Adam Der (Max Planck Digital Library) The ESAC Initiative is open and global community of practice of librarians who are sharing their experiences and expertise in the operational aspects of open access agreements. The ESAC community also develops community resources and guidelines to empower librarians as they move into the era of open access, including the ESAC Workflow Recommendations, ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry, and most recently, the ESAC Market Watch and the ESAC Reference Guide to Transformative Agreements. The presentation will introduce how the community can learn from a number of key trends in the demographics and distribution of scholarly journal publishing in transition, and use these to better understand their position in the scholarly publishing market and make strategic considerations regarding their interactions with publishers.

2. The UKSG 45th Annual Conference and Exhibition Lightning
Talks - Session 2
Telford, 31 May 2022
esac-initiative.org @ESACinitiative
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Ádám Dér
Max Planck Digital Library
What can we learn from the ESAC Market Watch?

3. ESAC Market Watch
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4. The UK scholarly publishing landscape
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Share of UK publication output, by publisher UK Publication output by type, by publisher

5. Global impact of transformative agreements in enabling OA
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Publication output shares by type, by country
“In 2021, we reached the significant landmark
that over half of all our published articles were
open access (53%)”
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/01/halfway-to-open/
“By 31 July 2021, some 48 per cent of our
research article output was covered by these
agreements worldwide.”
https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/annual-report/press-report-
2021/academic

6. Global impact of transformative agreements in enabling OA
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Cumulative sum of open access articles enabled by transformative agreements globally

7. Article processing charges over time
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Source: OpenAPC
Distribution of article processing charges by publisher

8. ESAC is an open community of information professionals dedicated to putting the vision of
open access in research communication into practice.
Putting open access into practice
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Get involved in ESAC!
contact@esac-initiative.org
Email us at
esac-initiative.org
Explore the ESAC resources at

10. Publishing through a
pandemic
How has COVID affected how
we discover, read, and publish
research?
Mark Robinson
Taylor & Francis Group
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11. Image: Ballofstring, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Were people reading?

12. Taylor & Francis Online: daily article usage Feb-Apr 2019, 20 & 21
* ‘Equivalent date’ aligns year-on-year weekday and weekend results

13. Taylor & Francis Online: daily article usage Feb-Apr 2019, 20 & 21
* ‘Equivalent date’ aligns year-on-year weekday and weekend results

14. Image: Sakhaa24, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What were they reading?

15. Contribution of COVID-19 articles to YOY monthly usage growth

16. 2020 research articles with the highest Altemtric scores in 2020
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Article Title Journal
Exhaled respiratory particles during singing and talking
Aerosol Science
and Technology
A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short of
Paris-compliant pathways
Climate Policy
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change Globalizations
Molecular and serological investigation of 2019-nCoV infected patients: implication of
multiple shedding routes​
Emerging Microbes
& Infections​
Persistent self-reported changes in hearing and tinnitus
in post-hospitalisation covid-19 cases​
International Journal
of Audiology​
A systematic review of the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus from the Campanian of North
America and its implications for the relationships at the root of Crocodylia
Journal of
Vertebrate Palaeontology

17. 2021 research articles with the highest Altemtric scores in 2021
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Article Title Journal
Covid-19 Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature
International Journal of the
Economics of Business
Testing mobile air purifiers in a school classroom: Reducing the airborne transmission
risk for SARS-CoV-2
Aerosol Science and
Technology
Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay Environmental Politics
Efficacy of face masks, neck gaiters and face shields for reducing the expulsion of
simulated cough-generated aerosols
Aerosol Science and
Technology
A new furileusaurian abelisaurid from La Invernada (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian, Bajo
de la Carpa Formation), northern Patagonia, Argentina
Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology

18. Image: Matt Martyniuk, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What were researchers publishing?

19. Submissions: excess growth Q2 2020
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Journal subject area​
Q2 2020
% COVID Submissions
Q2-Q1 2020 Excess
Growth​
Biomechanics​ 6%​ 59%​
Entrepreneurship
& Small Business​ 3%​ 53%​
Law & Ethics In Health​ 40%​ 47%​
Special Education​ 0%​ 44%​
Medical Education​ 25%​ 43%​
Accounting​ 2%​ 36%​
Sport Management​ 12%​ 35%​
Environmental Health​ 8%​ 34%​
Ophthalmology​ 6%​ 31%​
Multicultural Education​ 0%​ 31%​

20. Journal Subject Area​ % COVID Submissions​
Immunology​ 31%​
Law & Ethics in Health 22%​
Medical Education​ 19%​
Allied & Public Health​ 18%​
Public Health 17%​
Mental Health (Multidisciplinary)​ 17%​
Sport Management​ 16%​
Behavioural Medicine 16%​
Health Psychology 15%​
Educational Media & Tech​ 14%​
Journal Subject Area​ % COVID Submissions​
Behavioural Medicine​ 27%​
Health Psychology​ 27%​
Immunology​ 25%​
Allied & Public Health​ 23%​
Mental Health (Multidisciplinary)​ 21%​
Public Health​ 21%​
Educational Media & Technology​ 20%​
Hospitality &Tourism​ 18%​
Psychiatry​ 18%​
Communication Studies​ 17%​
Which subjects received the highest % of COVID-19 articles?
2020 2021

21. Reading and publishing
during a pandemic
• What were people reading during the
pandemic?
• What research was being discussed?
• What were researchers publishing?
• How quickly was Covid research cited?
• How did readers discover the research
they needed?
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