Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity

Each signatory university does. A signatory university will need to make choices about how exactly to implement the compact, how funds will be provided, under what conditions, and with ...

The publishing community referred to in the compact is construed broadly to include not only commercial publishers but nonprofit publishers, scholarly societies, and independent journals.

Each university will make its own determination as to what constitutes fulfillment of the commitment outlined in this compact. These explanatory notes clarify and emphasize the range of possibilities.

Compact institutions will require some time to put in place mechanisms to fund open access publication charges. Some may choose to place other conditions on what constitutes timely establishment, for instance, ...

It is important that journals are able to rely on the commitment implicit in the compact as a stable source of funding. Therefore, the mechanisms developed by compact institutions would not ...

By underwriting of a publication charge is meant the payment of all or substantially all of the charge either directly to the publisher or through reimbursement of the author subject to ...

Universities may establish various mechanisms for determination of what constitutes a reasonable publication charge, including per article caps or per faculty member annual budget limits.

Publication charges might encompass some or all of a variety of fees charged by a publisher for article processing services, such as submission fees, article publication fees proper, page charges, and ...

Compact members may develop various approaches to handle cases of multiple authorship, authorship across institutions, authorship by other university community members than faculty, and so forth.

A substantial minority of open-access journals support their operations by charging processing fees (typically submission or publication fees) paid by or on behalf of an article's authors. It is these fees ...

Compact institutions will need to establish criteria for what constitutes an eligible open access journal. It is envisioned, however, that open access journals include those that at least provide unfettered online ...

The compact envisions that in a stable system a broad range of universities and funding agencies would be prepared to underwrite open access publication charges. Thus, a compact institution may reasonably ...