Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) has received much attention in recent years as a possible answer to some of the toughest questions in scholarly publishing. (…) Placing the findings into the context of what is sometimes called the ‘monograph crisis’ allows us to ask a sharper question: Can Diamond OA serve…
« (…) In open access book publishing, there are a variety of PIDs in use, with different ways in which they can be created and managed. Their adoption and implementation rates across the open access publishing landscape differ widely, but as of now Thoth natively supports and integrates ORCID, ROR, and…
« Recent years have seen an increase in publishers exploring open access for monographs and book chapters. Programs like the Direct to Open from MIT Press and JSTOR’s Path to Open have provided avenues for libraries and authors to support open access monographs generally, but not campus authors specifically. On our…
« Is the biggest blocker to open access (OA) for books actually the economics of it all? Book processing charges (BPCs) do not scale but they remain a significant method of paying to produce OA monographs for many researchers and libraries. (…) »
« The Open Book Futures (OBF) project, funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund, was launched in May 2023 and will run until April 2026. OBF is led by Lancaster University and builds upon the pioneering work of the COPIM project (2019–2023) to initiate a step-change in the…
« In this post, Beth Tyrrell and Lai Ma of the NORF-funded project, “Cultivating Open Research Culture in the Humanities and Social Sciences” describe a webinar they hosted on Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the 26th April 2024. The webinar brought together international experts and Irish…
« The development of policies in favour of open science and the transformation of publication channels for academic literature and research produced with public funding by researchers and authors in higher education, combined with technological and financial developments in open access models for scholarly publication and the interest shown by funders…
« Exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable OA book publishing
This SCONUL and Copim-hosted webinar, held 25th January 2024, brought together UK library leaders to share their perspectives on their library’s role in OA book funding and publishing. (…) »
« The transition towards open access (OA) varies across publication type, research field, and geography. For example, in STEM publishing, Individual article processing charges (APCs) have given way to transformative agreements, which in turn now seem to be losing favor in some regions. It has been an even greater challenge to…
« Monographs are central to university press publishing, and to the scholarly ecosystem. As Alison Muddit, recent director of University of California Press commented, “Monographs are the heart of university press publishing; our fundamental role is to serve as a channel for scholarship that does not have an immediate commercial return.…
