[IRTalk] Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges (ESAC)

[Ina Smith]

Dear Colleagues

Of possible interest for all monitoring the Open Access market.
See http://esac-initiative.org/


ESAC aggregates data and relevant facts for the open access market<http://esac-initiative.org/about/apcmarket/> in general and a number of major publishers in particular in order to illustrate and better assess the development of the scholarly publishing market as it transitions to open access.

ESAC aims to provide context and share information with the broader community on the progress of transitional license models<http://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/> such as "Offsetting" and "Read & Publish," to increase the understanding of their scope and transformative power. In particular, we collect and share information on the uptake of transformative agreements around world, their transformative mechanisms and cost allocation schemes, the impact achieved in terms of open access, and the relevant workflows.

The ESAC initiative was originally established in 2014 to keep up the discussion around the need to develop workflow efficiencies<http://esac-initiative.org/about/oa-workflows/> in the management of open access Article Processing Charges, following an international workshop in 2013 and organized by the Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with the German Research Foundation (DFG), PLOS and Co-Action Publishing.

In November 2015, ESAC moved under the roof of the DFG funded project INTACT<https://www.intact-project.org/>, together with OpenAPC and OAanalytics, with the aim of building infrastructure that would ensure the open access publishing market based on the APC-based business model would remain transparent and sustainable. While the INTACT project officially ended in October 2018, ESAC continues at the Max Planck Digital Library with the collaboration of an international network of partners and supporters.

See the Registry of Agreements<http://esac-initiative.org/about/transformative-agreements/agreement-registry/>

Ina Smith
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

Phone: +27 12 349 6600
Email: ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:ina at assaf.org.za>

[assafemail]

1st Floor Block A, The Woods, 41 De Havilland Crescent, Persequor Park
Meiring Naudé Road, Lynnwood 0020, Pretoria, South Africa.

PO Box 72135, Lynnwood Ridge 0040, Pretoria, South Africa.

Website: www.assaf.org.za<http://www.assaf.org.za/>

ASSAf Disclaimer: The views and opinions included in this email belong to their author and do not necessarily mirror the views and opinions of the organisation. Our employees are obliged not to make any defamatory statements, infringe, or authorise infringement of any legal right. Therefore, the organisation will not accept any liability for such statements included in emails. In case of any damages or other liabilities arising, employees are fully responsible for the content of their emails.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "African Open Science Platform" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to african-open-science-platform+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to african-open-science-platform at googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/african-open-science-platform/DB7PR04MB52904DDFB02BD529A2F628E49B550%40DB7PR04MB5290.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/pipermail/irtalk/attachments/20190401/8d610f73/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3762 bytes
Desc: image001.jpg
URL: <http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/pipermail/irtalk/attachments/20190401/8d610f73/attachment-0001.jpg>