Hybrid OA Dashboards: Added-value analytics to promote cost transparency of open access transition agreements

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416115939

Reflecting the "Open Access 2020" initiative, academic libraries are testing novel acquisition models with open access publishing options for their researchers. Negotiations and evaluation of consortial transition agreements, however, require an adjustment of existing reporting processes. One challenge is to ensure the discoverability of open access articles. Another is that there is currently a lack of easy-to-use and freely available tools to analyze the share of open access publications provided by subscription journals.The aim of this workflow and fund project is therefore to use a combination of analytics, standardization activities and value-added services to make publishers and libraries aware of suitable reporting processes, as well as to support them in implementing relevant cost transparency guidelines in the context of transition agreements. The focus is on open data services and open tools for analysing the degree of transition to open access of subscription-based journals. Such optimized processes cannot only be used to negotiate and evaluate transition agreements. The reference to open information infrastructures for scholarly publications also ensures that centrally funded open access articles are discoverable and reusable.The project is coordinated with the project National Contact Point Open Access (NOAK). For the quality assurance of the analytical work, the cooperation with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) is also intended. The project work is designed in such a way that it is always openly available and internationally reusable.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Kristine Hillenkötter