1. OPENNESS OF
ACADEMIC
PUBLISHERS

2. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING SUPPORT
As Creative Commons licenses are the official recommended license for open data in the Finnish governmental sector, awareness and instructions for using them in practice are needed in many sectors of society, including public open bids, content creation subcontracting, and data purchasing.
OUTCOME
Guidelines and example contract clauses for data and content acquisition.
PARTNERS Aalto University, official local affiliate of Creative Commons Inc.
FUNDED BY The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
CONTACT Tarmo Toikkanen,
MORE INFO okf.fi/cctuki, creativecommons.fi

3. THE PROJECT - FRAMEWORK
A project commissioned by the Open Science and Research Initiative of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture
The aim: to propose a scorecard for evaluating openness in academic publishing
Timeline: project starting in Oct 2017, final report published at early Dec, 2017

4. QUESTIONS Which key factors should be included in the evaluation?
How should, and could, these key factors be defined and benchmarked?

5. SELECTED PUBLISHERS

6. SOCIAL MEDIA: FEEDBACK TO KEY FACTORS
Publishing only OA vs. fraction of OA journals
Licensing of the publications (suggested to be the main factor)
Pre-and postprint policies
Price tag on openness
Text & metadata mining
Openness of the review process
Whether OA requires copyright waivers
Openness related to processes and business

7. KEY FACTORS EVALUATED
Percentage of open access journals of the total publication output
Costs of open access publishing (full OA journal & hybrid OA pricing)
Use of Creative Commons licensing
Restrictiveness and transparency of self-archiving policies
Data mining rights and available tools

8. KEY FACTORS EVALUATED, cont’d
Availability of open citation data
Accessibility of information relating to open access practices
Activities to promote open science; for instance guidelines on methods and data availability; and other activities

9. SOURCES
Mainly publishers’ websites – the accessibility of information one of the key features!
Exceptions: Scopus, DOAJ and Sherpa/Romeo (limited use)
The publishers are also given the opportunity to comment on our findings – so far only few responses

10. Publisher’s own licenses only CC-licenses + publisher’s own licenses
Factor 1 2 3
Number of OA journals 0%
<50%
50-99%
100%
Costs
>2000e
1000e-2000e e
<500€
Licensing
Publisher’s own licenses only
CC-licenses + publisher’s own licenses
CC-licenses only (incl. more restrictive CC)
CC BY
Self-archiving
No support or lack of policies offer self-archiving
Post-print self-archiving allowed with embargo for most of publishers journals
Pre- and post-print self-archiving allowed in all publishers journals within 6 month STM to 12 month HSS embargos
Pre- and post-print self-archiving allowed in all publishers journals without embargos
Data mining
No metadata available for download
Data available to be used on publisher’s server
Substantial data available for download
Metadata, abstracts, full texts contents available for download and automated data mining with any software
Open Citation
Not promoting open citation
Promoting open citation
Accessibility to information
Data completely missing
Data partly missing
Data unclearly presented
Data in one location and easily available
Activities to promote OS
No OA options
Discounts or partial journal offsetting
Substantial support for and transition towards full OA
Full offsetting, all affiliated authors can publish OA in all publisher journals at no extra per-article cost

11. VERY INDICATIVE RESULTS - DIALOGUE IN PROGRESS
Publisher
Numbero of OA- Journals and OA docs (Scopus%)
Costs
Licenses
Self-archiving
Data mining
ACM
0 / 0
$700-$1700 CC
Pre-and post print ?
ACS
$750-$4000
CC + ACS
Yes
Elsevier
8 / 3
$500-$5000
CC + Elsevier
IEEE
3 / 4
$1350-$1950
CC BY (3.0)
LWW
25 / 23
$600-$4700
Pre print; post print (embargo 12 months)
Sage
3 / 6
$3000
Pre- and post print
SpringerNature
17 / 23
$585-$3975
Pre- and post print (embargo 6 months)
Taylor & Francis
5 / 6
$2,950
Wiley-Blackwell
3 /4
CC + Wiley-Blackwell
Pre-print; post print (embargo 12-24)

12. Future steps?
photo by Dino Reichmuth