NEWS
Pilot open access agreements signed
FIVE smaller UK publishers have signed a pilot open access agreement with Jisc as part of its work on a sus- tainable transition to OA. The Micro- biology Society, Portland Press, IWA Publishing, the Company of Biolo- gists and the European Respiratory Society now offer transitional journal agreements through the national Jisc consortium. Kathryn Spiller, licensing manager at Jisc, said: ‘We are delighted to offer smaller publishers a chance to negotiate with a national consortium. OA publish- ing is becoming within reach, especially now Wellcome has confirmed that these agreements are in compliance with their policy and that their funds can be used to support these agreements. Together we’ll continue to explore new ways in which
small learned societies can transition to OA in a sustainable way.”
Agreements like this will see the sector move away from hundreds of individual APC payments to a fixed annual payment between the institution and the publish- er reducing the administrative burdens on all stakeholders. Robert Kiley, head of open research at Wellcome, said: ‘I am delighted that Jisc Collections has successfully negotiated transformative agreements with a number of learned society publishers at no extra cost to institutions.’
Meanwhile another new Jisc OA four- year agreement began on 1 January 2020. This enables unlimited open access publishing for affiliated cor responding authors in 44 of IOP Publishing (IOPP) subscription journals, without barriers
or charges to authors. It will see up to 58 UK universities benefit from the ‘read and publish’ agreement with the pioneering OA physics publisher – with reading access to 75 of IOPP’s journals, covering physics, materials science, biosciences, astronomy and astrophysics, environmental sciences, mathematics and education.
Anna Vernon, Jisc Collection’s head of licensing, said: “For the Jisc consortium, the agreement constitutes an important next step towards rapidly increasing immediate access to scientific research under transparent conditions and pric- ing. This contract offers highly optimised workflows for different institutions, giving access to even more open access journals and removing administrative burdens for libraries and academics.”
Open source LMS FOLIO goes live in Sweden
IN October last year Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden became the first university to go live with FOLIO, the open source library management system funded by EBSCO Information Services. FOLIO, which stands for the Future of Libraries is Open, is a library services platform engineered through industry collaboration.
Chalmers became the project’s first beta partner in 2017 and is now running FOLIO applications including check in/out; track- ing user updates and requests as well as managing inventory, orders, agreements, licenses and eHoldings. It is also using FOLIO to integrate with existing systems and the library’s self-check-out machines. An article published by Chalmers said: “The library systems available in the market for managing the resources of
the libraries are often very large, and as a user of them you tend to buy whole system packages. One gets the functions one needs, but one also pays for other functions that one doesn’t use.” It said the FOLIO development work “is completely transparent and anyone who wants to can follow the process or partici- pate actively. Behind the development of the system are a number of stakeholders gathered under the umbrella organisation Open Library Foundation, which owns and manages the software.”
Chalmers was approached by EBSCO in 2017 when Chalmers Library had already decided that a switch from the existing library system was necessary and it was also interested in open source solutions. However it said: “We did not want to spend time and money on running and supporting a new system ourselves.” In a press release Marie Wenander, Head
of Information Resources at Chalmers, said: “The EBSCO implementation team members, who became an extension of our staff, were willing to work together and orchestrate a migration that was different from any we’ve been through — a true learning experience which allowed a smooth transition to a brand-new system.” She said: “We knew we were leveraging the work of our fellow librarians and the FOLIO community while also contrib- uting back the real-time information we were acquiring about the system and how it worked in a live environment.” Gar Sydnor, EBSCO Information Ser- vices’ Senior Vice President for Analytics and Hosting Services, said: “Chalmers has a collection consisting mainly of electronic resources which allowed us to test FOLIO’s ERM module and ensure a smooth tran- sition with the library’s existing EBSCO Discovery Service implementation.”
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