Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched
-
Upload
lucy-montgomery -
Category
Law
-
view
89 -
download
0
Transcript of Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched
![Page 1: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Knowledge Unlatched
A/Prof Lucy MontgomeryDirector, Centre for Culture and Technology,
Curtin
Research Director, Knowledge Unlatched
![Page 2: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The Monograph
A long, academic and peer reviewed work on a single topic normally written by a single author, and extended to also include peer reviewed edited collections by multiple authors.
![Page 3: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Hardback
£65 per copy $110 (Amazon)$57 (ebooks.com)
Usually sells around 200 copies.
![Page 4: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
1980
2010
3000
350
2000
19902000
Print Runs for Academic Books
1000
![Page 5: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schnappi/6116266037 CC-BY
![Page 6: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pmiaki/4524531267/ CC-BY
![Page 7: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
• A very small market (libraries)• Library budgets under pressure• Journals have become (much) more expensive• The number of monograph titles has increased• Print runs for each title have decreased• Publishers must spread the costs of publishing each
title over a smaller number of copies
Pressure on Monograph Publishers
![Page 8: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
![Page 9: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
• The cost of publishing a 70,000 – 100,000 word monograph higher than the cost of publishing a 5,000 – 10,000 word article
• Palgrave Open: £11,000/$17,500: CC-BY• Manchester University Press: £10,000: CC-NC • HSS research budgets are small• Some authors aren’t attached to a research budget
at all• Author pays models won’t work for most of us!
But…
![Page 11: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
The KU Model
![Page 12: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
• Not-for-profit• Libraries from around the world collaborate to
share the costs of making books open access
• CC licenses• Front-list titles (new books)• Immediate OA (no embargo)• Recent ‘backlist’. Collaboration with Language
Science Press.
What is Knowledge Unlatched?
![Page 13: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Features of the KU Model
• Includes a market element (librarians choose which books to support on behalf of their communities)
• Globally funded• Accessing existing funds (library acquisition budgets
as well as OA funds)• Cost effective
![Page 14: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Founding LibrariesQueensland University of TechnologyThe University of MelbourneThe University of Western AustraliaKey SupportersBig Innovation CentreBritish Library TrustOpen Society FoundationCurtin University
PartnersCasalini LibriCLOCKSSHathiTrustJisc CollectionsKarger LibriLYRASISMax Planck SocietyOAPENPaper-HivePorticoSchweitzer
![Page 15: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Knowledge Unlatched
• Over 400 libraries participating so far
• 449 books unlatched from 54 publishers
• (2014 – 28 titles)
• (2016 – 78 titles)
• (2017 – 343 titles – announced Feb 25th!)
![Page 16: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Institution-specific Usage Statistics
Version 1.0 of institution-specific stats are available and were sent out in November 2016
![Page 17: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
KU Research
• A serious program of critical research on understanding the uses of OA books
• Partnering with Curtin University (Australia) and University of Michigan Libraries
• Collaborating with platforms: HathiTrust and OAPEN
• Competitively funded research projects
• Intensive collaborations: UCL Press usage study
![Page 18: Future of Publishing Business Models: Knowledge Unlatched](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022070521/58ef27471a28abd7148b457b/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Knowledge Unlatched
Thank You
Winner: IFLA/Brill Award for Open Access 2014Winner: Curtin University Award for Best Innovation in Education 2015Shortlisted: ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2016