[GOAL] INTACT analysis of Springer Compact agreements

[Dirk Pieper]

Dear all,

as part of the INTACT project (https://www.intact-project.org/), we have 
been working intensively on the analysis of offsetting data during the 
last days. Thanks to Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ), the 
Max Planck Digital Library, VSNU / UKB Netherlands, the Swedish Bibsam 
consortium and JISC Collections, we were able to analyze data from 2015 
to 2018 of existing Springer Compact agreements.

Analyzing the data, we found clear deviations between the data on 
Crossref, on Springer Link and in the offsetting reports of the Compact 
participants. These methodological challenges are of relevance not only 
when it comes to open access monitoring in hybrid journals, but also in 
the context of open access transformation (https://oa2020.org/, 
http://oa2020-de.org/en/) and DEAL 
(https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/).

For the analysis of the Springer Compact Agreements, we therefore 
developed a method that almost eliminates the differences and allows the 
most accurate possible monitoring. Information on this can be found on 
our INTACT blog:

https://www.intact-project.org/general/openapc/2018/03/22/offsetting-coverage/

The data are available here:

https://treemaps.intact-project.org/apcdata/offsetting-coverage/#publisher/Springer%20Nature/

Some snapshots of our findings:

*offsetting has contributed to a significant increase in open access 
articles in some of the hybrid Springer Compact journals from 2016 to 2017

*400 of 1,700 of all Springer Compact journals (around 24%) do not 
appear to be relevant as publication sites for the academic institutions 
involved in the offsetting contracts

*in a total of 500 Springer Compact journals, the open access articles 
were financed exclusively by offsetting, but very few of these journals 
achieved ever higher open access shares

*based on 1,700 Springer Compact journals in 2017, only 0.76% of the 
journals have achieved an open access share of greater than or equal to 50%

Best,

Dirk


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Dirk Pieper
Deputy Director Bielefeld UL

www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
www.base-search-net
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