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id="fcbkbttn_left"><div class="fcbkbttn_button"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"> <img decoding="async" src="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/wp-content/plugins/facebook-button-plugin/images/standard-facebook-ico.png" alt="Fb-Button" /> </a> </div><div class="fcbkbttn_like "><fb:like href="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2022/10/28/the-changing-state-of-gold-open-access-at-imperial/" action="like" colorscheme="light" layout="standard" width="225px" size="small"></fb:like></div></div><h2><b><span data-contrast="auto">Publisher Agreements</span></b><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></h2> <p><span data-contrast="auto">As was highlighted by Imperial’s Director of Library Services </span><a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/chris.banks"><span data-contrast="none">Chris Banks</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> in her </span><a href="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2022/10/25/springer-nature-negotiations/"><span data-contrast="none">blog post</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> earlier in this </span><a href="https://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span data-contrast="none">International Open Access Week 2022</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">, the past few years have seen a rapid increase in the number of </span><a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/publisher-memberships/"><span data-contrast="none">publisher agreements</span></a><span data-contrast="auto"> that Imperial College has signed up to. We now have </span><b><span data-contrast="auto">33</span></b><span data-contrast="auto"> agreements in place that allow for open access (OA) fees to be fully covered for corresponding authors affiliated with imperial College London at no further cost.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This has unsurprisingly led to a significant increase in the number of papers being made OA through such agreements. The below graph shows the num</span><span data-contrast="auto">ber of papers covered over the last year via four of the most used Read & Publish agreements that we currently have:</span></p> <figure id="attachment_3555" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3555" style="width: 608px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1024" height="571" class=" wp-image-3555" src="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-1024x571.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-450x251.jpg 450w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-768x428.jpg 768w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-1536x857.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Imperial-papers-made-OA-through-publisher-agreements-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-2048x1142.jpg 2048w" sizes="(min-width: 75em) 46.9375em, (min-width: 58em) calc((100vw - 3.75em) * 65.88078%), (min-width: 40em) calc(100vw - 3.75em), calc(100vw - 1.25em) " /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3555" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Imperial papers made OA through publisher agreements (1 Oct 2021 – 30 Sep 2022)</em></figcaption></figure> <p>This adds up to almost <strong>1000</strong> OA papers from these four agreements alone, which does not include the figures from other publishers we have agreements with such as SAGE, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, and Cambridge University Press.</p> <h2><strong>A shift away from individual APC payments?</strong></h2> <p>As was predicted in an earlier <a href="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/2020/10/20/no-double-dipping-the-rise-of-transformative-publisher-agreements-in-the-transition-to-full-open-access/">blog post</a> from OA Week 2020, the number of papers now being covered through publisher agreements has now overtaken the number of individual Article Processing Charges (APCs) that we pay for from the <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/">OA funds that we administer</a>. For the period from 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022 we paid for a total of <strong>759 </strong>APCs, compared to well over <strong>1000</strong> covered through the agreements.</p> <p>While we have only seen a slight drop in the total number of individual APCs paid for compared to last year, the most significant change has been an ongoing reduction in the number of APCs we have paid for papers in hybrid journals specifically (i.e. subscription journals that have an OA option) as shown in the below graph:</p> <figure id="attachment_3545" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3545" style="width: 609px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" width="861" height="482" class=" wp-image-3545" src="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Individual-APCs-paid-for-from-OA-funds.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Individual-APCs-paid-for-from-OA-funds.jpg 861w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Individual-APCs-paid-for-from-OA-funds-450x252.jpg 450w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/Individual-APCs-paid-for-from-OA-funds-768x430.jpg 768w" sizes="(min-width: 75em) 46.9375em, (min-width: 58em) calc((100vw - 3.75em) * 65.88078%), (min-width: 40em) calc(100vw - 3.75em), calc(100vw - 1.25em) " /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3545" class="wp-caption-text"><em>Individual APCs paid for from OA funds</em></figcaption></figure> <p>This reduction in individual payments for APCs in hybrid journals should not be attributed to the increase in publisher agreements alone, as changes to <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/research-funders-open-access-policies/">funder policies</a> in recent years have also introduced tighter restrictions on hybrid APC payments, and have offered authors alternative routes to compliance via the green OA route through <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/">rights retention</a>. However, it is certainly one of the main reasons behind this shift and is a desired outcome in the transition away from a publishing model that allowed for ‘double-dipping’.</p> <h2><strong>Imperial Open Access Fund</strong></h2> <p>As most publisher agreements do not require authors to be funded, they have allowed many papers to be made OA via the gold route that would otherwise not have been eligible. As well as our funder OA block grants, we are also fortunate to be able to offer our authors the Imperial Open Access Fund. This is available for those without alternative funds available, and can be used to pay APCs for original research papers in fully OA journals listed in the <a href="https://doaj.org/">Directory of Open Access Journals</a>.</p> <p>Although some of our publisher agreements do cover fully OA as well as hybrid journals (e.g. <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/publisher-memberships/wiley/">Wiley’s</a>), most of them do not, and there are many publishers who exclusively offer fully OA journals with compulsory APCs. This means the Imperial OA Fund continues to have a big part to play in enabling our authors to publish OA and covered <strong>363</strong> APCs in the last year (nearly half of the total amount):</p> <figure id="attachment_3543" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3543" style="width: 613px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" width="769" height="463" class=" wp-image-3543" src="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/APCs-paid-for-by-fund-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022.jpg" alt="" srcset="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/APCs-paid-for-by-fund-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022.jpg 769w, https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/files/2022/10/APCs-paid-for-by-fund-1-Oct-2021-–-30-Sep-2022-450x271.jpg 450w" sizes="(min-width: 75em) 46.9375em, (min-width: 58em) calc((100vw - 3.75em) * 65.88078%), (min-width: 48.0625em) 48.0625em , calc(100vw - 3.75em)" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3543" class="wp-caption-text"><em>APCs paid for by each fund (1 Oct 2021 – 30 Sep 2022)</em></figcaption></figure> <p>For details on Imperial’s current publisher agreements, please see our newly revamped <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/publisher-memberships/">Publisher agreements and discounts</a> page, and for details on our OA funds and how Imperial authors can apply for APC funding please see our <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/">Applying for funding</a> page.</p> <p> </p> <footer class="imp-post__footer"> <p class="imp-post__footer__byline">By <a href="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/author/dpphilli/">dpphilli</a></p><p class="imp-post__footer__categories">Categorised under <a href="https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/openaccess/category/oa-news/" rel="category tag">OA News</a></p><p class="imp-post__footer__tags">Tagged <a 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