Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences Janneke Adema – Coventry University * Post-digital Publishing Workshop: Publishing and the University - Open Access and Open Learning

Outline  Open Access and the history of open access  Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)  Open Access resources in the HSS  Projects and experiments with Open Access in the HSS  Business and funding models for Open Access books  Challenges and discussion points

Lulu.com & Hypotheses.org

Open Access literature is ‘ Digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions’ Peter Suber

 Green Road: Open Access self- archiving, where authors provide Open Access to their own published articles, by making their own pre- or post-prints free for all  Gold Road: Open Access journal- publishing, where scholars publish in journals that provide Open Access to their articles (free for the user online)

There has been a call for a boycott of both Taylor & Francis and Routledge if their parent company, Informa plc, does not lower its journal subscription charges and pay the UK Exchequer the £13 million lost as a result of its 2009 decision to become a company domiciled in Zug, the Swiss canton with the lowest rate of taxation. Informa can be placed alongside Amazon, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Google and Starbucks on the roll call of companies that aggressively avoid paying the UK standard rate of 26% corporation tax. Over ‘half of Informa’s total annual operating profit [is] derived from academic publishing: £85.8 million’ in Its journals alone provide ‘gross profit margins of over 70 per cent’. There are only two other industries offering these sorts of return: ‘illegal drugs and the delivery of university-level business education.’ See Harvie et al, ‘What Are We To Do With Feral Publishers?’

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Living Books About Life

Open Monographs: funding models  OA edition + sold edition: All  Institutional support for press: – National Academies Press – Athabasca University Press – Australian National University Press (ANU)  Library-Press collaboration: – Mpublishing/Michigan UP – Göttingen UP  Value added services: – Bloomsbury Academic – OpenEdition Freemium  Author side publication fee: – Some Research Councils - Netherlands and Austria  Knowledge Unlatched – Frances Pinter

Challenges and Discussion  What is an Open Access Book  Copyright issues  Funding issues  Radical Open Access