Caren Milloy, Head of Projects,
JISC Collections
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58 HSS titles: 2006 - 2011
Experimental Group
(29 titles)
OA with CC licence
OAPEN Library
Publishers website
Institutional Repository
Google Books (100%)
Control Group
(29 titles)
Standard e-book
agreements
Publishers website
E-book aggregators
Google Books (10%)
Print version available for sale
E-book device friendly version available for sale
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The research programme
1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need
to change in order to enable OA publication of
monographs?
2.What are the measurable effects of a move to
OA monographs?
3.How do perceptions of OA monograph
publication change among participants during
the project?
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Research process
Initiation
OAPEN-UK Research Plan
Year 1 end
Ellen Collins, Research Information Network
Year 2 end
Project end
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The HSS researcher survey
About the respondents
Birth decade of survey respondents
30.0
27.1
25.0
23.0
23.0
21.6
Percentage
20.0
15.0
10.0
5.2
5.0
0.0
Before 1959
1960s
1970s
Decade
1980s and onwards
Missing
About the respondents
Career stage of survey respondents
30.0
26.5
25.0
20.3
Percentage
20.0
18.1
14.6
15.0
10.3
10.0
5.7
4.2
5.0
0.3
0.0
PhD
Post-doc
Assistant
professor
Associate
professor
Professor
Career stage
Researchers
outside
academia
Other
Missing
About the respondents
Region of residence of survey
respondents
Discipline of survey
respondents
90.0
70.0
82.3
80.0
60.0
60.0
70.0
50.0
40.0
Percentage
Percentage
60.0
38.8
30.0
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
20.0
10.0
1.2
10.0
Missing
0.0
0.0
Social sciences
Humanities
Discipline
7.7
UK
4.3
4.8
Rest of Europe North America Rest of world
Region
0.9
Missing
Open access awareness
Open access awareness
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Profits from publishing
Author priorities
Author priorities
Publisher choices
Author services
Author priorities
Self-publishing
Scholarly communications goals
Scholarly communications goals
Scholarly communications goals
Conclusions
• Considerable potential for OAPEN-UK-style open
access model
• Need to increase confidence and understanding of
Creative Commons
• A push for CC BY may alienate researchers??
• Need to investigate researchers understanding of
publisher’s services
• Encourage authors to care more about post
publication elements
• Quality is paramount – need to ensure that OA
model tackles negative perceptions
Thank you & Further Info
OAPEN-UK website:
http://oapenuk.jiscebooks.org/
Caren Milloy
c.milloy@jisccollections.ac.uk
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