Taking Back Control of Research & Scholarly Publishing
We are considering a range of options as
we negotiate with Elsevier & Sage.
The Library is not
planning
to cancel our
subscription to Science Direct.
The outcome will depend on Elsevier’s
willingness
Current Elsevier License
• Science Direct Only
• Expires 12/31/2019
• We will begin negotiations in May
• Faculty feedback is critical
• We are committed to responsibly stewarding
Current System of Scholarly Publishing
“
Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab
The Quest to Topple Science Stymied Academic Paywalls
https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-academic-paywalls/
It’s essential for universities, and core to
our mission, to assert greater control over
systems for knowledge representation,
Universities pay 3 times for research
1. We pay researchers/authors/faculty to conduct research which they typically give to publishers for free.
2. We pay faculty who volunteer their time to peer-review and edit journal submissions.
Reality Check
1. The cost of journals has outpaced library budgets 2. The university can not cover annual inflationary
costs of books & journals any longer
Huge Profit Margins
and
“Big 5” Publishers: control 50% of academic
publishing
$4 Billion
$690 Million $2 Billion
Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P. (2015). The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE
Big Deals from 5 publishers
dominate Library Collections
The “Big Deal”
1. Entrepreneurs built fortunes by taking publishing out of the hands of researchers and expanding on a previously unimaginable scale
2. Publishers sell this literature to libraries in multi-title bundles
3. Access to a publisher’s entire catalog with a steady price increase
4. The big deal price growth outstripped inflation and library budgets
UNC-CH Libraries
UNC CH Libraries
Global Trend: break, cancel, transform
big deals
1. Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Germany cancelled Elsevier
2. Florida State, Oregon, Memphis, Montreal have broke big deals
3. Couperin Consortium (France) & Norwegian research institutions recently signed a
transformation deal with Elsevier
Revisit Our Big Deals
•
Need to diversify our journal subscriptions
•
Need more flexibility to acquire content for
emerging research areas
Building Research Collections
Transformational “Read & Publish” Agreements
1. The University Libraries is pursuing new types of subscription packages with publishers.
2. We want one package that would cover subscription charges and open-access publishing fees.
3. Having
Non Disclosure Agreements/Clauses
(NDA)
1. Contracts that require nondisclosure of pricing information
2. Some publishers will request that the library treat the subscription price as confidential information and not disclose it to third parties
3. NDAs do not deter anticompetitive conduct engaged in by some publisher
4. Many libraries have been tolerating these clauses in order to achieve lower costs 5. We do not share trade secrets or proprietary technical details for good reason
UNC Library’s new approach to NDA
1. An open market will result in better licensing terms; NDAs are unnecessary
2. We will promote openness, transparency & equity in licensing scholarly resources
3. NDAs conflict with the needs of UNC staff to work openly,
collaboratively, and transparently; they increase the likelihood that the terms would be inadvertently violated, posing a threat to the university
4. Non-disclosure language should not be required for any licensing agreement
What do we mean by Open Access?
An intentional choice to:
1.Make your work freely available to broad audiences
2.Make your work easily accessible to share and distribute for collaboration and open dialogue
UNC Faculty Author Rights, 2005
Faculty Council passed a
resolution about faculty author rights
UNC’s Open Access Policy, 2015
Goals:
1.To allow the fruits of faculty research and scholarship to be disseminated as widely as possible.
2.To protect the IP rights of faculty while respecting the
diversity of scholarly communication practices across the university.
UNC Faculty Council Resolution, 2019-8
On Containing the Costs of Published Research
The Faculty Council resolves to work with the University Libraries to support open access, affordability, and transparency in scholarly
publishing by affirming our commitment to UNC’s Open Access
Policy, engaging with the University Libraries to license high quality, peer-reviewed content in a manner that is fiscally responsible and sustainable, and supporting—as a public institution devoted to
transparency—the University Libraries’ decision to cease signing nondisclosure agreements in contracts for licensed content.
Why Open Access?
• Be part of building a more inclusive & collaborative
scholarly community
• OA will continue to grow and gain momentum
throughout your career
• OA doesn’t just benefit readers; OA publications are
more visible & discoverable
• 18% of OA articles are cited on average 18% more
Publishing OA models
Green
A version of an article is published in a freely available repository in addition to in any subscription journal. That version may be subject to delayed release; embargo.
Gold
Open access imposes a processing charge (APC) on a researcher,
university, or funding agency before an article is released — but after that, anyone can read that article free of charge, immediately after publication.
Diamond
Beware of Predatory Journals!
1. Review Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/
2. Think Check Submit: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
3. Scrutinize All Journals
• Editorial board members and reviewers • Track record
1. Educate yourself about the issues
2. Check out the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
3. Demand openness & accountability for openness to liberate this life-saving knowledge
4. Support the library
5. Help build something better
1. According to traditional publication agreements, all rights —including copyright — go to the journal.
2. You may not be able to give copies of your article to your class or deposit it in the CDR if you sign a
traditional agreement.
3. Consider modifying the publisher’s agreement; keep your rights
4. Online tool: http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
3. Carolina Digital Repository
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/
• Freely available
• Easy deposit form
• Scholarship is archived, preserved, safe
• Accessible & searchable
• Allows any kind of file up to 2 terabytes
4. Use Library’s Scholarly
Communications Office
1. Provide guidance on copyright and contracts so you don’t give up rights
2. Help you or your students obtain APC waivers 3. Help you deposit your work in our CDR
4. Help you identify alternative options to disseminate research
5. Help you ask your learned society smart questions about publishing options
Options for accessing content
we can no longer afford to
Identifying Open Access Articles
1. OA titles are already incorporated into our Library catalog
2. Search Here: https://openaccessbutton.org/
3. Download the Unpaywall Plugin & Open Access Button Plugin
Interlibrary Borrowing
• Interlibrary Borrowing (ILB) borrows materials and obtains
copies of articles from other libraries
• We deliver articles electronically by default in PDF format
• Requests filled by local libraries usually take 2-4 working days • Materials from other libraries typically take longer
• We are exploring unmediated & expedited doc delivery
We will continue to offer access to journal articles though subscriptions and through Interlibrary loan and
The Library will stick to its core values
1. Host more town halls & opportunities to gather feedback 2. The Library will communicate the details to the campus
community via library website
3. We will work with researchers to identify what to keep and what to cut
4. We are investigating new delivery options: a. “just in time” expedited document delivery
b. Unmediated document delivery
Follow Up?
Library Resources:
1. Contact Your Liaison Librarian:
1. HSL: https://hsl.lib.unc.edu/meetyourlibrarian
2. Other Libraries: https://guides.lib.unc.edu/subject-research-guides
2. Scholarly Communications Office:
https://library.unc.edu/scholarly-communications/
EMAIL: Anne Gilliland, Scholarly Communications Officer
3. Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) – https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/ EMAIL: [email protected]
1. UNC Library Data – Jacqueline Solis, Elaine Westbrooks, Ellen Bowman, Nerea Llamas
2. Number of journals changing from small to big publishers, and big to small publishers per year of change in the Natural and Medical
Sciences and Social Sciences & Humanities: Source Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLOS ONE 10(6): e0127502.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127 502
3. Growth of Open Access: Source: Hiltzik, M. (2018, Dec 7). In the University of California's battle with the world's largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake. Los Angeles Times.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-elsevier-20181207-story.html
1. Authors Alliance promotes authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read.
https://www.authorsalliance.org/
2. Else, Holly. (2019) Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall, Nature 2/5/19
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00492-4
3. Hiltzik, Michael. (2018) In UC's battle with the world's largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake, https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-elsevier-20181207-story.html
4. Ito, Joi. (2018) The quest to topple stymying academic paywalls,
https://www.wired.com/story/ideas-joi-ito-academic-paywalls/
5. Larivière V, Haustein S, Mongeon P (2015) The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127502. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502
6. McKenzie, Lindsay. (March 26, 2019) “The Beginning of the End for the 'Big Deal?” Inside Higher Ed.
www.insidehighered.com
7. Making Full and Immediate Open Access a Reality, Plan S, https://www.coalition-s.org/
8. San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, https://sfdora.org/read/
9. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), https://sparcopen.org/
10. UNC Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Services https://www.uncpress.org/osps/
11. Westbrooks, Elaine L. “Statement from University Librarian Elaine L. Westbrooks on the UC System’s Termination of Elsevier Subscriptions“ https://library.unc.edu/2019/03/statement-uc-elsevier/
