IBL PAN Presentation delivered during the workshop BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands April 5th and 6th, 2018

1. Enhancing Accessibility and Sustainability of “Teksty Drugie”
Design and Implementation of a Sustainable Open-Access
Business Model for Polish Journals in the Humanities
Klaudia Grabowska

2. IBL PAN
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
• Institute of the Academy
• Hub for cooperation with
Universities
• Established in 1948
• Literary and Cultural studies
• Basic research
(bibliographies, lexicons,
editions, compendia...)
• www.ibl.waw.pl

3. CHC
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
• Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary
Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Established on 10 October 2013 as the first DH Centre
in Poland
• A typical (?) discipline-specific local centre focusing
on digital literary studies

4. IBL PUBLISHER
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
• est. in 1990
• Publishes app. 50-60
titles yearly
• Monographs and
editions
• Important series (history
of literature, new
humanities)
• Launched cooperation
with Open Edition in
2017

5. Academic journals
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
Journals published by IBL PAN
• Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) (est.
1990)
• Pamiętnik Literacki (Literary Memoir)
(est. 1902)
• Wiek XIX (19th Century)
Journals published in coedition with
University of Warsaw
• Widok (The view)
• Napis (Inscription)

6. online presence
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
1. Central and Eastern European Online Library
1 PDF = 2 EUR
1. RCIN Repository
software challanges, poor discoverability
1. BazHum
digital library for non academics

7. changes
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
WE ARE NOT GOING FOR A BIG CHANGE
BUT THE CHANGE IS GOING TO BE BIG
all operations are subsidized by government based on
evaluation of academic institution and we are building a
case for open based on evidence and case study of
transformation

8. building a case + case study
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
- top to down policy -> and open advocacy to change a
bigger picture
- Open Edition implementation with OPERAS
- and internal educational program covering open
access issues and technical issues (metadata,
discoverability)
and yes: there were cases before but theoretical ones

9. IBL PUBLISHER
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl

10. what we have done
OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
- desk research and preparing materials to talk to the
editorial board, and heads of publishing house
- description of bussines model
- open policy
- open edition translation
- preparing metadata

11. OPERAS Workshop
A'dam 27 June 2017
Digital Humanities Centre
chc.ibl.waw.pl
chc.ibl.waw.pl
klaudia.grabowska@gmail.com