Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Open Access Publication Fee Payment Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-596-5

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library Open
Access Publication Fee Payment Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-596-5

This report presents data from 73 academic libraries about their open access
publication fee payment practices.  The 53-page study enables its end users to
answer questions such as: How much have libraries spent in the past year on
publication fees for open access and hybrid journals for their institution’s
authors?  How much will they spend in the next year? What percentage of
libraries pay such fees at all or have plans to?  What share of these fees are
paid by libraries and what share by other departments and entities of the
college or university? Have academic libraries partnered with consortia or
other libraries to negotiate these fees?  How many articles did the pay for in
the past year?  How many do they plan to pay for in the next year?

Data in the report is broken out for R1 and R2 research universities, for
doctoral level institutions and for those offering only BA/MA degrees.  In
addition the data is broken out for public and private colleges, and by
enrollment and tuition levels, and other variables, including work title, age
and gender of the survey participant.

Some of the report’s many findings are that:

35.3% of R1 research universities in the sample had a line item in their
budgets for the payment of author processing fees for hybrid and open access
journals

20.51% of public institutions sampled said that departments or entities other
than the academic library at their college or university contributed to the
payment of author processing fees.

5.88% of BA/MA granting colleges in the sample have partnered with other
colleges or universities or consortia to negotiate the level of author
processing fees with publishers of hybrid or open access journals.

A pdf version of the report is currently available from Primary Research Group
for and a print edition will be available for shipment on August 27, 2019. For
a table of contents, excerpt, questionnaire and list of participants, view the
product page for this report at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=571

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