LANTERN

SHINING A LIGHT ON OPEN ACCESS

Richard Jones, Founder, Cottage Labs

richard@cottagelabs.com

So what is it?

It's a quick way to pull together metadata essential to calculating a work's compliance with an Open Access policy.

And what's the benefit of that?

1. Effort reduction
Lantern can process a few thousand identifiers in a few hours. How much time to do manually?

2. Consistency and accuracy.
Results are easy to check, review and report on.

And why is this even necessary?

Increasingly there are OA mandates and policies appearing

Governmental - e.g. the UK's REF OA requirements
Funder - 79 policies registered in ROARMAP, e.g. Wellcome Trust
Institutional - 557 policies registered in ROARMAP

And alongside those policies, there is the need for librarians/research offices/funders to report on and enforce them.

An OA policy that can't be enforced isn't of any value

How does it work?

Upload your identifiers

DOI	PMID	PMCID
10.abc/123	78543277
10.jkl/8999/1
	78024443	PMC75220165
...	...	...

Go put your feet up

Download your results

Enforce your policy!

You can read more in our documentation

Ok, let's talk about business models

Question

What's the correct community-focussed business model for services to Open Access?

There are a lot of possible answers to this question. We considered many, including: Feature-based Freemium, Usage-based Freemium, Public Good/Free, One cost for all, Tiered costs, Sponsorship, Membership and Grant Funded.

Our Answer

Usage-based Freemium

Secures access to the service for everyone in the community, and additional scale at cost for anyone that needs it, with a clean and clear business model.

So, how do we engage the community?

Help us manage licence statements dataset

Licence Type	Matches on Domains	Match Text
cc-by	*	This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
cc-by-nc	*	Creative Commons Non-Commercial
cc0	*	This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
eudatagrid	*	EU DataGrid Software License

Drive metadata standards

Give us feature requests

How should we handle compliance calculations?

What's next for Lantern?

1. Scaling up for full service
We've officially launched and we're working with some early-adopters who are helping us make the service better.

2. Discussing a collaboration with Jisc to integrate with Monitor
Jisc's new OA and APC management tools will incorporate integration with Lantern as an option for all users, and we are discussing with Jisc a collaboration to bring Lantern to UK HEIs as part of their services to OA.

3. Building more features
as fast as we can, and based on your feedback

Thanks for listening