Knowledge Unlatched

Dr Frances Pinter

Open Monograph Models

OA edition + sales from print and/or e-books NAP, Bloomsbury Academic Institutional Support for Press World Bank, Amherst

Library-Press collaboration Mpublishing/Michigan

Library Publishing Library Publishing Coalition (USA)

Funding body side publication fee NOW Netherlands, FWF Austria, Wellcome UK, Max Planck Society, Germany

Author side publication fee SpringerOpen Books, Palgrave Open, Manchester University Press OA

Library consortium Knowledge Unlatched

Open Book Models

AdvertisingCollaborative underwritingCommissioningCross subsidiesCrowd-fundingDual-edition publishingEndowmentsFund-raisingInstitutional subsidiesLiberationPublication feesTemporary OATiered qualityValue-added services

Knowledge Unlatched Goals

• Provide a sustainable path to Open Access for HSS Monographs (long-form publications)

• Ensure HSS research long-form publications are as accessible as OA science journals

• Enable additional formats to be available too

• Help library book budgets go further

The KU Vision: Publishers and Libraries creating a new model making OA a reality for Books

• The Knowledge Unlatched proposition lowers risk to both libraries and publishers

• A global consortium (KU) can share the fixed costs of creating the digital edition

• KU can enable global support for library and

institutionally based publishing as well as traditional publishers

What is Knowledge Unlatched Doing?

• Creating an international library consortium working with publishers to Unlatch books

• Organising payment of fixed costs in exchange for an open access digital version

• Publishers remain free to sell print copies and other digital versions

What are the fixed costs of a book?Fixed costs SelectionPeer review CopyeditingFormattingDesignProofreadingPreparation of Digital FileEarly MarketingOverheads

Variable costs Printing and bindingSales representationWarehousingDeliveryMaintenance of Digital FileOn-going marketingRoyaltiesOverheads

What Libraries WantDiscoveryMust provide full-level bibliographic records that meet current national cataloging standards and interoperability to enable users to identify and access e-books in the library catalogs, in the subject-specific LibGuides, or platforms preferred by library users. Must provide access to e-content through IP authentication and/or EZProxy to authorized users such as current faculty; staff and students; walk-in users; visiting scholars and researchers; and remote users. Must seek access support for alumni users. Must provide ability to coordinate discovery applications such as Primo, SFX, etc.  Must provide ADA compliance according to state and federal laws. Research and InstructionLicense must allow fair use under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act and other similar provisions of the copyright laws or other intellectual property laws in the United States or in other countries. Library users must be able to navigate/browse, search, and preview content easily and efficiently. Library users must be able to highlight text and take notes that can be accessed at a later date. Library users must be able to save, print, and download chapters (at very least) of content.  Library users should be able to download entire book to an e-reader (Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.) for convenient reading. Purchased and/or subscribed content must be accessible on various platforms and devices, and must be delivered in standard formats compatible with emerging technologies (i.e. EPUB). Libraries must be able to incorporate persistent URLs on intranet and internet, electronic reserves, course packs, and course management systems. Publishers must maintain consistency of content for both, print and e-book versions.  Digital Rights ManagementPublishers must provide unlimited access to all e-book content to simultaneous multiple users. Vendors and librarians must work with publishers to encourage unlimited access to e-book content previously acquired under single user option.Publishers and aggregators must allow expansion of interlibrary loan to include the entire book. Publishers and aggregators must allow transmittal to third party colleague of an electronic copy of minimal, insubstantial amounts for personal, scholarly, or educational use. Libraries must seek elimination of limits imposed on printing, copying, saving, and downloading capabilities. Publishers must invest in long-term digital preservation solutions such as LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, and Portico, or enable libraries to archive e-content. Publishers and aggregators must notify libraries directly (i.e. via email) when content is removed from licensed materials.Publishers and aggregators must send alerts when new e-books have been added to or removed from existing collections.Sustainable and Fair Business ModelsPublishers and aggregators must provide simultaneous format availability of frontlist titles (print and e-book).Publishers and aggregators must offer purchased e-content versus subscribed e-content. Publishers must provide perpetual access to purchased content at no cost or for a reasonable maintenance/access fee.Publishers and aggregators must dismantle bundled e-book packages and develop reasonable, flexible pricing models, which allow for the purchase of title-by-title or library designed collections.Publishers and aggregators must provide timely (i.e. weekly) COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.Publishers and aggregators must protect library users’ privacy according to state and federal privacy laws, and the ALA Code of Ethics. 

Title Fee Examples

What Stays the Same

‣ Publishers undertake selection, peer review, production, marketing and author relations

‣ Publishers decide on formats and pricing of individual units

‣ Member libraries make selections in any way they choose

‣ Member libraries choose to purchase other format or not with a discount that reflects earlier payment via KU

We’re Working With These Publishers:

Manchester UPMichigan UPOpen Book PublishersPenn State UPPurdue UPRutgers UPSage PublicationsTemple UPUN Publications

Amsterdam UPBrillBloomsbury AcademicCambridge UPDeGruyterDuke UPEdinburgh University PressLeiden UPLiverpool UP

All parts of the library communityLibrary Consortia• JISC Collections• Max Planck Society• CAUL• CIC

Supporters of KU• Melbourne, QUT and U of Western Australia Libraries• New York Public Library • Harvard University Library• British Library

Hosting • Hathi Trust• OAPEN

Book Sellers• YBP/Baker & Taylor• HARRASSOWITZ• Ingram / Coutts• University Press Platforms

are recognising the opportunity

First Pilot Package

Publishers are submitting titles for unlatching

A Library Advisory Group will select titles from publishers’ longlists for the first package in these areas:

• Literature

• History

• Politics

• Media & Communications

Unlatching a modest collection

• Single collection of 30 - 50 titles

• Selection: A group of librarians selects titles from those submitted by publishers (like a pre-publication approval plan)

• Cost per library (~$2,000 - $3,000) depends on the number of titles in this initial collection

• Timing:

Collection compiled over the summer

Commitments from libraries in the Autumn (Sept – Nov)

Unlatching at the end of 2013/early 2014

Additional Approaches for consideration in 2014

• Subject collections • Single titles

• Review Results

• Begin metrics study

• Iron out any bugs

• Scaling Up:

Repeat the cycle again with more books and more publishers

Continue recruiting more libraries

Next Steps in 2014

Making Knowledge Unlatched SustainableFirst Three Years

Grants and library contributions cover set-up and running costs

Looking for other partnerships too

Consortia support

After Three Years

KU will take up to 5% of Title Fees to cover costs, reducing as volume goes up

What’s Different about KU

• Spreads costs across many institutions

• Retains a market element

• Minimally disruptive

• Draws on established funding pools

• Distanced from university politics

• Applications for developing countries

• Globally coordinated

• Conducting research around the model

• Authors

• Readers

• Publishers

• Libraries

• Everyone else too

Who Benefits?

Thank You

Contact: Dr Frances Pinter

frances@knowledgeunlatched.org

knowledgeunlatched.org