Knowledge Unlatched

Judy LutherConsultant to KU

NISO E-Books Virtual Conference October 5, 2016

RATIONALE

Why is KU needed?

Ø Prices have increased beyond inflation

Ø Libraries struggling to afford books

Ø Academics struggling to get published

Ø Readers have limited access to the books they wantØ Digital technology is providing opportunities to

widen access and increase impact

Ø Research funders are beginning to require Open Access

Ø Many authors would like OA options

Open Access in context

Ø Collaborate initiative – libraries and publishers working together

Ø Squeezing costs out of the dissemination process

Ø A road to Open Access

Ø A space to learn and adapt together

Ø KU Research – providing usage statistics and developing methodologies to track OA

What is Knowledge Unlatched?

Ø Spread costs of OA across many institutions globally

Ø Enables libraries to extend the positive impact of book acquisitions

Ø Libraries and publishers gain insights through research results

How to Achieve KU’s Vision

The KU Model

Ø Librarians have curated KU Select 2016 to give it

a global appeal

Ø Flexible offering – pick and choose option now

available, following requests

Ø Hosted on OAPEN and HathiTrust

Ø Creative Commons Licences (DRM-free)

Ø Preserved by CLOCKSS and Portico

Ø Immediate upon publication (no embargo)

The Offer Includes

Ø Early invoicing possible upon request

Ø Libraries will receive access to their own usage

statistics (from 2017)

Ø Libraries will receive high quality MARC records

Ø 35% discount on purchases of other formats from

publishers in recognition of KU participation

Ø Involvement with the creation of future collections

and steering KU.

The Offer Includes

Ø Libraries pledge a capped amount to ‘unlatch’

the books

Ø If enough libraries pledge, the libraries share the

payment of a Title Fee for each book

Ø The Title Fee represents the basic cost of

publishing a book

Ø Because the Title Fee is a fixed amount KU can set

a low pledging price for target number of libraries

Consortium Approach

PartnersCasalini LibriCLOCKSSHathiTrustJisc CollectionsKarger LibriLYRASISMax Planck SocietyOAPENPaperHivePorticoSchweitzer

Key SupportersBig Innovation CentreBritish Library TrustOpen Society Foundation

Founding LibrariesQueensland University of TechnologyThe University of MelbourneThe University of Western Australia

Partners

Amsterdam University PressBrandeis University PressCambridge University PressCornell University PressDartmouth College PressDuke University PressEdinburgh University PressFordham University PressHawaii PressLeiden University PressLiverpool University PressManchester University PressMIT PressMonash University PublishingNational Univ Singapore Press

North Texas PressNorthwestern University PressOhio State University PressPenn State University PressPurdue University PressRutgers University PressSydney University PressTemple University PressUniversity College London PressUniversity Cape Town Press JutaUniversity of Calgary PressUniversity of Michigan PressUniversity of Ottawa PressUniversity of Toronto PressUniversity Press of Colorado

Publishers Included

UniversityofWestminsterPressUtahStateUniversityPressWitsUniversityPressYaleUniversityPress

AnthemPressAOSISBerghahn BooksBloomsburyAcademicBrillDeGruyterDeGruyterMoutonDeGruyterOldenbourgDeGruyter Saur

IntellectJohnBenjaminsPublishingCo.PeterLangPlutoPressPolicyPressRoutledgeRoyalCollegeofGeneralPractitionersTranscriptUbiquityPressV&RUni PressVandenhoeck&RuprechtVerlag derÖsterreichischenAkademie derWissenschaften

Publishers Included

CURRENTSTATUS

Libraries Participating Globally

16744%

8523%

5314%

287%

246%

236% United States (167)

United Kingdom (85)

Other* (53)

Australia (28)

Germany (24)

Canada (23)

Excluding Consortia

What KU Has Done So Far

Ø Pilot (2013/14) – 28 books from 13 publishers

Ø Round 2 (2015) – 78 books from 26 publishers

Ø Downloads in 21 months – 80,000

Ø Nearly 3000 downloads per book and growing

Ø In 175 countries

Ø KU Select 2016 - just announced

– 343 books from 54 publishers

Ø 54 Publishers ØSubmitted 681 forthcoming titlesØAll part of established peer review processØAuthors sign Creative Commons licenses

Ø 40 Members of Title Selection Committee ØRepresent 12 countriesØMultiple areas of expertiseØSelected ~half of those submitted

How Were Books Selected?

Ø 54 publishers from 5 continents

Ø 2 collections in 16 Humanities & Social Sciences subjects:– 147 new books– 196 backlist books

Ø 14 packages: Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Economics & Management, History, Information Science, Languages & Linguistics, Literature, Media & Communications, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Theology & Religion

Ø Minimum participation needed

Ø Discount 35% from publishers for other format purchases

Snapshot of KU Select 2016

Ø Front List CollectionsØ 147 new Humanities & Social Sciences booksØ To be published: Nov 2016 – April 2017Ø $55 / €50 / £40 per front list book

Ø Back List CollectionsØ 196 backlist Humanities & Social Sciences booksØ Published: 2005 – 2015Ø $13.75 / €12.50 / £10 per backlist book

KU 2016 Select Collections

Ø To acknowledge additional purchasesØ If a library orders an additional format of any

title in KU Select 2016 Collection Ø 35% discount off the recommended retail

price Ø Available direct from each publisher

In Round 2 less than 1% of funds pledged were claimed by libraries for secondary formats.

Discount

Ø Average hardback price of new books $97.00

Ø Price to unlatch per book / library:Ø Front list: $55 / €50 / £40Ø Backlist: $13.75 / €12.50 / £10

Ø Includes a 15% service charge to KU Ø 7.5% as a service fee to librariesØ 7.5% as a discount by publishers

Costs and cost savings

Ø The complete KU Select 2016 collection of 343 titles (both front list and backlist) Max: $10,780 (€9,800 / £7,840) Min 90%: $ 9,702 (€8,820 / £7,056)

Ø Or the KU Select 2016 front list collection of 147 titles Max: $ 8,085 (€7,350 / £5,880)Min 90%: $ 7,277 (€6,616 / £5,292)

Libraries Have 4 Options

Ø 1 September 2016 – 31 January 2017 pledging period

Ø Register at http://app.knowledgeunlatched.org

Ø Select packages

Ø ‘Pick and Choose’ option to de/select titles on an individual basis

How to pledge

Proof of Concept* Pilot and Round 2

Proof of Process (Scale up over 2016/17)

New platform, backlist books & journals)

Proof of Sustainability (2018+)

Self-funding through mark-up

*Three Stages of Proof – Rick Anderson, Scholarly Kitchen

KU so far

CHALLENGES

Time of Transition and Evolution

Ø Many grant funded initiatives

Ø Emerging OA only

Ø Various funding models

Ø New publishing formats

Ø Global distribution

Ø Metadata for discovery in OA environment

Ø Relevant usage statistics with global base of users

Usage Data with Open Content

Ø Libraries seeking ROI want usage data for their institutions

Ø Use is not constrained to IP access – the typical approach to counting downloads

Ø KU Research is working with geolocation technology effectively derive usage data associated with an institution

Ø Will libraries consider total downloads per title a measure of success?

Processes in Transition

Open Access is finding its place in the current landscape.

Book Backlists: Critical Mass

Knowledge Unlatched with backlist titles working to unlatch a larger amount of humanities content

Ø Goal: Increase relevance by adding more title volume through backlist (comparable to many consortia deals)

Ø Title published 2005-2015 — English language titles onlyØ Topical packages, not mixed with frontlistØ Target price per title and library: €10-15Ø Title fee to publishers: approx. €2,300/titleØ Hosting with publisher platforms and OAPENØ Publishers continue selling print versionsØ Recognition of participation if buying a second format (discount

35%)

Outstanding Issues

Ø Making Open Access openly known

Ø Improving metadata

Ø Usage beyond libraries IP address

Ø Maturing metrics

Ø Making all stakeholders aware of the benefits

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

To DateØ 106 books from 26 publishers unlatchedØ 380 libraries plus consortia participated in

24 countries

Pilot Collection

Ø 67,000 downloads (OAPEN, The Internet Archive)

Ø 20,000 page views (HathiTrust)Ø 180 countries Ø Averages 3000 downloads per book

Early Years

Usage statistics

Recognition

Ø Winner: IFLA/Brill Award for Open Access 2014

Ø Winner: Curtin University Award for Best Innovation in Education 2015

Ø Shortlisted: ALPSPAwardforInnovationinPublishing2016

What Authors Say

IamthankfultoDukeUniversityPressandKnowledgeUnlatchedforenablingmyparticipationintheproject.IhopethatmanymorescholarswillembraceOpenAccessinthefuturewiththeaimofmakingscholarlyknowledgemoregloballyandindeeddemocraticallyaccessible.MarcDPerry

Ihopedmybookwouldhelpacademicsand(thoughitfeelsclichétosayit)thegeneralpublicdevelopamorenuancedunderstandingofthelivedexperienceofMuslimsinFrance.Forme,OpenAccesshasbeenindispensible.JenniferFredette

IfeelgratefulforhavinghadtheopportunitytodemonstratethatOpenAccesscanwork,withoutacompromiseonscholarlyquality,cost(toauthorandreadership)oraccessibility.Consequently,myownexpectationstowardspublicationshavechanged.Ihopethatthismodelwillspreadfurther.Anke Timmermann

ØKU –BerlinØKU –LondonØKU – Ann ArborØKU Research – Perth

Worldwide in 2016

KU Research

Ø Developing an international network of researchers, librarians, publishers and digital intermediaries

Ø Focused on understanding processes of innovation and change in research communication ecologies

Ø Utilizing data and networks arising from KU

Ø Exploring the distribution and uses of OA books

Ø Methodologies for sharing data with stakeholder communities.

KU Research

Ø Usage Statistics from KUØ Able to provide libraries with usage statistics

by adding geo locational data

Ø Curtin University – Tableau for usage statistics

Ø University College London Press - Contract research

Ø OPERAS - Involved in EU Projects such as OAPEN - OA toolkit for Publishers

Ø Project Meerkat, Educopia Institute

Ø University of Michigan Research Fellow – ROI on KU

Ø Focus on discoverability and accessibility issues

Questions?

Useful documents and links

Ø KU Select 2016 summary:http://knowledgeunlatched.org/ku-select-2016/

Ø Title and publisher list (Excel)Ø ProspectusØ Library FAQØ KU Select 2016: At A GlanceØ Pricing Table for LibrariesØ Guides: Library Portal and Pledginghttp://knowledgeunlatched.org/download/