Explore open access books - Springer Nature event in New York (2019-09)

Explore open access books
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Programme
13:00 Welcome Bill Tucker, VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature
13:10 Why publish your book open access? Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature
13:40 A funder’s perspective of open access books Leslie Rutkowski, The International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA)
14:25 Tracking impact for open access authors: author services
& tools
Christina Emery, Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer
Nature
14:55 Comfort break
15:05 Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access
book
Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave Religion &
Philosophy
Open access book authors:
Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo)
Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility)
Sophie Mitra (Fordham University)
15:50 Panel: Discussing the learnings of the day incl. audience
Q&A
Chair: Bill Tucker, Springer Nature
With all presenters and panellists, and audience participation
16:30 Wrap up Bill Tucker, Springer Nature
16:35 –
17:30
Networking drinks reception (same room) – including editorial representation

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Welcome
Bill Tucker
VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature

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• About Springer Nature and Open Research
• Why we wanted to host this event
• Themes of the day
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Welcome
Don’t forget to…
 fill in a Post-it on our question board
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Why publish your book open access?
Ros Pyne
Director OA Books, Springer Nature

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What do we mean by open access?
How does it work in practice?

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• Free to read and download, with no restrictions, immediately on
publication.
• Version of record: The version that is free is the publisher‘s final typeset
version (PDF, ePub, HTML, MOBI formats).
• Licensed for re-use and sharing: Creative Commons licence means readers
may freely use and share the work.
• Highly visible and discoverable: Book is available from publisher platforms
and many third-party sites
• Print: OA books are also available in print.
• High quality: The same rigorous peer-review process, copyediting and
proofreading services as non-OA books
• OA fee: An open access fee covers the costs of making the work OA.
What is an open access book?
Free to read and share; highly visible & discoverable; high quality

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• Programme launched in 2012.
• Wide range of subject areas accepted
• Monographs, edited collections,
proceedings, short-form books, OA
chapters
• More than 800 OA books published so
far
OA books at Springer Nature

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Publishing an OA book with Springer Nature
You can also
choose to ‘flip’ to
OA later on
We apply the same
rigorous peer review
as for non-OA books
Fees depend on
format and length
CC BY allows for
maximum re-use
All e versions are
made OA; reduced
price for print
copies
Visibility via multiple
platforms and
marketing support

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So, why publish your book open access…?

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For increased readership
OA brings increased visibility and readership of research
Source: Emery et al. Springer Nature. 2017. The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
-- Postdoctoral Scholar in
Management Science
and Engineering, USA
“it is really about
bringing the content to
people who shall be
reading it.“

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OA books are freely available from multiple platforms

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OA books have higher downloads, citations, and online mentions
Download the full report
http://www.springernature.com/the-oa-effect

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To reach a wider global audience
There is an ethical argument for OA
“For me publishing a book that wasn’t OA on
the impact of international development would
be quite unethical, because I know that people
in Uganda would not be able to read the book.
For me [OA] was an absolute critical component
to the ethics of publishing.”
--- Helen Louise Ackers, Chair in
Global Social Science,
University of Salford

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OA brings greater understanding of research globally and outside the
academic community

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Countries in the global south have high total views and downloads of
OA books per institution
Source: Montgomery et al. Knowledge Unlatched Research. 2017. Exploring usage of open access books via the JSTOR platform.

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To support reproducibility
OA helps verification of results, speeds up scholarly exchange
“with open science, it helps that
research results can be replicated,
verified, falsified, and reused for
scholarly as well as practical
applications.”
-- Falk Reckling, PhD, Head of
Department, Strategy – Policy,
Evaluation, Analysis, Austrian
Science Fund (FWF)

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To comply with public access mandates
OA is being adopted by major funders and institutions worldwide
“There is a political drive in
Norway towards open access to
research […] OA publishing is one
way to help meet this political
agenda.”
-- Professor Aslak Tveito,
CEO, Simula Research
Laboratory
“If it is publicly-funded
research [...] then I
think the public has the
right to access these
results.”
--- Philosophy
Professor,
Germany

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To comply with public access mandates
There are an increasing number of funding initiatives for OA books
• Policies: 22 research funders and 43 institutions
worldwide mandate that researchers make their
books and chapters openly available
• Funding: 21 funders and 52 institutions
worldwide formally make funding available for OA
books.
Example OA book funding in the US
• Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem
(TOME)
• Gates Foundation
• 26 institutions
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We offer a free open access support service to make it easier for our authors to
discover and apply for BPC funding, and to comply with funder and institutional open
access requirements.
Open access funding and policy support
Online resources:
• Lists of organizations that provide OA funding
for books and book chapters
• Policy advice and information
• www.springernature.com/gp/open-
research/funding
Personal funding and policy advice by email:
OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com

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Why should I publish my book open access?
• Immediate online access
• Increased readership
• Reach a globally more diverse audience
• Reach beyond academia
• Support reproducibility
• Meet public access requirements

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The story behind the image
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896)
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor
of dynamite. Dynamite made him very wealthy but partly
in response to concerns about its negative uses, he decided
to give the vast majority of his estate to establish the four
Nobel Prizes with a fifth awarded in his memory, to people
or organisations who promote peace around the world.
Thank you
Ros Pyne
Director, OA Books
Springer Nature
ros.pyne@springernature.com
@rospyne
Questions about our OA books programme:
OAbooks@springernature.com
Find out more:
https://www.springernature.com/oabooks

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A funder’s perspective of open access books
Leslie Rutkowski
The International Association for the Evaluation of
Educational Achievement (IEA)

Research for Education Book Series
Leslie Rutkowski, PhD
Springer OA Book Event
New York, NY
2019

Who Am I?
A Funder’s Perspective

INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON
About Me
• Associate Professor of Inquiry Methodology
• PhD from U of Illinois (2007)
• My research area: Quantitative methods/Psychometrics
• Latent variable models
• Especially as they are used for measuring cross-culturally
• Co-Editor of IEA Research for Education series (since 2017)
• Hobby ultrarunner
• Former EOD tech (have you seen Hurt Locker?)

Who is the IEA?

The IEA
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is
an independent nongovernmental nonprofit cooperative of national research
institutions and governmental research agencies that originated in Hamburg,
Germany in 1958. For over 60 years, IEA has developed and conducted high-
quality, large-scale comparative studies in education to support countries’ efforts to
engage in national strategies for educational monitoring and improvement.
www.iea.nl – check it out!

The IEA’s Aims
• Provide international benchmarks, to assist policymakers in identifying the
relative strengths and weaknesses of their education systems;
• Provide high-quality data to increase policymakers’ understanding of key school-
and non-school-based factors that influence teaching and learning;
• Provide high-quality data that will serve as a resource for identifying areas of
concern and action, and for preparing and evaluating educational reforms;
• Develop and improve the capacity of education systems to engage in national
strategies for educational monitoring and improvement;
• Contribute to the development of a worldwide community of researchers in
educational evaluation.

IEA Products
• Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
• International assessment of math and science at 4th and 8th grade
• Questionnaires from:
• Principals
• Teachers
• Students
• Provides an international snapshot of educational achievement and correlates

A. Lot. Of. Data.
• TIMSS (grade 4) has hundreds of variables and 10s of thousands of
observations
• And that’s in just one cycle at one grade
• Data go back to 1995 (every 4 years)
• There are many other studies
• PIRLS (reading literacy)
• ICCS (civics and citizenship)
• ICILS (computer literacy)
• TEDS-M (math teacher knowledge)

Publications
• Sure, there are peer-reviewed publications
• EBSCOhost search in Education Full Text database: 446 hits
• Most of these are not OA
• But much of the data are unused
• So, an idea was born – IEA Research for Education book series
• First publication in 2016
• 7th volume just came off the press last week

IEA Research for
Education

What it is
• Book series using IEA data
• https://link.springer.com/bookseries/14293
• Or Google “IEA Research for Education”
• Editors: Seamus Hegarty & Leslie Rutkowski

What it is
• The goal is to encourage international dialogue focusing on policy
matters and technical evaluation procedures.
• The resulting debate integrates powerful conceptual frameworks,
comprehensive datasets and rigorous analysis, thus enhancing
understanding of diverse education systems worldwide.
• Published under CC-NC-BY Creative Commons licence
• Freedom to copy and redistribute the material
• Freedom to remix, transform, build upon the material
• Must give credit, can’t use for commercial purposes

Why Open Access?
1. A critical aspect of IEA’s vision
2. Inline with UN’s SGD4 Quality Education for All and IEA’s work with UNESCO.
3. IEA has a big international audience:
– Researchers and students
– NGOs/IGOs
– Policy makers
– Parents
– Educators
– Journalists
4. Many are from economically developing countries.

A History of OA/OS and IEA
• Large-scale Assessments in Education – Springer journal
• IEA Compass – policy brief series, published in-house
• IDB Analyzer – free plug-in for analyzing IEA (and other similar) data

How to Get OA Funding

How does it work?
• Bi-annual call – disseminated by IEA
• Interested authors submit proposal
• Editors + initial reviewers select (usually) one
• Authors celebrate!
• Authors write (80 to 150 pages)
• PEC and editors review
• Springer publishes (open source!)

Award
• Each author or group of authors is awarded € 25,000 for
their work (subject to fulfilling contract)

Unsolicited applications
• We also consider unsolicited applications
• Process is the same
• Proposal
• Review
• (Maybe) award
• Write
• Review
• Publish

Future of Funding

Well…
• I think the numbers justify further funding!
13,680
6,469

For the foreseeable future
• We plan to continue to release RFPs
• And to keep the door open to unsolicited calls

Summary from an Editor’s
Perspective

My Two Cents
• This has been a successful endeavor for me, the IEA, and (I hope) the authors
• We’ve had representation from Europe, S. America, and N. America
• It’s been a great way to get the data used and results disseminated as broadly
as possible – there’s no barrier, other than an internet connection.

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Tracking impact for open access authors:
Author services & tools
Christina Emery
Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer Nature

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Tracking impact for open access authors:
Author services & tools
1. Research impact
2. Bookmetrix
3. Other author services & tools

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Research impact: how can it be tracked?
• Various metrics (Bookmetrix, Altmetric’s Badges for Books)
• Page views
• Downloads (full book, chapter)
• Citations
• Online mentions: social media, blogs, book reviews
• Policy document mentions
• Qualitative ways to measure – DORA
• Various ways to access
• Publisher’s own page
• Scholarly communications networks eg ResearchGate
• Institutional access vs. off-campus IP addresses
• Private sharing
• Various identifiers: ISBNs, DOIs, chapters

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Research impact: what is important to researchers?
Source: Author insights data 2015 (STM authors)

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Research impact: what can we understand from it?
• Shows how your research is being used
• Is it being read? Where? By whom?
• Is it being shared and talked about? Why?
• Is anyone building upon your research?
• Analysis and benchmarking
• Who is interested in research impact?
• Authors
• Funders
• Institutions, librarians and research organisations
• Publishers and platforms
• Readers?
• Advocates of open access
I have actually been addicted to
looking at this page, the download site,
every day. It's remarkable.
- Prof. BS Daya Sagar (OA book author),
Systems Science and Informatics Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore
Centre, India.

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Research impact: OA books
The OA Effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
springernature.com/the-oa-effect

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Professor of Social History at
the University of Hertfordshire, UK
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59519-1
“Publishing is about communication beyond academia.”
– Prof. Owen Davies

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Macroecology research at Institut de
Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité,
France
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-22461-9
“We are moving faster as a society – we need things at the
end of a click for immediate access. If it isn’t, then it won’t
be used or cited as much.” – Dr. Roseli Pellens

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• Helps to demonstrate the reach and impact
I was amazed by the high number of downloads in
the first weeks/months (many more readers than for
books published as paper copies only).
- Anonymous anthropology author
Top cited books

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Bookmetrix: How to use it
Go to your book’s page on SpringerLink, click on any stat

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Click again on the stat
you are interested in,
for further drill down
Check comparison to
discipline average

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Look at full book or chapter-by-chapter metrics

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Other services & tools
• MySpringer / MyPalgrave account
• Track your book’s progress through production
• Download your book performance report
• Access your 40% author discount on publications

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Other services & tools
• Your own dedicated book page
• Link to shop and free download
• Snapshot of book’s stats
• Download flyer and high res image
• Author badge
• Promote your book

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Author guides
Promo tips: SEO, social media, conferences.. How to publish an OA book

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Springer Nature offers a free open access support service to help authors find and apply
for article processing charge (APC) and book processing charge (BPC) funding.
springernature.com/oafunding OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com
Speak to us for
advice on what
funding is
available to you
and for guidance
in approaching
funders and
institutions

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Further information
Online resources
www.springernature.com/oabooks
www.springeropen.com/books
www.palgrave.com/open
Social media
@SN_OAbooks @SpringerNature @SpringerNature
linkedin.com/company/springer-nature/
Questions about our OA books programme:
OAbooks@springernature.com

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christina.emery@springernature.com
@_ChristinaEmery
0000-0003-3903-6724
Contact

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Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access
book
Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave
Religion & Philosophy
Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo)
Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility)
Sophie Mitra (Fordham University)

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Professor and Chairperson of the
Department of Urban and Regional
Planning at the University at Buffalo
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-92813-5
Daniel Hess

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Director of the Independent Evaluation
Office of the Global Environment Facility
Juha Uitto

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Professor in the Department
of Economics at Fordham University
Sophie Mitra

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Panel: Discussing the learnings of the day incl. audience Q&A
Chair: Bill Tucker, Springer Nature
With all presenters and panellists, and audience participation

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The story behind the image
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
In a scientific world still dominated by men, Marie Curie
shone not only as an extraordinary pioneer in the field of
radioactivity, but also as a trailblazing female scientist. A
French-Polish chemist and physicist, Curie discovered two
new elements, polonium and radium, and revolutionised
our understanding of radioactivity, the process by which
unstable atoms decay by emitting energy in the form of
radiation. The first person of either gender to win or share
two Nobel Prizes, Curie is one of the most renowned
scientists of a generation, whose influences can be seen
throughout many areas of modern science, from particle
physics to medicine.
Thank you
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