OPERAS White Paper: Open Access Business Models

Authors

Lara Speicher, UCL Press
Margo Bargheer, Association of European University Presses (AEUP)
Maciej Maryl, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Sven Fund, Knowledge Unlatched
Max Mosterd, Knowledge Unlatched
Frances Pinter, KU Research
Lorenzo Armando, Lexis
Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou, National Documentation Centre (EKT/NHRF)
Martin Paul Eve, Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
Delfim Leão, University of Coimbra — UC Digitalis

Date of this Version

7-2018

Document Type

Article

Citation

Lara Speicher, Lorenzo Armando, Margo Bargheer, Martin Paul Eve, Sven Fund, Delfim Leão, … Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou. (2018, July 30). OPERAS Open Access Business Models White Paper. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323708

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Abstract

The white paper on Business Models for Open Access proposes that there is no single ideal business model for Open Access that can be adopted as standard. It describes the current landscape in which there are multiple approaches to OA publishing, many of which are adopted by OPERAS members to suit their particular circumstances, although the APC and BPC models still predominate especially among commercial publishers. The paper describes the business models adopted by members both from the point of view of publishers, and of service providers such as Knowledge Unlatched, as well as looking at models emerging elsewhere such as in the USA and at national level in some European countries, where interesting collaborative approaches are being undertaken. The paper analyses the pros and cons of different models, and concludes with some suggestions for ways of bringing greater stability and sustainability to Open Access publishing models.