AUPresses Receives NEH Grant to Study Impact of Open Access on Print Sales - Association of University Presses

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Summary:

"The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) has been awarded a Level I Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to study the effect of open digital editions on the sales of print monographs. The grant will support a study led by John Sherer, director of the University of North Carolina Press and chair of the AUPresses Open Access (OA) Committee, and Erich Van Rijn, associate director at the University of California Press, an AUPresses representative on the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem Advisory Board, and chair of the 2019-2021 AUPresses OA Task Force.

The project seeks to understand empirically whether the availability of OA editions of scholarly books has a quantifiable effect on the sales performance of print editions. While many university presses have pursued experiments with OA publishing, sustainable financing of high-quality, rigorous scholarly publishing operations is a significant concern. The study will look at both OA and traditionally published titles across multiple disciplines from many presses. Findings from the study will be shared publicly in support of scholarly publishers, peer institutions, and associations devoted to humanities scholarship...."

Link:

https://aupresses.org/news/neh-grant-to-study-open-access-impact/

Updated:

03/28/2023, 09:40

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oa.up oa.aup oa.funding oa.neh oa.usa oa.books oa.books.sales oa.usa.neh oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

03/28/2023, 13:40

Date published:

01/11/2022, 08:40