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<p>Notizia estratta dal Newsletter di OpenAIRE di marzo 2017 e di
interesse per la lista</p>
<p>Paola<br>
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<p>In October 2016, <a href="http://www.research-consulting.com/">Research
Consulting</a>, within the scope of the OpenAIRE Work Package
dealing with the <a href="https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu">FP7
Post Grant Open Access Pilot</a> (WP5) – lead by <a
href="http://libereurope.eu">LIBER </a>– was commissioned by
OpenAIRE on behalf of the European Commission to undertake an
economic analysis study of the Open Access publishing market: <strong>“Towards
a Competitive and Sustainable OA Market in Europe – A Study of
the Open Access Market and Policy Environment”</strong>.
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<p>The <a
href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OA-market-report-28Final-13-March-201729-1.pdf">report
(pdf)</a> is accompanied by an <a
href="https://blogs.openaire.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Annex-OpenAIRE-Pilot-28Final29-3.pdf">Annex
(pdf)</a> which contains the mid-term evaluation of the <a
href="https://postgrantoapilot.openaire.eu/#home">FP7 Post-Grant
Open Access Pilot</a>, organised by OpenAIRE. This annex will be
discussed in detail in the reporting phase of the pilot, which
ends on April 30th, 2017.</p>
<p>Building on the findings of the <a
href="https://www.openaire.eu/postgrantoapilot">EC FP7
Post-Grant Open Access Pilot</a>, the findings form the starting
point for a roadmap towards a more sustainable and competitive
market.</p>
<p>It will be accompanied in its final form by a Roadmap document,
developed with input from an expert workshop to be organised by <a
href="http://libereurope.eu">LIBER</a> in The Hague, on 20 April
2017. <strong><a
href="https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-workshop-fp7-post-grant-open-access-pilot-closing-workshop">Registrations
for this workshop are still open</a></strong>.</p>
<p>With the final report published this week, we discussed some of
its key findings with <strong>Rob Johnson</strong>, director of
Research Consulting and the lead author of the report. <span
id="more-1841"></span></p>
<h2><strong>Key highlights of the report</strong></h2>
<p>Rob Johnson: “We took the <a
href="http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9526-2016-INIT/en/pdf">EU
Council’s goal</a> of achieving immediate open access as the
default by 2020 as the starting point for our work. One
unavoidable conclusion is that even getting close to this target
will be very, very difficult. The proportion of immediate open
access content has been growing by about 15% per annum, but it
still only accounts for about 5% of the global market for academic
journals.</p>
<p>Some parts of Europe are ahead of the global average, of course,
but only by a small margin. There are big disciplinary variations,
though, and the situation looks significantly better in areas
where research funders have issued firm mandates in the public
interest (e.g. life sciences and medicine)….</p>
<p>We also aren’t including green open access in these figures. This
is a really important means of increasing access, but as content
is usually subject to embargo periods of 6 or 12 months, green OA
doesn’t directly address the goal of immediate OA as the default.</p>
<p>Overall, we found that there is a growing market for OA content,
but it largely operates alongside the dominant subscription model.
What we are not seeing is transformative change in the existing
market, with only a few cases of journals successfully ‘flipping’
from subscription-based to OA business models, for example. From
an economic perspective, OA journals operate in a smaller, more
competitive market, but the subscription market remains
characterised by inelastic demand, and dominated by large
commercial publishers.</p>
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<p>Our report makes clear that we are going to <strong>need much
more ambitious actions at a policy level if the EU’s goal of
immediate OA by default is to be delivered.</strong>“</p>
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Paola Gargiulo
OpenAIRE NOAD- National Open Access Desk-Italia
CINECA, Interuniversity Consortium for ICT & HPC
Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 Segrate MI, Italy
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:email:p.gargiulo@cineca.it">email:p.gargiulo@cineca.it</a>
phone +39 02 26995-218
mobile + 39 328 9507 128
skype paolafoca</pre>
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