Open Access
Perspectives from an intermediary
Ann Lawson
Senior Director, Publisher Relations
and Open Access, Europe
We are all intermediaries
between author
and reader
Open Access Revenue Growth
Growth Comparison
OA Publisher Market Share
Market Landscape
scholars
• Supportive, some fanatical, most are vaguely interested
• Mainly just want to publish and get usage and citations  tenure
Funders
• Publicly-funded research results should be openly available
• Does this benefit society? Reports and mandates...governments too
universities
Libraries
Publishers
Agents
• Generally supportive, though many prefer green. What will it cost us in UK?
• How can we raise our profile?
• What does this do to acquisitions? Double-dipping concerns
• Who should handle the work – research office, library, which staff, how?
• How can we stay in business? Depends on their size...
• Handle as part of business or new developments? Bit of both?
• What services does the changing market need?
• How quickly will this grow? Will green or gold prevail?
Market Landscape in UK
Finch report
(gold/green)
STM vs. HSS
Standards –
ORCID,
FundRef etc.
Society
publishers
RCUK funding
BIS £10 mill
embargoes
Market Reactions
Mixed Economy
Gold OA
Publicly-funded
research
Non-profit funded
research
Scholarly
Publishing
Subscriptio
n Journals
Social sciences
Humanities
Green OA
Certain
disciplines
Pre-prints
The pace
of
CHANGE
Emerging Business
Models
Impact on Publishers
Role of Publishers Today
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publisher is someone who connects a person
with an idea to another person who can use it ”
- Timo Hannay
we need to focus on the ends rather than the means”
- Ziyad Marar
serve the information needs of scientists”
- Hannay
also assist with the creation of research and data”
- Marar
Impact on the
Institution
Impact on Authors
Impact on EBSCO
Some Current Points of Tension…
Complex
workflows
Money
management
Author
involvement
Transaction Size
Print Journals
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The Big Deal
Gold OA APCs
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Goal of EBSCOAdvantage
Simplify and manage complex
payment transactions to enable
growth of open access
publishing model
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Publishers
Institutions
EBSCO Advantage
Institution
One-stop
shop for all
publishers
Currency
benefits
Customer
Service
Easy
Invoicing
Publisher
Simple
cashflow
Trusted
partner
Pre-financing
credit
Efficiency of
scale
Standards
Transparency
of APC costs
No need for
author to
worry
Easy reporting
for university
and funder
Improve
publisher
cash flow
Increased
speed to
publication
Increased
efficiency
No impact on
publisher/author
relationship
Cost
reduction
Help enable speedier & more painless growth?
Thank You
Ann Lawson
Senior Director, Publisher Relations and Open
Access, Europe alawson@ebsco.com