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extensive feedback, including external peer review, in the form of an editorial assessment report.
If authors go on to publish in one of the
participating journals, then they will pay a top-up fee, which for a Nature research journal would mean a reduced total APC of around €5,000. Authors that opt out when they receive the editorial assessment report or are not accepted for publication, can use their report to help them get published in another journal. Authors will still be able to choose to publish
their work via the existing traditional route, where authors can publish without paying an APC and their primary research is available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Articles that the Nature journalists and editors create and commission, such as highly valued news and views articles, which provide readers with an expert summary of scientific advances as reported in recently published papers, will continue to be available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Alison Mitchell, chief journals officer at Springer Nature, said: ‘At Springer Nature we have been committed to driving the transition to open access for 20 years. This is why, using our experience, we have been able to come up with a range of options to enable authors to publish OA in our highly selective titles. ‘While transformative agreements are the biggest driver of OA transition, and largely avoid the need for significant additional funding from authors themselves, these take time for institutions to put in place, and are not suitable for all organisations. I am delighted that we are now able to open up this opportunity to all authors, and also to experiment with brand new ways of helping our authors succeed via the guided OA pilot. ‘In addition, and in recognition of our shared goal of gold OA, we are submitting these titles, along with all the other journals we own and the vast majority of journals we publish on behalf of partners, to cOAlition S for registration as transformative journals, and inclusion in the Journal Tracker Tool. With a clear OA option now in place for the Nature portfolio, this should ensure cOAlition S-funded authors can be made aware of all Springer Nature’s gold OA options in 2021.’
October 2020: Central European University Press to move to open access monograph programme The Central European University Press (CEUP) is transitioning to an open access (OA) monograph programme through its new library subscription membership initiative, Opening the Future. The organisation will provide access to portions of its backlist, and use the revenue from members’ subscriptions to allow the front list to be OA from the date of publication. The CEUP is working
with the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. Additional partners include Project MUSE, as hosting platform for the subscription packages and new OA titles, along with Lyrasis facilitating library membership participation, and Oapen, for hosting and dissemination of OA titles. CEUP says it is creating a sustainable OA publishing model that will give members access to a selection of the extensive backlist, DRM-free and with perpetual access after three years. In return, this membership revenue will then be used to make newly- published books openly accessible to anyone. When the revenue target is met and the entire monograph frontlist is openly accessible, future membership fees will be lowered. The initiative builds on library journal membership models such as Open Library of the Humanities and ‘Subscribe to Open’, such as that being piloted by Annual Reviews,
“OA Switchboard is a not-for-profit collaboration among funders,
institutions, consortia and publishers”
and also on successful book membership programmes, such as those at Open Book Publishers and Punctum Books. COPIM is an international partnership of
researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers supported by the Research England Development Fund (REDFund) as a major development project in the Higher Education sector. CEUP will be provided with assistance in implementing this model through Work Package 3 of the COPIM programme, including documentation of this ‘working model’ as a step towards creating a free, open toolkit and roadmap for other book publishers considering OA. Frances Pinter, executive chair at CEUP,
said: ‘We’re pleased to be working with COPIM as this partnership will allow us to not only achieve our goals at CEUP, but to also demonstrate a sustainable model that I believe will scale up in ways that provide efficiencies and equity to the benefit of all. I am delighted that Project Muse, Lyrasis and Oapen are
supporting the project. We’re looking forward to working with many stakeholders to ensure success.’ Martin Paul Eve, professor of literature,
technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, and one of the COPIM project leads, added: ‘We are looking forward to working with CEUP over the next two years and will be recording our progress through regular blog posts and reports. This case study collaboration will be a keystone in the COPIM project’s future success. We hope that, with the documented success of Opening the Future, we will have a model that could lead to the widespread transition of university presses worldwide to OA.’
October 2020 Researchers will be able to publish in PLOS journals without incurring APCs following a three-year agreement wth Jisc, the digital solutions provider for education and research in the UK.
This is the first time that a large university
consortium has provided collective agreements as an alternative to APCs at this scale. Jisc and PLOS will also collaborate on future data, metrics and tools for institutions to evaluate OA publishing agreements. Sara Rouhi, director of strategic
partnerships for PLOS, said: ‘Jisc has always been a priority partner, given its high profile, its large existing institutional account base with PLOS, and leadership role in the library community. ‘It’s always exciting to partner with a
forward-leaning organisation, whose values and priorities around open access and open science align with our own. We also look forward to sharing the fruits of this partnership with the broader community.’ Caren Milloy, Jisc’s director of licensing, added: ‘We are pleased to have reached these pioneering agreements with PLOS, which will make it easier for researchers to publish OA and offer affordability and sustainability to institutions. These collective action agreements have the potential to help shape the future of OA funding.’ Under the flat-fee agreement, which was
due to begin on January 1, annual fixed prices will cover uncapped publishing in five PLOS journals for corresponding authors affiliated with participating Jisc institutions, as well as custom reporting and collaboration on future reporting standards initiatives. The PLOS Community Action Publishing
agreement facilitates unmetered publishing in PLOS’ two highly selective journals through a collective action model. Both corresponding and contributing authors affiliated with participating Jisc institutions are eligible. The model itself is predicated on cost recovery, capped margins, and redistributing revenues above target back to community members. l
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