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Open APC Sweden

Ulf Kronman National Library of Sweden Joint Nordic Meeting on Open Access and Licensing Stockholm June 15 – 16, 2017

Open APC Sweden – a pilot project

• An aggregation of Swedish APC costs at GitHub

– github.com/Kungbib/openapc-se

• Programs for cleaning and enrichment of APC data

– using API's from services as Crossref and DOAJ – aggregated result file can be downloaded for analyses

• Programs for calculation of statistics

– program R is used for presentation on GitHub web

• Modelled from the German INTACT project's Open

APC

– www.intact-project.org

Open APC Sweden – website at GitHub

Front page Data Statistics Wiki - documentation

Goals and aims with Open APC Sweden

National Library – short-time goals

• More information and knowledge about the development of
• pen access in Sweden
• Transparent information on publishing costs
• Data for negotiations with publishers

Research organisations – long-time aims

• Processes to gather APC information creates overview and

control over cash flows

• Create possibilities to coordinate APC and subscription costs

through library budgets

• Create a foundation for a flip from subscriptions to publishing

services

APC directives from Ass. of Swedish Higher Education

Contents of Open APC Sweden June 2017

Example of statistics: APC per publisher

APC development over time

+ 23% + 5% + 11%

Average APC is rising faster than Gold OA and Hybrid OA due to the increased number of hybrid OA publications from Springer Compact in 2016

Workflow for a participating organisation

Gather APC information Duplicate control and corrections Download Excel template from GitHub Fill in data in 5 fields Generation of statistics Upload Excel file to GitHub Data enhancement via Crossref and DOAJ Merging of data to master file

Open APC Sweden – challenges

• Offsetting: What is the cost of a SCOAP3 article or an

Springer Compact article?

• Member discounts: What is the total cost?
• Page & image charges: OA costs or not?
• Year: Year of APC billing or year of publication?
• Currency conversions: What currencies at what

time?

• Statistics: What is a "publisher"?

– Springer/Nature/SpringerOpen/BioMed Central – Elsevier/Cell Press – Informa UK/Taylor & Francis

Future plans for Open APC Sweden

• So far only pilot institutions and some publisher

data

– HEI's: KTH, SLU, GU, SU, DU – Publishers: Taylor & Francis, Karger, Springer (Compact)

• Opening up fall of 2017

– More data from HEI's and publishers – Improved presentations of statistics – Delivery of data to German INTACT Open APC – Cooperation and coordination with other Nordic countries

Open APC Sweden – contact

Web

• github.com/Kungbib/openapc-se
• github.com/Kungbib/openapc-

se/blob/master/statistics.md Team

• Beate.Eellend @ kb.se
• Camilla.Smith @ kb.se
• Ulf.Kronman @ kb.se