D2.1 IPSP Scoping Report_approved by the EC

In the transition towards Open Access (OA), institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation and varying service quality, visibility, and sustainability. To address this issue, DIAMAS gathers 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. The project will: 1. Map the current landscape of Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs) in 25 countries of the ERA with special attention for IPSPs that do not charge fees for publishing or reading. This will yield a taxonomy of IPSPs and an IPSP landscape report, a basis for the rest of the project. 2. Coordinate and improve the efficiency and quality of IPSPs by developing an Extensible Quality Standard for Institutional Publishing (EQSIP). This quality standard will professionalise, strengthen, and reduce the fragmentation of institutional publishing in Europe. EQSIP will serve as a benchmark for a gap analysis of the data.

The report is the main deliverable of a scoping exercise undertaken in the context of Work Package 2, with an aim to identify focus points for the project’s landscaping activities; it draws on existing resources and primary research to provide a framework for analysing existing gaps, and inform decisions on the services to be designed by DIAMAS.

The definitions and typologies in the document address issues related to the governance, the services, the funding streams and the main outputs curated by Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs), thus enabling partners to gain an understanding of the diverse operational models and roles of IPSPs within the institutional open access publishing ecosystem. The report also presents the conclusions of the geographical scoping for the project’s planned survey to collect IPSP data.