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Foundation Class 8: Understanding the use of open access content
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Foundation Class 8: Understanding the use of open access content
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Welcome to the eighth COUNTER Foundation Class. This is a revised recording to reflect some minor changes in Release 5.0.2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice published in 2021. This tutorial explains how COUNTER reports identify the use of open access content. The open-access status of articles and books may require the payment of a publication fee to the publisher.
This fee is called an article processing charge usually shortened to APC. Making content available through this kind of payment is often called gold open access or gold OA. There are other types of open access which are not relevant to these metrics. Access type is the counter attribute used to determine whether content is gold away or not. It allows usage of subscribed content to be counted separately from OA content.
There are two access types Controlled indicates any content, which was not published as an open access article. This typically means that at the time of usage, the content item was not open because it was behind a paywall and access was restricted to authorized users. However, publishers can choose to make controlled content freely available. OA_Gold specifically means the content item was immediately and permanently available as open access from the day of publication.
It is particularly important to separate access types when understanding usage of hybrid channels. These are subscription titles in which only some of the articles are open access. A few points to note. Access to content due to a trial, subscription or license is considered controlled content that has been made freely available. But is not only gold.
For example, free for marketing purposes is also considered controlled and content items made free to read after an embargo period are also currently considered controlled. You'll have noticed that some of the standard views, such as the TR_J1 report exclude usage of the gold open access content. This is because when evaluating hybrid journals, many librarians prefer to count only the usage of articles funded by subscription.
Usage of gold articles is included in the Title Master Reports, and it is also included in some of the Standard Views, such as TR_J3 for journal usage and TR_B3 for book usage. This is useful if you want to see what proportion of usage from hybrid journals is from OA gold articles and what proportion is from articles funded by subscription. In this example of a counter TR_J3 report, the access type column indicates whether the content is controlled or permanently freely available through an open license.
All of the articles in the first journal Biomechanical Ethics are gold OA. The second journal Dendrochronology Now only has controlled content, and the third journal Elements of Semiotics has both controlled and OA gold content. Access to the controlled articles is shown in the second set of four lines for this particular journal.
Another point to note, OA gold usage may be incomplete. This is because where there is no access control, publishers will not always know where usage is coming from for open access articles. In this scenario, we will consider how to exclude OA gold from cost per use calculations comfort subscribe to general x at a cost of £25000 in 2020. The librarian Taylor wishes to exclude the use of OA gold because the costs of OA gold are not covered by the subscription.
Taylor runs the standard view TR_J1, which excludes OA gold articles, and their calculation is £25000, divided by 60,000 unique item requests gives 42 pence per unique item request. Taylor also wishes to know what the total usage was in 2020 and how much of that usage was for OA gold articles. Standard View TR_J3 shows 60,000 unique item requests for access type controlled and 7,000 unique item requests for access type OA gold.
Taylor then compares cost per unique item request for controlled only with the total usage for both access types. The calculations are £25000, divided by 60,000 unique item requests for controlled content. It's 42 pence per unique item request for controlled access only, whereas £25000 divided by the 67,000 unique item requests across all usage types, gives 37 pence per unique item request for controlled and OA gold access.
In fully OA journals or book platforms, all content is OA gold, because there is no access control publishers are fully OA content, will not always know where their usage is coming from. Many librarians have told us that it would be useful to know about the usage of articles that publishers make openly available following an embargo period and about other open content, which is not OA gold. COUNTER will be consulting with all of its community about how best to deliver this information in release 5.1 of the Code of Practice.
The consultation for which is planned for 2022. You can learn more by watching other classes in this series. Please subscribe to our channel so you do not miss new classes, and you can also download our Friendly Guides from the COUNTER website.
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