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Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:19 AM

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Academic Library
Open Access Publication Fee Payment Practices, ISBN 978-1-57440-596-5

This report presents data from 73 academic libraries about their open
access publication fee payment practices.  The 53-page study enables its
end users to answer questions such as: How much have libraries spent in the
past year on publication fees for open access and hybrid journals for their
institution’s authors?   How much will they spend in the next year? What
percentage of libraries pay such fees at all or have plans to?   What share
of these fees are paid by libraries and what share by other departments and
entities of the college or university? Have academic libraries partnered
with consortia or other libraries to negotiate these fees?  How many
articles did the pay for in the past year?  How many do they plan to pay
for in the next year?

Data in the report is broken out for R1 and R2 research universities,
for doctoral level institutions and for those offering only BA/MA degrees.
In addition the data is broken out for public and private colleges, and
by enrollment and tuition levels, and other variables, including work
title, age and gender of the survey participant.

Some of the report’s many findings are that:

35.3% of R1 research universities in the sample had a line item in
their budgets for the payment of author processing fees for hybrid and open
access journals

20.51% of public institutions sampled said that departments or entities
other than the academic library at their college or university contributed
to the payment of author processing fees.

5.88% of BA/MA granting colleges in the sample have partnered with
other colleges or universities or consortia to negotiate the level of
author processing fees with publishers of hybrid or open access journals.

A pdf version of the report is currently available from Primary Research
Group for and a print edition will be available for shipment on August 27,
2019. For a table of contents, excerpt, questionnaire and list of
participants, view the product page for this report at:

https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=571

Our general website URL is www.PrimaryResearch.com.

James Moses, Research Director
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New York, New York  10025
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