Paper Info
Title
Business process costs of implementing “gold” and “green” open access in institutional and national contexts
Abstract
As open access OA publication of research outputs becomes increasingly common and is mandated by institutions and research funders, it is important to understand different aspects of the costs involved. This paper provides an early review of administrative costs incurred by universities in making research outputs OA, either via publication in journals \"Gold\" OA, involving payment of article-processing charges APCs, or via deposit in repositories \"Green\" OA. Using data from 29 UK institutions, it finds that the administrative time, as well as the cost incurred by universities, to make an article OA using the Gold route is over 2.5 times higher than Green. Costs are then modeled at a national level using recent UK policy initiatives from Research Councils UK and the Higher Education Funding Councils' Research Excellence Framework as case studies. The study also demonstrates that the costs of complying with research funders' OA policies are considerably higher than where an OA publication is left entirely to authors' discretion. Key target areas for future efficiencies in the business processes are identified and potential cost savings calculated. The analysis is designed to inform ongoing policy development at the institutional and national levels.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1002/asi.23545
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
scholarly communication,costs,open access publications
Data mining,Research Excellence Framework,Business process,Computer science,Discretion,Scholarly communication,Payment,Higher education
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
67
9
2330-1635
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
robert johnson100.34
Stephen Pinfield210520.32
mattia fosci300.34