1. KU at AAUP
June 24 2014
Frances Pinter
Knowledge Unlatched

2. Winner: 2014 Brill/IFLA
Open Access Award
Knowledge Unlatched

3.  What we (collectively) accomplished
 Evolving environment
 Vision for the future
 Next steps
Roadmap for this Afternoon

4. University Presses in US
Duke University Press
Purdue University Press
Rutgers University Press
Temple University Press
University of Michigan
Press
University Press in Europe
Amsterdam University Press
University Presses in UK
Cambridge University Press
Edinburgh University Press
Liverpool University Press
Manchester University Press
Commercial Publishers in
Europe
Bloomsbury Academic
Brill
De Gruyter
Publisher Community

5. Global Library Community
Who ‘we’ are
United States (122)
Canada (15)
United Kingdom (77)
Other* (41)
Australia (24)
Germany (18)
*Countries included in the Other category less than 5%

6.  Collecting Books from Publishers
 Surveying Libraries
 Construction of the Model
13 publishers, 28 books
Average hb price $95
Average Title Fee $12,000
Recruit 200 libraries to pay $60 per book
Pilot Project Design

7.  Developed survey with Informed
Strategies and the New York Public
Library
 US: Sent to all ARL libraries + 116
libraries with an identified interest in OA
 UK: Survey distributed via RLUK and
Jisc Collections
Pre Pilot Surveys

8. One Package, Five Subjects
 History
 Literature
 Politics
 Media & Communications
 Anthropology
Pilot Collection

9.  297 libraries pledged
 24 countries
 Collection cost reduced from
$1680 to $1195 per library
 Per book/per library cost dropped from
$60 to under $43
 Since pledging closed over 100 libraries
pre-registered for next round
Pilot Project Results

10.  Hosting: OAPEN, HathiTrust,
British Library
 Preservation: Portico, CLOCKSS
 Metadata: MARC21, enhanced by
Duke University Library
 Discovery: WorldCat, Summons
Hosting, Preservation, Metadata

11. CC BY
CC BY NC
CC BY NC ND
CC BY ND
Creative Commons Licenses

12. Global Usage Data

13.  121 countries downloaded titles
 24 countries have members of KU
 In 3 months (Mar-May) mean average
of downloads per title is 263
Usage Data

14. KU Members
80%
Dev Countries
20%
Greater Access to Content
20% of downloads are in Developing
Countries and 80% of downloads are
in countries with KU members

15. Explore
 How to measure impact of monographs
 How do altmetrics apply to books
 How to measure usage by library without
access controls
Examine
 Users by IP address
 International reach
 Books compared to others in category
KU Research on Usage

16. A sustainable route to OA for
specialist scholarly books
Ensure that HSS books are as
accessible as OA science journals
Experiment with new content and new
models
The KU Vision

17.  KU South
 KU in other languages
 KU helping digital first / new
open presses
Additional Opportunities

18.  Infrastructure development
 Potential Partners
 Funding the scaling-up stage
But first … our next steps

19.  Managing data flow better
 Consortia models
 Activating new library committees
 Producing substantive report on pilot
 Designing a study of usage & impact
 Recruiting more publishers
 Recruiting more libraries
What we are working on now

20. What else?

21. Thank You
Knowledge Unlatched