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Making books part of the open access landscape

Making books part of the open access landscape. Cecy Marden Wellcome Library OA Project Manager Europe PMC Funders’ Group Project Manager c.marden@wellcome.ac.uk. How have we been doing?. sherpa.ac.uk/fact/. Studying the APC market. All the books?.

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Making books part of the open access landscape

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  1. Making books part of the open access landscape Cecy Marden Wellcome Library OA Project Manager Europe PMC Funders’ Group Project Manager c.marden@wellcome.ac.uk

  2. How have we been doing?

  3. sherpa.ac.uk/fact/

  4. Studying the APC market

  5. All the books? • No. The policy includes original scholarly research • written by, and aimed at, those who are actively • engaged with or interested in academic research, • rather than a general readership.

  6. How will the extension work? • When? 1 October 2013 - October 2014. • Who? All current grant-holders. • How? Through PubMed Central and Europe PMC within six months of publication.

  7. Uncharted territory: One size fits all? • Small print runs • + • High title price= • Lack of access to research published in • monograph or book chapter form

  8. Uncharted territory: Price-gouging • We monitor monograph-processing charges • and the market • + • More publishers introduce an OA option = • In time a benchmark of prices will arise • and we will be aware of outliers.

  9. Uncharted territory: Academic freedom? • Fully funded policy • + • Working with publishers = • Increase in publishers with OA options

  10. Cecy Marden • c.marden@wellcome.ac.uk Text Illustrations by Richard Swan. CC-BY-NC-ND

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