Business model per i periodici Gold Road
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The document discusses the business model of the Firenze University Press (FUP), emphasizing its mixed access model that combines open access and commercial publishing. It details the economic aspects of publishing, including funding sources for open access journals, production costs, and the role of universities in scientific dissemination. Additionally, it examines the bibliometric performance and economic viability of open access journals within the scholarly publishing landscape.
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- 1. Open Access peer review journal Business model Fulvio Guatelli fulvio.guatelli@unifi.it Firenze University Press Biblioteche accademiche e University Press: quale cooperazione per l'editoria Open Access? Milano Convegno “Stelline” – DILL-Università di Parma www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 2. Summary I. Firenze University Press - ID card II. The economic playing field of a OA Journal platform III. Which part the university has to play in the dissemination of science? www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 3. 1. Background 1/4 www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 4. 1. Background 2/4 www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 5. 1. Background 3/4 www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 6. 1. Background 4/4 www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017 FONTI: • Fulvio Guatelli, Lo spazio economico di una Open Access Journal Pla5orm, in Luca Scalco (a cura di), Open Access e scienze umane. Note su diffusione e percezione delle riviste di area umanis;ca, Milano, Ledizioni 2016 (ed. digitale Open Access). • Tab. 1 – I primi dieci gruppi editoriali al mondo per faAurato nel 2015 (Fonte: Publishers Weekly, 2015a). • Tab. 2 – Tabella comparaLva nazioni/editori in base al PIL e al fa?urato in USD, alla popolazione e ai dipendenA (Fonte: HacheAe Livre - Les chiffres clés en 2014; Holtzbrinck (daL 2015); Publishers Weekly, 2015a, 2015b, 2015c, 2015d (daL 2014); RELX Group Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2014 (2015); The Financial Times Markets Data (daL 2015); The World Factbook 2013-14 (daL 2014 e 2015); Thomson Reuters Fact Book 2015 (2015); United States SecuriLes and Exchange Commission (2015); Wolters Kluwer Annual Reports 2014 (2015)). • Tab. 3 – Confronto fra la spesa pubblica e privata (in USD) per il sistema dell’educazione terziaria per i paesi dell’area euro e il fa?urato (in USD) dei primi dieci gruppi editoriali al mondo (Fonte: OECD, 2014 (daL 2011); Publishers Weekly, 2015a (daL 2014); The World Factbook, 2013 (daL 2014 e 2015).
- 7. 2. Firenze University Press - ID card • It was established in 2000 • It is a publishing house belonging to the University of Florence (51,451 students / 1843 professors in 2012) • It publishes academic books and journals in digital and paper editions • Mixed access model: open and commercial access for both monographs and journals Catalogue and produc;on: • 1000 books and 41 journals • 100 new Atles and 64 journal issues a year www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 8. 3. Economic model (roughly speaking) Books: • 80% of the production costs are covered by sponsors • 15% by book sales (university textbooks) • 5% by book sales in bookshops Academic journals: • 90% of the main production costs are covered by the owners of the journals • 10% of the main production costs are covered by APC’s www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 9. 4. Access to the publications From mixed model combining Open and Toll Access to a full Open Access model • 1/2 of the books are published in full open access digital editions • 1/2 are on toll access (both paper and digital editions) • 100% of the journals in open access digital editions www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 10. 5. FUP Open Access Journals • “FUP open access library”: 41 peer review journals / 460 research books • Platform OJS (open source platform OAI-PMH compliant) • DOI: DataCite (CRUI agreement) • User licenses: creative commons (CC BY / SA / NC-ND) • STM: 16 journals • HSS: 25 journals • SciVersus Scopus: 11 journals • WoS: 3 journals www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 11. 6. Is it an OA journal at zero cost? No, it is not! What kinds of cost are involved? • peer review process • production • dissemination • Indexing service • technological infrastructure • overheads www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 12. 7. Who pays for an open access journal? The business model of a FUP OA peer- reviewed journal: • Submission/pubblication fees (author pays) • Membership dues (learned societies) • Institutional subsidies (University, government, foundations, companies) www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 13. 8. OA Journal platform The economic playing field: the x factor What is the economic playing field of a university OA journal platform? • Excursus: in Classical Logic, if something holds for any arbitrary element x, then we can conclude that it holds for every element (Generalization Rule) • Our arbitrary element x is a Journal www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 14. Subject Area: Agricultural and Biological Sciences • Journal owner: italian scientific association (ITA) • Publisher: University Press (ITA) • Frequency: biannual • 360 pages per year • 27 items per year • Language: ENG • Print and digital edition • Access: OA www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 15. 9. OA Journal platform The economic playing field: bibliometrics Our journal is a hard worker: • Publication Ethics COPE compliant: yes • Production and access statistics COUNTER compliant: yes • Fancy app web 2.0 compliant: yes • Content indexing on the main indexes: yes • SciVerse Scopus: yes • WoS: yes Fine, but where is it in WoS? In the middle! It is not at the top of the list, or the bottom www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 16. 10. OA Journal platform The economic playing field: Small/Big fish How much does the arbitrary element x cost? Small fish publisher: < 1 million (euro) revenue • Case1 - Membership dues model: 7.000,00 euro per year • Case 2 - APC’s model: 260,00 euro per article Big fish publisher: 1 < 10 billion (euro) revenue • Case 1 - Membership dues model: 30.000,00 euro per year • Case 2 - APC’s model: 1200,00 euro per article www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 17. 11. OA Journal platform. The economic playing field: the economic Delta (Δ) Δ is the economic bracket for an OA journal platform, where: • 7.000,00 euro < Δ < 30.000,00 euro per year (membership dues model) • 260,00 euro < Δ < 1200,00 euro per article (APC’s model) This economic bracket really exists and is ready and waiting! www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 18. 12. What part can the university play in the dissemination of science? Dramatis personae: • (1) Research evaluation (institution and careers): - ANVUR (AERES-HCERES/ HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW, DELNI) -VQR 2004-2010/2011-2014 (RAE 2008/ Campagne d’évaluation 2013-2014) - ASN 2012, 2013, 2016 • (2) New mixed tools for evaluation (bibliometrics / peer review / informed peer review) www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 19. • (3) Digital infrastructure, data set and indexes of research products (production / access / citation statistics) • (4) quality weighted allocation of public research funding www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 20. The ‘Comedìa’: • The virtuous circle: Research → Evaluation → Reward → New research • The certified dissemination of the products of science is the benchmark of the virtuous cycle. • (Hp. 1) The certified dissemination of the products of science is the mission of the academic publishing of the future • (Hp. 2) no one than universities has more interest in getting involved in academic publishing www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 21. Thank you for your attention www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017
- 22. Open Access peer review journal Business model Fulvio Guatelli fulvio.guatelli@unifi.it Firenze University Press www.fupress.com | Milano, 17 Marzo, 2017 Biblioteche accademiche e University Press: quale cooperazione per l'editoria Open Access? Milano Convegno “Stelline” – DILL-Università di Parma