1. Sustainable open access for scholarly journals in six years?
The Incubator Model and Lessons Learned at Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
Otevřené repozitáře 2017
Jeroen Sondervan, June 6th, 2017

2. Background Incubator The Platform Some extra thoughts
Image credits: Bert Spiertz, Ivar Pel, Ed van Rijswijk

3. Some background…

4. Background
Since 2003, Utrecht University (UU) is committed to open access.
In 2005 the UU signed the Berlin Declaration.
The University Library started with publishing services in 2003, under the name: Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services.
Igitur offered OJS hosting for Gold OA journals, printing and storing dissertations and the UU repository (since 2005). All services aimed at pushing open access forward.
In high days Igitur hosted over 25 open access journals.
And then… you must conclude that you are a publisher…

5. Rethinking strategies
Institutional publishing is on the rise again
…But the UU didn't want to establish a new University Press…
We wanted to do it differently:
In 2015: start with the Uopen Journals Incubator

8. Uopen Journals Team Publishing Consultant Online Marketer
Editorial Coordinator
Editorial Support

9. The Incubator

10. Requirements Only full Open Access journals allowed.
Connection with the Utrecht University academic community.
Use of Creative Commons Licences (default CC-BY).
Period of maximum 6 years.

11. Incubator

12. Financial Independent Ambiton (level) Business Model
What is your current budget? How can it be increased?
Self publishing asks for budget (e.g. platform, manhhours) and publishers ask for entrance fee
Independent
Willing to transfer some degree of independence (in exchange for convenfience or increase in reputation through a publisher’s flag.
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Open Access principes
Ambiton (level)
How high is the bar? Is the ambition, for example, a (high) impact factor or attracting as many visitors as possible?
Feasibility?
Available paid manpower or, more preferably, outsourcing?
Business Model
APC-model an option?
Alternative business-model?
Knowledge of the market and your target group?

13. The platform

14. Ubiquity Partner Platform
And many more…

15. Services offered by Ubiquity Press
Website hosting & management, based Open Journal System (OJS) installation at Ubiquity Press Partner platform.
Permanent backup and archiving of content (CLOCKSS).
DOIs for all articles.
Accessibility and visibility; SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).
Quarterly reports on statistics.

16. Uopen Journals Services
Editorial workflow
Policies
Business models
Indexing & Ranking
Software, Tools & Metrics
Marketing & Promotion
Social Media & Community Building

17. Some extra thoughts

18. Open Access Trends Open Library of Humanities
Convert subscription journals to full open access journals
Do not charge open access fees
Financially sustainable through a Library Partnership Program

19. Open Access Trends Crowdfunding options for journals
Knowledge Unlatched: libraries “pledge” for collection of journals (just presented) to be published in open access.
At certain treshold selection will be released. Libraries pay for open access, not for purchase.

21. Open Access at Utrecht University

22. Thank you! Questions?
@jeroenson