This document discusses bibliodiversity and library publishing. It provides data on open access publishing trends by country income level and APC revenues for major publishers. Library publishing is defined as activities led by libraries to support scholarly publishing with a preference for open access. However, open access is at a crossroads as transformative agreements do not resolve budget issues and gold open access limits publishing for unfunded authors. Overall access to scholarly literature remains contingent on commercial infrastructure.

1. Library Publishing and
Bibliodiversity
Dr Lai Ma, Jane Buggle & Marie O’Neill
CONUL Conference 2023
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4. Bibliodiversity
Bibliodiversity is a complex self-sustaining system of storytelling, writing, publishing and the
other kinds of production of oral and written literature. The writers and producers are
comparable to the inhabitants of an ecosystem. Bibliodiversity contributes to a thriving
cultural life and a healthy eco-social system.

5. Number of articles published in DOAJ journals
by country income level (World Bank)
Druelinger, D., & Ma, L. (2023). Missing a golden opportunity? An Analysis of Publication Trends by Income Level in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 1987-2020.
Learned Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1543

6. APC
Revenues
Publisher Articles Revenue $/article
Holtzbrinck (incl.
Springer Nature)
144,141 $363,493,070 $2,521.79
MDPI 162,923 $335,285,783 $2,064.08
Wiley 48,516 $109,287,404 $2,252.61
Elsevier 69,176 $101,677,561 $1,469.84
Taylor & Francis 20,134 $39,966,258 $1,985.01
PLOS 20,246 $38,543,925 $1,887.00
IEEE 19,623 $35,025,350 $1,784.91
Oxford 12,146 $32,251,184 $2,655.29
Sage 14,096 $23,901,257 $1,695.61
Total 511,181 $1,080,431,792 $2,113.60
https://waltcrawford.name/goa6.pdf

7. https://eua.eu/component/publications/publications.html?id=829:2019-big-deals-survey-report

9. Open access at a crossroads
• Transformative agreements do not resolve budgetary issues
• Access to scholarly literature is largely contingent on the availability of a
commercial research infrastructure
• The gold open access model entails that authors without funding cannot
make their work openly accessible

10. Library publishing
• The Library Publishing Coalition defines library publishing as ‘the set of activities led by
college and university libraries to support the creation, dissemination, and curation of
scholarly, creative, and/or educational works’, characterized by ‘a preference for open
access dissemination and willingness to embrace informal and experimental forms of
scholarly communication and to challenge the status quo’