Liam has worked at Jisc Collections since 2003 as Collections Manager, Collections Team Manager and Head of Licensing, in which roles he was involved in the negotiation and licensing of a wide range of e-content agreements on behalf of universities, colleges and museum libraries. Liam has also been involved in a large number of projects associated with copyright and licensing, especially the adoption of machine-readable licences, as well as providing consultancy and advice to the NHS, SLIC and a variety of overseas consortia on the negotiation and procurement of e-content. Most recently Liam has been seconded to lead the Knowledge Base+ project building a shared academic community knowledge base for UK institutions.
1. An Update on Negotiations for APCs
Liam Earney, Jisc
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Good morning
» Background
› The challenge facing UK universities
› The situation in late 2013
» The evolving negotiation environment in 2014
» The situation in late 2014
» Requirements for the future
3. The challenge facing us
» UK HEIs create significant number of OA articles as a result of UK policies
» OA is expanding its scope, scale and reach
› However, progress is lumpy—fast in some areas, slower in others
» There will be minimal impact on global subscription levels for hybrid journals from UK
APCs
» Total cost of journals system to UK universities will increase
» RCUK and other funding will only cover part of the cost for some of the future
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Jisc Collections and APCs
» Two distinct issues
1. The cost ofAPCs in pure and hybrid gold OA journals
2. The combined cost of APCs and subscriptions in hybrid
journals
– “Total cost of ownership”
» We targeted number 2 first
6. The situation in late 2013
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Working with academic institutions
7. The situation in late 2013
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»We don’t double dip
»You have no mandate to negotiate on this
»There is no connection between subscriptions and APC –
they are different service
»You have no data to prove this is an issue
Early discussions with publishers…
8. The evolving environment in 2014
»Strategy for 2014
› Build and communicate our mandate for action
› Collect data on current APC spend and use it for
modelling
› Work with community to understand desired models
› Work with publishers (informally?) on possible models
› Secure exemplar offsetting agreements
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10. Willetts Open Letter
» The Government “….looks to the publishing industry to develop
innovative and sustainable solutions“ :
› “….a meaningful proportion of an institution's total [article
processing charges] with a publisher to be offset against total
subscription payments with that publisher".
» "Government welcomes efforts by Jisc Collections to develop
sustainable funding models that establish a relationship between the
payment of APCs (and the costs of administering them) and
subscription fees for an institution.“
Letter from Rt Hon DavidWilletts MP to DameJanet Finch, 23 January
2014
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Further Support for Jisc Collections
» RLUK paper, “Fair Prices for Article Processing Charges in Hybrid
Journals”
» Prioritisation of OA by Jisc Board
» Recommendations from Review of NESLi2
› “vigorously pursue itsTCO project, and activate negotiations
to include APCs as soon as possible”
12. The impact of the data
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380 468 566
2364
5958
£0
£2,000,000
£4,000,000
£6,000,000
£8,000,000
£10,000,000
£12,000,000
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
TotalAPCexpenditurefor24UKHEIs
Total APC expenditure 2010–14
2014 figures are estimates
13. Exponential growth …
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£0
£500,000
£1,000,000
£1,500,000
£2,000,000
£2,500,000
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
TotalAPCexpenditurefor24UKHEIs
Total APC expenditure 2010–14
BMJ ACS CUP Elsevier Nature OUP Springer Taylor & Francis Wiley PLOS
15. Offset system
» We also modelled a number of offset systems:
› Vouchers based on subscription spend – to be spent ofAPCs
› Credits against spend onAPCs against subscriptions
› Capped extra payment for unlimited APCs
Effectiveness varies depending on the nature of the publisher
Must be able to administrate
Agnostic on which offset model is implemented – as long as we
have one!
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16. The situation in late 2014
»Early successes with Sage and the RLUK agreement with
IoPP
»Wiley – credits on APCs based on total expenditure on
journals and APCs
»T&F – vouchers equivalent to 75% of APC value. Number
of vouchers based on expenditure
»Springer – new model under negotiation – potentially
transformative
»Elsevier – an offset proposal has been promised…
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17. Much remains to be done
» Pursue publishers that have not engaged on offsetting
› University presses and professional associations
› A number of negotiations are still ongoing
» Commission with RLUK & SCONUL cost allocation mechanisms for alternative
models
» Review of offsetting schemes
› These are all pilots
› Have we lowered averageAPC prices for UK institutions?
» Promotion of offsetting schemes to authors
» Compliance
› Author’s Accepted Manuscript
» Administrative efficiency and reduction of transaction costs
› ORCID, FundRef
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What are we doing now to make this manageable?
What happens when we just add APC costs to subscriptions without overall control mechanism
- Demonstrated support of policy makers
- Clearly linked APCs and Subscriptions together in the context of implementation of Finch
- Emphasised the role of Jisc Collections
- Provided a timeframe for action with the expectation of progress by the time of RCUK’s review of it’s policy later in 2014
