Open Access monographs and impacts on publisher workflows

Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, Jisc Collections

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The research programme

1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need to change in order to enable OA publication of monographs? (4 year research programme)

2.What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs? (3 year pilot)

3.How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the project? (authors, publishers, funders)

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In-depth interviews

Publisher Interviews with 8 – 10 publishers including OA and Ups

- initial findings (not yet complete)

- focused on practical issues including workflows and systems

- sharing insights

- subset of the interviews

Insights

1. Editorial (with a bit of legal)

2. Sales and Marketing

3. Workflows and Systems

4. Lessons for us all?

Editorial (with a bit of legal)

• Company mission and values• Cost recovery• Tending authors • Timescales• Costings

Editorial (with a bit of legal)

• Quality and selection• Contracts and legal• What about green?• Awareness

Author priorities

Sales and Marketing

• What am I selling?• Intermediaries and Vendors• Opps I already sold that title!• Sales predictions / speculation

Sales and Marketing

• Why bother, we’ve got the money• A new way to engage• New measures of success

Processes and Systems

• In-house v purchased • Standards adoption• Timings• Scalability

Lessons for us all?

• Get your project team set up now• Question every process• Internal corporate education• Think about standards now not later• Map the timescales for the models• Think about what success would look like• Participate in experiments

Thank you & Further Info

OAPEN-UK website:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/

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Caren Milloyc.milloy@jisc-collections.ac.uk

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