The Role of Standards in the Management of Open Access Research Publications: A Research Library Perspective

Abstract

University College London (UCL) Library Services supports OA at UCL through three key activities: 1. Arranging the payment of Article Processing Charges, including the negotiation and maintenance of agreements with publishers that secure value for money and/or administrative efficiencies for UCL. 2. Storing and providing access to Green OA. UCL encourages self-upload of research by authors; on receipt, permissions are checked and embargoes applied before access is enabled. 3. Collecting, analyzing, recording, and reporting management data. Standards are particularly important in multi-stakeholder environments in which different parties need to share information with consistency. Open Access research publication is one such environment. To illustrate some of the opportunities for interplay between stakeholders and standards in the area of OA research publication management, four brief case studies are outlined. These are author obligations, arranging Gold open access, supporting Green open access, and compliance monitoring and reporting.