Making OA Monographs More Discoverable, Usable, and Sustainable | Longleaf Services

John Sherer's early conclusions from the third and final year of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP). SHMP is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded initiative to publish open digital editions of high-quality books from university presses in the field of history.

• Cultural obstacles at presses and among authors are significant
• We need a better understating of the intentions of OA subsidies
• Digital-first workflows can drive down costs and thereby introduce new potential funding models
• Analytics are tough
• There are challenges to building an OA overlay on an existing cost-recovery workflow