Poster

The earliest cost data in our repository Gutenberg Open Science (DSpace) date back to 2022. Currently, all data is stored internally, but growing interest in cost transparency has prompted a first try at implementing openCost. [...]

Whenever two people or businesses make a deal, the money one spends becomes the money the other earns: your cost is someone else’s revenue. So, if you buy something for 100, that’s 100 of income for the seller. [...]

After nearly five years of development, the NFDI as a whole, along with its participating consortia and services, has reached a level of maturity that now calls for sustainable service design. A key example of this evolution is the progress made in the area of Authentication (ensuring the identity of users accessing resources) and Authorization (controlling which users may access specific resources). [...]

Especially in the context of the open access transformation and the associated shift from subscription costs to publication costs, transparent monitoring of available funds and expenses regarding information provision and publishing activities are paramount for scientific institutions. It is an important instrument to track and regulate cost developments. [...]

For over two decades, the University of Liège Library has provided financial support to various Open Science initiatives. The decisions underlying this financial support are often made on a case-by-case basis. [...]

The poster presents the results of a survey conducted in 2024 as part of the project OA Datenpraxis [1], funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The survey examined how data on publication costs are currently recorded at research performing institutions in Germany [...]

At the University of Hohenheim, a comprehensive technical and organisational workflow and cost-management framework for scholarly publishing is being developed, which simultaneously forms the basis of a university-wide information budget. The central instrument is the publication fund established in 2024, which is administratively managed by the Communication, Information and Media Centre (KIM). [...]

The openCost project is developing a technical infrastructure that will make publication costs freely accessible via interfaces and formats. In the context of the open access transformation, this will enable greater cost transparency.Due to its research profile (medicine and STEM subjects), Ulm University's publication output has largely been converted to a publication-based logic, and researchers are therefore dependent on extensive OA funding opportunities [...]

When evaluating models for the financing of Diamond Open Access publications, the costs, their appropriateness and transparency are closely interdependent topics. More importantly, these are highly relevant criteria for institutions choosing to financially support Diamond Open Access publications. [...]

Achieving cost transparency in scholarly publishing depends on consistently recording and reporting expenditure data across institutional systems. This poster presents a practice oriented overview of how publication related costs can be managed within the cloud-based library management system Alma (Ex libris) to support auditability, reporting, and downstream reuse. [...]