Transcript Presentation - open reflections

Open Access in the Humanities
and Social Sciences
Janneke Adema – Coventry University
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Post-digital Publishing Workshop: Publishing and the
University - Open Access and Open Learning
Outline
 Open Access and the history of open access
 Open Access in the Humanities and Social
Sciences (HSS)
 Open Access resources in the HSS
 Projects and experiments with Open Access
in the HSS
 Business and funding models for Open
Access books
 Challenges and discussion points
Lulu.com &
Hypotheses.org
Open Access literature is
‘Digital, online, free of
charge, and free of
most copyright and
licensing restrictions’
Peter Suber
 Green Road: Open Access selfarchiving, where authors provide
Open Access to their own published
articles, by making their own pre- or
post-prints free for all
 Gold Road: Open Access journalpublishing, where scholars publish in
journals that provide Open Access to
their articles (free for the user online)
There has been a call for a boycott of both Taylor & Francis and
Routledge if their parent company, Informa plc, does not lower its
journal subscription charges and pay the UK Exchequer the £13
million lost as a result of its 2009 decision to become a company
domiciled in Zug, the Swiss canton with the lowest rate of taxation.
Informa can be placed alongside Amazon, Apple, Facebook, eBay,
Google and Starbucks on the roll call of companies that aggressively
avoid paying the UK standard rate of 26% corporation tax.
Over ‘half of Informa’s total annual operating profit [is] derived from
academic publishing: £85.8 million’ in 2010. Its journals alone
provide ‘gross profit margins of over 70 per cent’.
There are only two other industries offering these sorts of return:
‘illegal drugs and the delivery of university-level business
education.’
See Harvie et al,
‘What Are We To Do With Feral Publishers?’
www.doaj.org
www.doabooks.org
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disc
iplinary_repositories
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Publ
ishers_of_OA_books
www.oapen.org
www.openhumanitiespress.org
Living Books About Life
Open Monographs: funding models
 OA edition + sold edition: All
 Institutional support for press:
– National Academies Press
– Athabasca University Press
– Australian National University Press (ANU)
 Library-Press collaboration:
– Mpublishing/Michigan UP
– Göttingen UP
 Value added services:
– Bloomsbury Academic
– OpenEdition Freemium
 Author side publication fee:
– Some Research Councils - Netherlands and Austria
 Knowledge Unlatched – Frances Pinter
Challenges and Discussion
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What is an Open Access Book
Copyright issues
Funding issues
Radical Open Access