UBC Library’s Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office has released a report that dives into open access publishing trends at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
Open access publishing is an alternative academic publishing model that provides no cost, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, unlike traditional scholarly publishing, where payment for access is required. Open access leads to research that is cited more quickly and more often. It accelerates the rate of scholarly exchange and promotes better reproducibility of research results.
This two-page report aims to increase transparency around financial conditions for open access article publishing and highlight the impact of publisher negotiations on open access at UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses . The data for this report focuses on the 2023/2024 fiscal year April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, and a report for the 2024/2025 fiscal year is already in the works.