OAPEN-UK presentation at JISC Collections annual conference 2012
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Exploring an OA model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences Caren Milloy & Ellen Collins JISC Collections Conference 2012 @oapenuk #oapenuk
Transcript of OAPEN-UK presentation at JISC Collections annual conference 2012
Exploring an OA model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social
sciences
Caren Milloy & Ellen Collins
JISC Collections Conference 2012
@oapenuk #oapenuk
@oapenuk #oapenuk
58 HSS titles: 2006 - 2011
Experimental Group (29 titles)
Control Group (29 titles)
OA with CC licenceOAPEN Library
Publishers websiteInstitutional RepositoryGoogle Books (100%)
Standard e-book agreements
Publishers websiteE-book aggregators
Google Books (10%)
Print version available for sale E-book device friendly version available for sale
The research programme
1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need to change in order to enable OA publication of monographs?
2.What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs?
3.How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the project?
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OAPEN-UK Research PlanEllen Collins, Research Information Network
Research process
Initiation
Year 1 11/12
Year 2 12/13
Year 3 13/14 project close 2015
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1. Literature Review
Literature Review V1 available and stay up to date with our Diigo Group: OAPEN-UK
http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/further-reading/
2. Annual Benchmarking
Baseline survey will provide benchmark to measure how the perceptions and attitudes of project participants change over the course of the project
Baseline results are available at:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/benchmarking-survey/
3. Focus groups
1. Institutional representatives including librarians, institutional repository staff, research managers
2. Publishers3. Learned Societies4. Researchers (as both authors
& readers)5. E-book aggregators6. Research Fundershttp://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/y1-initial-focus-groups/
4. Surveys, case studies & in-depth Interviews
Survey of HSS researchershttp://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/researchersurvey/
Learned Society in-depth interviews
Institutional Case Studies
Publisher in-depth interviews
About the respondents
About the respondents
About the respondents
Open access awareness
Open access awareness
Open access awareness
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Profits from publishing
Author priorities
Author priorities
Publisher choices
Author services
Author priorities
Active authors funding
Reading habits
Reading habits
Reading habits
Scholarly communications goals
Librarians supporting researchers
• Keep on purchasing P & E monographs – there is still a strong reliance on library provided monos, especially for Phd and lecturers
• Promote awareness of OA as an option for publishing monographs & what the various models are – esp with senior lecturers
• Integrate with the DOAB & highlighting its existence to researchers – they are QA publishers
• Make sure that the voices of HSS researchers are heard and supported in the race for Gold OA fees
Librarians supporting researchers
• Provide researchers with support materials, info sessions on copyright
• Explain to researchers what the different CC licenses are and providing support
• Help authors deposit their OA books in repositories and raise awareness within the community
• Help authors understand usage of their books • Provide ideas on how to use social media to promote
their books• Experiment with new models / publishers – OAPEN,
Knowledge Unlatched, OpenEditions, OpenBooksPublishers
Publishers supporting researchers
• Talk to your authors about OA and what they want• Think about your licensing arrangements and especially CC
licence options that you offer – how can you best your authors’ needs?
• Consider engaging with publishers / initiatives experimenting in this arena (e.g. OAPEN, Knowledge Unlatched) so that you can offer viable OA models to researchers with less of a risk to you (as there's clearly an interest)
• Express better what you are doing and your value add to the publishing process as researchers don't necessarily value everything you do and are likely to get more demanding when they, rather than their libraries, are paying for the research to get out there!
• Continue to offer both print and electronic and work with librarians to raise awareness of your OA offering
Thank you & Further Info
OAPEN-UK website:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
Twitter:@oapenuk / carenmilloy
Diigo Group:OAPEN-UK
Caren [email protected]
Ellen [email protected]
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