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OA Monographs: perspectives on researcher concerns from White Rose University Press
No full textPresentation by Kate Petherbridge, White Rose University Press
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
Open access and monographs
No full textPresentation by Dr Helen Snaith, Senior policy advisor, Research England (part of UK Research and Innovation)
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
Open Scholarship and the need for collective action
No full textThe book aims to increase understanding of the challenges to make scholarship more open. It addresses various perspectives offered by KE's Open Scholarship Framework, combining levels (micro, meso and macro-level actors), arenas (political, economic, social, technical) and research phases (discovery, planning, project phase, dissemination).
As many of the challenges in navigating the transition to Open Scholarship are economic, the focus of the book is on the economic arena. In addition, great attention is given to the incentives, actions and influences of meso-level actors: groups, communities or organisations such as universities, disciplines, scholarly societies or publishers because of their enormous impact on developing open scholarship.
Taking in the Open Scholarship landscape, the authors of the book - experts and experienced actors in the field of Open Scholarship - look at the stakeholders and their interactions and networks. They examine the historic developments leading to the current organisational complexity, responsibility issues, conflicting motives and values, and the importance of interaction between institutions.
The authors analyse how economic models can be applied to scholarship and conclude that economic theory cannot fully explain nor prescribe how Open Scholarship can be achieved. The challenges to achieve Open Scholarship, such as gravitational hubs and the complex governance of common pool resources, are highlighted.
The conclusion of the book is that for a successful transition to Open Scholarship, collective action approaches and establishment of a supportive infrastructure are key
Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications
No full textCritical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications was a one-day event that aimed to widen the dialogue on open access books, examining the implications of UK policy for research culture and values, the future of scholarly publishing and for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS). Academics were given centre stage in recognition of the fact that open access policy impacts researchers and universities at least as much as scholarly publishing, and because preceding events had focused on input from other stakeholders including publishers and learned societies.
Key themes included a review of the relation between monographs and open access, how to move beyond the impasse of ideological oppositions, differences between open access for science and humanities, scholar-led open access and the relation between open access and copyright reforms. The spirit of the event was both reflective and practical, oriented to acknowledging the challenges of open access that have already been addressed while exploring remaining issues in funding and policy, research assessment, quality assurance and peer review and academic freedom. The event highlighted questions of difference and diversity throughout, and included perspectives from early career and retired academics.
Open access remains a contentious area of debate and policy and the rationale for this event was to acknowledge and even affirm that – given the significance of its impact on publishing and the academy – in order to seek a route forwards. There was, characteristically, no consensus in a room composed of researchers, managers, publishers, librarians, funders and other interested parties. There was, however, a shared commitment to a future ecology of scholarly publishing and communications in AHSS that is sustainable and diverse.
This report includes detailed summaries of the main contributions and discussions and the key recommendations are listed below. As well as funding and mandates, the principle concerns were with open access policies and models designed for and derived from Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields with, as yet, little adaptation to AHSS. In light of the differences in research practice, process, output and funding between STEM and AHSS disciplines, there can be no simple adaptation or automatic progression from STEM to AHSS or from journal to monograph publishing. The consistent value of the monograph to AHSS research culture needs to be recognized, even as it continues to evolve as a form of scholarly communication and intersect with other forms of textual and non-textual research.
Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications focused on UK policy in light of the alignment between UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Research Excellence Framework (REF) policy. While that broad alignment was affirmed during the event, the relative autonomy of UKRI and REF open access policy was, notably, underlined, along with the fact that REF policy for 2027 is still to be determined. I hope that this report will contribute, in some part, to the development and coordination of policies that have such far-reaching consequence for universities in the UK and for the publishing sector globally
