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@INPROCEEDINGS{Stein:596241,
      author       = {Stein, Lisa-Marie and Wagner, Alexander and Deinzer, Gernot
                      and Schweighofer, Bianca and Sippl, Colin and Weisheit,
                      Silke and Bartlewski, Julia and Broschinski, Christoph and
                      Pieper, Dirk},
      title        = {{P}ublication cost transparency within the {H}elmholtz
                      {C}ommunity and beyond : open{C}ost metadata for different
                      publication types – from {APC}s up to research data},
      reportid     = {PUBDB-2023-06134},
      year         = {2023},
      abstract     = {The openCost project aims to contribute to a fair reform of
                      the scientific publishing system by establishing
                      comprehensive cost transparency in the publishing process.To
                      this end, openCost creates the required technical
                      infrastructure to freely access publication costs and
                      exchange these data via automated, standardized interfaces
                      and formats.Standardized recording and open provision of
                      publication costs associated with articles or contracts is
                      vitally important to improve cost transparency both within
                      institutions as well as inter-institutional and on larger
                      levels (e.g. consortium or national contracts).openCost
                      proposed for easy distribution of data to use the well
                      established and widely available OAI-PMH interface in
                      conjunction with an XML format. This will be implemented
                      exemplarily at the services of the project partners, the
                      Universities of Bielefeld and Regensburg and by DESY for the
                      shared repository infrastructure JOIN², effectively
                      enabling six research centres and another university to
                      provide data.Via OAI-PMH openCost will also enable service
                      providers (e.g. aggregators and research funding agencies)
                      to harvest data directly from institutions. As a sample
                      aggregator within the project’s framework, this is
                      demonstrated by the OpenAPC service (Bielefeld).By
                      implementing a technical interface, the services of the
                      Electronic Journals Library EZB (Regensburg) will also be
                      extended to include detailed information on OA publication
                      costs, to be finally used as a central information platform
                      for communicating OA information to researchers.The
                      project’s view on publication costs not only include
                      article processing charges (APCs), but all
                      publication-related fees, such as submission or color fees,
                      as well as costs resulting from transformation contracts or
                      memberships.With the help of international expertise,
                      openCost develops a standardized, structured metadata schema
                      for publication costs. This schema, including standardized
                      vocabularies, identifiers or consensual definitions, will be
                      presented.To prove the viability of our approach it is
                      constantly integrated in its latest version into the
                      repositories of the project partners and definitions are
                      cross checked with feedback from the community.The openCost
                      metadata schema already exists for costs based on individual
                      scientific articles, while a similar schema for contracts is
                      currently under development. Additionally, metadata schemas
                      for books and book chapters are to be added.Beyond the
                      classical publishing outputs openCost will also tackle costs
                      related to the publication of research data.The publication
                      of data is becoming increasingly important and raises many
                      questions in the publication process, and related costs also
                      require a transparent, standardized approach right from the
                      start.We assume that many of the carefully thought out
                      criteria of the publication types discussed so far are
                      already connectable, hence the extension of the openCost
                      schema seems to be an immediate goal for the near
                      future.This extension, however, will require close
                      collaboration with thecommunity early on to identify
                      relevant parameters. By providing insight into our work at
                      hand, highlight parallels and differences between research
                      data and literature publications, we want to engage in this
                      discussion.Funded by the German Research Foundation
                      (457354095), openCost was launched in 2022 by the project
                      partners Bielefeld University Library, Regensburg University
                      Library and DESY Central Library.},
      month         = {Oct},
      date          = {2023-10-10},
      organization  = {HMC Conference: Better Research
                       Through Better Metadata, Virtual
                       (Internet), 10 Oct 2023 - 12 Oct 2023},
      keywords     = {publication costs, fair publishing, transparency, openCost
                      metadata schema (Other)},
      cin          = {L},
      cid          = {I:(DE-H253)L-20120731},
      pnm          = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899) / DFG project
                      G:(GEPRIS)457354095 - openCost 2: automatisierte,
                      standardisierte Lieferung und offene Bereitstellung von
                      Publikationskosten und Verlagsvereinbarungen (457354095)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899 / G:(GEPRIS)457354095},
      experiment   = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
      doi          = {10.3204/PUBDB-2023-06134},
      url          = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/596241},
}