New models for Open Access Monograph funding

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New models for Open Access Monograph funding
Books, Libraries and Open Access Seminar Helsinki, 29 August 2016

To return control of publishing to societies, universities and
researchers, providing them with the infrastructure and support
to not only match but to outcompete the legacy publishers.
Background to Ubiquity Press
Background
Mission
 Spun out of University College London in 2012
 Researcher-led
 Grown out of the humanities
 50+ years publishing experience
 Comprehensive approach: journals,
books, data, software, wetware…

Why are OA monographs important?
• Traditional print monographs
sell 200-400 copies
• The humanities are being left
behind STEM
• Humanities authors and
departments need more
demonstrable impact
• Libraries need affordable books
• The majority of researchers are
now in the developing world,
and cannot afford €40 per book
• Access to knowledge is
important for everyone

Why is funding for OA necessary?
• Open Access usually involves a one-time processing
charge (an APC for articles, or BPC for books)
• This is charged up front to cover the publisher’s
expenses
• All electronic content is then
available free of charge
• Some funds can be recovered
from print sales, but this is not
guaranteed.

How much do OA monographs really cost?
The Costs of Publishing Monographs:
Toward a Transparent Methodology
Group Group Average Group Median 95th Percentile 5th Percentile Highest Cost Title Lowest Cost Title
1 $30,091 $27,955 $57,991 $18,678 $65,921 $16,401
2 $44,906 $42,851 $69,417 $26,292 $129,909 $19,516
3 $34,098 $33,199 $53,084 $18,149 $76,537 $15,140
4 $49,155 $48,547 $73,885 $31,760 $99,144 $24,234
Table 1. Full cost of a High-Quality Digital Monograph (Excluding In-Kind Cost)
Ithaka S+R report, 5th February 2016
Source: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.276785
A study of 382 titles across 20 university presses

The Ubiquity Press model:
also fully transparent
(http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/publish#books)
Service level size of book ca. 30,000 words ca. 100,000 words ca. 200,000 words
1] Core service +TS £2,860 £3,780 £5,000
2] Core service +TS +CE £3,210 £5,050 £7,550
3] Core service +TS +CE +IN £3,520 £5,920 £9,340

Books are more complicated than articles
The Ubiquity Press APC model

Number of words 100000
Number of chapters 10
Number of images/tables 15
Number of streaming/interactive/data media 0
Type of book monograph
Number of print books for author/editor 0
Number of print books to peer reviewers 0
Number of print books to reviewers 0
Number of inhouse copies at UP 0
Number of copies to deposit libraries 0
Number of batches of print orders 0
Cover type hard cover
Paper/printing format standard colour
If anti-plagiarism, enter '1' here: 1
If publishing chapter-by-chapte, enter 1 here: 1
If UP peer reviewing, enter '1' here: 1
If UP copyediting, enter '1' here: 1
If UP indexing, enter '1' here: 0
If complex content (eg Math), enter '1' here: 0
If non-English, enter '1' here: 0
If UP sending to Abstracting and Indexing, enter '1' here: 1
Contribution to waiver fund 0%
If EU customer, enter '1' here: 1
Additional complexity due to content (eg Maths) 25%
Additional complexity due to non-English language 25%
Proportion of day per chapter for ch-by-ch publishing 0.03125
Day cost £300
Words per page (final typeset 500
Copyediting admin per 100,000 words £300
CLOCKSS indexing £25
OAPEN indexing £15
DOI registration £17
Google Books £20
Sending to Thomson Reuters / Scopus / other £30
POD content print cost £5.97
POD hard cover premium £3.15
POD shipping cost £1.00
POD handling cost per destination £1.25
UP admin cost per batch of orders £10.00
Anti-plagiarism checks per chapter £1.00
Fixed Editorial costs: publishing £300.00
Variable Editorial costs: special instructions 100
Variable Editorial costs: chapter-by-chapter publishing £93.75
Additional fixed Editorial costs for edited books £0.00
Variable Editorial costs: anti-plagiarism £50.00
Anti-plagiarism costs £10.00
Variable Editorial costs: peer review £450.00
Additional peer review costs, due to complexity £0.00
Fixed Editorial costs: cover design £100.00
Cover design (designer) £200.00
Fixed Editorial costs: POD setup £100.00
POD title loading fee £40.00
POD hard copy proof for publisher £25.00
Copyediting £1,550.00
Additional copyediting costs, due to complexity £0.00
Indexing £0.00
Additional indexing costs, due to complexity £0.00
Variable Editorial costs: typesetting, QA: PDF £300.00
Typesetting, Quality Assurance: PDF £533.75
Additional PDF typesetting costs, due to complexity £0.00
Variable Editorial costs: typesetting, QA: EPUB, MOBI £60.00
Typesetting, Quality Assurance: EPUB, MOBI £106.75
Additional EPUB typesetting costs, due to complexity £0.00
Sending to Abstracting and Indexing £107.00
Print copies to author/editor £1.25
Print copies to send to peer reviewers £0.00
Print copies to send to book reviewers £0.00
Print copies to publisher £0.00
Print copies to deposit libraries £0.00
Print order admin £0.00
Direct costs subtotal £4,127.50
Waiver premium (value) £0.00
Direct costs total £4,127.50
Indirect costs total £1,690
Indirect + direct costs £5,817.50
VAT (if charged) £1,163.50
Total price £6,981.00
The Ubiquity Press book cost calculator

What are the current funding options?
• A growing number of funders
• Government agencies
• Intergovernmental bodies
• Universities
• Independent funders
• Over 55 listed at: http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/oa-funding/
• New models
• Knowledge Unlatched
• Luminos
• Ubiquity library & consortium model

Current funder schemes
• Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
• Horizon 2020
• European Research Council (ERC)
• European Cooperation in Science and Technology
(COST) Association / European Science
Foundation (ESF)
• Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
• Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Climate
• Nordic Council of Ministers / Nordic Co-operation
• NORFACE Network
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• Europe/International

• FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot
• Pilot covers processing charges for eligible authors
and book editors
• Sets out a simplified workflow for data transfers,
invoicing and reporting minimizing the time spent
on administration on all sides
• Discount on processing fees, allowing existing funds
to reach further and more research to become
openly accessible
http://ubiquitypress.tumblr.com/post/139969537451/ubiquity-press-
enters-open-access-publishing

• Austria
• Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
• Austrian Science Fund / Fonds zur Förderung der
wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
(IIASA)
• University of Salzburg
• Canada
• Concordia University
• Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Simon Fraser University

• Finland
• Academy of Finland / Suomen Akatemia
“These guidelines are best suited for open access publishing of refereed
articles, but they may in some cases also be applied to other publication
types, such as monographs”
• Germany
• Volkswagen Foundation / Volkswagenstiftung
• Ireland
• Science Foundation Ireland

• Netherlands
• Delft University of Technology
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO)
• Utrecht University
• Norway
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology /
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
(NTNU)
• Research Council of Norway / Forskningsrådet
• University of Bergen
• University of Oslo
• University of Tromso

• Sweden
• Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social
Sciences / Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
• Switzerland
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) /
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der
Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) / Fonds
National Suisse (FNS)
• University of Zurich

• United Kingdom
• Department for International Development (DFID)
• Imperial College London
• Leverhulme Trust
• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
• Research Councils UK (RCUK)
OA mandate does not currently apply to books, but processing charges for
scholarly books can be covered via RCUK block grants given to universities.
• University College London (UCL)
• Wellcome Library
• Wellcome Trust
Mandatory OA for monographs and book chapters since 1 October 2013. No
repeat funding for non-compliance.

• United States
• Emory University
• Florida State University
• Ford Foundation
• Gustavus Adolphus College
• Texas A&M University
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, San Francisco
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Iowa
• University of Minnesota
• University of Oklahoma
• University of Virginia
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Wake Forest University
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

New models

Case study
• Published in 2016 with KU
funding as a pilot for UP
• KU members vote on books
after some months, so funding
uncertain
• Books must be ready to publish
shortly after vote
• OA publishers and authors
therefore need to take a risk
• Conclusion: KU is best suited to
subsidizing legacy print
publishers to go OA, not
promoting OA-first models

http://www.luminosoa.org

New models
Consortium distribution model

A new consortium model
1. To support the growth and development
of the partner network
• Supporting a transition to open access
• Supporting university-based publishing
2. To help libraries accession OA content
• Gaining a better understanding of how to
transition collections to OA
Two main goals:

A new consortium model
• Cost per library is the same as the average APC
from a large publisher (ca. €2,000)
• Participating libraries effectively purchase all
content from the partner network, and can
therefore accession it properly
• Full MARC records provided
• On-demand COUNTER reporting

All for the cost of one average APC
Consortium distribution model

New models for Open Access Monograph funding

New models for Open Access Monograph funding

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