<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><Apologies for cross posting><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello all, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">We have just published a blog post: <span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 1.3; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Cambridge RCUK Block Grant spend for 2016-2017</span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 15px;" class=""><font color="#141412" class="">”</font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 18); line-height: 1.3; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1463" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1463</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: 'PT Sans', Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 22px; margin: 22px 0px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Headline numbers</h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In total Cambridge spent £1.68 million of RCUK funds on APCs (this is up from £1.28 last year)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">1920 articles identified as being RCUK funded were submitted to the Open Access Service, of which 1248 required payment for RCUK*</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The average article processing charge was £1850 – this is significantly less than the £2008 average last year, reflecting the value of the memberships we have (see below)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'PT Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">*Note these numbers will differ slightly from the report due to the difference in dates between the calendar and financial years (see below).</p></div><div class="">The blog explains the University’s expenditure on non-APC costs, and also analyses the value for money of a few of the offset deals and memberships in which we are participating.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our full dataset is available in the repository here - <a href="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264341" class="">https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264341</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><br class="">Dr Danny Kingsley<br class="">Head, Office of Scholarly Communication<br class="">Cambridge University Library<br class="">West Road, Cambridge CB39DR<br class="">P: +44 (0) 1223 747 437<br class="">M: +44 (0) 7711 500 564<br class="">E: <a href="mailto:dak45@cam.ac.uk" class="">dak45@cam.ac.uk</a><br class="">T: @dannykay68<br class="">B: <a href="https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/" class="">https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/</a><br class="">S: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley" class="">http://www.slideshare.net/DannyKingsley</a><br class="">ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3636-5939</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><img height="152" width="600" apple-inline="yes" id="FAC0FA44-911B-40A0-BBBF-CE3B70855293" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:22F510D9-E4C1-4E38-B4B3-10556FD2ACD8" class=""></span>
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