[Oa-italia] Springer: l'Open Access "à la publisher"

Tessa Piazzini tessa.piazzini a unifi.it
Lun 7 Maggio 2018 14:18:07 CEST


Testo corposo che spero avrò modo di leggere con calma. Dovremmo farne 
una versione breve da far leggere ai nostri docenti.
Le tue anticipazioni, in effetti, sono particolarmente gustose.

Grazie della segnalazione

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Il 05/05/2018 11:32, Elena Giglia ha scritto:
> Preaparando le slides per il mio prossimo corso, mi sono imbattuta in 
> un Tweet di Bianca Kramer (3-4 maggio) sul Prospectus for public 
> offering dell'editore Springer (25 aprile).
> Il llink e' qui, ma non so se funziona: https://t.co/elpG4zFGnK
> Provo ad allegare il pdf, perche' e' gustosissimo.
> Estrapolo alcuni paragrafi, perche' finalmente viene scritto nero su 
> bianco quello che pensano veramente gli editori commerciali dell'Open 
> Access, che non e' certo quello che vengono a raccontare nei convegni, 
> ovvero:
> - green open access e' una minaccia al modello di business
> - OA e' solo un modo per fare business e accrescere proventi, va sfruttato
> - gli offset deals sono un modo per "catturare un largo numero di 
> clienti con un solo contratto"
> - visto che alcune nostre riviste hanno alto Impact Factor, possiamo 
> alzare le APC per quelle riviste
> - avere molte riviste con alto Impact Factor ci permette di "command 
> premium APC to authors"
> - come strategia, differenziare le APC a seconda dell'Impact Factor
> (notare per inciso che si parla anche di utilizzare in modo piu' 
> aggressivo la pratica di "spostare" articoli fra pubblicazioni)
>
> Che dire? Lo sapevamo gia', ma forse e' il caso di diffondere questo 
> testo ai nostri autori, che spesso sono totalmente ignari di essere 
> vittima di tutto questo.
> Personalmente, ritengo che vada anche ridiscussa la definizione di 
> "predatory publisher", alla luce di questi illuminanti paragrafi.
> Sempre buon sabato
> eg
>
>
> 10.2.4 pag. 59
> During the periods under review, so-called “offset deals” have further 
> gained ground. Under an “offset
> deal”, a consortium of institutions located in the relevant country 
> gains access to journals in exchange for a lump
> sum, which is comprised of a readership fee covering access to 
> non-open access content and a publication fee
> covering article processing charges (“APCs”) of a pre-determined 
> number of articles authored by researchers at
> those institutions. These articles are then made freely available on 
> an open access basis around the world. We
> have entered into offset deals in a number of countries, including in 
> the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
> Sweden and Austria. While these offset deals may not always be as 
> economically attractive as individual
> contracts, *they allow us to capture a large number of customers with 
> a single contract*.
>
>
> 10.2.5 pag 59
> *Springer Nature was one of the first academic publishers to actively 
> embrace the opportunities offered
> by open access, which provides us additional opportunities to generate 
> revenues, *as open access publications are
> funded by authors and/or their funders or the relevant research 
> institutions, not libraries. Accordingly, revenues
> stemming from APCs are in the short- to medium-term supplementary to 
> the subscription business, not
> cannibalistic*. Some of our journals are among the open access 
> journals with the highest impact factor, providing
> us with the ability to charge higher APCs for these journals than for 
> journals with average impact factors.
> *While non-profit open access publishers are increasingly entering the 
> market, putting pressure on the
> pricing of APCs, open access models are expected to grow much faster 
> than the rest of the market, due to
> growing publishing volumes and a growing number of journals. 
> Initiatives advocating free access to taxpayerfunded
> research papers and articles and policies of certain funding 
> institutions have led to an increasing number
> of authors opting to publish their articles in open access 
> publications instead of traditional subscription-based
> publications*.
>
> *
> 12.2.2 dal titolo Strong Leadership: Strategic Focus on Research, with 
> a High-Quality Brand Portfolio, Global Scale
> and Favorable Positioning to Benefit from Strong Growth in the Open 
> Access Publishing Market. (citazione a pag. 98*)
> *
> *Brand strength is becoming increasingly important, as market 
> participants increasingly differentiate in
> the open access market with regard to APCs according to a journal’s 
> impact factor. Our open access portfolio
> includes a large number of leading brands, such as such as Nature 
> Communications, Scientific Reports and
> Springer Open, and high impact factor publications,positioning us well 
> to command premium APCs from
> authors.
>
> *12.3.1 Capitalize on our Leading Position in Open Access. pag 99
> *We were one of the first academic publishers to actively embrace the 
> opportunities offered by open*
> access, making us a pioneer and the clear leader in the pure open 
> access market and a leading force in the hybrid
> open access market. *We intend to focus on initiatives that aim at 
> increasing the number of submissions, the
> acceptance rate and APC.*
> In order to increase submissions, we intend to develop our open access 
> title portfolio by selecting
> content for our publications that we believe will support the impact 
> factor and increase the reputation of our
> existing journals and by launching new journals in areas we perceive 
> to be underserved by open access
> publications. We also intend to enhance our hybrid offerings, i.e., 
> journals that contain both open access and
> subscription content. We also seek to increase the number of 
> submissions through digital marketing and author
> communication initiatives that aim at further improving the brand 
> recognition and usage of our journals.
> We aim at achieving our target acceptance rate through a number of 
> initiatives. These initiatives include
> increasing the speed and quality of our acceptance process and further 
> enhancing our peer reviewer network and
> support system and more aggressively pursuing the transfer of articles 
> submitted to, but not ideally suited for,
> other publications. *We also aim at increasing APCs by increasing the 
> value we offer to authors through
> improving the impact factor and reputation of our existing journals. 
> Further, we intend to employ a price
> differentiation strategy by tailoring APCs to the discipline and 
> impact factor of the relevant journal, taking
> advantage of the high number of journals in our portfolio with a high 
> impact factor.
> *
>
> -- 
> dr. Elena Giglia
> Unità di progetto Open Access
> Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione
> Universita' degli Studi di Torino
> tel. +39.011.670*.4191*
> www.oa.unito.it <http://www.oa.unito.it>
>
>
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