A new report launched today (25 February 2010) shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.
The ‘modelling scholarly communication options: costs and benefits for universities’ report, written by Alma Swan, is based on different types of university. It shows how universities might reduce costs, and how they can calculate these saving and their greater contribution to society by following an Open Access route.
Neil Jacobs, programme manager at JISC says, “This is the first time that universities will have a method and practical examples from which to build a business case for Open Access and to calculate the cost to them of the scholarly communications process. For example working out the value of researchers carrying out peer-reviewing duties or the comparative costs of the library handling of journals subscribed to in print, electronically, or in both formats.
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The Report Focussed on Three Approaches to Open Access:
+ Open access journals Content freely available online using a business model that does not rely on subscriptions
+ Open access repositories The current subscription-based system is supplemented by the provision of Open Access articles in repositories
+ Open access repositories with overlay services Content is collected in repositories and service providers carry out the publishing services necessary, for example the peer-review process
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