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Informed Decisions on the Future of OA Scholarly Monograph Publishing in HSS
Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections
ICOLC, 15 October 2012
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58 HSS titles: 2006 - 2011
Experimental Group (29 titles)
Control Group (29 titles)
OA with CC licenceOAPEN Library
Publishers websiteInstitutional RepositoryGoogle Books (100%)
Standard e-book agreements
Publishers websiteE-book aggregators
Google Books (10%)
Print version available for sale E-book device friendly version available for sale
The research programme
1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need to change in order to enable OA publication of monographs?
2.What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs?
3.How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the project?
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Research process
Initiation
Year 1 11/12
Year 2 12/13
Year 3 13/14 project close 2015
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1. Literature Review
Literature Review V1 available and stay up to date with our Diigo Group: OAPEN-UK
http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/further-reading/
2. Annual Benchmarking
Baseline survey will provide benchmark to measure how the perceptions and attitudes of project participants change over the course of the project
Baseline results are available at:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/benchmarking-survey/
3. Focus groups
1. Institutional representatives including librarians, institutional repository staff, research managers
2. Publishers3. Learned Societies4. Researchers (as both authors
& readers)5. E-book aggregators6. Research Fundershttp://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/y1-initial-focus-groups/
4. Surveys, case studies & in-depth Interviews
Survey of HSS researchershttp://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/research-findings/researchersurvey/
Learned Society in-depth interviews
Institutional Case Studies
Publisher in-depth interviews
About the respondents
Before 1959 1960s 1970s 1980s and onwards Missing0.0
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23.021.6
27.1
23.0
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Birth decade of survey respondents
Decade
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About the respondents
PhD
Post-doc
Assista
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Associa
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Profes
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Researc
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Missing
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10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
26.5
10.3
18.1
14.6
20.3
5.74.2
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Career stage of survey respondents
Career stage
Perc
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About the respondents
UK Rest of Europe North America Rest of world Missing0.0
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20.0
30.0
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50.0
60.0
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90.082.3
7.74.3 4.8
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Region of residence of survey re-spondents
Region
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Social sciences Humanities Missing0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
40.0
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38.8
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Discipline of survey re-spondents
Discipline
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Open access awareness
Open access awareness
Open access awareness
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Profits from publishing
Author priorities
Author priorities
Publisher choices
Author services
Author priorities
Self-publishing
Active authors funding
Reading habits
Reading habits
Reading habits
Scholarly communications goals
Scholarly communications goals
Scholarly communications goals
Conclusions
• Considerable potential for OAPEN-UK-style open access model – paper and e still required
• Need to increase confidence and understanding of Creative Commons
• A push for CC BY may alienate researchers??• Need to consider future roles• Encourage authors to care more about post
publication elements• Quality is paramount – need to ensure that OA
model tackles negative perceptions
4b. The monograph publishing process from creation to being in the hands of the reader – process, infrastructure & effort by authors and publishers
Library Consortia
My call to action….
Opportunity to help mould the OA offering in HSS
Help centralise, share, explore and test
Support new OA publishers
Keep it transparent & maintain quality
Collaborate and engage
Thank you & Further Info
OAPEN-UK website:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/
Twitter:@oapenuk
Diigo Group:OAPEN-UK
Caren Milloyc.milloy@jisc-collections.ac.uk
Twitter:@carenmilloy
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