[GOAL] Open Access Monitoring Report - Swiss National Science Foundation

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

I just had a great time reading the decision of the court.

Bravo!

Could you share the information you finally obtained? I would love to
see it, and so would the head of libraries in my university who is
presently engaged in a wrestling match with Nature-Springer.

For my part, allow me to point this list to the following documents:

1. A list of expenses by the Government of Argentina for various
publishers and several years( attached)

2. Something equivalent, but in the form of annual reports for Chile:
http://www.cincel.cl/content/view/90/50/ .

In both of these countries, agreements with publishers are made public
by law.

Apparently, the same is true in Uruguay but I have not yet found the
right place or person to ferret out this information.

There is a need to centralize all this information, by the way. OAD
perhaps ?


Jean-Claude Guédon 

Professeur titulaire
Littérature comparée
Université de Montréal




Le mardi 10 mai 2016 à 23:16 +0200, Christian Gutknecht a écrit :

> Hi all
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> The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has released an Open
> Access Monitoring Report 2013-2015:
> http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/Monitoringbericht_Open_Access_2015_e.pdf
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> The OA status of 17'000 publications reported to be output of SNSF
> funded projects published between 2013 and 2014 an have been checked,
> and an OA share of at least 39% (or 56% if you also count freely
> papers on websites, but not repositories as green OA) was found. This
> validated OA ratio is much higher, than what authors have self
> declared in the grant administration system to be Open Access (20%).
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> Also financial reports of grants have been checked for publications
> related costs. These costs have not been categorized separately in the
> grant administration system and therefore no specific data was
> available until now. The check revealed that the uptake of APCs is
> still quite moderate, despite the SNSF has started in 2013 to pay
> explictly APCs up to 3000 CHF during the grant lifetime. The check
> also revealed that hybrid OA articles were funded, although that’s not
> in line with the SNSF regulations. For the future a more rigorous
> control system will be established to prevent paying for hybrid OA.
> Further it was also noted, that a significant amount of costs were
> attributed to publication costs not related to Open Access, like
> overlength charges, color charges or author's contributions. These
> charges no longer appear to be appropriate and are likely to be
> covered on a much more restrictive basis in future.
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> It was also announced that the SNSF together with swissuniversities
> (the association of all Swiss Universities) has commissioned a study
> „Financial flow analysis of scientific publishing in Switzerland“. The
> mandate was awarded to Cambridge Economic Policy Associates (CEPA), in
> collaboration with Professor John Houghton, Melbourne. The results are
> expected to be in by the end of the year and should lead to specific
> action.
> See: http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/Finanzflussanalyse_e.pdf
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> Additionally, a Swiss court has ruled recently, that accepted
> non-disclosure agreements in contracts with publishers can’t annul the
> local transparency law. So in the specific case, the University of
> Geneva had to disclose what they have been paying to Elsevier,
> Springer and Wiley. Here the decision of the court (in
> French): https://wisspub.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/2016-02-29-decision-cour-de-justice.pdf
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> Best Regards
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> Christian Gutknecht
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