What Researchers and Librarians Want Publishers to Know about the OA Mandate Compliance Process

Publishers spend a lot of time thinking about open-access solutions for mandate compliance, but researchers’ priorities often lie elsewhere—in producing the work that they want to get into the world. What should publishers know about researchers' experience navigating publisher policies and workflows for OA? This panel will discuss the impact of different OA models on researchers' work, the choices and trade-offs that OA mandates require researchers to make (e.g. paying a high APC for a prestigious journal or paying a research assistant) and the impact of OA on the submission process. Speakers will discuss how publishers can support a more equitable open-access landscape, reduce barriers to participation, and make mandate compliance as easy as possible. We will share examples of language from research grants, processes around OA waivers, and libraries' processes for supporting researchers in the path to open scholarship.