The economic playing field of the Firenze University Press
OA Journal platform
By the Book 2016Building audiences for the book in an age of media proliferation
International Symposium
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Fulvio [email protected]
Firenze University Press
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Summary
I. Firenze University Press - ID card
II. The economic playing field of a OA Journal platform
III. Which part the university has to play in the dissemination of science?
1. Background
• Pearson – revenue 2013: 9,330 Billions USD*
• Reed Elsevier – revenue 2013: 7,288 Billions USD*
• Thomson-Reuters revenue 2013: 5,576 Billions USD*
• University of Firenze – revenue 2013: 0,572 Billions euro**
• FUP – revenue 2013: 0,046 Billions euro**
* «Publishers Weekly», annual ranking 2014** Budget summary report 2013
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2. Firenze University Press - ID card
• It was established in 2000• It is a publishing house belonging to the
University of Florence (51,451 students / 1843 professors in 2012)
• It publishes academic books and journals in digital and paper editions
• Mixed access model: open and commercial access for both monographs and journalsCatalogueandproduc/on:
• 800booksand40journals
• 100new.tlesand52journalissuesayear
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3. Economic model (roughly speaking)
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Books:
• 80% of the production costs are covered by sponsors
• 15% by book sales (university textbooks)• 5% by book sales in bookshops
Academic journals:
• 75% of the main production costs are covered by the owners of the journals
• 5% of the main production costs are covered by APC’s
• 20% comes from subscriptions (mostly to institutions)
4. Access to the publications
Mixed model combining open and toll access
• 1/2 of the books are published in full open access digital editions
• 1/2 are on toll access (both paper and digital editions)
• 90% of the journals in open access digital editions
• 10% of the journals available on subscription (bundle subscription: print + online)
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5. FUP Open Access Journals
• “FUP open access library”: 37 peer review journals / 403 research books
• Platform OJS (open source platform OAI-PMH compliant)
• DOI: DataCite (CRUI agreement)
• User licenses: creative commons (CC BY / SA / NC-ND)
• STM: 12 journals
• HSS: 25 journals• SciVersus Scopus: 8 journals (+ 2 under evaluation)
• WoS: 3 journals
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6. Is it an OA journal at zero cost?
No, it is not!
What kinds of cost are involved?
• peer review process
• production
• dissemination
• Indexing service
• technological infrastructure
• overheads
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7. Who pays for an open access journal?
The business model of a FUP OA peer-reviewed journal:
• Submission/pubblication fees (author pays)
• Membership dues (learned societies)
• Institutional subsidies (University, government, foundations, companies)
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8. OA Journal platformThe economic playing field: the x factor
What is the economic playing field of a university OA journal platform?
• Excursus: in Classical Logic, if something holds for any arbitrary element x, then we can conclude that it holds for every element (Generalization Rule)
• Our arbitrary element x is a Journal
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Subject Area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences
• Journal owner: italian scientific association (ITA)
• Publisher: University Press (ITA)
• Frequency: biannual• 360 pages per year• 27 items per year
• Language: ENG• Print and digital edition• Access: OA
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9. OA Journal platformThe economic playing field: bibliometrics
Our journal is a hard worker:
• Publication Ethics COPE compliant: yes
• Production and access statistics COUNTER compliant: yes
• Fancy app web 2.0 compliant: yes
• Content indexing on the main indexes: yes• SciVerse Scopus: yes
• WoS: yes
Fine, but where is it in WoS? In the middle! It is not at the top of the list, or the bottom
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10. OA Journal platformThe economic playing field: Small/Big fish
How much does the arbitrary element x cost?
Small fish publisher: < 1 million (euro) revenue• Case1 - Membership dues model: 7.000,00 euro per year
• Case 2 - APC’s model: 260,00 euro per article
Big fish publisher: 1 < 10 billion (euro) revenue
• Case 1 - Membership dues model: 30.000,00 euro per year
• Case 2 - APC’s model: 1200,00 euro per article
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11. OA Journal platform. The economic playing field: the economic Delta (Δ)
Δ is the economic bracket for an OA journal platform, where:
• 7.000,00 euro < Δ < 30.000,00 euro per year (membership dues model)
• 260,00 euro < Δ < 1200,00 euro per article (APC’s model)
This economic bracket really exists and is ready and waiting!
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12. What part can the university play in the dissemination of science?
Dramatis personae:
• (1) Research evaluation (institution and careers):
- ANVUR (AERES-HCERES/ HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI)- VQR 2004-2010/2011-2014 (RAE 2008/ Campagne d’évaluation 2013-2014) - ASN 2012, 2013
• (2) New mixed tools for evaluation (bibliometrics / peer review / informed peer review)
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• (3) Digital infrastructure, data set and indexes of research products (production / access / citation statistics)
• (4) quality weighted allocation of public research funding
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The ‘Comedìa’:• The virtuous circle: Research → Evaluation →
Reward → New research
• The certified dissemination of the products of science is the benchmark of the virtuous cycle.
• (Hp. 1) The certified dissemination of the products of science is the mission of the academic publishing of the future
• (Hp. 2) no one than universities has more interest in getting involved in academic publishing
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The economic playing field of the Firenze University Press
OA Journal platform
Fulvio [email protected]
Firenze University Press
www.fupress.com | Firenze, June 23-24, 2016
By the Book 2016Building audiences for the book in an age of media proliferation
International Symposium
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