Jisc and Scholarly Monographs
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About Jisc Jisc encourages the adoption and usage of digital technologies within
UK teaching, learning, and research
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3 initiatives addressing the future of
scholarly monograph
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National Monograph Strategy
•
OAPEN-­‐UK •
Jisc Collections -­‐ OAPEN project for OA monograph services
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National Monograph Strategy
Explores the potential for a national approach to the
collection, preservation, supply and digitisation of
scholarly monographs
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/a-­‐national-­‐monograph-­‐strategy-­‐
roadmap.pdf
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National Monograph Strategy
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National Monograph Strategy
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National Monograph Survey
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National Monograph Strategy
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National Monograph Strategy
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OAPEN-­‐UK ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph
OAPEN-­‐UK: Survey of academics in HSS
Context from previous research (2012)
Previous research points to:
•  High perceived value for monographs
•  “Releasing information” most important priority for researchers as
authors
•  With “financial compensation” the least important
•  Awareness of OA well-­‐established
•  Awareness of Creative Commons at approx 60%
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OAPEN-­‐UK: Survey of academics in HSS
New research survey (2014)
•  94% said it was important or very important to access monographs
•  84% said it was important or very important to publish monographs
http://oapen-­‐uk.jiscebooks.org/research-­‐findings/researcher-­‐survey-­‐2014/
ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Researchers who consider it ‘important’ or ‘very important’ to publish research outputs, by discipline Total Social sciences Humanities Journal article 98% 99% 98% Monograph 84% 72% 95% Book chapter 75% 65% 83% Edited book (as editor) 65% 57% 71% Conference paper 48% 49% 46% Critical edition 35% 22% 45% Textbook 23% 27% 19% Working paper 14% 21% 8% Dataset 13% 18% 9% Published creative output Exhibition catalogue 11% 7% 14% 10% 4% 14% Base 2229 953 1258 ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Researchers who consider it ‘important’ or ‘very important’ to access research outputs, by discipline Total Social sciences Humanities Journal articles 100% 100% 100% Book chapters 97% 96% 98% Edited books 97% 95% 98% Monographs 94% 89% 98% Conference papers 60% 60% 61% Critical editions 58% 41% 71% Textbooks 49% 56% 43% Working papers 33% 45% 23% Datasets 31% 41% 23% Exhibition catalogues 21% 11% 29% Published creative outputs Base 18% 11% 23% 2226 951 1257 ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Researchers who say it is both important and difficult to publish or access monographs and journals 60 50 50 41 Percentage 40 30 Publishing Accessing 20 10 10 5 0 Monographs Journals Output ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Attitude towards principle of open access for journal articles and books 35 30 33 29 28 Percentage 25 20 20 19 19 16 Journal articles 15 Books 11 11 10 5 5 5 4 0 Very positive Positive Neutral Negative Attitude towards principle of open access Very negative Don't know ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Researchers who feel ‘positive’ or ‘very positive’ towards principle of open access, by career stage 90 80 78 77 71 66 70 Percentage 60 63 60 51 50 51 42 36 40 Books principle Journals principle 30 20 10 0 PhD candidate Post-­‐doctoral researcher Lecturer/ Assistant professor Career stage Senior lecturer/ Associate professor Professor/ Reader OAPEN-­‐UK Matched pairs project ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Jisc Collections-­‐OAPEN pilot for OA monograph centralized services Pilot to address potential for centralized service to break down barriers to increased publishing of OA books. Potentially including: •  Support for quality assurance •  Deposit and / or aggregation •  Improving dissemination and discovery of OA books •  ? ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Jisc Collections-­‐OAPEN pilot for OA monograph centralized services Stage 1: Research phase – Workshop; report on evidence for the value of a potential service Stage 2: Specification of potential operational services for UK universities; development of pilot(s) Stage 3: Evaluation and implementation plan -­‐ Evaluation of project results; report on recommendations; business plan for the creation and sustaining of a centralised service. ARL Fall Forum on the Scholarly Monograph Thank you r.tritton@jisc.ac.uk