Coordinated Projects

The Institutional Repositories Working Group of the Spanish Network of University and CSIC Li-braries (REBIUN, https://www.rebiun.org/grupos-trabajo/repositorios) is working on implementingthe openCOST metadata schema as there is an interest in showing information about open accesspublishing costs in a commonly agreed way. The analysis and beta implementation of the metadataschema is being advanced by the DSpace repositories subgroup and ongoing work has focused onidentifying the most relevant metadata given the data model in place in such repositories as wellas the type and granularity of OA publishing cost information collected by their institutions. [...]

Since 2021 the oa.finder displays information on list-price APCs for around 5.000 pure OA journalsas derived from the DOAJ and more than 6.000 hybrid journals that come from an own longitudinaldata collection. The later increased over time adding more publishers and hybrid journals to thecollection. [...]