1. FWF Open Access Policy
Current Activities and Challenges
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
FWFOpenAccess - FWF Open Access on Twitter
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2. Open Access activities in a nutshell (I)
2001 Covering APCs up to three years after conclusion of the project
with additional funds
2003 Signing the Berlin Declaration
2004 Launching OA Policy incl. Green and Gold, mandate since 2006
2008 – now strong engagement for a common European OA policy
via Science Europe (see also C. Kratky NATURE 29/8/2013)
2010 Joining Europe PubMedCentral, now > 4000 papers are OA
2011 Starting one of the first OA book programme, incl. the
FWF E-Book Library, ~ 260 books are now OA + ~ 60 p.a., Ø 231
downloads per year
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3. Open Access activities in a nutshell (II)
2012 OA testimonials from over 40 top researchers in Austria
2012 Foundation of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA),
members from 45 organizations
2012 Initial funding programme for OA journals from the Humanities
and Social Sciences, 8 journals are funded
2013 Financial support of: SCOAP³, OA Days, OAPEN, DOAJ,
OA Monograph Conference London, arXiv, Wellcome Trust study on
APCs
2013 OA Monitoring: 33% of FWF funded articles are Gold or Hybrid
articles + ~ 30-35% Green
2013 Making publication costs for 2013 publically available
2014 One of the first pilots on offsetting Hybrid OA costs against
subscriptions with IOP Publishing
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4. Current FWF OA Policy - Three Options …
Green Archiving the final “accepted manuscript” in any sustainable
subject or institutional repository with a maximum embargo of 12
months (Europe PMC in the Life Sciences)
Gold Direct publication in an Open Access medium by applying CC-BY
license, APCs are covered
Hybrid If offered by publishers and if explicitly chosen by FWF
funded authors, payment for Open Access for single articles in
subscription journals can also be covered (CC-BY)
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5. FWF Publication Costs 2013*
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Type No
Ø Cost per
unit
Costs
Classical Publications Costs for Journals 257 € 1.074 € 275.916
APCs for OA Journals 209 € 1.393 € 291.047
APCs for Hybrid Journals 922 € 2.278 € 2.100.675
OA Books (incl. copy editing, printing costs) 49 € 15.704 € 769.500
Total Cost € 3.437.138
6. Current Challenges
After collecting data of publication costs for 2013 and the report
Developing an Effective Market for Open Access the FWF faces following
challenges:
Negotiating together with the Austrian Library Consortium offsetting
deals for Hybrid OA with publishers (see the IOP deal)
Enforcing the principles of “Openness”, see HowOpenIsIt
Introducing price caps for Gold and Hybrid APCs ?
Cease to pay for any additional publication costs for subscription
journals (e.g. colour figures, page charges and submission fees) ?
Enforcing Green OA with uniform embargos
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7. Long-Term Challenges (I)
Green Open Access: setting clear and uniform rules for a common
OA policy among funding and research institutions in Europe, e.g.
embargo periods of max. 12 months
Levels of Openness: defining the principles of openness more
strictly, see HowOpenIsIt
Publisher Services: defining the services publishers have to offer if
publications fees for OA are covered by funders or research
institutions (see 2.)
Price-Services-Sensitivity: including publication costs in the
research budgets so that researchers become more sensible for the
price-service-relation by publishers, see Solomon/Björk (2014)
Transition Models: negotiating transition models with publishers
which avoid the problem of double dipping for publication costs, see
IOP Publishing and Austria / UK, SCOAP³, Knowledge Unlachted
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8. Long-Term Challenges (II)
Funding the Transition: launching cross-border funding models
which support the transition of toll access to full OA
Funding Academia-governed Publication Models: launching
cross-border funding models which support new non-commercial,
academia governed publication models with no or very low
publication fees, see for example the proposals of OLH, K|N
Consultants or OPuS
Funding OA Infrastructure: cross-border funding of international OA
infrastructure and service provider like repositories (e.g. arXiv,
Europe PubMedCentral, OAPEN) or databases (e.g. DOAJ, Romeo
Sherpa)
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