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However, the base case would involve the establishment of a new legal entity with a budget of approximately €4 million and 50 or more full-time equivalent members of staff (and/or subcontractors). This entity would be governed by a board of directors, with no more than ten members, together with a scientific advisory board and a broader stakeholder forum or advisory commitee.
25 janvier 2024
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Table ES1 Scenarios for ORE as a collective publishing enterprise Lower case Base case Upper case ORE Publications per year 500 2,000 4,500 Cost per publication €2,000 €2,000 €2,000 Annual operating costs €1,000,000 €4,000,000 €9,000,000
25 janvier 2024
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At this stage the first of these options appears the most desirable strategy, but the importance of support from research organisations should not be discounted
25 janvier 2024
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a model where delivery of the service would become the responsibility of a nonprofit organization, supported by multiple funding agencies. This would not preclude the non-profit organization itself outsourcing the delivery of some or all publishing activities. The actions needed to develop, finance and govern ORE as a non-profit organization are the primary focus of this report
25 janvier 2024
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Publication volumes are expected to total between 1,000 and 2,000 papers over the contract period as a whole
25 janvier 2024
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2021 to 2024. The total (maximum) funding of €5.8m comprises payments for platform technology, business process and sustainability and communication of €1.3m and up to €4.5m for content
25 janvier 2024
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Study objectives The Commission is exploring the potential to gradually expand ORE from a publication platform for EC beneficiaries only, into a non-for-profit European publishing platform for all, with the involvement of funders from EU Member States and possibly beyond. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) commissioned this independent expert analysis to provide direction with regard to the organizational and financing model(s) that may be used in this collective future endeavour as of 2026.
25 janvier 2024
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Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission) et Johnson – 2022 – Operationalising Open Research Europe as a collect.pdf
25 janvier 2024
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Operationalising Open Research Europe as a collective publishing enterprise
25 janvier 2024
Item Type Book Author Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission) Author Rob Johnson URL https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/061886 Place LU Publisher Publications Office of the European Union ISBN 978-92-76-57037-0 Date 2022 Call Number KI-04-22-058-EN-N Accessed 2024-01-25 09:08:27 Library Catalog Publications Office of the European Union Language eng Abstract This is an independent expert study commissioned in the […]
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18 janvier 2024
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Towards a federated global community of Diamond Open Access
18 janvier 2024
Item Type Blog Post Author Pierre Mounier URL https://thd.hypotheses.org/296 Date 2023-12-23 Accessed 2024-01-18 08:47:04 Website Type Billet Language en-US Abstract A discussion paper1 Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition, OPERAS) & Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S) 1. Introduction This paper proposes to establish a global research infrastructure for Diamond Open Access (OA). This infrastructure will aim at providing resources […]
We saw that contrary to a uniform view of volunteers’ journals, a vast majority of Diamond OA journals already make use of money to produce scientific papers for certain acts, notably concerning the material production of the article and the technical acts of its dissemination. Second, we demonstrated that those needs would be fulfilled in the eventuality of a regular income from research funders, lowering the volunteers’ burden. Third, we tackled the question of Diamond journals’ capacity to manage monetary transactions. Despite underlining a diversity of situations, our survey shows that a vast majority of them can receive and spend money or could be able to do so in the eventuality of the setting of such a direct funding mechanism. Lastly, we looked at the funders’ requirements. If a small majority of Diamond OA journals currently have funding acknowledgments for each paper, it is still far from being met for lots of respondents. Nevertheless, we saw that this point could be enhanced with the promise of regular income through a direct funding mechanism.
2 janvier 2024
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we have unveiled a new piece of evidence of the absence of RFOs in the Diamond ecosystem
2 janvier 2024
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“For each article you publish, do you ask authors to indicate the RFO of the research or grant identification that led to its publication?”. Among the 232 answers, 56% of the journals declare that they carry out minimal acknowledgment of research funding. Symmetrically, a significant proportion of journals (42%) do not perform any such acknowledgment, while 1% of respondents were unable to answer. That could seem like a rather low rate, but the literature shows that less than half of the Web of Science journal articles showed funding metadata in 2016 (Tang et al., 2017).
2 janvier 2024
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Alternatively, journals that are not able to make direct transactions, may perform it via an intermediary that would act on its behalf, here named “mediated transaction capacity”
2 janvier 2024
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In a world free of financial constraints, the acts for which journals would be most willing to pay are copy editing (60%), language editing (59%), and format production (56%)
2 janvier 2024
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Negative answers are particularly high for certification acts. Journals are generally reluctant to pay for this group of acts, even in a world without financial constraints.
2 janvier 2024
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But such a question assumes that those needs are well defined, do not change the journal organization, or the effect such funding mechanisms would have on the number of articles. To avoid this pitfall, we made use of the notion of “ideal world” in our questionnaire
2 janvier 2024
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Technical dissemination acts seem closer to material production acts.
2 janvier 2024
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We named this group “material production acts”, acts generally considered as “non-academic work” and the first historically outsourced acts to printers or publishers. Generally, these acts happen after certification and enable the manuscript to become a digital object within the journal tool
2 janvier 2024
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