Items tagged by TomMosterd in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/TomMosterd TagTeam social RSS aggregrator How would you describe yourself? We have updated our MARCXML and ONIX feeds, in order to better disseminate the books and chapters in our collections. Almost everyone has at one time or another been asked to describe themselves. For the books and chapters in OAPEN and DOAB this happens all the time: many libraries, publishers and content aggregators want to know exactly what is in our collection. In order to answer these questions, we provide daily updated metadata exports – see here (OAPEN) and here (DOAB). Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:39:00 -0500 https://oapen.hypotheses.org/417 oa.books oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.repositories oa.metadata oa.libraries The Hague, 16 November 2022. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a community-driven discovery service for open access books, is launching its Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM). PRISM is a service provided by DOAB as part of the OPERAS service portfolio. PRISM is a standardised way for academic publishers to display information about their peer review processes across their entire catalogue. On the DOAB site, you can see a PRISM logo next to a publisher and next to the individual book. PRISM peer review information is also included at the metadata level, making it available through the DOAB API which is freely distributed and incorporated into library search tools worldwide. Learn more about PRISM, including how to participate as a publisher here. Wed, 16 Nov 2022 04:22:00 -0500 https://doabooks.org/en/article/doab-officially-launches-its-new-service-to-further-build-trust-in-peer-review-and-open-access-academic-book-publishing oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.peer_review oa.open_science oa.new oa.doab oa.books oa.publishing With the Erasmus Open Access Fund 2022, we aim to stimulate the open access publication of scientific monographs. For the open access publication of scientific monographs, the publisher charges publication costs, the Book Processing Charges (BPCs). If the BPCs are not covered by the grant provider or another funding source, you can apply to the Erasmus Open Access Fund 2022 for partial reimbursement of these costs. Wed, 12 Oct 2022 02:48:00 -0400 https://www.eur.nl/en/library/research-support/open-access/erasmus-open-access-fund oa.books oa.libraries oa.scholcomm oa.fees oa.funds oa.netherlands Introduction. Several business models have emerged for open access (OA) monographs, and one of them is library crowdfunding (Collins, 2015; Speicher, 2018). Considering the importance of collaboration in OA (Deegan, 2017), it is no surprise that this model—which is based on libraries collaborating to fund the publishing of OA monographs—is considered innovative and possibly sustainable long-term (Leach-Murray, 2017). It encourages academic libraries to share the cost of publishing peer-reviewed OA monographs in various fields and take the burden of the author-pay model away from researchers (Reinsfelder, 2018). Well-known initiatives of this kind include Knowledge Unlatched (KU), Reveal Digital, and UnGlue.It (Bulock, 2018). Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:34:00 -0400 https://morepress.unizd.hr/journals/index.php/pubmet/article/view/3948 oa.books oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.universities oa.europe oa.crowd oa.economics_of During the UKSG 2022 Annual Conference held from May 30th to June 2nd in Telford UK we officially launched the OAPEN Dashboard1 – a new analytics service for our library members, publishers and funder partners to help them gain a deeper understanding of the usage of open access books.  Over 179 publishers, libraries and funders are using the dashboard today and we expect to welcome more users over the coming months. The dashboard service includes data for the entire OAPEN Library which is home to over 24,000 open access books that see over 1 million COUNTER-conformant downloads per month.   Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:57:00 -0400 https://oapen.hypotheses.org/295 oa.repositories oa.publishers oa.oapen oa.new oa.libraries oa.dashboard oa.books oa.monitoring oa.growth oa.repositories oa.scholcomm oa.libraries oa.funders For many research disciplines English functions as the global language for research. But, how far does this align with patterns of research use globally? Drawing on download evidence from the OAPEN library of open access books, Ronald Snijder explores this global demand for open research and finds significant demand for regional research and research published in languages other than English. Wed, 03 Aug 2022 04:44:00 -0400 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/08/03/open-access-books-a-global-preference-for-regional-subjects/ oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.data oa.uk oa.latin_america oa.europe oa.bibliodiversity oa.new oa.multilingualism oa.south The OAPEN Foundation is looking for a project manager to help us with promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books. The Position The project manager will be involved in the various international projects OAPEN participates in to advance open access for books, delivering on the project activities of the foundation. Next to this, the project manager will perform tasks related to the technical operation of its three platforms and services. Finally, the project manager will assist with the financial administration of the foundation. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:47:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/oapen/article/13476357-we-are-hiring-join-the-oapen-team oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.oapen oa.new oa.jobs oa.books SciELO Books is celebrating ten years of operation focused on the development of infrastructure and the capabilities of scholarly book publishing in a digital format following the state of the art. As part of the event celebrating the ten-year anniversary, intended as a forum to recognize the advances and challenges, and, mainly, to debate on the future of digital books in the light of open access and open science, we’ve interviewed speakers and officials from institutions directly linked to the development of SciELO. We continue the series of interviews with Niels Stern, director of the OAPEN Foundation and co-director of the DOAB Foundation. Fri, 25 Mar 2022 05:12:00 -0400 https://blog.scielo.org/en/2022/03/25/scielo-books-10-years-interview-with-oapen-foundation-director-and-doab-foundation-co-director-niels-stern/ oa.scielo oa.oapen oa.new oa.interviews oa.doab oa.books oa.people We recently welcomed DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) as an OASPA member in the Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial) category. DOAB joins 190 OASPA members and more than 30 others in the  supporting services and infrastructure category that provide significant services and/or support to open access publishing.   We asked Tom Mosterd, Community Manager, a few questions so we could learn more about the organisation and its connection to open scholarship and decision to become an OASPA member.  Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:40:00 -0500 https://oaspa.org/welcoming-DOAB-as-an-oaspa-member/ oa.new oa.advocacy oa.publishing oa.publishing oa.people oa.oaspa oa.new oa.interviews oa.doab oa.books oa.advocacy This interview is one of the outputs of the online series OA Books Workouts: Scholars at Work, a project of the Open Access Books Network. The aim of the series is to share good practices regarding the writing, production, and technicalities of publishing an open access book. Miklóss Kiss is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on contemporary audiovisual media, intersecting the fields of narrative and cognitive film theories. Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:05:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/record/6243812 oa.books oa.advocacy oa.scholcomm oa.publishing oa.new oa.interviews oa.oabn oa.people The Library of Congress has been busy building an online collection of what are known as open access e-books. The effort accelerated when the pandemic hit and people had more access to online books than to physical libraries. For more on this effort, the Digital Collections Development Coordinator Rashi Joshi, and Digital Collections Specialist Kristy Darby spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Sun, 13 Feb 2022 23:46:00 -0500 https://federalnewsnetwork.com/open-datatransparency/2022/02/library-of-congress-expanded-online-content-in-response-to-the-pandemic/ oa.books oa.usa oa.libraries oa.repositories oa.loc oa.interviews oa.people DOAB, OAPEN and open access books in Germany: a country report In 2021, for the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and the OAPEN Library we have seen growing interest and uptake amongst the German scholarly community. In no small part, thanks to growing support of the German library community and the addition of new German titles and publishers, a report of which we include below. Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:43:00 -0500 https://doabooks.org/en/article/doab-oapen-and-open-access-books-in-germany-a-country-report oa.repositories oa.publishers oa.libraries oa.data oa.open_science oa.germany oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.repositories oa.publishers oa.open_science oa.oapen oa.new oa.libraries oa.germany oa.doab oa.data oa.books Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by John Sherer. John is the Spangler Family Director of the University of North Carolina Press. He is the chair of the Association of University Presses Open Access Committee and is the Primary Investigator in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. Within the scholarly book publishing community, it’s not particularly controversial to claim that free digital editions of monographs will erode print sales. After all, who would pay for something they can get for free? These books already sell so few copies, and the economics are so unfavorable, that further revenue erosion could easily shatter an already precarious ecosystem. That said, there’s a growing body of research indicating that readers strongly prefer print formats for these publications (for example see the 2018 Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey and Naomi Baron’s Words on Screen). And there’s anecdotal reporting that in open access (OA) experiments at university presses, print sales have been stable. Can we review sales data for OA titles to find out if the claim of print cannibalization is true? Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:32:00 -0500 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/01/27/guest-post-does-open-access-cannibalize-print-sales-for-monographs/?informz=1 oa.books oa.new oa.usa oa.publishing oa.business_models oa.books.sales oa.economics_of Open Access Books-Making it Work This roundtable discussion, chaired by the Open Access Books Network (OABN), will highlight three different experiences of how to make Open Access book publishing work in an equitable and sustainable way: Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press) will share his experience from a more 'traditional' university publisher that is now developing a consortial library publishing programme, called Fund to Mission, to significantly step up their OA book publishing and to move away from a Book Processing Charge (BPC) model as they do so. Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven Libraries Artes) will discuss how KU Leuven Libraries have developed a fund called Fair OA Fund, which has been designed to make sure there is institutional money available to support innovative and non-profit OA initiatives, including books, journals, and infrastructure, alongside APCs/BPCs and TAs. Lucy Barnes (COPIM and Open Book Publishers) will talk about building community-owned and governed infrastructure to support and expand the publication of OA books, and the importance of international partnerships in funding, sharing and publishing OA. Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:45:00 -0500 https://ljmu.libcal.com/event/3828583 oa.new oa.books oa.events oa.business_models oa.scholcomm oa.publishers oa.libraries This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way! Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:11:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkrtqyzTzDQ oa.books oa.events oa.publishing oa.advocacy oa.video Jan M. Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and author of the open access book series, The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/pr...), busts a widespread myth about OA books: "If I publish Open Access, I won't be able to include any third-party material (e.g. copyrighted images)". Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:14:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KfY8CzR9HE oa.books oa.new oa.advocacy oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.libre oa.misunderstandings oa.video oa.oabn Six years ago, in response to a Knight Foundation challenge program, we put in a proposal entitled “10,000 Creative Commons Ebooks”. We had compiled a list of 2,300 Creative Commons Licensed ebooks, and we thought that with some more resources we could identify as many as eight thousand more. We didn’t get the grant, but we kept on adding free ebooks to the Unglue.it catalog using automated processes and by individual discernment. We added Public Domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg, over 60,000 of them. We added over 30,000 Creative Commons licensed books from the Directory of Open Access books. We added computer books and textbooks, about 5,000 total. By the end of 2021, we had 102,692 open access books in our catalog and had distributed 6.45 million ebooks. Along the way, we’ve been able to help our not-for-profit peers (Project Gutenberg, DOAB, etc.) improve their software, processes and metadata in small ways and big ways. There’s still a lot of work to be done. Our search facility could be 10x faster and smarter. We need to figure out how to make the collection more useful, by curation, by cataloguing, and by distribution ( by “we” I mean our community as a whole!). 2022 could be exciting in so many ways. Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:57:00 -0500 https://blog.unglue.it/2022/01/05/100000-open-access-ebooks/ oa.books oa.new oa.publishing oa.unglue.it oa.growth The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections December 16, 2021 by Carlyn Osborn This is a guest post by Kristy Darby, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress. In March 2020, we first shared about the growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov. A lot has changed since then but, in particular, the Open Access Books Collection was created. This newly created collection brings together all known open access e-books available on loc.gov, the number of which has grown significantly from about 300 titles to over 3,200. s a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Library of Congress staff quickly transitioned to telework in March 2020, including staff primarily focused on print materials. Staff from the Digital Content Management Section (DCM) and the Collection Development Office (CDO) organized a project for recommending officers (ROs) – subject area experts who select new content for the Library’s collection – to identify open access e-book titles from the Directory of Open Access Books, an international digital directory providing access to academic peer-reviewed books with open access licenses, for addition to the Library’s permanent collection. This telework project was specifically created to serve and support Library staff who were newly remote and it successfully resulted in the selection of thousands of titles to be added to the Library’s permanent collection. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 03:30:00 -0500 https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/12/open-access-books-collection/ oa.books oa.libraries oa.scholcomm oa.usa oa.new oa.loc oa.growth IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium, is very pleased to announce that it is supporting the following SCOSS-endorsed initiatives: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) & OAPEN  Sherpa Romeo Much of the infrastructure needed to make open research possible must be openly available without user-facing or institution-facing charges. This presents a challenge in sustainably funding it. One way of making this work is for libraries, library consortia and other stakeholders to commit ongoing funding on a voluntary basis.  IReL and its member libraries recognise that these infrastructures are of long standing benefit to libraries and their users and are crucial to open research globally. Therefore we agree that it is in our interests to help sustain them. IReL is committed to supporting these initiatives for three years, from 2022 to 2024. Mon, 13 Dec 2021 01:30:00 -0500 https://irel.ie/irel-support-for-open-scholarship-infrastructure/ oa.books oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.scholcomm oa.business_models oa.libraries oa.open_science oa.new oa.irel oa.ireland For this year’s open access week, the Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to introduce its latest video series: ‘The OA Mythbusters’. Through this video series the OABN community seeks to dispel a number of key myths around OA books. In these short videos, common statements will be addressed by fellow community members, informally known as ‘the OA Mythbusters’ Background Since its introduction, the OABN has steadily developed as a space for passionate conversations about OA books. Its community is open to all, composed of researchers, librarians, publishers, infrastructure service providers and other stakeholders  interested in discussing OA books. It’s an exciting time for OA books, with a plethora of new initiatives, policy developments and business models (1, 2, 3) emerging to support their publication, but this can make it difficult to understand what’s out there and closed access publishing remains the predominant model. There is still a long way to go! To help us get there faster, this video series aims to address some of the common misconceptions, myths and questions around OA books. It is designed to be short, snappy and shareable–so please do share it! We are excited to launch the first two videos during Open Access Week 2021, taking inspiration from this year’s theme ‘’It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity’’: Myth 1: If I want to publish Open Access I have to pay the publisher Mythbuster: Dr. Sebastian Nordhoff, Managing Director, Language Science Press Watch: https://youtu.be/Bpe8myCzcJQ   Myth 2: People who are interested in academic books can easily access them, Open Access or not. Mythbuster: Caroline Ball, Academic Librarian, University of Derby, UK Watch: https://youtu.be/3cGQ4pLQgDU   These are the first of ten mythbusting videos which will be released on a weekly basis until the end of the calendar year. In early 2022 we’ll be sharing the complete OA book mythbuster series as one video alongside other shareable materials, and we hope that these resources will be distributed widely across the OA book community and well beyond. Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:07:00 -0400 https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2021/10/25/who-you-gonna-call-oa-mythbusters/ oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.advocacy oa.new oa.oa_week oa.misunderstandings This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way! Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:58:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFYV-X61mA oa.books oa.publishing oa.events oa.video On a regular basis, we look at the download data of the OAPEN Library and where it comes from. While examining the data from January to August 2021, we focused on the usage originating from libraries and academic institutions. Happily, we found that more than 1,100 academic institutions and libraries have used the OAPEN Library. Of course, we do not actively track individual users. Instead we use a more general approach: we look at the website from which the download from the OAPEN Library originated. How does that work? For instance, when someone in the library of the University of Leipzig clicks on the download link of a book in the OAPEN library, two things happen: first, the book is directly available on the computer that person is working on, and second, the OAPEN server notes the ‘return address’: https://katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/. We have no way of knowing who the person is that started the download, we just know the request originated from the Leipzig University Library. Furthermore, some organisations choose to suppress sending their ‘return address’, making them anonymous. Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:36:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/blog/?link=https%3A%2F%2Foapen.hypotheses.org%2F246 oa.books oa.new oa.repositories oa.libraries oa.downloads oa.usage The proliferation of business models for open-access books We are at an exciting moment for open-access books. UKRI has announced a forthcoming funding mandate, kicking off in 2024. Plan S funders are deciding what to do about books. And much (if not all) of the dissent around the idea of OA monographs has gone quieter. It seems, at least to me, that more and more people are persuaded that OA books are a good concept… so long as the route by which we get there is equitable. Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:25:00 -0400 https://eve.gd/2021/09/23/the-proliferation-of-business-models-for-open-access-books/ oa.books oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.business_models oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.uk oa.mandates oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.south oa.policies We are pleased to share the second part of this guest blogpost by one of our DOAB Gold Sponsors, written by Leila Moore, Taylor and Francis.  Leila Moore is Open Access Books Lead at Taylor & Francis. After graduating from the University of Reading with a BA honours in English Leila went on to a career in publishing, working across a variety of disciplines and publishing formats. A keen interest in the emergence of the open access model encouraged Leila to take the leap into open access publishing. Leila now specialises in open access books. Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:33:00 -0400 https://doabooks.org/blog/?link=https%3A%2F%2Foapen.hypotheses.org%2F233 oa.books oa.new oa.publishers oa.infrastructure oa.obstacles   We are pleased to share this guest post (published in two parts) by our latest DOAB Gold Sponsor, written by Leila Moore Open Access Book Lead at Taylor & Francis. Overcoming the challenges of open access books – part 1/2 Leila Moore is Open Access Books Lead at Taylor & Francis. After graduating from the University of Reading with a BA honours in English Leila went on to a career in publishing, working across a variety of disciplines and publishing formats. A keen interest in the emergence of the open access model encouraged Leila to take the leap into open access publishing. Leila now specialises in open access books. Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:08:00 -0400 https://oapen.hypotheses.org/215 oa.books oa.new oa.publishers oa.economics_of Accelerating open access to academic books   07/09/2021 cOAlition S has just issued its statement on Open Access (OA) for academic books. With this statement, cOAlitition S sets a clear direction for academic books to become OA. It recommends that “All academic books based on original research that was directly supported with funding from cOAlition S organisations should be made available open access on publication”. This is great news! The OA Books Network (OABN), steered by OAPEN, SPARC Europe, OPERAS, and ScholarLed) salutes this clear support from cOAlition S for OA to books. While OA policies for journal articles have been developing rapidly for years, progress on the OA book side has been rather slow. However, this cOAlition S statement combined with the recently launched UKRI open access policy indicates that there is great potential for things to accelerate for OA books, too. Mon, 06 Sep 2021 01:19:00 -0400 https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/accelerating-open-access-to-academic-books/ oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.policies oa.funders oa.oabn oa.coalition_s oa.plan_s oa.new Niels Stern, Director of OAPEN and Co-director of DOAB, talking about DOAB and OAPEN reaching their funding target in the 2nd SCOSS pledging round and the path ahead towards sustainability. Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:10:00 -0400 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eegcx4lgNI oa.new oa.books oa.scoss oa.oapen oa.libraries oa.infrastructure oa.fundraising oa.doab Open access platforms and retail websites are both trying to present the most relevant offerings to their patrons. Retail websites deploy recommender systems that collect data about their customers. These systems are successful but intrude on privacy. As an alternative, this paper presents an algorithm that uses text mining techniques to find the most important themes of an open access book or chapter. By locating other publications that share one or more of these themes, it is possible to recommend closely related books or chapters. The algorithm splits the full text in trigrams. It removes all trigrams containing words that are commonly used in everyday language and in (open access) book publishing. The most occurring remaining trigrams are distinctive to the publication and indicate the themes of the book. The next step is finding publications that share one or more of the trigrams. The strength of the connection can be measured by counting – and ranking – the number of shared trigrams. The algorithm was used to find connections between 10,997 titles: 67% in English, 29% in German and 6% in Dutch or a combination of languages. The algorithm is able to find connected books across languages. It is possible use the algorithm for several use cases, not just recommender systems. Creating benchmarks for publishers or creating a collection of connected titles for libraries are other possibilities. Apart from the OAPEN Library, the algorithm can be applied to other collections of open access books or even open access journal articles. Combining the results across multiple collections will enhance its effectiveness. Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:23:00 -0400 https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10938 oa.books oa.new oa.mining oa.recommenders “In an effort to clarify and explain the reasons behind our Open Access (OA) positions, we are publishing our Open Access Vision and Policy Statement. OA has multiple dimensions and means different things to many people, so we expect and encourage feedback and dialog. You can write to our director John Sherer (john.sherer@uncpress.org) or tweet to us @unc_press.” Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:47:00 -0400 https://uncpressblog.com/2021/07/08/unc-press-open-access-vision-and-policy/ oa.books oa.publishers oa.usa oa.publishing oa.policies oa.u.north_carolina_press oa.up oa.gold oa.fees oa.new oa.journals In 2020, the OAPEN Foundation celebrated its 10 year anniversary as an open infrastructure service for open access (OA) books, providing services to publishers, libraries and research funders. The mission of OAPEN to increase discoverability of OA books and to build trust around OA books has been leading us through a challenging year marked by the pandemic. Today we would like to share our progress through the OAPEN 2020 Stakeholder report in which you can read about our key results and developments, including: Highlights for 2020 - Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN Library New initiatives - OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit and Open Access Books Network (OABN) Community engagement Project activities Governance Financial Overview Outlook for 2021 Wed, 30 Jun 2021 03:20:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/article/oapen-2020-stakeholder-report oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.oapen oa.new oa.books Tips for making open access books We look at six different ways that academic authors at Leiden University have found to make their books open access, and pass on their tips. More and more academic books are published as Open Access (OA) making them freely available to read without any payment being necessary. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) already includes more than 42,000 peer-reviewed OA books from around 500 publishers worldwide. These books are integrated into most library catalogues. Research funders increasingly demand that output produced as a result of their funding, and which is published in books, should be published as OA. It is expected that in the future, more and more academics will publish their book OA as a lot of publishers are willing to publish books immediately OA. In this blog post the Open Access Team from the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Leiden University Libraries, interviewed some Leiden academics about how they went about publishing their books OA. These interviews show what you can do to publish a book OA, and also how you can make a book that is already published accessible by open access. The examples are in no particular order.   Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:50:00 -0400 https://www.digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/tips-for-making-open-access-books oa.books oa.news oa.scholcomm Open Access Books: How to Find, Acquire, and Use Them Over 40,000 open access academic books are now cataloged in the Directory of Open Access Books. This is, however, a subset of the titles becoming available thanks to increased funding, in both the US and Europe. Many are of extremely high quality and from well-known as well as innovative new publishers. Because library vendors struggle with the business model, there are obstacles for libraries in trying to acquire these titles. This presentation from the 2021 Annual Conference of the American Library Association explores the changing landscape of OA ebooks and describes successful strategies adopted by libraries to add them to collections and support their publishing, discovery, and use. Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:03:00 -0400 https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/27e93781-49c9-4f1a-a109-2f732de99b5b oa.books oa.new oa.libraries oa.slides oa.presentations What’s happening at the moment with open-access books? It’s an exciting time in the OA book world because many experiments are coming to fruition. We’ve seen MIT’s recent D2O offering; Michigan has a new membership programme; punctum books and Open Book Publishers are on the go; Springer is piloting a scheme with Berklely; and our own COPIM-grown Opening the Future (OtF) model is taking off at the Central European University Press, with a second well-known UK University Press set to launch an OtF programme soon. Fri, 21 May 2021 03:39:00 -0400 https://eve.gd/2021/05/21/whats-happening-at-the-moment-with-open-access-books/ oa.new oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.libraries oa.business_models DOAB and OAPEN enter into a new partnership with LYRASIS to develop its services for their U.S. partners The Hague, 20 May 2021. The DOAB Foundation and OAPEN Foundation are pleased to announce a new partnership with LYRASIS. Through this partnership, DOAB, OAPEN and LYRASIS will establish a pathway for U.S. institutions to support the continuing development of open infrastructure services for open access (OA) books. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a directory of 42,000+ peer-reviewed OA books from around 500 publishers worldwide, is a discovery service for open access books which can be easily integrated into library catalogs. All DOAB metadata is freely available to libraries. “The DOAB team is thrilled to start working with LYRASIS, thanks to this new partnership. Following our agreement with Project MUSE last year, we are excited to now have a new opportunity to collaborate with US libraries and make open access books even more discoverable to their users.” - Pierre Mounier, Deputy director of OpenEdition and co-director of DOAB” LYRASIS, a global non-profit membership organization providing technology and content services for libraries, archives, museums and research communities, is a leader in supporting OA resources and content models in the United States and beyond. As home to more than 1200 library members and users, LYRASIS is uniquely positioned to reach the institutions that will most benefit from the collections. “We are excited to work with DOAB and OAPEN to bring these vital resources to U.S. libraries. For nearly a decade, open access resources have been a strategic priority for our team,” says Celeste Feather, Senior Director of Content and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at LYRASIS. “This new partnership marks a major step toward unifying open access initiatives and moving toward a new paradigm of open worldwide.” The OAPEN Library, a premium hosting platform home to 16,000+ peer-reviewed OA books from over 300 publishers, is set up to host and disseminate OA books while offering additional services in the areas of usage reporting and preservation. “We are excited about now working with LYRASIS to engage much more with U.S. institutions helping the transition to OA for books and explore further how we can cater better to the needs of U.S. academic publishers and libraries.” - Niels Stern, Director of OAPEN and co-director of DOAB” The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit is an open resource that aims to help academic book authors better understand OA book publishing, and to promote and increase trust in OA books. Contact LYRASIS: Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, sharla.lair[@]lyrasis.org Contact DOAB/OAPEN: Tom Mosterd, Community Manager, t.mosterd[@]oapen.org About DOAB Foundation The DOAB Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’), established by the OAPEN Foundation and OpenEdition. The DOAB Foundation is responsible for the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and is currently developing a certification for open access books. About OAPEN Foundation The OAPEN Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’) with its registered office at the National Library in the Hague. The OAPEN Foundation is dedicated to open access books and operates three platforms. The OAPEN Library, the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit, and, in partnership with OpenEdition, the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). About LYRASIS LYRASIS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership association headquartered in Atlanta, GA, USA, supporting enduring access to shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide.     Fri, 21 May 2021 00:23:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/oapen/article/16501750-doab-and-oapen-enter-into-a-new-partnership-with-lyrasis-to-develop-its-services-for-their-u-s-partners oa.new oa.libraries oa.usa oa.scholcomm oa.oapen oa.new oa.lyrasis oa.libraries oa.doab oa.books Investing in the Open Access Book infrastructure: a call for action   This is a guest blog post by Pierre Mounier, Jeroen Sondervan, and Graham Stone. Join Pierre Mounier (EHESS, OpenEdition, OPERAS), Jeroen Sondervan (Knowledge Exchange Open Access Working Group and Utrecht University Library), Graham Stone (Jisc), and key stakeholders in signing a position paper calling for investment in the open access book infrastructure (Zenodo version of record, Google doc version for signatories). In June 2020, we published a blog Open Access to academic books: Working towards the “tipping point”, which reflected on the work of the Knowledge Exchange (KE) task and finish group’s work around open access books (see “Towards a Roadmap for Open Access Monographs: A Knowledge Exchange Report”. The blogpost led to a number of valuable discussions with stakeholders and key experts in the OA books community regarding the need to develop a joined up approach to the open infrastructure required for a successful transition to open access for books. In light of forthcoming (and existing) policy on open access for books, the KE task and finish group agreed to extend their work on open access books by facilitating a partner exchange in February 2021. This one-day virtual workshop gathered key stakeholders, including representatives of cOAlition S, SPARC Europe, OASPA, OAPEN, DARIAH-EU, OpenAIRE, national funders, KE partner organizations and many more. After a brief overview, the day used a workshop approach to develop a common understanding on the need for further attention and support for open access for academic books. Delegates explored the key issues in three parallel sessions (OA Book Watch, OA Book Network, OA Book infrastructure), before a Mentimeter poll was used to prioritise areas for further discussion. At the end of a long day of vibrant and fruitful discussion, we took stock of the contributions and discussed the idea of a position paper on open access books infrastructure. A writing group was formed and we started work on the position paper. Tue, 18 May 2021 04:25:00 -0400 https://research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2021/05/18/investing-in-the-open-access-book-infrastructure-a-call-for-action/ oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.jisc oa.infrastructure oa.funders oa.policies oa.metrics oa.oabn oa.books oa.advocacy oa.knowledge_exchange oa.signatures Drittmaterialien in Open-Access-Monografien: Wie weit reicht die Creative-Commons-Lizenz wirklich? Die Open-Access-Bewegung macht auch vor Monografien keinen Halt, die deshalb zunehmend unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz veröffentlicht werden. Was passiert jedoch, wenn in den Monografien anders lizenzierte Drittmaterialien verwendet werden? Mit dieser kniffligen Frage beschäftigen sich die ZBW-Mitarbeitenden Ralf Flohr, Stefanie Richter und Olaf Siegert. von Ralf Flohr, Stefanie Richter und Olaf Siegert Hintergrund Open-Access-Monografien Im Zuge der Open-Access-Transformation des Publikationssystems spielen Open-Access-Monografien eine immer größere Rolle: Fachverlage haben auf diese Entwicklung reagiert und neue Geschäftsmodelle für die Veröffentlichung von Büchern im Open Access (OA) entwickelt. Forschungsfördernde sowie Forschungseinrichtungen haben Publikationsfonds eingerichtet und stellen zur Finanzierung von Open-Access-Publikationen Mittel bereit. Bibliotheken archivieren Open-Access-Publikationen auf hauseigenen Publikationsservern, machen sie der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich und sorgen für ihre Sichtbarkeit sowie die langfristige Verfügbarkeit. Wed, 05 May 2021 06:11:00 -0400 https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/de/2021/05/drittmaterialien-in-open-access-monografien-wie-weit-reicht-die-creative-commons-lizenz-wirklich/ oa.books oa.licensing oa.germany oa.oer oa.advocacy oa.copyright oa.libre oa.german oa.new This blog post describes the ‘innovative business models for open access book publishing – 6 approaches in Europe’ workshop that took place on April 7th, 2021 (please scroll down for the video). Together with... Wed, 21 Apr 2021 04:48:00 -0400 https://operas.hypotheses.org/4651 oa.books oa.business_models oa.publishers scholarly publishers operas-p oapen oabn oa.ssh oa.publishers oa.humanities oa.events oa.business_models oa.books communication book oa.operas oa.scholcomm oa.europe oa.events This report was produced for the "Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage" project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It documents the current state of stakeholders, metadata and usage data flows, and supply chain for OA monographs. Supply chain gaps, challenges, and opportunities are identified. This final report version is based on information collected in 2020 through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with stakeholders and subject-matter experts representative of the supply chain. Interviewees represented publishers, academic librarians, aggregators, publishing platform providers, online book distributors, and others. Preliminary report findings were made available for public comment from 16 October 2020 - 9 April 2021 and shared in conferences and industry groups.  Feedback is incorporated into this final version.   Thu, 08 Apr 2021 04:11:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/4681725 oa.books oa.new oa.usage oa.surveys oa.usage oa.surveys oa.scholcomm oa.new oa.metadata oa.mellon_foundation oa.books In October 2020, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) commissioned OAPEN to carry out a gap analysis of technical infrastructure for open access monographs, edited works and book chapters. This report presents the results of the gap analysis. It aims to inform UKRI on infrastructure requirements for OA monographs as part of its considerations for introducing an OA policy for monographs. The report describes high-level workflows and the following stakeholders: author; publisher; (research) institution; funder. The report uses a granular classification of the technical infrastructure supporting OA books and chapters. The scope of the report is to identify infrastructure that either handles open access books exclusively, to a large extent, and/or is key infrastructure for OA books. The focus of this project is on shared technical infrastructure to support OA book publishing for all stakeholders, including all types of publishers and business models. Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:06:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/record/5735021 oa.books oa.new oa.funders oa.policies oa.uk oa.reports oa.ukri The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit – An Easy-to-use Toolkit Supporting Research Managers in the UK   Within the UK, there is increasing interest in and uptake of OA book publishing amongst authors as commercial, scholar-led and university presses increasingly offer OA book publishing options for its authors. In parallel, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and its constituents are considering OA for books as announced in its 2018 OA Policy Review. While OA book publishing is on the rise, a number of challenges persist, such as a lack of awareness and misconceptions about OA publishing amongst authors. To help authors better understand OA for books and increase trust in OA book publishing, OAPEN has created a brand new free online resource for book authors: The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit. This toolkit provides reliable and easy-to-find information, relevant both for researchers and those supporting researchers. It offers guidance at different stages of the research life cycle, such as planning and funding and publishing options. Moreover, this toolkit includes guidance on how research organisations support authors and it serves as a practical tool, which can be easily incorporated into local resources – all the more essential due to a shift to digital for researcher support services as a result of Covid-19 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:51:00 -0400 https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/236541/ oa.events oa.libraries oa.advocacy oa.uk oa.new oa.uk oa.oapen oa.new oa.libraries oa.events oa.books oa.advocacy Nieuwe haalbaarheidsstudies vormen basis voor nieuw meerjarenplan open access; deel uw ideeën voor 100% open access Het Nederlandse Open Access beleid is erg succesvol. Nederland heeft een koploperspositie verworven, onder meer door de verwachting dat vanaf 2020, ongeveer 75% van de peer-reviewed artikelen van Nederlandse auteurs, open access beschikbaar is. Haalbaarheidsstudies laten zien dat een andere inzet van geld en samenwerkingen nodig zijn voor het realiseren van de 100% open access ambitie. Deel uw ideeën voor 100% open access en geef uw reactie op de haalbaarheidsstudies. De landelijke ambitie is 100% Open Access. Universiteiten, hogescholen, academische ziekhuizen, medische organisaties, TO2 instituten en de Rijkskennisinstellingen hebben daar de afgelopen jaren hard aan gewerkt. De afgelopen maanden zijn studies uitgevoerd naar de vraag hoe Nederland op een duurzame manier de laatste stappen kan zetten naar 100% Open Access. Ten eerste heeft Pleiade Management & Consultancy in samenwerking met Research Consulting een haalbaarheidsstudie uitgevoerd, met onderscheid tussen Open Access van onderzoeksartikelen en van academische boeken. Daarnaast heeft Pleiade een studie uitgevoerd naar alternatieve publicatieplatformen die zowel het open access als het open science beleid kunnen versterken.  Fri, 26 Feb 2021 04:46:00 -0500 https://vsnu.nl/nl_NL/nieuwsbericht/nieuwsbericht/721-nieuwe-haalbaarheidsstudies-vormen-basis-voor-nieuw-meerjarenplan-open-access-deel-uw-ideeen-voor-100-open-access.html oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.policies oa.libraries oa.netherlands oa.dutch oa.progress Berlin, February 8th, 2021: Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the central platform for Open Access (OA) financing models, is pleased to announce the results of 2020 pledging round, which ended in December 2020 and once again saw hundreds of libraries worldwide pledge support for OA book and journal initiatives offered by KU and its partners. Overall, about 310 books and 34 journals will be published OA in 2021. These include 240 books from the KU Select 2020 HSS Books Collection and 65 books from KU’s partner collections. In addition, 31 journals will be flipped to OA thanks to two ground-breaking Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) projects: Pluto Open Journals and IWAP Open Journals. Mon, 08 Feb 2021 01:50:00 -0500 https://knowledgeunlatched.org/2021/02/ku-results-of-2020-pledging-plans-to-unlatch-hundreds-of-titles-for-2021/ oa.news oa.books oa.business_models oa.gold oa.journals oa.knowledge_unlatched oa.ku Monographien sind neben Zeitschriftenartikel ein wichtiger wissenschaftlicher Output. Doch die Finanzierung von Open-Access-Büchern kann herausfordernd sein. Helene Brinken (TIB) beschreibt in diesem Video welche Möglichkeiten Autor*innen haben, mit anfallenden Kosten für Open-Access-Monographien umzugehen. Dieses Video wurde im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network aufgenommen. Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:34:00 -0500 https://av.tib.eu/media/49535 oa.books oa.advocacy oa.germany oa.new oa.german oa.video The last fifteen years have witnessed the emergence of a new role for academic libraries. Besides fulfilling their fundamental task of providing access to knowledge, besides being called everything from temples of knowledge to disturbing heterotopias, libraries have become one of the crucial stakeholders in the open access book publishing space. They act as funders for OA book fees, they support collaborative funding schemes, and sometimes they assume the role of publishers themselves. In an attempt to create a sustainable publishing environment, in which OA books could blossom, it is therefore necessary to gain a sound understanding of how academic libraries work, how they deal with open access initiatives, and what challenges they encounter. These questions remain at the very core of this report. The landscape painted in this report is by no means exhaustive; there are many more countries in the European community, other than the fourteen we have looked at, that need further investigating. The sample that we have taken under closer inspection proved to be a lively and diverse organism that escapes any easy overarching classifications. In order to better understand the role of academic and research libraries in Europe regarding open access books, we have looked at several crucial aspects that would help us both identify common threads and pinpoint regional particularities. We have examined each country according to the following areas of interest: 1. general characteristics of library systems for e-content and OA publications, 2. library community and open access, 3. OA book policies, 4. OA book funding, 5. library/scholar-led OA book publishing initiatives, and 6. integration of OA books in library systems. Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:52:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/record/4483773 oa.books oa.new oa.libraries oa.scholcomm oa.europe You are probably familiar with USB cables, the type of standard cable that allows me to connect a printer and a phone to my laptop, using the same port. However, the cable I use for my phone does not fit my printer. If I were to use one cable, I would either have to buy a new printer or use some kind of connector. This is similar to ONIX: an XML standard designed to exchange metadata about books between all the different actors in the book supply chain. Here, the standard also comes in different sizes. For instance, an author might be coded as <b037>Snijder, Ronald</b037> or as <PersonNameInverted>Snijder, Ronald</PersonNameInverted>. Moreover, the current version of ONIX is 3, but publishers who have invested quite a lot in version 2.1 might be reluctant to give that up. These differences in standards and approaches can result in a complex situation for actors in the ebook supply chain; more details in this draft report by the Book Industry Group. So, at OAPEN we need to make sure that all those different flavours of ONIX fit our import system and therefore we built a connector. In fact, we built two: one that converts different types of ONIX XML to Excel, and one that converts Excel to ‘our’ ONIX standard. Why two conversions? Because we need to do a manual check on the metadata we received: does it contain titles that are already part of the OAPEN Library collection? Is there – still – metadata missing? Is there metadata that needs to be amended? When the metadata has been checked and updated, we convert the resulting Excel file into ONIX XML and import it into the OAPEN Library. Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:13:00 -0500 https://oapen.hypotheses.org/178 oa.data oa.floss oa.new oa.thoth oa.oapen oa.new oa.metadata oa.libre oa.floss oa.data oa.copim oa.books Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) – Tagging help by OABN Background The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), is a crowd-sourced social tagging project that runs on open-source software. It harnesses the power of the community to capture news and comment on open access (OA) in every academic field and region of the world. We want to help expand its coverage of OA books — and you can help! How The OATP has two missions: To create real-time alerts for OA-related developments, and To organize knowledge of the field, by tag or subtopic, for easy searching and sharing. The OATP publishes a large primary feed and hundreds of smaller secondary feeds – one of which (‘’oa.books’’) is a valuable resource for the OA book community. (It’s published alongside our blog posts, and provides valuable updates about developments and discussions related to OA books.) There are two ways you can contribute to this feed.   1) Become a tagger yourself If you are interested in tagging for the OATP, please have a look at this post, which explains the basics. Feel free to contact one of the OABN coordinators (info@oabooksnetwork.org) with any basic setup questions — all the coordinators have signed up, so they should be able to help you with any initial difficulties. 2) Ask the OABN The OATP is a crowd-sourced project, depending on the ‘many eyeballs’ principle. The more contributors there are, from as many different backgrounds as possible, the better its coverage will be. However, lots of things might prevent you from becoming a tagger: for example, time constraints, a lack of technical expertise, or other restrictions. The OABN coordinators would therefore be happy to tag online content related to open access books that is suggested by community members (to get a sense of the sorts of things that are currently tagged, see the OATP feed ‘’oa.books’’, which is published alongside our blog posts).   Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:18:00 -0500 https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2021/01/11/open-access-tracking-project-oatp-tagging-help-by-oabn/ oa.books oa.new oa.advocacy oa.oatp oatp.notice oa.oabn oa.crowd LONDON, Dec. 18, 2020  /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, today announced that the Cell Press portfolio of journals will be expanding open access publishing options for authors from January 1, 2021. Open access is an integral part of Elsevier's commitment to a more collaborative, inclusive and transparent world of research where authors, researchers, and academic institutions, can share knowledge and build on each other's work to advance outcomes. We recognise that authors around the world have diverse needs and preferences, so we have been working collaboratively with the communities that we serve to test and learn from different ways of accelerating open access. As one of the fastest-growing open access publishers in the world, nearly all of Elsevier's 2,600 journals now enable open access publishing, including 500 fully open access journals. From January 2021, all authors will have the option to publish open access across the entire range of the highly regarded and influential Cell Press family of journals. This publishing route means all Cell Press authors can choose to make their research article available for everyone to read immediately following publication. Fri, 18 Dec 2020 00:27:00 -0500 https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/elsevier-expands-open-access-options-for-cell-press-journals-from-january-2021-885069002.html oa.new oa.gold oa.publishers oa.elsevier oa.hybrid oa.fees oa.journals The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on both APC and BPC expenditures. Contact person is Katharina Rieck. Cost Data The new data set covers publication fees for 1,409 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,788,484€ and the average fee is 1,979€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources. In addition, the FWF also reported cost data on BPC expenditures for the first time. These records are not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section. Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:43:00 -0500 https://openapc.github.io/general/openapc/2020/12/17/fwf/ oa.new oa.funding oa.data oa.gold oa.journals oa.fees oa.books oa.fwf oa.funders.public oa.austria oa.funders cOAlition S will issue its policy on Open Access (OA) monographs and chapters in late 2021. As part of a strategy to gather opinions and OA book policy priorities from the OA books community to feed into this policy, SPARC Europe helped prepare a workshop with members of OPERAS, EASSH and DARIAH at the OPERAS Conference on 2 November 2020. With almost 75 attendees, this workshop focused on business models for OA books and brought together experts from the field before ending with a document sprint. The sprint allowed the community to engage online by reacting to cases made by the presenters and providing other additions.     Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:06:00 -0500 https://sparceurope.org/plans-academicbooks_communityvoices1/ oa.new oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.open_science oa.plan_s oa.policies oa.mandates oa.funders oa.policies.funders El futuro de la Ciencia Abierta, aunque prometedor, no es seguro. Contribuir a la sustentabilidad de DOAB, OAPEN, Open Citations y PKP a través de la Coalición Global para la Sostenibilidad de Servicios de Ciencia Abierta – SCOSS.     La Coalición Global para la Sostenibilidad de Servicios de Ciencia Abierta – SCOSS liderada por SPARC Europa, fue creada en 2017 con la finalidad de ayudar a identificar servicios no comerciales esenciales para la Ciencia Abierta (CA) y hacer recomendaciones sustentadas y calificadas de los servicios que deben considerarse para recibir un apoyo financiero. Solo son elegibles los servicios no comerciales con una base financiera poco sólida. SCOSS proporciona el marco y la estructura de financiación, examinando a los candidatos potenciales en función de un conjunto definido de criterios. Los más elegibles de los que pasan la evaluación rigurosa se presentan a la comunidad global de partes interesadas en Ciencia Abierta y Acceso Abierto (AA) con un llamado a apoyo económico en un enfoque estilo crowdfunding. Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:36:00 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHZgE0_kB0&feature=emb_logo oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.new oa.libraries oa.open_science oa.latin_america oa.south The future of Open Science, though promising, is not certain. Contribute to the sustainability of DOAB, OAPEN, Open Citations and PKP through the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services – SCOSS   The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services – SCOSS led by SPARC Europe, it was created in 2017 with the purpose of protect the Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) infrastructures by making them secure, long-term sustainable, just like the commercial infrastructures do. The SCOSS made the identification and evaluation of no commercial services of OS, which aim is to provide supported and qualified recommendations of the services that must be considered to receive an economic support. Preference is given to those that do not have a solid financial base and that are at risk of stagnation or even no longer active. Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500 http://amelica.org/index.php/en/2020/12/03/know-the-global-sustainability-coalition-for-open-science-services-scoss/ oa.scoss oa.amelica oa.open_science oa.new oa.latin_america oa.infrastructure oa.open_science oa.south From Google's English:  "The Global Coalition for the Sustainability of Open Science Services - SCOSS led by SPARC Europe, was created in 2017 with the purpose of helping to identify essential non-commercial services for Open Science (CA) and to make sustained and qualified recommendations of the services that should be considered for financial support . Only non-commercial services with a weak financial foundation are eligible. SCOSS provides the funding framework and structure , screening potential applicants based on a defined set of criteria. The most eligible of those who pass the rigorous assessment are presented to the global community of Open Science and Open Access (AA) stakeholders with a call for financial support in a crowdfunding style approach. The open science infrastructure supported by SCOSS provides the scientific and academic community with resources and services to access, share and evaluate research. In late 2017, SCOSS launched the funding pilot cycle with the submission of two services for funding: SHERPA / RoMEO (https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (https: //doaj.org). Since then, more than 200 institutions have contributed 1,691,258 euros: 538,359 euros for SHERPA / RoMEO and 1,271,910 for DOAJ...." Wed, 02 Dec 2020 03:34:00 -0500 http://amelica.org/index.php/2020/12/03/conoce-la-coalicion-global-para-la-sostenibilidad-de-servicios-de-ciencia-abierta-scoss/ oa.scoss oa.open_science oa.new oa.latin_america oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.gold oa.fundraising oa.data oa.books oa.open_science oa.south Welcome to this Jisc survey looking at the views of academics regarding publishing open access books (including book chapters and/or edited collections).   We’re keen to find out about your publishing habits, and how you regard OA publishing considering any benefits and/or concerns you may have.  With open research and the pathways to achieve it ever-growing, coupled with funder OA policy requirements, we at Jisc are committed to supporting the academic community.   The survey will take around 10-15 minutes to complete.   Who can participate  This survey is for university academics who have (co-)authored, or are intending to (co-)author, books, book chapters and/or edited collections.  Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:19:00 -0500 https://jisc.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/what-do-you-think-about-publishing-open-access-academic-bo oa.news oa.advocacy oa.books oa.uk oa.surveys oa.jisc This post, written by Demmy Verbeke (Head of KU Leuven Libraries Artes), is an introduction to the next event in the ‘BoOkmArks: Open Conversations About OA Books’ series. A live session will be held via this Zoom link on 8th December at 16:00 CET/ 15:00 GMT/10:00 ET, when we will interview Demmy about KU Leuven’s Fair OA Fund. If you have questions for Demmy, please add them to the comments section below so they can be included in the conversation on 8th December — and join us at the event if you can! by Demmy Verbeke If you want change, try something new. This seems comically simple advice, but it is advice that universities, worldwide, seem unable or unwilling to follow when it comes to building and maintaining the infrastructure for scholarly communication. The first reason to want change is the cost of this infrastructure, which has been considered problematic since the beginning of the twentieth century, and which has only risen since, high above the rate of inflation. Secondly, concerns have been raised over and over again about how research output (and particularly how an individual scholar or an institution making use of scholarly communication infrastructure) has become intertwined with research assessment, and that the methods used for this assessment do not align with scholarly values. One example: assessing an individual scholar by the press where he or she publishes, which, in essence, equals outsourcing judgment to an external party who is not focused on assessing the quality of the work but its commercial potential. A third reason is the well-documented issue that the current ecosystem is far from inclusive and operable – not only when considering researchers in world regions like Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, but also researchers active in disciplines less likely to attract major funding. Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:24:00 -0500 https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2020/12/01/financing-change-ku-leuvens-fair-oa-fund/ oa.new oa.libraries oa.funds oa.belgium oa.universities oa.hei oa.events oa.books The OAPEN Foundation is delighted to announce that Niels Stern has been appointed as Director of OAPEN Foundation. Niels will take over from Eelco Ferwerda on the 1st of January, as Eelco will retire at the end of this year. Niels will also join Pierre Mounier as a member of the Executive Board of DOAB Foundation. And at the same time, Ronald Snijder will be appointed as Deputy Director of OAPEN.   The appointment comes at an exciting time for OAPEN, ten years after the launch of OAPEN Foundation and a few months after the launch of our newest resource, the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. At the same time, we are migrating DOAB to an open source platform as part of the ongoing OPERAS-P project. And last but not least, OAPEN and DOAB were jointly deemed essential open science services by SCOSS, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, and are seeking support from the open science community in the current SCOSS funding cycle. On behalf of the Board of the OAPEN Foundation, chairman Bas Savenije said: “In the past 10 years Eelco Ferwerda has successfully transformed OAPEN from a project to an organisation which is recognised internationally as an important player in open access book publishing. Important steps towards a sustainable organisation have been made and we are confident that Niels Stern is the right person to continue Eelco’s work and to shape the future development of OAPEN. The Board thanks Eelco for his accomplishments and we wish him the very best.” “I feel very privileged to continue the great work that Eelco Ferwerda and his team have delivered for a decade now,” said Niels Stern. “OAPEN and DOAB are key services for scholarly open access book publishing. The number of books and their usage on the new platform is increasing rapidly, and both OAPEN and DOAB are deeply engaged in many exciting projects and networks, e.g. the OPERAS network. The momentum for OA books is rising. Being part of the SCOSS campaign adds to this momentum for OAPEN and DOAB. I look very much forward to contributing to the further development of OAPEN and DOAB to the benefit of the community for scholarly book publishing.” Eelco Ferwerda said: “I have been very fortunate to have had a role in the development of OAPEN and DOAB and it has been a joy to work with so many people from all over the world with a passion for open access. I am thrilled that Niels is taking over and can’t imagine anyone better suited to lead OAPEN and DOAB in the years ahead. Although I am now retiring, I do hope to remain involved in OAPEN and DOAB in new ways, and do new things in the area of OA books.” Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:10:00 -0500 https://oapen.org/article/14134953-niels-stern-appointed-as-director-of-oapen-and-co-director-of-doab oa.books oa.new oa.oapen oa.people We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore questions around the effects of open access on books and how OA ebook usage data can be improved to better answer such questions in the future.    How does open access affect the readership of scholarly books?  How can we use this information to encourage participation in and support for open access for books?  What questions about the effects of open access on books remain unanswered, and how can we improve data about OA ebook usage so we can better answer these questions in the future? This panel brings together participants from publishing, libraries and academia to report back on the work being done in this area and its value, and discuss where we need to go next.   Speakers Lara Speicher (Head of Publishing at UCL Press), Ros Pyne (Director of Open Access Books at Springer Nature), Cameron Neylon (Director at COARD), and Christina Drummond (Data Trust Program Officer at the Educopia Institute) will explore open questions around the effects of open access on books and how OA ebook usage data can be improved to better answer such questions in the future. Link to the registration page: https://cvent.me/rMw770 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:38:00 -0500 https://oaspa.org/webinar-analyzing-open-gaining-insights-into-global-oa-ebook-usage/ oa.books oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.usage oa.oaspa Join us for a live Q&A session with Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven Libraries, Artes) about the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access – a special fund setup by the KU Leuven Libraries to support non-profit initiatives using the library budget.   December 8, 2020. Link for event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482   4PM CET 3PM BST 10 AM EDT Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:43:00 -0500 https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/events/bookmarks-open-conversations-about-oa-books-the-ku-leuven-fund-for-fair-open-access/ oa.new oa.libraries oa.scholcomm oa.policies oa.events oa.funds oa.business_models     Join the Open Access Books Network (OABN) for a 40 minute free-flow conversation about Open Access books. Bring your own coffee and dial in at:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482   November 26. 4PM CET 3PM BST 10 AM EDT   Wed, 04 Nov 2020 22:36:00 -0500 https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/events/open-cafe-a-free-flow-conversation-about-oa-books-2/ oa.new oa.books oa.events Join us for a live Q&A session with Martin Eve about his recently published book: Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access.     Access the Open Access book here.   November 23rd 2020.   Link for event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482 4PM CET 3PM BST 10 AM EDT Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:34:00 -0500 https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/events/bookmarks-open-conversations-about-oa-books-reassembling-scholarly-communications-histories-infrastructures-and-global-politics-of-open-access/ oa.new oa.events oa.scholcomm oa.infrastructure oa.books This post is an introduction to the next episode of the BoOkmArks: Open Conversations About OA Books series. A live session will be held via this Zoom link on November 10th at 16:00 CEST / 15:00 BST, when we will interview Pierre Mounier, OPERAS Coordinator, OpenEdition Associate Director  and the DOAB Co-Director, about the OPERAS project. If you have questions for Pierre, please add them to the comments section below so they can be included in the conversation on November 10th — and join us at the event if you can!    Join the session via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482     Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:25:00 -0500 https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2020/11/04/operas-the-european-infrastructure-for-research-in-ssh-bookmarks-session-with-pierre-mounier-on-november-10th/ oa.new oa.books oa.repositories oa.open_science oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.europe This workshop will take a closer look at the challenges and needs of libraries when it comes to an open infrastructure for open access books. It will start with a brief presentation about OAPEN and DOAB as open infrastructures for open access books, followed by a short panel involving librarians from different types of institutions and parts of the world. The panelists will give a short statement about the role of open infrastructures for their libraries, after which there will be a Q&A and live discussion open to all as to how these infrastructures can help address the particular challenges and needs of libraries. Join: https://zoom.us/j/91415923493?pwd=NmFWOHRzYnc1R3FKaFBrdHNOSitqZz09 10AM CEST 9AM BST 4 AM EDT Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:23:00 -0500 https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/events/an-open-infrastructure-for-the-open-access-book-needs-challenges-from-a-library-perspective/ oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.repositories oa.libraries oa.new oa.infrastructure OA Week 2020 Interview: OpenBPC – transparency around open access book transactional data Amidst a year filled with turmoil and change, the International Open Access Week makes it annual return (19-26 October). Its theme is ‘Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity & Inclusion’. As part of Open Access week the Open Access Books Network (OABN) would like to zoom in on a few developments in the open access books world through a series of interviews. As part of this first interview Agata Morka (OABN) spoke with Max Mosterd (Knowledge Unlatched) to learn more about the OpenBPC initiative. Agata Morka (OABN), Max Mosterd (Knowledge Unlatched), October 2020 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:36:00 -0400 https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2020/10/19/oa-week-2020-interview-openbpc-transparency-around-open-access-book-transactional-data/ oa.books oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.gold oa.publishers oa.funders oa.journals oa.fees oa.transparency oa.interviews oa.people The OAPEN Foundation has launched a new open access (OA) books toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand OA for books, increase trust in OA book publishing, provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance on the process of publishing an OA book.   Access the toolkit www.oabooks-toolkit.org       Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:03:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/oapen/article/10705775-launch-of-the-oapen-open-access-books-toolkit oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.books oa.policies oa.publishers oa.repositories oa.business_models oa.gold oa.copyright oa.journals oa.tools   Introducing a novel business model and approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding   We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in building an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models (eg: OLH) and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords. Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:28:00 -0400 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/5611 oa.books oa.libraries oa.publishing oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.business_models oa.new Together with OPERAS, ScholarLed and SPARC Europe we will be launching the Open Access Books Network (OABN): a space for passionate conversations about OA Books. We will host online events, publish blogs, share details of conferences and webinars, and upload readings about OA books alongside a lively discussion forum. Join us on September 15th at 4PM BST / 5PM CEST/ 11AM ET for a live conversation about the OABN at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482. We will be sharing more about how the Network was established, its goals and plans, and how you can engage with the OABN community. Hope to see you there! Website: https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:09:00 -0400 https://oapen.org/article/5084684-launch-of-the-open-access-books-network oa.new oa.books oa.scholcomm oa.events oa.advocacy In part two of the State of Open Monograph Series (Economics of Open Access Monographs), we continue our conversation with Lara Speicher, Head of Publishing at UCL Press and Erich van Rijn, Director of Journals and Open Access at University of California Press.  We previously discussed the real and perceived costs of open access monographs in part one. Here, we take a look at where funding for open access monographs should come from as national funders (e.g., UKRI, NWO) consider open access mandates, return on investment and a sustainable future.    Sara Grimme and Charles Watkinson spoke to Lara and Erich about investments in open access monographs. Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:29:00 -0400 https://www.digital-science.com/blog/guest/state-of-open-monograph-series-open-access-monograph-funding/ oa.new oa.books oa.gold oa.publishers oa.funders oa.publishing oa.journals oa.business_models oa.funding