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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 Statistics Front page Wiki - documentation Data

Goals and aims with Open APC Sweden National Library – short-time goals • More information and knowledge about the development of open 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 + 5% + 23% + 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 Download Excel template from GitHub Generation of statistics Gather APC information Merging of data to master file Fill in data in 5 fields Data enhancement via Crossref and DOAJ Upload Excel file to GitHub Duplicate control and corrections

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