Supporting Open Access for books: lessons learned | Library Research Plus

peter.suber's bookmarks 2020-02-26

Summary:

"Open Access (OA) books have been a fairly hot topic over recent months. My colleagues and I have responded to various surveys and contributed to UKRI’s review workshop and thought that sharing our experience of facilitating OA books might also be a useful addition to the debate.

Over the past 5 years we’ve agreed to arrange OA for 27 books. Mostly, these are monographs (25), but there’s also one edited volume and one trade book in our list. We have arranged OA for books that are already published and books that are still being written. The stage at which we pay normally determines how much we pay per title, but in the case of our highest Book Processing Charge (BPC) – £12,000, it’s the length of the book. The lowest BPC we’ve paid is £2,200, for backlist titles published by Manchester University Press (MUP)...."

 

Link:

https://blog.research-plus.library.manchester.ac.uk/2019/12/18/supporting-open-access-for-books-lessons-learned/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.books oa.fees oa.business_models oa.humanities oa.discoverability oa.ssh

Date tagged:

02/26/2020, 12:17

Date published:

02/26/2020, 07:17