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

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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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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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Monograph remains important

• Academic rewards – tenure and promotion

• Impact assessment• Success in grants• Distribution of research funds.

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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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AAUP survey (2)

• Free content/access

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New titles

open/paid access

Funded by university/ins

titution

Research grant

funded

Funded by

individual

Funded by

Libraries

Crowd sourced

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ModelsType 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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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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Retrospective titles

Online - older

material

Copyright exception (200AB)

Out of copyright

and digitised

fair use - Hathi Trust

Community

pays

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ModelsType 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 GuttenbergAustralian 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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