Open Access, Books and Business Models

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 availability in Libraries

Lack of dissemination

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