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Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015 2017)
No full textThis report is the final summary of a three-year evaluation of Jisc Collections offset agreements. The work has been sponsored by Jisc as part of the Jisc Collections Studentship Award at Birkbeck, University of London.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3256643
Available under a CC0 licenc
Open access monographs: Supporting students
No full textPresentation by Yvonne Budden, Head of scholarly communications, The Library, Warwick University
Given at the Jisc "OA monographs: policy and practice for supporting researchers" community event on 4th July 2019 in York.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/oa-monographs-policy-and-practice-for-supporting-researchers-04-jul-201
Mainstreaming open ebooks: transforming culture, services and practices to open?
No full textLibraries have played an important role in facilitating the transition to open scholarship within their institutions. However, much of this support has focussed on subscription publishing and the transition to OA journals. Monographs are still predicated by print and open for ebooks is less well developed. This is a particular problem for the library supply chain. Open is not embedded into the culture, workflows and practices that are used as part of the book acquisition process.
In order to help address this issue, a workshop session, Mainstreaming open e-books: transforming culture, services and practices to acquire open?, was held during the recent NAG Collection Development Seminar for Academic Libraries to explore some of these issues. This was a well-attended event with over 70 collection / acquisition managers present, plus a number of publishers, book suppliers and intermediaries. Delegates discussed the following topics, which were recorded by the authors:
● If we were to redesign our libraries around the premise of open rather than closed content, how would the library supply chain support open content?
● How do we drive our own ‘transition’ of culture, processes and services so that they’re built around open?
● How do we rethink how we demonstrate value for money for resources invested in open?
Published in Taking Stock issue 28 (1) Summer 2019
https://nag.org.uk/taking-stock/issue-1-taking-stock-edition-title-here-2
