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