Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC
Collections
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‘Scholars do not work in a vacuum;
research is based on work from others and
new discoveries must be disseminated in
order to be used.’
Snijder,Ronald. 2010. The profits of free books - an experiment to measure the
impact of Open Access publishing.
http://sites.google.com/site/theprofitsoffreebooks/home
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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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Issues and questions
1. Deposit process
2. What is the institutional policy with
regards to chapters v full book?
3. Identifiers
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Issues
Is there a need for another PIRUS project
to support the development of standards
and protocols to support the analysis of
usage statistics for OA monographs?
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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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Focus groups
1. Institutional
representatives
including librarians,
institutional
repository staff,
research managers
2. Publishers
3. Learned Societies
4. Researchers (as both
authors & readers)
5. E-book aggregators
6. Research Funders
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Focus Groups: Key themes
Metadata: What is the metadata
Versioning, preservation & archiving:
required to support discovery,
What is the version of record, how is
purchase, libraries, research funders? it preserved (centrally?) and who
provides archival access?
Usage: data collection methods and
standards to support comparability
of data
Quality & prestige: impact of
perceptions on adoption of a OA
model and need to maintain
excellence
Methods of delivery: where should
OA monographs sit, in what formats,
with what functionality and using
what standards?
What do authors want: readership,
research dissemination, academic
prestige and reward including the
REF
Focus Groups: Key themes
Copyright: ownership, licensing
and rights associated with
images
International issues: not just
UK market, need to account for
territories, translation etc.
Impact on processes: policies,
mandates, funding routes,
payment and behaviour
Benefits of OA: how to
articulate opportunities; access
and costs savings?
Changing roles: who does what
in an OA model, what are the
roles for publishers, librarians
etc., which to keep, which to
start and which to discontinue?
Consistency: should licensing,
standards, peer review be
standardised? Does one size fit
all?
Focus Groups: Key themes
Ways to make OA profitable:
how can publishers / ebook
aggregators add value to
content? Overlay services
Risk: how will the financial,
reputational and quality risks
be overcome?
Funding: who pays and how?
Calculating costs: what is the
cost of an OA monograph and
is it the same for all
publishers, subjects?
Researcher Survey
Open Access awareness by discipline
70.0
Percentage
60.0
50.0
40.0
Never heard
30.0
Aware
20.0
Familiar
10.0
0.0
Social sciences
Humanities
Discipline
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Researcher Survey
Percentage
Open Access awareness by career stage
70.0
60.0
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
0.0
Never heard
Aware
Familiar
Career stage
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Researcher Survey
Awareness of Creative Commons against
willingness to publish using Creative Commons
No, I don't know
enough about it
60.0
50.0
Percentage
Maybe, I would
need to look into
it
Yes, I would feel
confident about
doing this
Don't know
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
0.0
Yes
No
Aware of Creative Commons?
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Researcher Survey
Percentage
Creative Commons licences considered by researchers
100.0
90.0
80.0
70.0
60.0
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
0.0
Yes
No
Don't know
CC BY CC BY SA CC BY ND CC BY NC CC BY NC CC BY NC
SA
ND
CC licence
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Researcher Survey
Percentage
Percentage of researchers prepared to consider CC BY-NC-SA
licenses by career stage
100.0
90.0
80.0
70.0
60.0
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
0.0
PhD
candidate
Post-doctoral Assistant
researcher professor /
Lecturer
Associate
professor /
Senior
lecturer
Career stage
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Professor /
Reader
Researchers
outside
academia
Next up
• Publisher
interviews
• Institutional case
studies
• VC meeting
• DOAB
• PIRUS
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Thank you & Further Info
OAPEN-UK website:
http://oapenuk.jiscebooks.org/
Caren Milloy
c.milloy@jisccollections.ac.uk
Twitter:
@oapenuk
Ellen Collins
ellen.collins@researchinfo
net.org
Diigo Group:
OAPEN-UK
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