Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan. At Springer Nature she is responsible for promoting open access agreements, open access books and research data services, as well as leading a wider researcher content engagement strategy.

References

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11988123.v4

Published
2020-09-22
Issue
No 4 (2020): The 15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing 2020
Section
Presentations

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