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Research libraries – future roles
and challenges
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services, UCL Copyright Officer,
Chief Executive, UCL Press
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)
Chair, LERU (League of European Research Universities) Chief Information
Officer Community
e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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Contents
 Open Access
 APC payments
 University publishing
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Contents
 Open Access
 APC payments
 University publishing
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 Main stumbling block to
Gold OA is cost of APC
(Article Processing
Charges)
 Finch estimated average
APC as £1450 per article
 Government now
(31/1/14) calls for
publishers to reduce
subscription rates at
institutional level
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Policy Developments

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Who pays?
 Funders
 UCL
 Decision Tree at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/
library/open-access/
plots path for
individual
researchers
 General OA Guide
also available
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APC payments
 JISC Collections trialling
a shared service to UK
universities
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 OAK will manage OA
funds held in universities
 And payments for APCs
for Gold OA publishing

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RCUK workflow process
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 Gold APC payments represent an opportunity for
new services to construct payment infrastructures to
support university research

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Contents
 Open Access
 APC payments
 University publishing
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Monograph Publishing
 Is Open Access a solution to
broken Business Model?
 University Press takes on
role as monograph publisher
 Long form monographs,
peer reviewed
 Short monographs in AHSS
– new publishing format?
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century Book of
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century additions. MS. Lat. 25

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UCL Press
 Imprint repatriated from
commercial publisher
 Launched as an OA Press
in August 2013
 Publishing research
monographs, journals and
textbooks
 £75K won in JISC project
call to construct e-textbook
infrastructures
 A department of UCL
Library Services
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The view from Arts and Humanities?
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http://blog.historians.org
/2012/09/aha-statement-
on-scholarly-journal-
publishing/

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Shared European infrastructure for
monographs?
 19 European partners, led by UCL
 European universities can become
publishers themselves
 Shared publishing infrastructure
with Open Access business models
 Research monographs in the Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences
 OAPEN to provide much of the
technical infrastructure
 Launched at UCL in December
2013
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What could be achieved?
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OUTPUTS
 Shared publishing infrastructure
 Shared by 19 partners
 Scaleable to all European Universities
 Advocacy for new solutions to solve monograph crisis
 Marketing frameworks
 Business Modelling activities
 At least 180 OA monographs in 35 series

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Indicative series in European collaboration
35 series titles proposed in total Subject area
Media History and Film Theory Media studies, Film
theory
Spirituality Studies in Theology Theology
World Oral Literature Series Literary Studies
Iranian Studies Middle Eastern Studies
Law, Governance and Development
Research
Law, International
Studies
Interdisciplinary Issues - Art, City, Society Urban Studies
New Ideas in Human Interaction Linguistics
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Conclusion
 Gold OA infrastructures
 Gold APC requires payment
infrastructures
 Flexible enough to cope with a
variety of funder mandates and
user needs
 University Library as publisher
 Requires publishing platforms and
associated infrastructures
 Needs of research community
now being identified
 Library has major role in
research support
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 Thanks for listening
 Happy to answer
questions

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Thanks!
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