Where Do We Go From Here? Libraries Adapting to Plan S and Funder Mandates
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00:10
Thank you P.K.B. and P.O.B. for having me, for the opportunity to speak about CLANAS. I think it's a nice addition to the talk we've just heard, and we will have the chance
00:23
to look at a few aspects of CLANAS where I think that libraries could play a important role. So CLANAS, this is not an interaction into CLANAS. We have just heard that if you know what CLANAS is, and I will go briefly over a few things, but the reasoning behind CLANAS is,
00:43
and this is also in the call that we've been announcing from this conference, we've had 20 years of open access, or not so much of that. The funders are losing patience, and they said, well, we are interested in making the research that we fund as accessible as possible, and we think that open access is necessary for that,
01:00
we want to accelerate the transition to open access, and the way we tried it before hasn't worked very well, so now we're trying to increase the transition. CLANAS has this goal of immediate open access for all funded research starting in 2021. Brought forward by a group of funders for coalition-ask, ever increasing since the initial announcement,
01:24
by very traditional means of setting certain conditions for funded researchers, so they have to comply with those conditions that their funders apply. There is a joint set of guidelines that all the individual funders are going to implement,
01:43
and the target group of those conditions are researchers, not libraries, and still are not talking about libraries today. So there has been lots of updates since the initial announcement of CLANAS, including the appointment of an open access champion, and open access ambassadors, and more recently, more focused on both learning societies and repositories,
02:04
because the initial response was very critical of how CLANAS handled repositories. But, so this is just a brief overview of who's part of that, the German National Fund is not part of the coalition as of right now, but many European funders are, and also the European Research Council,
02:22
which I think is interesting for those researchers who come from the National Fund, is not part of the coalition. So the criteria are not that complex. Basically it says, your research has to be published under a CC-BY license, or maybe CC-BY-C, there is no copyright transfer to a publisher allowed,
02:42
you have to keep the copyright, you have to provide good metadata, machine-readable metadata, and the hybrid route that optional open access in subscription channels should not be allowed at least after transition. There are three main routes by which researchers can be compliant with CLANAS.
03:02
The first one is to publish open access in an open access venue, and go with open access. This could be in a journal, but it also could be in a repository. The other way is to use a repository on the green route of open access. So publish with a subscription journal, then put your copy in the repository,
03:20
but immediately, so there is no embargo allowed, and also you have to apply a CC-BY license. If your publisher does not allow that, you are not compliant. The third way would be to publish in a journal that is under a transformative agreement, where the publisher has some kind of ban to move the journal to open access. Compliance with those criteria does not mean that the funders are going to reimburse researchers for that.
03:46
If you have to pay money to your publisher so that your research can be made accessible via a repository, that is your problem. If you are publishing with a go-to open access journal, they are going to cover the fees. So there is some difference between the are you compliant and are we going to pay for it.
04:06
There is also the support of DORA, the recreational research assessment, meaning that you should not evaluate journals by its impact factor, basically. Libraries could play a critical role because they have the funds that can and maybe should be used to fund open access,
04:24
they provide information to researchers, they advise other people, they lobby for open access, they are often in charge of drafting policies or some kind of institutional guidelines, and they provide the infrastructure. And even if we think that this is not important for libraries, the field around us is changing anyways.
04:46
Because of plan S, publishers have to come up with new ideas how to be compliant, how to not lose European and other places in the world funded researchers as authors. So the field is changing, we have to adapt to that, and we are well placed to play an important role in that game,
05:04
as I hope to demonstrate in a few minutes. And the main task that libraries will have in this field is to aid the compliance of their authors and to preserve an open infrastructure that we need desperately for this.
05:20
So there are six ways I think libraries can implement plan S that are within their realm of action, what they can influence. Institutional policies, transformative agreements with publishers, just mentioned in the other talk, investing into open infrastructure, building institutional platforms, modernize their repositories,
05:42
and support researchers directly. Institutional policies, it is important to have a clear message from the top of the institution, there has to be a clear message that we want to have open access, we want to publish open access, we are not going to fund hybrid open access, but we are supporting it.
06:02
We might look into increasing open access funds, but also to redistributing them, maybe not paying for APCs anymore, but paying into library consortia, or paying into other forms of open access funding. We have to think of other types of applications that general articles, that assesses upon all kinds of applications of the strict set of rules,
06:24
implementing now is for general articles, we now have to think of other types of applications. And we have to measure compliance with our own institutions, so we have to provide researchers and administration with a date on how compliant are we with plan S and what to do about it in those cases where we are not.
06:42
Transformative agreements are a very traditional thing for libraries to do, switch to contracts and then try to put something into those contracts that makes the publisher promise to move this journal to open access. It has been around for a few years now, I haven't seen a successful demonstration of how this works.
07:05
So there are many cases of transformative agreements, much money going into that, but nowhere I've seen a case where this journal then has eventually become open access. It's a very long perspective and we are waiting for some time.
07:20
Learned societies are often involved in publishing journals, and we have to look closely at this mainly and talk to societies if there is another way of publishing journals, but with published publishers. The requirements that plan S puts forward can be matched with those agreements,
07:41
but they are hard for libraries that have so far accepted everything that publishers have demanded. Second publication rights without embargo. Everyone should be allowed to put their publication into their institutional repository without any embargo. Under a CC5 license, that is.
08:00
No copyright transfer to the publisher. Transparency about what is allowed and how much this is going to cost. And to not let authors pay for APCs, but to have some institutional way to handle this and not harass researchers with individual influences. And get rid of subscription contracts.
08:20
So this is about replacing subscription models with open access. When this is successful, there is no subscription anymore. So let's get out of that. Develop new models with maybe some kind of cooperative financing, but this is very hard to do and we have to invest some time. And we have to deal with free running.
08:42
When things are going to be open access, and 100 libraries are not paying for that, the others have to pay for it. Investing into open infrastructure is very important and a topic that has been discussed at this conference and will be discussed at this conference many times.
09:00
There are many possibilities to redirect our library funds into supporting open infrastructure. Subject repositories, long-term preservation systems, infrastructure to provide resistant identifiers. The general management software, so maybe become a partner of an organization developing such a software.
09:20
Directories like the DOJ or databases that collect some information that you need to do open access. And I'm talking about both the daily operation and the long-term perspective of this kind of infrastructure. So we need to come up with the money so that infrastructure can be operated on a day-to-day basis.
09:41
But we also have to set aside some money to develop new features because we don't want our infrastructure to fall behind commercial alternatives. Open source and open data should be very clear criteria to decide what kind of infrastructure we're going to support. And again, the difficulty to build consortia, cooperative models of financing
10:02
and funding such infrastructure are important. The governance models that we want to have for that might both include researchers for some kind of academic governance of these infrastructure, but also to include libraries because when we are paying for them,
10:21
maybe we want to have the word when it comes to deciding about the new development. And we should strive for cost transparency with all these infrastructure and other means that we are doing ourselves. We're not only asking this in commercial publishers,
10:40
Asia being as transparent as possible, why they are charging us which kind of money, but we should also be very clear about what infrastructure that we are operating is going to cost. Institutional platforms like, in addition to that, these are institutional repositories, like you just heard from this university, build successful platforms and analyze how we can close the gaps.
11:04
So which publications are not deposited with the repository and what can you do about that? Do we need additional rules? Do we need to talk to a certain research group because they are the ones missing? We need clear policies and we need an honest handling again of costs
11:21
and how to be able to build these platforms in a successful and sustainable way. Our repositories, and we just heard how a successful repository can become with hundreds, thousands of articles and publications, but also we have to think about that there's no guarantee
11:41
that the support of green open access in FANAS is forever. So right now there's some very strong language in FANAS that this is temporary and that it's going to be evaluated and maybe in a few years it will no longer be considered compliant with FANAS. So we have to think about why do we operate repositories
12:01
and what we do with them. I think that we should try to position our repositories as also venues for first publications and to offer them as means to have those open access publications. Every of the criteria that FANAS has set for repositories
12:20
and with the revised version of guidelines those have been a little easier to match now because they remove for the time being the requirements to handle XML files. But all those things like automatic deposits from, for instance, publishers the support of JAD's XML, good metadata, persistent identifiers,
12:41
open API, delivery of the publications from your repository to other services like PubMed. These are things that we can do and then we can look more optimistic I think to the future and think about how this repository can be a primary venue for publications no longer over the second.
13:05
Support of researchers is the last of the points I presented in the beginning. It will still be very important to talk to researchers and to help them to be compliant with what their funder is asking them to do. Again, there is not a single set of rules for FANAS
13:22
but there are going to be 20, 30, 40 different implementations following the joint implementation guidelines. But your national funder or your other funder like for instance the Gates Foundation or Wellcome Trust they are going to have their own set of rules
13:40
and we have to help researchers how to deal with that. We have to make sure that the workflows when people are using our services are as easy as possible to use because we don't want to lose researchers using our services because it's taking them too long and they are getting lost during the process. We have to make sure that everyone knows
14:02
what kind of support we are offering like financial support which kind of costs we are going to cover because there will be cases where people think I'm going to have to pay this because of FANAS and then they will ask our libraries for reimbursement and we have to say no because it's not combined because the funder is not going to pay for that
14:22
and we don't have the means either. So be very clear about what you support and what you're not supporting and what you support only for a limited time. I would like for libraries to advise people against hybrid open access. It's not a good way of publishing, it's not a sustainable way
14:41
choose an open access journal or make sure that you can be positive with your repository immediately but do not pay extra to make your article available in that non-open journal. It's very important to talk to people about how there's a difference between compatible journals
15:00
so there are open access journals and when you publish with those journals you are going to be complying with them. But there will be other journals where you have to pay extra or only on the case-by-case basis you will be considered combined. This is important to know all your stuff about that. And we should lobby for fair open access models. We should lobby for models where it's very transparent
15:21
what kind of money we pay for non-publishing and to make sure that all the criteria that you want to see are limited by publishers. So when we think about what to do next I think it's important to embrace the core principles of Plannes.
15:43
I'm not thinking that Plannes is bad for us. I think that Plannes is an important step. There are other initiatives that are also available but nothing is wrong with the core principles. Immediate open access using free licenses this is something we've been asking for all the time and we should take the chance to put it in our policies
16:04
the same way that it has to put it in Plannes because the alignment of policies is wonderful. And we need to find sustainable solutions solutions both for external and in-house infrastructure and we have to make sure that our primary responsibilities
16:22
are towards academia and towards the society and not towards, for instance, publishers. So if this is disruptive and if things are going to change and publishers are going to lose some money about that this should not be our main concern. Our main concern should be how can we make research available
16:40
as much as possible, as openly as possible and as sustainable as possible. So, in diffusion, as I said in the beginning funders have lost patience, they are going to act upon this they are increasing the pressure there's nothing in Plannes, I think, that couldn't be done by this and there's also not very new things
17:05
like this is traditional funder action they request compliance of authors that get funded by those organizations there's nothing wrong with that they got every right to ask for that and they're going to get it, I guess because now they're starting to measure compliance
17:20
which for some time they have not. There might be other ways that we would see around for instance, funders getting more engaged directly with publishers paying directly, not asking the authors' institutions to get involved this might happen In diffusion, I think, there's plenty of things that libraries can do
17:42
that they should do, they should quickly assume their role because otherwise things are changing and maybe our services will no longer be needed but we can't play an important role we have to cooperate this is like preaching to the converted we've heard this many times at this conference so far, cooperation is important
18:01
we want to work together to do that and we also have to deal with free-riding this is going to be important if we're electing the funds to do something because a huge share of libraries organizations are not paying into this then this is going to be a problem we can start right away I've talked to many libraries and they have said
18:20
well, let's wait, how this turns out is GLaDOS here to stay or does it get changed again? I think we should start now and we shouldn't demonize gold with glasses GLaDOS has been criticized heavily because of their focus on gold open access I think it's the right thing to do gold open access is not equal
18:41
expensive open access APCs, it can mean all kinds of things it just means immediate open access and we should do that GLaDOS has a bias towards large publishers and APCs because that's the thing that is around that everyone knows but we can work around it we can work against that bias we can come up with solutions on our own we have to be courageous about that
19:02
and it's up to us to build and support an open and sustainable publishing ecosystem where research in Strive and applications are found very well and where everything is open and will be around for many years and without us paying huge amounts of money to publishers because that's a little smaller
19:22
the screen has a little confusion a little larger font there so it's up to us we can do that and libraries are very important in that field they have the funds and the means and the staff to do that and I think they should if they haven't done so they should start now to implement things according to their needs Thank you