Transcript Recent developments in Academic Publishing Open Access e

Recent developments in
Academic Publishing
Open Access e-books and Enhanced
Publications
Janneke Adema
Book and Digital Media Studies
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1) Introduction
2) Focus Points
3) Trends and Developments
4) Open Access e-books: OAPEN
5) Enhanced Publications: JALC
6) Conclusion and Questions
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Focus Points
- Dynamic functions, roles and
collaborations
- Alternative business models
- Experiments with the format
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The Publishing Chain
(Thompson, 2005)
Content
Creation
Content
Acquisition
Content
Quality
Development Control
Copy
Editing
[Authors]
[Publishers]
[Publishers]
[Publishers and
Free-lancers]
[Publishers]
[Agents]
[Packagers]
Design
Typesetting
[Publishers,
Outsourced]
[Typesetters]
Proofreading Printing
Sales and
[Publishers,
and Binding Marketing
Authors,
Free-lancers]
Warehousing
and Distribution
[Publishers and
Distributors]
[Printers]
Bookselling
[Booksellers,
Bookclubs]
[Publishers]
Consumers,
Readers
Wholesaling
Institutions
[Wholesalers]
[Libraries etc.]
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Trends and Developments
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Disintermediation
New players
What is a publisher?
New forms of (strategic) collaboration
Open Access Publishing (also for books)
Enhanced and liquid publications
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OAPEN
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
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Developing an OA publication model for peer reviewed academic
books in Humanities and Social Sciences
Creating a large, freely available collection of current books in
European languages in various fields of HSS
Duration: 30 months
Start: September 1, 2008
Consortium: 7 University Presses and 2 Universities
Coordinator: Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands
Actions undertaken under the eContentplus Programme (2005-2008)
to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable
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Key objectives
- To improve the accessibility, impact and relevance of
European research in Humanities and Social Sciences
through the promotion of OA for primary publications
- To create and aggregate freely available peer reviewed
HSS publications from across borders within an Online
Library
- To engage stakeholders in the publication process
- To develop common funding models
- To adopt common standards and metadata to improve
retrievability and visibility of HSS publications
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Main Goal
OAPEN will create an Open Access publication network
for publishers and other stakeholders involved in academic
publishing within research in Humanities and Social
Sciences.
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Traditional Monographs
Sales have been declining steadily since the
70’s
- Greco & Wharton: library purchases
•70’s: 1500
•Now: 200-300
- Thompson: print runs & sales
•70’s: 2000-3000 (print runs)
•Now: 50% < 500 – majority < 750
(sales)
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Google Book Search
Google Book Search has made a
difference:
•Millions of books have moved on to
the internet
•Books can be easily found and
searched
•Users expect books to be online
•Therefore books need to be online
•Thousands of Publishers have joined
the Google Book Search Programme
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Open Monographs: examples
OpenBook
Publishers
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Basic OA model
- Hybrid: Online and Print
- Basic online edition is free
- Printed edition is sold
- Author retains copyright
- Long term availability Online
- Based on repository infrastructure
- Publisher seeks fee for publication of OA
online edition
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- Enhanced Publications in Archaeology
- Open Access e-journal published by Amsterdam
University Press
- Collaboratory Project
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Enhanced Publications
An enhanced publication is a publication that is
enhanced with three categories of information:
(1) research data (evidence of the research)
(2) extra materials (to illustrate or clarify), or
(3) post-publication data (commentaries,
ranking)[1]
[1] Saskia Woutersen–Windhouwer en Renze Brandsma, DRIVER, Digital Repository
Infrastructure Vision for European Research II, July 2008, 12.
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- To gain experience with the organization and
technique of assembling and making
available enriched publications
- Collaborative project
- the ‘e-depot Nederlandse archeologie
(EDNA)’, in cooperation with Data Archiving
and Networked Services (DANS) and the
‘Digitaal Productiecentrum (DPC)’.
- The project contains work packages that
address the technical, archaeological and
user issues.
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Conclusions and forecast
- The user is central
- Traditions merge with innovation
- Which collaborations will be most
sustainable?
- Which business models will be most
sustainable?
- Preserve the best of the old and
incorporate the possibilities of the new:
stability, trust and quality
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More information on both projects:
www.oapen.org
www.jalc.nl
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