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Towards open scholarship: digital publishing and the humanities

Towards open scholarship: digital publishing and the humanities. Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK. OAPEN workshop, Frankfurt Book Fair, 15 October 2009. Digital journals. Key Perspectives Ltd. SCONUL statistics (UK libraries ). Key Perspectives Ltd. Publishers.

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Towards open scholarship: digital publishing and the humanities

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  1. Towards open scholarship: digital publishing and the humanities Alma Swan Key Perspectives Ltd Truro, UK OAPEN workshop, Frankfurt Book Fair, 15 October 2009

  2. Digital journals Key Perspectives Ltd

  3. SCONUL statistics (UK libraries) Key Perspectives Ltd

  4. Publishers • Major commercial publishers • Small commercial publishers • Societies • University presses Key Perspectives Ltd

  5. Open Access journals • By definition, digital • 4366 currently listed in the DOAJ • AHSS titles published mainly by societies and scholars • Cover all fields in AHSS Key Perspectives Ltd

  6. Fields in which OA journals are published Key Perspectives Ltd

  7. Business models • Community production • Advertising (e.g. BMJ) • Institutional subsidy • Institutional membership (e.g. BMC) • Print sales • Article-processing charges • Collaborative purchase schemes (e.g. SCOAP3) Key Perspectives Ltd

  8. Technologies and systems • Open Source packages e.g. Open Journal Systems (OJS) • Repository softwares • Bespoke software • Open Humanities Press Key Perspectives Ltd

  9. Open Journal Systems Key Perspectives Ltd

  10. Web publishing communities Key Perspectives Ltd

  11. Digital books • Slow start but now taking off • UTx Dallas (Safley): print version’s circulation declined from 67465 in 2004 to 50993 in 2005 (first 11 months) • Auburn University (Bailey): print usage declined by one-third from 2000-2004 • Published by variety of presses and publishers, including textbook publishers • Big usage in universities of e-textbooks: 26 titles gained 65,000 usage sessions in 13 months (JISC study) with 761,352 page views Key Perspectives Ltd

  12. SCONUL statistics (UK libraries) • Total e-books (in all libraries): 1,312.064 • Mean number per site: 9439 • Maximum number per site: 100,000 • Median number per site: 2100 • Minimum number per site: 0 Key Perspectives Ltd

  13. Open Access books • Many publishers putting toes in the water, including many university presses • Includes commercial publishers (Bloomsbury’s new imprint, Bloomsbury Academic) Key Perspectives Ltd

  14. Key Perspectives Ltd

  15. Business models • National Academies Press: free online page-by-page since 1996 and now free downloads (with a few exceptions) • Mostly some variation on free online plus hard copy sales • OAPEN exploring this Key Perspectives Ltd

  16. University-level developments • Budget crisis Key Perspectives Ltd

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  18. University-level developments • Budget crisis • Anxieties over access and affordability • Collapse in dissemination of young researchers’ work in humanities • Realism about future prospects and an awakening to the serious problems in dissemination • Digital repositories and their roles (a locus for peer review) • Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) as a response to the general problem in scholarly communication Key Perspectives Ltd

  19. EOS and a EAUP • Shared concerns and a shared (problematic and challenging) future to resolve • Natural affiliation and a common set of values • Universities’ role in dissemination is being forefronted • How EOS and EAUP could co-operate: • Shared membership systems • Shared meetings • Promote a vision for the future where the academy takes back control of dissemination Key Perspectives Ltd

  20. Thank you for listening aswan@keyperspectives.co.uk www.keyperspectives.co.uk www.openscholarship.org www.openoasis.org Key Perspectives Ltd

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