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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin-bottom:19.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#111111'>Forwarding from Heather Morrison: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:19.4pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#111111'>Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Final Report</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:19.4pt;background:white;overflow-wrap:break-word;outline:0px'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#111111'>Thank you to GOAL list members for rich discussion over the years. Following are my key recommendations and takeaways for future OA researchers. Full post: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2021/12/22/sustaining-the-knowledge-commons-final-report/">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2021/12/22/sustaining-the-knowledge-commons-final-report/</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;overflow-wrap:break-word;outline:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Key recommendations for funders (including libraries & policy-makers)</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Recommendation #1: Support small scholar-led publishers (e.g. journals and books published by or at universities and scholarly associations)</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'> to transition to open access because this sector can thrive with modest support (best economic choice) and is the sector in the best position to prioritize the values of academia over profit and achieve global equity in inclusion of scholars around the world in a global knowledge commons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Recommendation #2: Support existing and emerging open access scholarly publishers reliant on open access article process charges (APCs) </span></strong><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>with caution</span></b></em><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'> </span></strong><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>and back-up built into policy.</span></b></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'> There are 2 main reasons for caution: there are already a large number of journals and publishers that are “no longer in DOAJ”, many of which are still publishing. While current APC publishers such as the Public Library of Science have earned top reputations for publishing quality scholarship, it is clear that the APC model has also opened a door to a for-profit sector with less than clear commitment to scholarly quality. The second reason for caution is evidence of price rises beyond inflation among commercial and professional not-for-profit APC based publishers. It is not clear that the economics of this model are sustainable. To put a back-up plan into policy, require that researchers deposit work in an open access repository. Meeting OA policy through open access publishing alone makes works available open access today with no guarantee for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Recommendation #3: Look beyond traditional print-based formats such as journals and books</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>. The open research SKC blog, featuring immediate release of the results of over 200 small research projects to inform decision-making in real time, and the OA APC dataverse, are illustrations of what we can do. Innovation should be a priority, not an afterthought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Recommendation #4</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>: Make global equity and inclusion a top priority in setting policy, including deciding which initiatives to support financially. The key question is: will this policy or initiative tend to facilitate a global knowledge commons that gives voice to all qualified researchers around the world, or will it further entrench existing interests?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;overflow-wrap:break-word;outline:0px'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>Takeaways for future APC researchers</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>The <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sustaining the Knowledge Commons</span></em> blog features a rich set of small research projects, many on individual APC-charging publishers, that are not available anywhere else. The blog will remain as is for some time and will be archived with the assistance of the University of Ottawa Library before it is decommissioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>The most complete dataset in the <a href="https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/oaapc"><span style='color:#B12930'>OA APC dataverse</span></a> is OA Main 2019. This is a unique contribution as journals once included (journal or publisher was once included in DOAJ) are retained from year to year. Data including APC amounts for several years derived from a number of sources is available for close to 20 thousand journals. This dataset is for serious researchers as it takes some time to read the documentation and understand the datapoints; misinterpretation would be easy given that the data is derived from multiple sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>The dataset in the <a href="https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataverse/oaapc"><span style='color:#B12930'>OA APC dataverse </span></a>that includes journals for which we have data for the longest period of time is the 2011 – 2021 dataset. Most of the 2011 dataset in included in OA Main 2019, however in preparing analysis we found that some journals were missing as they had been removed from DOAJ prior to our first sampling (2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:74.75pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#111111'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#111111'>The published open data in the OA APC dataverse reflects a small portion of the data that we have collected and analyzed over the years. The reason for not publishing all of the data as open data is the complexity and extra work required to create publishable documentation. If you are looking for historical APC data for research purposes, don’t hesitate to ask what I (Heather Morrison) might have. No guarantees that what you need will match what I have.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dr. Heather Morrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Cross-appointed, Department of Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>sustainingknowledgecommons.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>