openCost Registry
The opencostid is a unique, machine-readable identifier for contracts and business models in the field of scholarly publishing. It enables agreements to be uniquely identified and linked to the participating institutions and the journals involved. In this way, the opencostid creates greater transparency and facilitates analysis, monitoring, and data exchange between systems.
It complements existing services such as the ESAC Registry by mapping not only information on transformative agreements but also on other business models such as memberships or Subscribe-to-Open. The goal is to provide as comprehensive and practical a representation of the current contractual landscape as possible.
The opencostid registry is managed within the context of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB), but is independent of EZB membership and is available worldwide free of charge.
An overview of all opencostids already assigned can be found here
Requesting an opencostid
By registering a contributor account and logging in to this site, you are able to submit missing agreements to openCost registry. Editors will approve requests and new opencostids are assigned automatically.
Contact
The openCost Project
The aim of openCost is to create a technical infrastructure enabling publication costs to be accessed freely via standardized interfaces and formats. This facilitates cost transparency at institutional and (inter-)national level.
