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Strategies for OA Publishing in the SSH

Explore different strategies for open access publishing in the social sciences and humanities, including the role of book publishing, flipping national language journals, and avoiding article processing charges.

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Strategies for OA Publishing in the SSH

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  1. Strategies for OA publishing in the SSH Gunnar Sivertsen Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Oslo, Norway

  2. Shareofscientificarticles in DOAJ journals 2011-17.Major areas ofresarch. All Norwegian institutions

  3. Shareofscientificarticles in DOAJ journals 2011-17.Languages. All Norwegian institutions

  4. I want us to discuss • What to do with book publishing • How to flipnationallanguage journals • Why and how to avoid APC (article processing charge)

  5. 1. What to do with book publishing (A) • Respectthetraditional book market. SSH scholarscollaborate as authorswithbook publishersin creatingwidelyreadbooks for • Education • Interestgroups in thewiderpublic • Thesebooksarenot the end resultsofspecific research projects, butbuilton personal competencesthatareacquired from many different activities in academiclife. • Suchbooksaredistributedthroughbook stores in thestreets or ontheinternet. • Theirrevenuesarereturns from investmentby authors and publishers in collaboration

  6. 1. What to do with book publishing (B) • Concentratethe OA developmentonbooksthatarethe end resultsofspecific research projects. • Thesebooksare most often, but not always, ofmore specializedinterestwithintheacademicworld • Theyshould be distributedimmediately and for free, not throughexpensive book stores, in order to reach all relevant readers and thehighestpotentialofqualifiedscholarlycriticism

  7. 1. What to do with book publishing (B) • Concentratethe OA developmentonbooksthatarethe end resultsofspecific research projects. • Thesebooksare most often, but not always, ofmore specializedinterestwithintheacademicworld • Theyshould be distributedimmediately and for free, not throughexpensive book stores, in order to reach all relevant readers and thehighestpotentialofqualifiedscholarlycriticism • The present business model for OA publishingofsuchbooks is problematic

  8. 1. What to do with book publishing (B) • Concentratethe OA developmentonbooksthatarethe end resultsofspecific research projects. • Thesebooksare most often, but not always, ofmore specializedinterestwithintheacademicworld • Theyshould be distributedimmediately and for free, not throughexpensive book stores, in order to reach all relevant readers and thehighestpotentialofqualifiedscholarlycriticism • The present business model for OA publishingofsuchbooks is problematic • This problem is beingaddressed

  9. 1. What to do with book publishing (C) • Develop OA book series buildingontheindependent journal model

  10. 2. How to flip national language journals • A narrow selection of only the central, most respected and most needed SSH journals publishing in the national language • No author payment • Funded partly by the government, partly by a consortium of research institutions that frequently publish in the journals • Monitored by a national panel appointed by the deans of the humanities and social sciences

  11. Scholarly journals in thenationallanguage (examples)

  12. 3. Why and how to avoid APC (article processing charge)? • Why? • Journals in the SSH are fora for academic exchange, not just compilations of individual original articles from funded projects • Some of the authors are not affiliated with research institutions • APC is bureaucratic and time-consuming is small journals • How? • Make contracts with professional publishers for them to serve – and not own – the journals • Establish general subsidies for the journals and/or long-term contracts with the main institutional contributors of articles

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