Summary: I. Firenze University Press ID card - i tratti salienti II. The economic playing field of a OA Journal platform - il business model della piattaforma di pubblicazione di OA peer review journal della FUP III. Which part the university has to play in the dissemination of science? - le linee di sviluppo della FUP alla luce dell'Accesso Aperto e delle nuove sfide della divulgazione scientifica Fulvio Guatelli (PhD) lavora alla Firenze University Press, casa editrice dell'Università di Firenze (www.fupress.com) dal 2006, assumendone la direzione nel 2015. È membro della Commissione Open Access dell’Università di Firenze. This content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

1. Open Access
peer review journal
Business model
Fulvio Guatelli
fulvio.guatelli@unifi.it
Firenze University Press
Biblioteche accademiche e University Press: quale
cooperazione per l'editoria Open Access?
Milano Convegno “Stelline” – DILL-Università di Parma
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2. Summary
I. Firenze University Press - ID card
II. The economic playing field of a OA
Journal platform
III. Which part the university has to play
in the dissemination of science?
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3. 1. Background 1/4
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4. 1. Background 2/4
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5. 1. Background 3/4
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6. 1. Background 4/4
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FONTI:
• Fulvio Guatelli, Lo spazio economico di una Open Access Journal Pla5orm,
in Luca Scalco (a cura di), Open Access e scienze umane. Note su diffusione
e percezione delle riviste di area umanis;ca, Milano, Ledizioni 2016 (ed.
digitale Open Access).
• Tab. 1 – I primi dieci gruppi editoriali al mondo per faAurato nel 2015
(Fonte: Publishers Weekly, 2015a).
• Tab. 2 – Tabella comparaLva nazioni/editori in base al PIL e al fa?urato in
USD, alla popolazione e ai dipendenA (Fonte: HacheAe Livre - Les chiffres
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(2015); Wolters Kluwer Annual Reports 2014 (2015)).
• Tab. 3 – Confronto fra la spesa pubblica e privata (in USD) per il sistema
dell’educazione terziaria per i paesi dell’area euro e il fa?urato (in USD)
dei primi dieci gruppi editoriali al mondo (Fonte: OECD, 2014 (daL 2011);
Publishers Weekly, 2015a (daL 2014); The World Factbook, 2013 (daL
2014 e 2015).

7. 2. Firenze University Press - ID card
• It was established in 2000
• It is a publishing house belonging to the
University of Florence (51,451 students /
1843 professors in 2012)
• It publishes academic books and journals in
digital and paper editions
• Mixed access model: open and commercial
access for both monographs and journals
Catalogue and produc;on:
• 1000 books and 41 journals
• 100 new Atles and 64 journal issues a year
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8. 3. Economic model (roughly speaking)
Books:
• 80% of the production costs are covered by
sponsors
• 15% by book sales (university textbooks)
• 5% by book sales in bookshops
Academic journals:
• 90% of the main production costs are covered by the
owners of the journals
• 10% of the main production costs are covered by
APC’s
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9. 4. Access to the publications
From mixed model combining Open and Toll
Access to a full Open Access model
• 1/2 of the books are published in full open
access digital editions
• 1/2 are on toll access (both paper and digital
editions)
• 100% of the journals in open access digital
editions
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10. 5. FUP Open Access Journals
• “FUP open access library”: 41 peer review
journals / 460 research books
• Platform OJS (open source platform OAI-PMH
compliant)
• DOI: DataCite (CRUI agreement)
• User licenses: creative commons (CC BY / SA /
NC-ND)
• STM: 16 journals
• HSS: 25 journals
• SciVersus Scopus: 11 journals
• WoS: 3 journals
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11. 6. Is it an OA journal at zero cost?
No, it is not!
What kinds of cost are involved?
• peer review process
• production
• dissemination
• Indexing service
• technological infrastructure
• overheads
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12. 7. Who pays for an open access journal?
The business model of a FUP OA peer-
reviewed journal:
• Submission/pubblication fees (author pays)
• Membership dues (learned societies)
• Institutional subsidies (University,
government, foundations, companies)
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13. 8. OA Journal platform
The economic playing field: the x factor
What is the economic playing field of a
university OA journal platform?
• Excursus: in Classical Logic, if something holds
for any arbitrary element x, then we can
conclude that it holds for every element
(Generalization Rule)
• Our arbitrary element x is a Journal
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14. Subject Area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Journal owner: italian scientific association
(ITA)
• Publisher: University Press (ITA)
• Frequency: biannual
• 360 pages per year
• 27 items per year
• Language: ENG
• Print and digital edition
• Access: OA
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15. 9. OA Journal platform
The economic playing field: bibliometrics
Our journal is a hard worker:
• Publication Ethics COPE compliant: yes
• Production and access statistics
COUNTER compliant: yes
• Fancy app web 2.0 compliant: yes
• Content indexing on the main indexes: yes
• SciVerse Scopus: yes
• WoS: yes
Fine, but where is it in WoS? In the middle! It is
not at the top of the list, or the bottom
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16. 10. OA Journal platform
The economic playing field: Small/Big fish
How much does the arbitrary element x cost?
Small fish publisher: < 1 million (euro) revenue
• Case1 - Membership dues model: 7.000,00 euro per year
• Case 2 - APC’s model: 260,00 euro per article
Big fish publisher: 1 < 10 billion (euro) revenue
• Case 1 - Membership dues model: 30.000,00 euro per year
• Case 2 - APC’s model: 1200,00 euro per article
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17. 11. OA Journal platform. The economic
playing field: the economic Delta (Δ)
Δ is the economic bracket for an OA journal
platform, where:
• 7.000,00 euro < Δ < 30.000,00 euro per year
(membership dues model)
• 260,00 euro < Δ < 1200,00 euro per article
(APC’s model)
This economic bracket really exists and is ready and
waiting!
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18. 12. What part can the university play in
the dissemination of science?
Dramatis personae:
• (1) Research evaluation (institution and
careers):
- ANVUR (AERES-HCERES/ HEFCE, SHEFC,
HEFCW, DELNI)
-VQR 2004-2010/2011-2014 (RAE 2008/ Campagne
d’évaluation 2013-2014)
- ASN 2012, 2013, 2016
• (2) New mixed tools for evaluation
(bibliometrics / peer review / informed peer review)
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19. • (3) Digital infrastructure, data set and
indexes of research products (production /
access / citation statistics)
• (4) quality weighted allocation of public
research funding
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20. The ‘Comedìa’:
• The virtuous circle: Research → Evaluation →
Reward → New research
• The certified dissemination of the products of
science is the benchmark of the virtuous cycle.
• (Hp. 1) The certified dissemination of the products
of science is the mission of the academic
publishing of the future
• (Hp. 2) no one than universities has more
interest in getting involved in academic publishing
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21. Thank you for your attention
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22. Open Access
peer review journal
Business model
Fulvio Guatelli
fulvio.guatelli@unifi.it
Firenze University Press
www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
Biblioteche accademiche e University Press: quale
cooperazione per l'editoria Open Access?
Milano Convegno “Stelline” – DILL-Università di Parma