Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections & Graham Stone, Information Resources Manager, University of #oapenuk

Scholars do not work in a vacuum; research is based on work from others and new discoveries must be disseminated in order to be used. SnijderSnijder,Ronald The profits of free books - an experiment to measure the impact of Open Access publishing. #oapenuk

60 HSS titles: Experimental Group (30 titles) Control Group (30 titles) Control Group (30 titles) OA with CC licence OAPEN Library Publishers website Institutional Repository ????? OA with CC licence OAPEN Library Publishers website Institutional Repository ????? Standard e-book agreements Publishers website E-book aggregators Standard e-book agreements Publishers website E-book aggregators Print version available for sale E-book device friendly version available for sale Print version available for sale E-book device friendly version available for sale

The research programme 1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need to change in order to enable OA publication of monographs? 2.What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs? 3.How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the #oapenuk

OAPEN-UK Research Plan Ellen Collins, Research Information Network Research process Initiation Year 1 end Year 2 end Project end 1. Literature review 2. Annual benchmarking survey 4. Initial scoping interviews / survey 3. Initial focus groups 5. Quantitative data analysis 6. Annual participant focus groups 7. Planning for year 3 8. Additional year 3 activities 9. Final evaluation and report 1. Literature review 2. Annual benchmarking survey 4. Initial scoping interviews / survey 3. Initial focus groups 5. Quantitative data analysis 6. Annual participant focus groups 7. Planning for year 3 8. Additional year 3 activities 9. Final evaluation and report

Focus #oapenuk 1.Institutional representatives including librarians, institutional repository staff, research managers 2.Publishers 3.Learned Societies 4.Researchers (as both authors & readers) 5.E-book aggregators 6.Research Funders

Focus Groups: Key themes 1.Metadata: What is the metadata required to support open access books? 2.Versioning, preservation & archiving: What is the version of record & how is it preserved and who provides archival access? 3.Usage: data collection and standards 4. Methods of delivery: where, standards, formats & functionality

Key themes cont… 5. Quality & prestige: impact of perceptions and maintaining excellence 6. What do authors want: financial reward and academic prestige 7. Copyright: ownership, licensing and rights 8. Benefits of OA: opportunities, access and costs #oapenuk

Key themes cont… 9. International issues: territories and markets 10. Changing roles: which to keep, which to start and which to get rid of 11. Impact on processes: policies, mandates and behaviour 12. Consistency: does one size fit #oapenuk

Key themes cont…. 13. Ways to make OA profitable: adding value to content and overlay services 14. Risk: financial, reputational and quality 15. Funding: who pays and how? 16. Calculating costs: what is the cost of an OA #oapenuk

Authors and what they #oapenuk Monetary reward – Concern in focus groups about loss of royalties for authors (Funders, Librarians, Publishers)

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Content published in electronic #oapenuk

Ways of reading electronic scholarly #oapenuk

The last book respondents #oapenuk

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Consistency and standards Metadata Version Preservation Archival #oapenuk

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Please help us OAPEN-UK Researcher Survey is available at: Participate in our institutional representative survey and publisher interviews Explore with us key issues around metadata, business models – have your #oapenuk

Thank you & Further Info OAPEN-UK website: uk.jiscebooks.org/ Diigo Group: OAPEN-UK Caren Milloy collections.ac.uk Graham Stone Ellen Collins net.org #oapenuk