Surveying the Scalability of Open Access Monograph Initiatives: Final Report | Christopher Barnes et al

Surveying the Scalability of Open Access Monograph Initiatives: Final Report. By Christopher Barnes, Rebecca Welzenbach, Kathleen Folger. A Survey of Collections Departments at Academic Libraries in the United States, 1 December 2016 – 7 February 2017

In June of 2016, the University of Michigan Library (MLibrary) and Knowledge Unlatched (KU) announced the start of a collaboration “to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of open access scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences.”1 This survey grew out of that partnership and was designed to gather data useful for determining the scalability of library-supported open access (OA) initiatives focusing on monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences such as Luminos, Open Book Publishers, and KU...."