Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Deville, Joe; Sondervan, Jeroen; Stone, Graham; Wennström, Sofie

doi:10.18352/lq.10277

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“…Workshops hosted by COPIM bear out that the challenge of discovery and dissemination of OA books is a significant one. This is further backed up by findings from Deville et al (2019) and from Gerakopoulou et al (2021). Because the OA landscape is fragmented, OA versions of monographs are at risk of being less discoverable than traditionally published books.…”

Section: Academic Concerns About Oa Monographsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Access Monographs

Fathallah¹

2022

LIBER

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The UK Research and Innovation funding council announced its latest Open Access Policy on August 6, 2021. This policy applies to all UKRI funded research, and thus constitutes a significant move towards OA as an academic standard. For the first time in the UK, OA is to be mandated for academic books – this means that both monographs and edited chaptered books must be published Open Access from January 2024, though a 1 year embargo is permissible. As the infrastructures, business models and workflows supporting OA book publishing are currently lagging behind journals, especially in the Arts and Humanities, many researchers and institutions have responded to the policy with some consternation, even whilst supporting the aims and ethics of OA publishing. This article explores some of these apprehensions and questions raised by institutions, academics and by librarians regarding OA book publishing in a UK context, especially regarding funding and sustainability. It aims to dispel certain myths around OA book publishing in general, particularly the notion that Book Processing Charges are a necessary or even desirable element. The article then presents some of the varied models and systems currently in use and development, particularly the work of the UKRI/Research England funded COPIM project (Community- Led Open Access Infrastructures for Monographs), one of the aims of which is to build ways of delivering more sustainable revenue sources to OA publishers. It focuses in particular a key and soon to be launched output of the project: the Open Book Collective.

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Section: Academic Concerns About Oa Monographsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Access Monographs

Fathallah¹

2022

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“…For example, for individual scholars, OS might come down to the skills and research practices themselves, as suggested in the training handbook of the FOSTER project (Pontika et al 2015). For librarians, the priority might instead be the sustainable dissemination of information within the academic community (Deville et al 2019), whereas policy makers might be more interested in quantifying the societal impact of scholarly output (Bornmann 2017). In qualitative social science research, there is a long-standing interest in developing an ethical and mutually respectful relationship between researcher and participant, and in developing and promoting research that 'make[s] a difference in everyday lives' (Denzin and Giardina 2009: 13).…”

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Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities

Armeni

Brinkman

Carlsson

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Science and Public Policy

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Despite the increasing availability of Open Science (OS) infrastructure and the rise in policies to change behaviour, OS practices are not yet the norm. While pioneering researchers are developing OS practices, the majority sticks to status quo. To transition to common practice, we must engage a critical proportion of the academic community. In this transition, OS Communities (OSCs) play a key role. OSCs are bottom-up learning groups of scholars that discuss OS within and across disciplines. They make OS knowledge more accessible and facilitate communication among scholars and policymakers. Over the past two years, eleven OSCs were founded at several Dutch university cities. In other countries, similar OSCs are starting up. In this article, we discuss the pivotal role OSCs play in the large-scale transition to OS. We emphasize that, despite the grassroot character of OSCs, support from universities is critical for OSCs to be viable, effective, and sustainable.

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“…Incorporation into the collection management development policy would also help to mitigate the risk that the principle of open access stops being supported in the event of financial cuts. (Adema, 2018;Deville et al, 2019).…”

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Opening up the Library

Ball

Stone

Thompson

2021

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Momentum is building in the transition to open access for monographs, with a number of funders developing policies and mandates in recent years. The article argues that while libraries play an instrumental role in driving a transition to open science within their institutions this is not reflected in libraries’ approaches to collection development, which are still predicated on purchased content. Libraries are keen to demonstrate that their purchased content is relevant to users, often promoting ‘expensive’ purchased collections over open content. Rather than relegating open to a less-visible second place, the article calls for libraries to acquire and promote open content alongside, and where appropriate with higher priority, than paid-for content. In order to facilitate a transition to open access for monographs, cultural change and leadership is required within libraries to reimagine themselves around open content as the norm, with policies, practices and structures that communicate, enable and promote this shift. The article calls for a collaborative international approach.

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Rebels with a Cause? Supporting Library and Academic-led Open Access Publishing

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

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