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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Dear list,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">I'm happy to let you know that </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">Knowledge
Exchange</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> (KE) has published the article <b>Monitoring agreements with Open Access elements: why article level metadata is important.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">If you are interested in monitoring OA publications and monitoring cost data for OA publications at a national or institutional
level or by funder this may be an interesting article for you to read.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The Knowledge Exchange (KE) Monitoring Open Access (OA) task and finish group has undertaken research on agreements with
OA elements (e.g. agreements with APC discounts, offsetting agreements, read and publish agreements) set between consortia from KE countries and major publishers between 2016 and early 2019. Following recommendations from KE and ESAC <b>it assessed agreements
with OA elements to investigate what article-level metadata consortia request from publishers and what metadata publishers deliver to consortia</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">With Plan S research funders requiring a full transition to OA by 2021, the delivery of article-level metadata becomes critical
to monitor publishers’ compliance with Plan S requirements for transformative arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The research findings showed that:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Not all consortia agreements requested the article-level metadata as recommended by KE and ESAC.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Most importantly, none of the publishers provided all the metadata that the consortia requested.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Publishers also did not deliver the same metadata across countries and this may be due lack of consistency in their practices.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The research findings can be used as a benchmark to monitor how major publishers were performing in KE countries until
early 2019 and prior to Plan S comes into effect in 2021.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">You can read the full article here: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.489/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.489/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> and
find out more about Knowledge Exchange's work on Monitoring Open Access here: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/oa-monitoring"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue">http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/event/oa-monitoring</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">We hope the article will give new insights and facilitate collective action. Please help us distributing our work and share
it widely through your channels!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">With best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Juliane Kant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">The Knowledge Exchange</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> (KE)
partners are six key national organizations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research: </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.csc.fi/" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">CSC</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
Finland, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">CNRS</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
France, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://ufm.dk/en/the-ministry/organisation/danish-agency-for-science-and-higher-education" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">DAFSHE</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
Denmark</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> <i>, </i></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.dfg.de/en/" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">DFG</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
Germany, </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">Jisc</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
the UK and </span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.surf.nl/en" target="_blank"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1C5C76">SURF</span></i></b></a></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> in
the Netherlands.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;">Scientific Library Services and Information Systems</font><br>
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)</font><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial">German Research Foundation </font><br>
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53175 Bonn<br>
Tel. +49 (228) 885-2009<br>
Fax +49 (228) 885-713309</font><font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;"></font><br>
<font style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;">juliane.kant@dfg.de</font><br>
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