The University of Ottawa Press collaborates with the university libraries to publish open access scholarly works. Through a partnership agreement, the library provides $40,000 per year to subsidize the publication of 4 new open access monographs. Eligible titles address legal, technology and media issues or current socio-political topics. The press has also released 58 backlist titles as open access through the university's institutional repository. The collaboration aims to assess the impact of open access publications and align the press's activities with the university's open scholarship goals and business models.

1. Library/Press Collaboration at the
University of Ottawa, Canada
Charleston Conference 2015
November 5, 2015
Tony Horava,
AUL Collections, University of Ottawa

2. Outline
• University of Ottawa
• The Press and the Library
• Publishing Program
• Open Access at the Press
• OA Partnership agreement
• Next steps

3. – a snapshot
• The world’s largest bilingual university (English/French)
• One of Canada’s top 10 research universities
• In Fall 2014 : 42,672 students enrolled
• 36,068 undergraduates
• 6,604 graduates (Master’s and Ph.D)
• About 70% are anglophones and 30% francophones

4. Snapshot - cont’d
• Ten faculties: Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Management,
Science, Engineering, Common Law, Civil Law, Health Sciences and
Medicine
• Three libraries ( Arts & Sciences, Health Sciences, Law): total of
160 staff; 15M Collections budget
• Library collection:
• 2.3M print books
• 1.2M ebooks
• 104K ejournals
• ~900 research databases

5. • Founded in 1936
• The only bilingual university press in Canada and the
oldest French press in North America
• Reports to the Office of Research
• Staff of six
• Mission:
• To enrich intellectual and cultural life through the
publication and dissemination of scholarly works.
• To extend the reach and influence of the University of
Ottawa and to associate its name with excellence in
research and knowledge creation.

6. • 21 books to be published in 2015-16 (9 in French; 12 in
English)
• Management board includes Press Director, University
Librarian, a former Provost, and an independent publisher
• Editorial Board includes Press Director, AUL (Collections), a
former Provost, and several professors

7. • Publishing formats: print, PDF, ePub, Kindle, POD
• Annual sales: approx $300,000 CAD
• Simultaneous print and e publication
• Most sales come from print books

8. Publishing Program - Collections
Francophone and Canadian
Studies
Politics, Public Policy and
Globalization
Contemporary Society
Amérique française Studies in International
Development and Globalization
Visual Arts
Archives des lettres
canadiennes
Law, Technology and Media Education
Mercure (copublication with the
Canadian Museum of History)
Politics and Public Policy Criminology
Reappraisals: Canadian
Writers
Philosophica
Regards sur la traduction |
Perspectives on Translation
Religion and Society
Traduction littéraire | Literary
Translation
Health and Society
Canadian Studies Cultural Transfers
Contemporary Issues

9. Distributors
• Print Sales
- Prologue
- Ampersand
- Servidis
- Patrimoine-Diffusion
• Print Distribution
- UTP Distribution
- Marston
- Librairie du Québec
- Servidis
- Lightning Source
- ExportLivre
• Electronic sales
-Project Muse
-JSTOR
- Canadian Electronic Library
- MyiLibrary
- Proquest
- EBSCO
- Overdrive
- Barnes & Noble
- Kobo

10. OA Partnership Between the Press and
the Library
An initial three year (2013-15) agreement to support the open dissemination
(Gold OA – Creative Commons license) of selected monographs. Now
succeeded by second agreement, 2015-18.
Key features:
• The Library now subsidizes four new titles per fiscal year
• The Library agrees to provide $10,000 per title, for a total of $40,000 per
fiscal year.
• The Press agrees to provide the Library with an itemized production budget
that includes other sources of pre-publication funding to determine the total
of the subvention.
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11. • This subvention is meant to cover the direct costs of production and
support OA dissemination. Other sources of funding (e.g. the
federal Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program) must be utilized
for this library funding to be applicable.
• The agreement will directly support the publications in the ‘Law,
Technology and Media’ collection. Books in other collections that
address current socio-cultural, economic and political issues are
also preferred.
• ONIX data feeds to vendors now include link to the free PDF; the
print or the epub can still be purchased.

12. Other features of Open Access
• The Press has released a total of 58 books as Gold OA (backlist titles);
available on:
• Our consortial platform Scholars Portal Books and
• uO Research (our institutional repository)
• Each fall, the Press releases 5 more backlist titles as Gold OA
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13. OA Funded Titles
• Sexual Assault in Canada - Law, Legal Practice and Women’s
Activism
• The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook
the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law
• Sport Policy in Canada
• Homelessness and Health in Canada
• Transfert : Exploration d’un champ conceptuel
• Rethinking Canadian Aid
• Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era
• eGirls/eCitizens

14. Sales and download data for OA Books

16. Where do we go from here?
• Assessing the impact of OA titles
• Aligning with scholarly communication goals and Open
Access program of the University
• Assessing and developing new business models that
integrate OA strategies and OA thinking
• Recognizing that print and digital need to co-exist for a
press to thrive in today’s world.

17. Thanks very much!
Tony Horava
Associate University Librarian- Collections
University of Ottawa, Canada
thorava@uottawa.ca