Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly
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The document discusses the importance of open access (OA) in scholarly communications, especially highlighted by the impacts of COVID-19 on traditional publishing models. It outlines funding sources for OA books and the potential benefits of equitable access, reduced costs, and expanded readership. Additionally, it presents various models for monograph publishing and the implications of a shifting landscape towards OA in higher education.
Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly
- 1. Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly Opening the Future Emily Poznanski Director, CEU Press
- 2. Why OA and Why Does it Matter? Who Pays for Open Access Books? New Models for Open Access Books Opening the Future Today’s Presentation
- 3. Why OA and why does it matter? COVID 19 has exposed how vital OA is to the future of scholarly communications while also ripping into library budgets The traditional publishing model is broken Traditional sales of academic books have dropped but we’re still working the way we always have OA offers increased readership, usage and citation Funder mandates
- 4. Policies, Mandates and Practices Policies are not mandates Mandates are not always funded Practices take time to develop
- 5. Who pays for OA monographs now? • Research Funders (BPC) • Institutions/departments (BPC) • Libraries collectively (BPC and Non-BPC)
- 6. What would change in an OA World? • Equitable access • Costs brought down throughout the value chain • Access costs reduced • Acquisitions budgets redirected to OA • Closed content eliminated
- 7. Models for Monographs Very Large Companies BPC model following transformative journal models e.g. Springer/ Berkeley Large University Presses e.g. MIT, CUP, Michigan Small to medium University Presses e.g. CEU Press, LUP Scholar-led & born OA Presses e.g. UCL Press, Open Book Publishers
- 8. International partnership Libraries, Universities, OA book publishers, Researchers, Infrastructure providers. £3.6m COPIM is funded by the Research England Development Fund (REDFund) as a major development project in the Higher Education sector with significant public benefits, and by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
- 9. Traditional publishing model, changing rapidly post-pandemic: aiming to be mostly OA for monographs. 30 500 nearly years old backlist titles
- 10. 279 7 years old 129 350,000 10 of the top 10 downloads were over they were downloaded times, from countries titles were made open on Project MUSE during March to June 2020 Central European University Press
- 12. Opening the Future in a nutshell
- 13. THE PACKAGES History Political Science Editors’ Choice Librarians’ Selection
- 14. Note: $12 per book is for indication only and is calculated on the basis of every library receiving 50 books as a subscription and gaining access to 25 new open access books per year. Cost modelling is based on an average membership of $950 per year (our medium-size band pricing) and assumes 250 library members. Appraising the cost per book/per library is only possible once we’ve had time to accrue members. This is a pilot project. Subscriber member benefits
- 15. Note: the OA modelling here is based on an average membership of $950 per year (our medium-size band pricing). Appraising the cost per book/per library is only possible once we’ve had time to accrue members. This is a pilot project. Icons by Flaticon.com As members grow, costs can go down
- 16. Note: the OA modelling here is based on an average membership of $950 per year (our medium-size band pricing). Appraising the cost per book/per library is only possible once we’ve had time to accrue members. This is a pilot project. As we accrue enough membership funds we can publish the next OA book, a rolling process
- 18. For more information for FAQs, downloadable brochure, lists of available titles & ISBNs CEU Press (openingthefuture.net) PoznanskiE@press.ceu.edu Opening the Future: How to Implement an Equitable Revenue Model for Open Access Monographs | Zenodo