Fair Open Access https://www.fairopenaccess.org Fair Open Access Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:40:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.22 The Fair Open Access Alliance developed a Breakdown of Publication Services and Fees. https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2019/11/06/the-fair-open-access-alliance-developed-a-breakdown-of-publication-services-and-fees/ Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:58:27 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=291 November 6th, 2019. FOAA invites all publishers to use this breakdown to make the structure of their fees transparent, in order to inform the market in the sense of Principle 5 of Plan S. 

FOAA breakdown Press release nov 2019 – Fair Open Access breakdown [pdf]

]]> The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics ends support for Journal of Informetrics, launches new open-access journal Quantitative Science Studies https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2019/10/17/the-international-society-for-scientometrics-and-informetrics-ends-support-for-journal-of-informetrics-launches-new-open-access-journal-quantitative-science-studies-2/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:42:18 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=286 The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics ends support for Journal of Informetrics, launches new open-access journal Quantitative Science Studies

Read all information on http://issi-society.org/search-results/?search_field=launch+

]]> The Open Letter: Reaction of Researchers to Plan S: too far, too risky. https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/11/16/the-open-letter-reaction-of-researchers-to-plan-s-too-far-too-risky/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:33:37 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=255 A response of the Fair Open Access Alliance
We write to provide a counter view to the recent open letter (“Plan S: Too Far, Too Risky”),1 partly based on our FOAA recommendations for the implementation of Plan S.2 We are glad to note that the researchers who have signed the open letter support open access as their very first principle. However, the letter itself goes on to make a number of highly problematic and logically fallacious statements with which we strongly disagree and here contest.

FOAA reaction to Open Letter [pdf]

]]> FOAA recommendations on the Implementation of Plan S https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/10/21/foaa-recommendations-on-the-implementation-of-plan-s/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 09:13:32 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=251 The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) enthusiastically welcomed and endorsed the bold proposal of cOAlition S to accelerate the transition to Open Access in Europe during the OASPA conference September 2018 in Vienna.

FOAA has now also released extensive recommendations on the Implementation of Plan S, see https://www.fairopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Fair-Open-Access-Alliance-recommendations-Plan-S.pdf/.

The recommendations call for clarifying terminology, for support of no-fee Open Access initiatives, and for making any new infrastructure public and open. Perhaps the most important recommendation is to build cost transparency into the capped publication fee. Publishers should be required to provide the actual breakdown of costs contained in the publication fee, and make this information publicly available. A lack of transparency would establish the cap as a new price-point allowing publishers to renegotiate it every few years. It  would also entice publishers whose actual costs are below the cap to raise their costs to meet the cap. Publishers will be reluctant to provide cost information, but it is essential for Plan S to work.

The FOAA cost transparency proposal has already been agreed to by a subset of publishers in the Transparent Transition to Open Access (TTOA consortium).[1] FOAA asks for publishers to provide information about (1) indirect costs (a. journal support and submission system; b. Platform development and maintenance c. general management costs); (2) direct costs (a. editorial assistance; b. copy-editing c. promotion d. indexing and archiving (DOI, CLOCKSS etc)); and (3) profit.

For more information, contact prof.dr. Johan Rooryck at  J.E.C.V.Rooryck@hum.leidenuniv.nl or drs. Saskia de Vries at s.c.j.devries@sampan.eu

[1] https://www.fairopenaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Public-statement-TTOA-consortium-30may18-def.pdf

]]> The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) on Plan S https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/09/20/the-fair-open-access-alliance-foaa-on-plan-s/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:40:32 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=243 The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) on Plan S:

Press release, September 19th 2018, COASPA – Vienna

The Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA) enthusiastically welcomes and endorses the bold proposal of cOAlition S to accelerate the transition to Open Access in Europe.

The cOAlition S plan requires grantees to publish in compliant Open Access journals by 2020. Hybrid journals are defined as non-compliant, as long as they are not part of a transformative arrangement. FOAA takes special note of the pledge that the Funders will provide incentives to establish and support new high-quality journals and infrastructures when appropriate and necessary. FOAA believes that a coordinated plan and vigorous support will be crucial to help current hybrid journals in their transition to compliant Open Access. FOAA believes that its Open Publication Platform (OPP) https://www.fairopenaccess.org/news/press-releases/ proposed last May with the various partners of the Consortium for a Transparent Transition to Open Access (TTOA) can be instrumental in achieving this goal. FOAA is currently consulting with the TTOA partners and various other publishers how they can participate in the OPP so that the transition from hybrid to full Open Access can be facilitated without disruption.

The cOAlition S plan also puts a cap on Open Access publication fees. FOAA is concerned that a cap may simply set a new higher price point for APCs to which publishers will be drawn, increasing the costs to funders and institutions. We would like to plead for full transparency of the APC, requiring publishers to provide a specified breakdown of the per-article costs of publishing.

Finally, the cOAlition S plan largely focuses on the APC model. FOAA would like to draw attention to various Open Access initiatives that do not charge authors, which are especially important in the Humanities, and play a key role in the change to Open Access.

For more information, see contact prof.dr. Johan Rooryck at  J.E.C.V.Rooryck@hum.leidenuniv.nl or drs. Saskia de Vries at s.c.j.devries@sampan.eu.

]]> Public statement TTOA consortium https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/05/30/public-statement-ttoa-consortium/ Wed, 30 May 2018 16:34:13 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=229 The TTOA Consortium is an initiative of the Fair Open Access Alliance (www.fairopenaccess.org) and includes ‘native’ open access publishers, traditional subscription-based publishers, and open access publishers that do not charge authors: PLOS, MDPI, De Gruyter, Open Edition, Copernicus Publications, Ubiquity Press, Brill, and OLH. In addition to these publishers, the following organizations are collaborating partners: CWTS (Leiden University), QOAM, MPDL.

Download pdf (full article) Public statement TTOA consortium

]]> Open access in Germany: the best DEAL is no deal https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/02/12/open-access-in-germany-the-best-deal-is-no-deal/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:35:38 +0000 https://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=224 An open access deal between German authors in journals published by Elsevier could be problematic, say Alex Holcombe and Björn Brembs: Times Higher Education, December 27, 2017 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/open-access-germany-best-deal-no-deal

]]> So did it work? https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/01/09/so-did-it-work/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:23:13 +0000 http://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=153 Danny Kingsley (2017), So did it work? Considering the impact of Finch 5 years on:  https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269913

Mark C. Wilson, Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research, December 12, 2017:

https://theconversation.com/universities-spend-millions-on-accessing-results-of-publicly-funded-research-88392

]]> Fair Open Access: returning control of scholarly journals to their communities https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/01/09/fair-open-access-returning-control-of-scholarly-journals-to-their-communities-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:22:12 +0000 http://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=151 Mark Wilson & Alex Holcombe, Fair Open Access: returning control of scholarly journals to their communities, LSE Impact Blog, November 9th, 2017:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/10/23/fair-open-access-returning-control-of-scholarly-journals-to-their-communities/

]]> Expanding Perspectives on Open Science https://www.fairopenaccess.org/2018/01/09/expanding-perspectives-on-open-science/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:20:58 +0000 http://www.fairopenaccess.org/?p=149 Martin Paul Eve, Saskia C.J. de Vries and Johan Rooryck, ‘Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing’ page 118. Edited by Leslie Chan and Fernando Loizides, June 2017.

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