The University Press Redux Policy and Publishing: a plenary session with Mark Llewellyn (AHRC) Steven Hill (HEFCE) David Prosser (RLUK) Chair Richard Fisher (Wolfson College, Cambridge) 17 th March 2016

Acronyms (1) AHRC – the Arts and Humanities Research Council HEFCE – the Higher Education Funding Council for England RLUK – Research Libraries United Kingdom

Acronyms (2) REF – Research Excellence Framework (which succeeded the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise)) TEF – Teaching Excellence Framework JISC – (formerly the) Joint Information Systems Committee ESRC – The Economic and Social Research Council

Policy and Political Geography Individual researcher (especially in arts and social sciences) Mostly site-specific Universities and HEIs Mostly country-specific governments, funders* and booksellers Mostly international and/or global publishers and ‘content-providers’ The world’s first truly global, or at least imperial, media organisation was an academic publisher - Oxford University Press

The Big Picture (the UK) What was once one of the developed world’s most selective and arguably least research- intensive university networks has mutated, over the past fifty years, into the polar opposite. The resource implications of this profound transition are only now emerging in full sight, and the latter is not a particularly pretty one What does this transformation imply for the University Press sector?

The Big Picture (the UK) The UK is strategically important to transatlantic university presses as a source of content and research authors: it is notably less strategically important as a source of revenues How can policy-makers best work with University Presses in this context of disequilibrium?

The Big Picture (the UK) What is the future of TEF, REF and how will a post-HEFCE world shape up? What are the implications of 'Outcomes- driven' publishing, bookselling and provisioning within a UK university framework of student-driven consumer demand? Where will research agendas fit into any new post-HEFCE landscape?

Why don’t they like us anymore? ‘Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind’. John Locke, writing to Anthony Collins in June 1704

Our Speakers Today Mark Llewellyn on University Presses and Evidence Pushing Steven Hill on Making Space for the Academic Book of the Future David Prosser on Removing the Policy Barriers for Monograph Publications 20 minutes each, to allow ample time for Q/A