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[Carolina Rossini]

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From: Peter Suber <peter.suber em gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:07 PM
Subject: [berkmanfriends] RFP for journal-flipping project
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Request for Proposal (RFP): Writing a literature review on methods for
converting subscription-based scholarly journals to open access

Release date for this RFP:  April 16, 2015

Due date for responses:  May 30, 2015

Start date for the work: July 1, 2015

End date for the work: January 31, 2016

Issued by: Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC)

The project will be supervised by Peter Suber, Director of the Office for
Scholarly Communication.

Proposal requested

The Harvard OSC requests bids or tenders from scholars interested in
writing a comprehensive literature review on methods for converting
subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.

By “open access” (OA) for this purpose we mean global, immediate, digital,
online access which is free charge and which makes the content free for
reuse under open licenses, preferably CC-BY. By an “OA journal” for this
purpose, we mean one that makes all its research articles OA, not just some
of them, as with hybrid journals.

The literature review will focus on how journals have converted or might
convert to OA, not on why. It will focus on converting non-OA journals, not
launching new OA journals. As far as possible, it should identify evidence
on the consequences of conversion, e.g. for submissions, readership,
quality, impact, and finances. It should identify pathways already taken by
converted journals and pathways proposed but not yet tried. It should
formulate these pathways as recommendations (steps, plans, instructions)
for journals, or journals of a certain kind, to consider. Whenever
possible, each recommendation should cite and link to relevant evidence.

If the literature review at this stage is of sufficient quality, the
project will make it public and solicit public comments. The purpose of the
public comments is to supplement the literature review, make it more
complete, more detailed, and more useful. For example, the public comments
might add readings omitted from the literature review, extract new
recommendations from readings already covered, suggest new clarity or
detail for recommendations already formulated, and add notes to help
readers consider the merits of the recommendations. The project will then
solicit comments from an invited panel of experts on the recommendations in
the report, as enlarged or annotated by public comments. The panelists will
endorse any recommendations they find worth endorsing, and specify the
scholarly niches for which they endorse or recommend them.

We hope to make the final version public, as enlarged with with the
panelists’ endorsements and selected public comments. It will include full
attribution to the author of the literature review and the authors of the
comments and endorsements.

The literature review should be submitted in digital form and ready for
public comments by January 31, 2016.

Submitting a proposal

We envisage that the literature review will take about seven person-months.
Candidates should take this into account when developing their proposals.

Candidates should describe their qualifications to do the work and the
amount they request to do it in the time allowed (July 1, 2015 - January
31, 2016). We encourage candidates who have published related work to cite
and link to it in their submissions.

Please submit the bid or tender, or any inquiries, by email to Arlene
Navarro at <arlene_navarro em harvard.edu>.

The submission deadline is May 30, 2015.


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