Status: Ongoing
Partners: Big Ten Academic Alliance, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance, IvyPlus Libraries Confederation, American Geophysical Union, NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), U.S. Repository Network, re3data
Team members: Katherine Skinner, Gail Steinhart, Lauren Collister, Eric Schares
Overview
IOI is conducting an investigation into “reasonable costs” for public access to United States Federally funded research and scientific data.
With financial support from the National Science Foundation (US), we seek to determine:
- how much “public access” publishing costs are today for prevalent science publication formats (including articles and data)
- how much research institutions are spending in anticipation of compliance with public access mandates
- how similar or different the approaches and choices are for research institutions of different tiers and demographics.
Project outputs
Paper:
- Steinhart, G., & Skinner, K. (2024). The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10729575
Blog posts:
- Steinhart, G., & Collister, L. (2023, December 11). To fee or not to fee: Charging for deposit to research data repositories. Invest in Open Infrastructure. https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-to-fee-or-not-to-fee/
- Steinhart, G., & Collister, L. (2024, March 4). The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis. Invest in Open Infrastructure. https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-data/
Conference talks:
- Skinner, K., Steinhart, G., & Collister, L. B. (2024, March 22). Responding to the Nelson Memo: Investigating Cost and Price in OA Data and Publishing. Year of Open Science Culminating Conference, Online. https://osf.io/gnj47/
- Steinhart, G., Schares, E., & Skinner, K. (2024). Navigating the future of data sharing: The impact and cost of expanded public access requirements. IASSIST & CARTO 2024, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11263223