Open access publishing

1. Publishing models for open access
monographs
Roxanne Missingham and Judy Stokker

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• The Scholarly Monograph
• Knowledge Unlatched Enabling Open
Access for Scholarly Books - Dr Lucy
Montgomery
• Discussion and questions

3. The scholarly monograph
• For this invention will produce
forgetfulness in the minds of those who
learn to use it, because they will not
practice their memory. Their trust in
writing, produced by external characters
which are no part of themselves, will
discourage the use of their own memory
within them. (Plato)
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4. Open access monographs in the
humanities and social sciences
• Monograph sales now average of 200, as
opposed to 2000 in 1980 (Willinsky, J. (2009) “Toward the Design of an
Open Monograph”, JEP 12 (1) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0012.103?rgn=main;view=fulltext)
• Libraries are buying less monographs –
and budgets since the GFC have seen
real decline
• A time for discussion/reflection/new
directions (JISC conference
http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1306)
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5. Monograph remains important
• Academic rewards – tenure and
promotion
• Impact assessment
• Success in grants
• Distribution of research funds.
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6. AAUP survey
• 16% of presses have a strategy that
included Online course content/MOOCs
• 88% provided access through at least one
aggregator or vendor
• Revenue from ebooks is significant
http://www.aaupnet.org/images/stories/data/2013digitalsurveyreport.pdf
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7. AAUP survey (2)
• Free content/access
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8. New titles
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open/paid
access
Funded by
university/ins
titution
Research
grant
funded
Funded
by
individual
Funded
by
Libraries
Crowd
sourced

9. Models
Type Relationship to strategy Ownership/initiation
Crowd sourced Increases engagement with
community of researchers
Potentially taps into new
sources of funding a builds
relationships with Alumni and
new funders
Builds strong relationship with
funders
May result in free print copies
to libraries
Institution independent,
although some have
institutional support for
participation.
May be open access of fund
production of a print
publication available to
funders and to purchasers.
Examples
Open Book Publishing
Kickstarter (a platform for
crowdsourcing – largest fund
raising so far over $US580k for
Ryan North To be or not to be)
Others such as petriedisk will
fund research that will result
in open access publications
Funded by
university/institution
Perhaps the most recognisable
model of scholarly publishing.
University presses within their
institution are funded in a
range of ways, some have a
direct subsidy (ANU), some
cross subsidised from more
commercial publications
(University of Cork), others are
more straight commercial.
Many are a mix of models.
Press is often a separate entity
or managed separately for
financial reporting purposes.
Open access university presses
are less common that more
commercial (is charged for)
products.
University presses.
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10. Type Relationship to strategy Ownership/initiation
Funded by libraries May focus on first copy costs,
or seek subscriptions
Knowledge unlatched
Open Library of the
Humanities
Funded by research grant Grant applications to the ARC,
NHMRC and other bodies
generally enable dissemination
costs to be included – whether
a papers, monograph or for
Gold access to commercial
publications.
Policy decision of funding
body. Individual researchers
decide on funds sought.
Many journal articles.
Funded by individual Researchers may be
committed to their field of
study and self fund publication
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11. Retrospective titles
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Online -
older
material
Copyright
exception
(200AB)
Out of
copyright
and
digitised
fair use -
Hathi
Trust
Commu
nity
pays

12. Models
Type Relationship to strategy Ownership/initiation
Community pays Increases engagement with
community
Potentially taps into new
sources of funding a builds
relationships with Alumni and
new funders
Results in open access
Institution independent
open access
Examples
https://unglue.it/ Proposes
“Own DRM-free ebooks,
legally? Read free ebooks, and
know their creators had been
fairly paid?”
Out of copyright Perhaps the most recognisable
model.
Project Guttenberg
Australian newspapers
(TROVE)
Fair use US digitisation Hathi Trust
Copyright Act 21968 200AB Libraries – 3 step text. Painful
but possible.
Mixed models Partnerships/collaborations
can result in some open access
and some dark archives.
Eg CLOCKSS ARCHIVE a not-
for-profit joint venture
between the world's leading
scholarly publishers and
research libraries
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