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Open Access, Books and Business Models
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Developing an OA publication
model for peer reviewed academic
books in the HSS
Creating a large freely available collection of current books in European languages in various fields of HSS
Start: September 8, 2008
Duration: 30 months
Consortium: 7 university presses and
2 universities
Coordinator: Amsterdam University
Press, The Netherlands
HSS Scholar
Communication with one's peers
Claiming research findings and scientific ideas
Reputation and career advancement
Releasing information for social progress and knowledge in society
Financial compensation
Open Access, Books and Business Models
Open Access
Printed Book
Ebook
Janneke Adema
Archiving in repositories
Green
Open Access publishing
Gold
Digital Publishing and its Governance:
Between knowledge and power
International Conference:
April 28-30th 2010
Lack of availability in Libraries
Lack of dissemination
Actions undertaken under the eContentplus Programme (2005-2008) to make digital content in Europe more accesible, usable and exploitable
The Ebook does not (automatically) solve this problem!
Serials and Monograph Crisis
- Rising costs STM journals
- Lower acquisition budgets libraries
- Lower print runs
- Disastrous consequences
But what is sustainable?
Problems
and
fears
- Funding essential in HSS
- Break-even or profit?
- Which level? Specific model or whole system?
OAPEN's solution
Experiments
- Hybrid
- Additional funding
- Services
www.oapen.org
- Publishing as part of funding
- Author pays
- Guidelines
- Distributed funding
- Transparency
- Collaboration