This document outlines issues with the current scholarly publishing model and proposes an alternative called the Social Sciences Directory concept. It aims to provide affordable, open access journals while maintaining quality peer review. The concept has seen early successes, including publishing its first issues, gaining an institutional membership with the University of Nottingham, and negotiating a consortium agreement with SHEDL that allows Scottish universities to submit articles. Next steps involve expanding the initiative through additional support, marketing, and increasing submissions to achieve sustainability.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
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The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
Open access for the inaugural @OpenResLDN meeting 2015 01 19Chris Banks
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A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.
Scholarly Communications Model Policy and Licence: Publishers' Association Co...Chris Banks
Responses to recent concerns raised by the Publishers' Association about plans to introduce a model open access policy for UK Higher Education Institutions in order to simplify the complex funder and publisher policy environment currently experienced by UK academics.
Open Access Progress and Promise in the CGIAR ConsortiumCIARD Movement
The presentation provided an overview and update on the CGIAR Consortium's progress in Open Access, including some of the challenges and opportunities of advocating for Open Access across the Consortium.
The webinar was presented by Piers Bocock, Director of Knowledge Management and Communication at the CGIAR Consortium. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the Consortium’s Knowledge Management, Communications, and IT strategies, leveraging best practices in these disciplines to help the Consortium deliver on its mandate.
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The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
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In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
Open Access in the UK - challenges of compliance with funder mandatesChris Banks
This was a presentation given at the LIBER2014 conference in Riga.
See http://liber2014.wp.lnb.lv/programme/papers/abstracts-and-biographies/#ChrisBanks for an abstract and biography.
It appears highly probable that immediate open access publishing
will become the default mode for scholarly publishing – for the
biosciences first, other sectors later. ‘Immediate’ open access
means unfettered publication as soon as a scholarly work is
ready, with no embargo period. The costs of making a scholarly
artefact available can be reduced without sacrificing quality. This
interactive session will sketch the argument for these claims and
will present several value-added services that publishers could
develop to thrive in an open access world.
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A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
Knowledge Unlatched: Enabling Open Access for Scholarly BooksLucy Montgomery
Although digital technology has made it possible for many more people to access content at no extra cost, fewer people than ever before are able to read the books written by university-based researchers. This presentation explores the role that open access licenses and collective action might play in reviving the scholarly monograph: a specialised area of academic publishing that has seen sales decline by more than 90 per cent over the past three decades. It also introduces Knowledge Unlatched an ambitious attempt to create an internationally coordinated, sustainable route to open access for scholarly books. Knowledge Unlatched is now in its pilot phase.
Uncovering Open Access: seizing the moment and making it work for you – experiences from the ground
Presentation by Karen Bruns, Marketign Manager HSRC Press South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Buhle Mbambo-Thata, Director, Library Services UNISA and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) South Africa at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
In the ‘normal’ world of retail and commerce you pay for an item
and receive the item. The world of academic journals is different.
This presentation, based on KAUST’s experience to date, will
attempt to explain the different models of offset pricing while
outlining KAUST’s dual approach, redirecting subscription
money to publishing money and embedding open access terms
in understandable language in our license agreements, to the
problem. Stephen Buck and J K Vijayakumar
King Abdullah University of Saudi Arabia (KAUST)
Open Access in the UK - challenges of compliance with funder mandatesChris Banks
This was a presentation given at the LIBER2014 conference in Riga.
See http://liber2014.wp.lnb.lv/programme/papers/abstracts-and-biographies/#ChrisBanks for an abstract and biography.
It appears highly probable that immediate open access publishing
will become the default mode for scholarly publishing – for the
biosciences first, other sectors later. ‘Immediate’ open access
means unfettered publication as soon as a scholarly work is
ready, with no embargo period. The costs of making a scholarly
artefact available can be reduced without sacrificing quality. This
interactive session will sketch the argument for these claims and
will present several value-added services that publishers could
develop to thrive in an open access world.
Open Access Scholarship and China’s Soft PowerDr Xiang REN
This is a presentation given at the ICAS9 international conference. It draws on Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘Soft Power’ to explore the role that OA is playing in helping to reshape publishing and scholarship in China. It introduces the green and gold open access developments in China and discusses the dynamics and constraints in increasing the status and impact of Chinese scholarship and re-positioning China as an international leader in open knowledge movements.
A focus on measurement and assessment of teaching and
learning outcomes has become entrenched in policy and the
strategies of academic institutions. In the UK this trend has
crystallised in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Librarians are increasingly managing course-specific resources
that up to now had been the province of the Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) or digital textbook platforms. This session
looks at the impacts on content and licensing, e-textbooks and the potential merging of library and educational technology
Ken Chad, Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Ass Af Conference Presentation 02 July 2008.Docpowerinbetween
The changing in the world of research communication: from the perspective of people working in information and communication roles and at the supply end of research.
Presentation by Dr. Xola Mati, Chief Operations Officer, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the Locating the Power of the In-between conference July 08
Today’s publishing environment is evolving. New University
Presses (NUPs) and Academic-Led Presses (ALPs) play an
increasing role in the shift in scholarly communication. In 2016
Jisc conducted a landscape study to provide a unique view of the
motivations, models, policies and future direction of these new
presses. This session will report on the findings of the research.
It will also discuss the next steps Jisc are taking to provide
support in this rapidly developing area, such as new methods
of publishing and scholarly outputs and advice and best practice
for existing and new presses.
Restoran Thumbkin House (THR) yang terletak di Kuala Lumpur mula beroperasi beberapa tahun yang lalu. Restoran ini menyediakan pelbagai masakan dan minuman timur dan barat. Bagi memastikan perkhidmatan yang terbaik, restoran ini telah menggunakan sistem maklumat (IS) dalam mengendalikan data untuk operasi harian mereka.
Walaupun penggunaan IS menyediakan tindak balas yang lebih cepat dan membolehkan pelayan untuk memberikan perkhidmatan yang terbaik kepada pelanggan, pengurusan THR mengambil perhatian bahawa restoran ini hanya menggunakan IS mereka dalam pemprosesan pesanan makanan sahaja. Pihak pengurusan merasakan bahawa fungsi semasa IS boleh diperluaskan lagi untuk mengesan tahap stok item makanan supaya tidak terjadi masalah "tiada-dalam-stok" dan juga untuk mengguna pakai pemesanan dalam talian untuk mencapai lebih ramai pelanggan melalui perkhidmatan penghantaran makanan. Dalam usaha untuk melaksanakan matlamat ini, Perancangan Sistem Maklumat yang sesuai (dari segi Perancangan Strategik) perlu dijalankan.
Andaikan yang anda bekerja sebagai Pengurus IT di THR, dan anda diarahkan oleh pihak pengurusan untuk menulis cadangan mengenai bagaimana IS boleh digunakan untuk menyokong kedua-dua fungsi di atas (termasuk gambar rajah aliran input-transformasi-output) dan Perancangan Strategik IS yang terlibat.
Sediakan laporan yang berkaitan dengan peringkat-peringkat pembangunan produk baru yang diguna pakai oleh organisasi pilihan anda. Jelaskan dan nilaikan peringkat-peringkat pembangunan produk baru sedia ada bagi organisasi berkenaan untuk satu produk baru yang terpilih. Berdasarkan hasil dapatan anda, perbaiki peringkat-peringkat pembangunan produk baru sedia ada dengan tujuan untuk menghasilkan produk baru yang berjaya bagi pasaran Malaysia.
GILLIAN DALY & DOMINIQUE WALKER - Scottish Universities Press
Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is a library-led publishing initiative involving 18 institutions. SUP was formed in response to changes in the Open Access policy landscape and to harness the benefits of working collaboratively at scale. In this session we will outline the approach to establishing SUP, sharing tips and lessons learned. We will cover the practical challenges we have experienced as librarians becoming publishers and discuss how wider challenges in the OA landscape have impacted our efforts. We will also outline the opportunities of institution-led publishing as we have experienced them and explore the wider anticipated benefits as we move to scaling up SUP.
United Kingdom Scholarly Communications model policy and Licence - UK-SCL - u...Chris Banks
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Students as Scholars – Participation in Open Research and Publishing Practices: The Case of the Communications Undergraduate Journal at Dublin City University
presented by Ronan Cox, Dublin City University;
5 Years of HRB Open Research in 5 Minutes
presented by Hannah Wilson, F1000;
National Open Access Repositories: Strengthen and Align Ireland’s Network of Open Access Repositories
presented by Christopher Loughnane, University of Galway;
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presented by Catherine Ferris, IReL.
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Whose Property Is It Anyway? Part 2: The Challenges in Supporting the UK’s Main Research Funder Agendas which Seek to Ensure that the Outputs from Publicly-Funded Research are Published Open Access
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Presentation at the American Association of Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division conference in February 2016 on the coming cost of open access compliance, and how we can reduce it
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Incentives for sharing research data – Veerle Van den Eynden, UK Data Service
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Giving researchers credit for their data – Neil Jefferies, The Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services (BDLSS)
Jisc and CNI conference, 6 July 2016
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Alex and Conor introduce SAH Journal (sahjournal.com) as an open access academic journal project involving the collaborative efforts of emerging and established scholars as well as academic librarians. Conor explains the benefits of collaborating with research librarians through publishing. Alex asserts that librarians (libraries) are perfectly positioned to enter into direct competition with established commercial journal publishers. He explains the mechanics of electronic publishing from conceptional planning to implementation via, in this instance, Open Journal Systems (OJS).
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2. Contents
• Issues in publishing
• Issues for academics
• Social Sciences Directory concept
• Successes to date
• Institutional memberships
• Consortium proposals
• Next steps
• Summary
3. Scholarly publishing issues
• A flawed industry model in need of change
– Restricted access to publicly-funded research
• Paywalls
• Copyright
• DRM
– Spiralling costs for library resources and monopolistic practices
– Publication times of months and years
• Reliant on ever-increasing amounts of public funding
– Situation brought to a head by the GFC in 2008
– Widespread budget shrinkage
• Hastened new thinking & mandates from governments and funders
4. Issues for academics
• Funding such as REF conflates research quality with journals used to
publish findings
• Propagates need/desire to publish in high impact journals
BUT
• No of scientists and research output globally is growing
exponentially so likelihood of publication will decline
• There are not like-for-like OA journals with high impact factors in all
subjects, so need to consider alternatives
• Hybrid model adding to already unsustainable costs
• Insistence on importance of journal titles is at odds with user
behaviour
• Future funding mandates likely to move away from impact metrics
“No serious scientist that I know of decides to read an
article just because it's published in a prestigious journal,
or, perhaps even more to the point, decides not to read it
just because it's published in a lesser journal. He or she
tries to find must-read articles via searches, consulting
colleagues, following references, often without realising or
taking note of the journal in which they are published”
Jan Velterop
“We run a publication fund for our scholars to cover their article
fees in Gold Open Access journals… It turns out that more and
more scholars use PLoS ONE as a means to get out of that
‘journal roulette’. We asked them why they put their articles from
important research projects into PLoS ONE. Roughly half of them
stated that they had tried at one other journal and then got under
time pressure to publish, almost all remaining ones stated that
they couldn't waste time in the submission process of higher
ranking journals. And at least one stated that he knew the article
was good and therefore simply wanted it as fast and reliable as
possible in front of his peers to read it, sacrificing potential
reputation gain for speed”
Margo Bargheer, Gottingen University
5. Social Sciences Directory concept
• Keep what’s good
– Editorial independence
– Quality control – double blind peer review
– Article structures – abstract, methodology, content, conclusion,
references
– Indexing and archiving
• Improvements
– Online-only content with unlimited pagination
• Faster to publish
• Less wasted material
– Multi-disciplinary and international content to cross-fertilise ideas
– Peer-reviewed articles augmented by valuable additional material
– Affordability
– Cost recovery made at the point of submission rather than re-couped
6. Successes to date
• Built publishing platforms
• Recruited two editorial boards
• Contributions to the OA debate – articles, blogposts,
conference speaking, social media > a thought leader
• Published three issues (9 papers) in Soc Sci Directory
• Special issues and conference proceedings pending
• First article fee, institutional membership and
consortium agreement
• Built good awareness amongst librarians in UK
• Set up Humanities Directory ahead of schedule
7. Enlightened self-interest
• Break the monopoly of subscription publishers
– Benefits a variety of stakeholders
• Unrealistic to expect academia or the publishing industry to
reform themselves
• Govt and funder mandates can play a part
• Consortia and universities need to take a lead in bringing
about change
8. Institutional membership
• University of Nottingham
• Social sciences faculty liaison team approved support for an institutional
membership
• Allows unlimited number of submissions to be made for a 12 month period
• Promotional material created to support agreement and drive submissions
Tony Simmonds, Faculty Team Leader – Social Sciences at the University of
Nottingham, commented:
“Nottingham has long been a proponent of open access publishing, with an
established research fund to pay open access charges. We believe this is a
promising and bold venture, and one that deserves backing”
9. Consortium agreement
Scottish Higher Education Digital Library (SHEDL)
– Scottish university meetings (Nov 2012)
– Presentation to SHEDL working group (Feb 2013)
– Meeting at UKSG in Bournemouth (April 2013)
– Approval by SCURL library directors (May 2013)
10. Consortium agreement
Proposal 1 – all-for-all institutional membership offer to SHEDL
members
All SHEDL consortium members will be included in the agreement, allowing
unlimited submissions to be made by any of them.
In return for this commitment, Social Sciences Directory Limited will offer an
incentivised discount, whilst also recognising that not all Scottish
universities may require access to both Social Sciences Directory and
Humanities Directory if their faculties do not conduct research in these
fields.
Fees per institution:
Single Directory access - £1,800 Both Directories access - £3,300
For example, 18 universities taking both Directories @ £3,300 pa = £59,400
11. Consortium agreement
Proposal 2 – opt-in institutional membership offer to SHEDL members
SHEDL will negotiate on behalf of its members, but it will be up to each to
decide whether they wish to be included in the agreement. A minimum of
three universities are required to make the agreement effective.
Fees per institution:
Single Directory access - £1,900 Both Directories access - £3,400
For example, 5 universities taking one Directory each @ £1,900 pa = £9,500
12. Consortium agreement
Proposal 3 – article purchase offer to SHEDL members
SHEDL will negotiate an agreed number of paid-for articles, which can be
used by universities on a first-come, first-served basis
For example, 18 universities with an average of 20 submissions pa @ £100 =
£36,000
13. Consortium agreement
Final agreement
• SHEDL purchased an agreed number of pre-paid APCs
• Internally allocated to Scottish HEIs, based on research output
• Aim to allow ‘testing’ and then full institutional memberships
Dr Richard Parsons, Director of SHEDL, commented:
“The change in the UK funding mandate that came in to effect in April 2013
gives us the need and opportunity to explore new publishing opportunities
for Scottish research output. SHEDL has chosen to support Social Sciences
Directory because we believe that it offers an opportunity to move to a
new publishing solution which maintains quality standards whilst offering
a more cost-effective model”
14. Library and consortia roles
• University of Nottingham IM and SHEDL consortia agreement
are highly significant
– Demonstrates that the library and consortia side can play
a critical role in decision-making about publishing choice
• Global email campaign to HE consortia with proposals
• Strong expressions of interest
• Other agreements – JISC, Huddersfield pro-rata IM
• Flexible
– Price bands
– Pricing that reflects GDP (special offers for EiFL and INASP)
16. Summary
• Reform is required and has been mandated
• Providing a progressive, affordable and
flexible solutions
• Benefit researchers and students worldwide
Thank you
dan.scott@socialsciencesdirectory.com