Opening up the Library: Transforming our Structures, Policies and Practices

Kirstine's bookmarks 2019-07-05

Summary:

Libraries have played an important role in facilitating the transition to open scholarship within their institutions: providing advocacy, advice and support for Funder Open Access policies, and developing research data management and open scholarship services.

However, much of this support has focussed on subscription publishing and the transition to OA journals. indeed, in a recent report to the Knowledge Exchange a survey respondent evidenced a concern that business models for OA monographs in particular were “predicated on those developed for journal articles“. Furthermore, the tipping point for journals regarding a transition to electronic has long since passed. Monographs are still predicated by print, the tipping point to ‘e’ is a long way off and may never happen. Therefore, open e-books are less well developed, and this is never truer than in the library supply chain. Open is not embedded into the culture, workflows and practices that are used as part of the book acquisition process.

As part of a landscape study on New University Presses and Scholar led publishing, Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers) explains that this is an issue for many open access book publishers and that it would be helpful to have a service that “looks at how to bring academic content into the catalogues and the digital learning environments of the universities and to allow universities to also relate back to the publisher, so that there is a flow of information going back both ways”.

Link:

https://zenodo.org/record/3260298

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Kirstine's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.switzerland oa.liber oa.mandates oa.rdm oa.data oa.surveys oa.books oa.best_practices oa.events oa.strategies oa.policies oa.uk oa.libraries

Date tagged:

07/05/2019, 05:09

Date published:

07/05/2019, 01:09