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- 1. The Open Access Community Framework (OACF) 2023 Phil Jones/Caroline Mackay Licensing Managers Jisc 15 Oct 2023
- 2. What is the Open Access Community Framework (OACF) • Aims to put into practice Jisc’s commitment to support innovation and a diverse scholarly communication ecosystem • Diamond OA model – open access publishing with no subscription or author facing fees • Aimed at supporting mission-based, not for profit, new university presses and diamond publishers • UK institutions given the opportunity to support an initiative for a three-year period – guarantee of mid term financial support to the publisher • Funding pledging window open till December 2023 The OA "unlock" logo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
- 3. OACF 2022 successes In 2022, three of the ten initiatives in the Open Access Community Framework 2022 were successful in achieving their funding goals which will allow them to either publish additional OA content or enable them to develop their initiative and infrastructure. … cover the annual costs for setting and running Peer Community Journal until 2025. Peer Community In … with OACF funding we can now publish 3 extra titles per year. • New Historical Perspectives, University of London Press … covers publication expenses of about 60 articles in SciPost journals and allows for investment for hiring IT developers. • SciPost
- 4. OACF 2022 successes With partial funding the remaining six 2022 initiatives will… … publish twelve books; two books in 2023 and then five each in 2024 and 2025 OpenUP ECR Monograph initiative ... fund a community manager to organise themed best practise webinars for editors, from technical issues to journal governance Stichting Linguistics in Open Access - LingOA ... fund the commissioning of five more books in the series and potentially additional spend on marketing/discoverability UWP Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies (CDSMS) Series ... financially support the editorial process, including journal management, copyediting and design of articles and platform fees. International Journal of Strength and Conditioning ... support fee-free publication for WRUP’s communities of authors and strategic development activities White Rose University Press Diamond OA Journals ... support the activities of the press, monograph publications, the production of high-quality long format open access publications, and enable the provision of support to WRUP authors and other academic colleagues including first-time OA authors White Rose University Press Diamond OA Monographs
- 5. 2023 OACF approach • Monographs only, well defined content including books in series, strong links to the UK by way of authors and presses • Pilot which aligns with strategic objectives and ties in with UKRI Monographs policy. • Not for profit, academic led or new university presses • Limit number of initiatives awarded – monographs are more expensive than journals, funnels limited funding more effectively • Timeline – agreements launched start June and orders accepted until December 2023 • All agreements can be supported at three price points: Standard, A little bit more and A little bit less.
- 6. Call to action “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi [?]
- 7. Support our three OACF 2023 initiatives University of London Press - Human rights and social justice titles https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2957 University of Westminster Press - Cultural China Series https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2955 White Rose University Press Diamond OA Monographs External Author Support https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2956
Editor's Notes
- Bibliodiversity – alternative to the BPC and APC open access route
- In 2022 the OACF included 10 initiatives, one of which unfortunately had to withdraw during 2022 as they had been unable to achieve their internal targets. No supporting insititution was invoiced for their pledge for this initiative though, so were not exposed to any losses. Institutons have committed to fully fund the following three initiatives until 2025. Peer Community Journal New Historical Perspectives, University of London Press – Early Career Researchers SciPost
- Even where the OACF initiatives were not fully funded, the publishers have been able to demonstrate how the partial funding will help them.
- 2023 OACF requests submissions from monograph publishers only. Recommend books in series as easier for libraries to recognise the value/previous publication history. Strong links to the UK by way of presses and authors. Pilot approach, three year commitment to support an OA initiative to secure short term future for a project. Aligns with institutions’ strategic objectives and capitalises on the UKRI monographs policy. Although the submitting publishers will not need to prove a history of publishing UKRI authors it is a strong reason for libraries to consider their approaches to supporting OA publication and their authors publishing their works in open access, particularly with one eye on future REF requirements for OA. Strong feedback received from libraries that the OACF should remain as a route for publicising initiatives from not for profit, academic led or new university presses. No duplication of existing Jisc agreements or publishers that will be working via the Open Book Collective. Monographs agreements are more expensive, so will reduce the number of successful awards to 5 so as not to dilute funding. Also bearing in mind that OACF participants from 2022 are committed to supporting those initiatives until 2024 so may have accounted for their OA budgets already. Timeline – subject to move but want to have the at least six weeks at the end of FY 2022-23 available to order to span two financial years. Funding received in 2023 will go towards titles published in 2024 and so on, so that publishers know the level of commitment they have in advance and for the next three years for planning purposes. Pricing – based on feedback received last year, we will offer all institutions the opportunity to support at one of three price points regardless of Jisc band. The Standard, Bit more and Bit less ~(100%, 120% and 80%)
- Univ London Press are re/launching two book series which focus on the urgent need to support (open access) humanities approaches in addressing contemporary challenges around human rights and social justice. 1) Reimagining Law and Justice (an exciting new open access book series which launched in Jan 2023, published in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies) 2) Human Rights Consortium series (an ongoing open access series published in association with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies which we are relaunching in 2023/24. Funding through OACF2 would mean that they are able to take on additional titles in this area to create a meaningful programme of books centred on human rights and social justice beyond what our current funding limits would allow (OACF funding would support up to 9 additional titles beyond the 3 they could currently publish in this period). Univ Westminster Press requests funding to support their ‘Cultural China’ book series. They have already published 2 books in this series, in collaboration with the University of Westminster’s Contemporary China Centre, and would like to now extend the series to 3 publications a year, broadening to commission books externally, from the UK and internationally, and make the series a ‘home’ for the study of culture in China and the Chinese diaspora. White Rose Univ Press has always been committed to offering “diamond” monograph publishing to authors at WR institutions via waiver funds. However, so far, they have been unable to extend similar funding to external authors. As we explore options that would achieve a fully diamond OA model, we are asking for funding to support publishing monographs from authors without other funding (including that available through WRUP). This would support a pilot External Author Support programme, funding the publication of one monograph each year, covering publishing costs, as well as – potentially – marketing/promotional activity.