When
to
Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 12:00 BST
Where
Online
United Kingdom
About the Event
Is the biggest blocker to open access books actually the economics of it all? Book Processing Charges don't scale but they're still the dominant method of funding OA monographs, despite the recent emergence of several alternatives to BPCs: collective funding models like Opening the Future, the Open Book Collective, Direct 2 Open, Path to Open etc.
Through presentations and audience Q&A we'll pose some provocative questions to explore this theme:
- How can these new models achieve sustainability and get out from the 'back of the sofa' of end-of-year leftover funds?
- How can libraries continue to make a strategic case for investing in these models when budgets are being cut?
- How can the sector work together to promote and maximise these alternative models in the world of increasingly tight budgets?
With demand increasing for monographs to be open this is a timely and urgent discussion with library and publishing OA experts.
Speakers
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Elaine Sykes Head of Open Research | Lancaster University |
Elaine is Head of Open Research at Lancaster University, a post she had held since January 2022. She has responsibility for scholarly communications, research data management and research intelligence.
Her research interests include community based open access publishing, data visualisation and Citizen Science. She is widely active in the library sector including involvement with SCONUL, RLUK and the library Performance Measurement Conference, where she acts as a Director. She is currently a Co-Investigator on a Wellcome Trust funded project exploring how to create a more sustainable, ethical and inclusive research culture.
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Tom Grady Copim Project Co-Lead | Birkbeck, University of London |
Work Package Lead - Birkbeck, University of London
Tom is a Work Package Lead on the Copim Open Book Futures project, where he runs the Opening the Future revenue model for open access books. Prior to joining Copim, Tom has worked in libraries, academic and public, and was a founding team member of the UK's first jointly-run and library-led open access publisher, White Rose University Press. He can be found on X/Twitter (while it still exists) @scholtom but more often on BlueSky @scholtom.bsky.social
Learning outcomes
1. Colleagues will be able to understand and evaluate the emerging open access monograph funding landscape.
2. Colleagues will gain an understanding of the advantages and challenges for libraries and publishers around OA for books.
3. Colleagues will be equipped to compare open access initiatives and models (Diamond vs green etc), and understand the different approaches available to authors, researchers, libraries and academic publishers.
4. Colleagues will gain an understanding of the complexities around reliable funding for OA books amid an HE sector in flux and increasing pressure on budgets.
5. Colleagues will be able to identify if some of the initiatives highlighted are a good fit for their own library and institution.
Subject level and previous knowledge required
Introductory and non-intensive, no previous knowledge or experience required.
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