elag draft

This is the draft for ELAG. Please contribute. Deadline is Saturday, 14.2. 5pm Berlin time.

Workshop Title: Hacking article processing charges

Name: Najko Jahn, Bielefeld University Library [email protected]

Audience: Any programming experience is recommended, but not required. Participants are encouraged to bring a Laptop with VirtualBox installed with them. Organisers will provide an VM-image of the required resources.

Short description (up to 250 words):

Handling article processing charges (APC) is an emerging tasks at libraries. Beyond the payment, libraries are also confronted with the general wish from researchers, funders and society to contribute to a transparent market for Open Access publishing. Therefore, sharing datasets on what has been charged for each article as Open Data is becoming an important aspect of APC handling workflows.

After a short introduction to fee-based Open Access publishing and the role of libraries, participants will set up a data pipeline for making reporting on fee-based Open Access publishing transparent and reproducible. As tools, we use GitHub for data documentation and dissemination. We will create automatic reports on fee-based Open Access publishing. The analytic steps will be implemented in R and reports will be generated with pandoc. However, participants are encouraged to contribute their programming experiences and tools.

As dataset, we use "Fees paid by German Research Institutions", comprising metadata on 1,600 articles with total expenditure of 2 million EURO. The dataset provides disambiguated data elements for monitoring APC expenditure across institutions per article and can be downloaded here: https://github.com/OpenAPC/openapc-de

Workshop outcomes:

Participants will gain a first understanding of how to release the article processing charges that libraries have paid as Open Data. They will get to know useful tools for APC reporting. In the end, requirements for APC reporting are collected and shared as executable papers.