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Infrastructure for OA publishing
This document discusses initiatives to support open access publishing of books in the humanities and social sciences. It outlines the OPERAS initiative, which aims to: [1] adopt common standards for European open access book publishing; [2] share research and development projects; and [3] advocate for open access in the humanities. OPERAS currently has 12 partners from 5 countries and seeks to establish a sustainable infrastructure for open access publishing of books at a European scale. The long term goal is for OPERAS to be recognized as a research infrastructure by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures.
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- 2. GREEN AND GOLD: AN OUTDATED PARADIGM
- 3. We need disciplinaryapproach
- 4. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Ccby-nc Salvador Garcia Bardon
- 5. The book isspecific to humanities
- 6. Hard times forbooks/humanities (in open access world) !
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- 8. Gold road… forarticles • « The research communications system is in a period of transition towards open access. We believe that, at its simplest, this is a shift from a reader- pays to an author-pays system, which in turn requires a shift in publications processes and business models. The aim of our recommendations is to accelerate that process, but in an ordered way » • « would require an additional £50-60m a year in expenditure from the HE sector: £38m on publishing in open access journals, £10m on extensions to licences for the HE and health sectors and £3-5m on repositories, plus one-off transition costs of £5m. »
- 9. … not forbooks
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- 12. YET, INITIATIVES BLOSSOM INEUROPE CC By Ian Sane
- 13. « Scholarly startups» • Open Humanities Press • Open Book Publishers • Sdvig Press • Language Science Press • Open Library of Humanities
- 14. University Presses • GöttingenUniversity Press • KIT • UCL Press • Firenze University Press • Editions de la MSH
- 15. Institutional publishers • OECD •World Bank • The Commonwealth • Nordic Council
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- 17. Knowledge Unlatched :news from the front • KU is launching a second round in October with unlatching in early spring 2016 • This will be with 80 books from 25 publishers (pilot was 13 publishers, 28 books) • Following this we expect to scale up more rapidly in 2016 • Research on usage of KU titles will be undertaken at Curtin University, Australia • Downloads of pilot in first twelve months was over 1000 downloads per book in 170 countries
- 18. A virtual libraryfor open access books
- 19. A digital publishingplatform
- 20. INTRODUCING A NEW INITIATIVE: OPERAS CC By-sa Naoya Ikeda
- 21. OPERAS Open access Publicationsin the European Research Area for the Social sciences and humanities http://operas.hypotheses.org
- 22. Common goals • Adoptcommon standards • Share R&D projects • Identify and adopt best practices • Benchmark business models • Advocate for humanities in open access and open access in humanities • Provide unified seamless services at european scale
- 23. • ESFRI :european strategy forum for research infrastructures • Earmarks strategic initiatives for specific scientific communities • Implies funding commitment at national level • Specific funds at european level (INFRADEV) • Next update of the roadmap in 2018 • Legal entity at the end of the process
- 24. 12 partners in5 countries…so far Association of European University Presses – AEUP (EU) Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università italiane – CRUI (IT) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – ILIESI (IT) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (DE) Knowledge Unlatched (UK) Max Weber Stiftung (DE) Oapen library (NL) OpenEdition (FR) Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (IT) Università di Torino (IT) Εθνικό Κέντρο Τεκμηρίωσης – EKT (GR)
- 25. JOIN US ! CCBy-sa Jorge Royan
- 26. (cyber)infrastructure “a layer ofinformation, expertise, standards, policies, tools, and services that are shared broadly across communities of inquiry but developed for specific scholarly purposes : cyberinfrastructure is something more specific than the network itself, but it is something more general than a tool or a resource developed for a particular project, a range of projects, or, even more broadly, for a particular discipline.”
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Editor's Notes
- #3 We use that paradigm for years now (at leat since BOAI) but it’s less and less pertinent because differences between the two models are blurring (example of overlay journals) and more important, because it prevents us to think to other important types of structuration inside open access field. For example, it prevents us from paying enough attention to the different communication models between disciplines and therefore their specific needs in terms of open access scheme.
- #4 Annaig compared adoption of e-journals between stm disciplines in a french university. Sha showed that the adoption was uneven because of the strong differences of communication practices between disciplines.
- #5 Copernician revolution
- #21 We need to converge
- #26 That’s where revolutions begin !