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The significant difference in impact
No full textThis paper analyses usage statistics, citation data and altmetrics from a university press publishing open access monographs. The bibliometric data is then contrasted to the outcome of a survey of attitudes and behaviour among authors and editors who have published open access books. The metrics indicate that downloads and citations depend on the community of practice of the intended audience within each specific academic discipline, as well as the content itself. There is, for example, a clear difference in usage patterns between monographs and anthologies. The altmetric data used in the study indicate how users interact with the published books online. The data suggests, despite the small sample, that authors can to a greater extent influence how their book is discovered by the readership. It would, therefore, be relevant for authors to become more aware of the type of metrics available and how they can be interpreted and used for better understanding of how the book can reach its intended audience. Further studies are needed, and publishers of open access books are encouraged to share data for benchmarking and development of best practices.
ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille,
France. hal-02141879
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-0214187
Enough about ideology, let’s talk about values
No full textProgress in open access has been hampered by ideology and oppositionalism. The commonsense notion of openness as a necessary public good masks an increasingly narrow set of neoliberal values such as efficiency, transparency and compliance that need to be opened up and contested from within the academy. A cyberlibertarian approach to scholarly publishing will cost us dearly as the (hidden) price of publishing is devolved to universities and individual scholars providing free content and free labour to for-profit publishers and platforms. We should begin by re-evaluating scholarly work and its current conditions of possibility
Presented at Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications, held at Goldsmiths, University of London on 24 May 201
Jisc NBK Participant Framework - version 6.0
No full textTo set out the detailed basis on which the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK) and all of its current and future features, tools and services (delivered as part of the Library Hub suite of services) can be delivered to all organisations and individuals who wish to contribute to, or make use of the products that will be on offer
Developing a roadmap for OA monographs in Europe: key outcomes from a Knowledge Exchange survey and workshop
No full textThe Knowledge Exchange (KE) partners are six national organisations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use of digital technologies to improve higher education and research. To ensure awareness of the position of Open Access monographs KE published a “Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs” in 2017. The report, which was widely downloaded found that both OA monographs and the policies and models that support them appear to be growing. However, it reported considerable variation between each country in the study. In 2018, KE commissioned a follow up survey to help identify the next steps that should be considered in order to continue to support the transition to Open Access. This directly informed a workshop for key European stakeholders, held in Brussels in November 2018. This presentation will provide an overview of the results of the survey and the follow up workshop, which delveoped key themes, such as policy, author engagement, technical infrastructure and monitoring, and called for the development of a European roadmap for Open Access monographs.
Paper presented at OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva, 19-21 June 201
Motivations for textbook and learning resource publishing: Do academics want to publish OA textbooks?
No full textThe affordability of textbooks and unsustainable commercial models are issues that many libraries face. As an alternative, there is a growing movement in the United States around open and affordable textbooks. However, to date there has been less activity in the UK despite the introduction of a range of policies that encourage or mandate open access publication of research outputs such as journal articles or monographs. These policy changes have affected academics’ attitudes to open access, but it is not yet clear whether the opportunity to publish in open access would affect researchers’ propensity to create non-research outputs such as textbooks and learning materials. In 2017, Jisc Collections proposed a study into author incentives for textbook publishing in order to understand whether open access would motivate authors to publish learning materials and thereby support a transition to open access for e-textbooks. The study consisted of a survey, focus groups and interviews. This article discusses the results of the research and provides several key insights and future opportunities for those wishing to explore open and affordable textbooks
