LERU and Open Access and E-Presses by Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer, President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) 5 April 2011

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LERU and Open Access and E-Presses
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright Officer
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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Contents
 Association of American
University Presses
Report (March 2011)
 UCL Case Study
 UCL Open Access mandate
 E-Publishing initiatives
 Possible next steps for UCL

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 Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for
University Presses
http://aaupnet.org/resources/reports/business_models/a
aupbusinessmodels2011.pdf
 Current business model, sales of print copy, to identified
markets, is no longer sustainable
 Position for books is complex. Many experiments are
underway, supported by a variety of business models,
which will have to co-exist with traditional print-based
models for some time

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 These will include market-based revenues and institutional
support, with a growing emphasis on the latter, particularly
in Open Access publishing
 Need for collaboration among scholarly publishers is more
evident than ever, among
 Libraries
 E-Presses
 Funders
 Content providers

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 What does the Report recommend?
1. Pool information to avoid duplication of effort
2. Collaborative partnerships between different stakeholders
should be encouraged
3. For smaller University Presses, the ability to gain funds
from external sources will be vital to underpin their move
to the production of digital books
4. Open Access publishing is strongly supported by many
Universities and scholars as a matter of principle

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5. Open Access will not succeed unless viable Business
Models can be identified and this is a discussion in which
all stakeholders should be involved
 Based on
 at http://www.aaupnet.org/resources/reports/0910digitalsurvey.pdf

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Contents
 Association of American
University Presses
Report (March 2011)
 UCL Case Study
 UCL Open Access mandate
 E-Publishing initiatives
 Possible next steps for UCL

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UCL Case Study
 UCL has an Open Access mandate
 In the first phase, UCL´s Academic Board, in May 2009,
agreed two principles to underpin UCL’s publication
activity and to support its scholarly mission:
 That, copyright permissions allowing, a copy of all research outputs
should be deposited in the UCL repository in Open Access
 The second phase of implementing the mandate was
accomplished in Autumn 2010 when UCL’s Academic Board
ratified a formal Publications Policy which expands on the two
principles agreed in 2009

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UCL Case Study
 Close collaboration in the University’s Academic Board
and liaison with academic colleagues has been important
in taking forward a broad Open Access policy in UCL
 A second important driver has been the linking of UCL’s
Open Access mandate to a pan-university Publications
Policy with Open Access as the result, copyright
permissions allowing

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UCL Case Study
 UCL Discovery is UCL’s Open Access repository
 As of March 2011, the number of full-text deposits were:

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UCL Case Study
 In 2010
 almost 532,000 records were downloaded from the system,
 compared to some 305,000 in 2009.
 UCL Discovery received some 143,000 hits per day in
December 2010
 76% of its user traffic came from search engines
 UCL Discovery is a global service
 Highest number of downloads in 2010 by country were
from the UK, with the second highest from USA, and the
third highest from China

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UCL Case Study
 All UCL’s work has, thus far, been directed towards
implementing the Green route for Open Access
 Aligning copyright/IPR frameworks
 Producing a UCL Publications Policy, approved by the academic
Senate
 Building capacity in terms of infrastructure to support the move
towards Open Access
 Putting in place workflows to support the new processes
 How can these developments now support moves to Gold
Open Access publishing?

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Contents
 Association of American
University Presses
Report (March 2011)
 UCL Case Study
 UCL Open Access mandate
 E-Publishing initiatives
 Possible next steps for UCL

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E-Publishing initiatives
 UCL Publications Board favours work in 4 broad areas:
 Research publications, particularly research monographs and
conference proceedings
 Teaching support, particularly textbooks
 Journal publication
 Data publication
 UCL is minded to take forward work in all these areas, in a
phased way

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E-Publishing initiatives
 Research publications, particularly research monographs
 UCL is considering collaborative ventures
 Perhaps with commercial Open Access publishers in the UK or
further afield
 Issues raised by the AAUP Report of March 2011 concerning print
and digital, collaborations and Business Models need to be
addressed in a sustainable way
 UCL Discovery could develop a publications layer for Conference
proceedings for Conferences held in UCL. Conference
proceedings are difficult to place with commercial publishers

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E-Publishing initiatives
 Teaching support, particularly textbooks
 Further work needs to be done in this area
 UCL Publications Board, however, has noted that UCL-
authored textbooks, such as those designed for first year
undergraduates in STEM subjects, could be licensed in
order to generate income for UCL, rather than such
students purchasing items directly from booksellers

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E-Publishing initiatives
 Journal Publishing
 There is great interest in UCL in developing an overlay
journal publishing system, based on copy housed in UCL
Discovery
 Development work being planned would build on the
earlier successful RIOJA project (2008)
 See http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/11927/

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E-Publishing initiatives
 Data Publication
 UCL is developing its own in-house data curation system
called the UCL Research Data Service
 The position being advocated for primary data is that it
should be viewed as Open data, unless otherwise
constrained by funding agreements/data protection
legislation/the EU Database Directive

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E-Publishing initiatives
 Roles and responsibilities are being identified via the UCL
Research Data Service Project Board
 UCL Publications Board is particularly keen on addressing
the question of Laboratory Notebooks
 Currently available in print and e-formats
 How can UCL present these in a systematic way?
 What level of access can be granted to such outputs?

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Contents
 Association of American
University Presses
Report (March 2011)
 UCL Case Study
 UCL Open Access mandate
 E-Publishing initiatives
 Possible next steps for UCL

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Next Steps for UCL
 Collaborate with LERU
members in identified areas
 Discuss and agree ways
forward with LERU members on issues raised by AAUP
Report
 Discuss possibilities for a European E-Press as the
framework to take issues of Gold Open Access Publishing
forward

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Next Steps for UCL
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