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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thank you for sharing this document, this is very informative.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A comment on the approach: while good intentions are obvious here and the overall goal of full open access is one that we share, the monitoring involved (demanding article-level metadata from publishers which in turn
requires author and funder metadata in effect imposing upstream technical requirements) appears to be problematic for several reasons.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Monitoring via publisher offsetting agreements is Inefficient in comparison with institutional OA repository and IR: when a researcher receives grant funding that is administered through a university or research organization,
the organization is already tracking the individual researcher and the funding. This is necessary for accountability purposes; the primary focus of monitoring the use of funding is, and should be, ensuring that funds are spent on doing research rather than
lining peoples' pockets or subsidizing vacations. Institutional OA policy and services do not require an additional layer of tracking of individual researchers and their grants. If works are deposited in the IR, OA status can be determined locally, and reported
consortially or nationally if desired.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As a researcher with funding, my institution and funding agency both have reporting expectations. A funding agency could simply ask for a report on how the researcher has met the OA policy as part of the final report.
For some researchers, this might inspire post-hoc OA action. Similarly, an institution can ask researchers to report on OA policy compliance, just as researchers are expected to meet policy requirements for research ethics and accountability. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">More important, the impact of technical developments for monitoring seem highly likely to lock in what should be considered a publishing model based on print (journals and books, optimized for the printing press and postal
system) that should be regarded as in the process of becoming obsolete. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As an open researcher, very little of my work would be reflected in the monitoring system described. Attempting to expand the monitoring system to include new formats such as open data and research blogs would multiply
the inefficiencies of monitoring and likely stifle innovation.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">There are compelling public interest arguments for global open access. There are a lot of details to figure out in the shift to OA, but let's not lose sight of the big picture, the potential for uniting humanity in a
common quest for knowledge, in the process. </p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> goal-bounces@eprints.org <goal-bounces@eprints.org> on behalf of Kant, Juliane <juliane.kant@dfg.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 26, 2019 8:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) <goal@eprints.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Knowledge Exchange Publication on Monitoring agreements with Open Access elements</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black">Dear list,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="x_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" id="LPlnk739734" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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></span></p>
<p class="x_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"></span></p>
<p class="x_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.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="x_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>.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="x_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.</span></p>
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<p class="x_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:</span></p>
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<li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; background:white"><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"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; 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"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; 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"></span></li></ul>
<p class="x_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"></span></p>
<p class="x_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/" id="LPlnk648024" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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" id="LPlnk948508" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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"></span></p>
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<p class="x_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!</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black">With best regards,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:black">Juliane Kant</span></p>
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</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" id="LPlnk771728" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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" id="LPlnk535837" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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" id="LPlnk788347" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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" id="LPlnk126561" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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
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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" id="LPlnk453756" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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" id="LPlnk442819" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><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
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