The Monograph and Open Access Reports and New Opportunities from the Frontline 16 March 2016 Dr Frances Pinter Manchester University Press and Knowledge Unlatched
99 Books OA between 1-5 years 684,800 downloads Nearly 7000 per title 195 countries Manchester University Press Open Access Books
What is OA doing to MUP
Historically – for authors Going forward – for authors and OA funding Going forward – downloads And beyond downloads? Competition amongst Publishers
The Mellon Report Cost of Publishing Monographs Basic Full Cost Full Cost Plus Range - $15,140 - $129,909
Figures from the Report
What does this tell us? Monographs more expensive than thought Staff time is the largest cost item Smaller presses spend less (greater efficiency or underinvestment) ‘No significant determinants of cost’ (eg rent) No standard way of determining overheads Questions around the methodology Are these figures the same for non-American university presses?
North American presses will be discussing subsidies with their parent institutions Presses will be looking for higher payments to go OA There may be a serious look at whether this level of spend is worth it for each monograph What Now?
How will we measure the impact of monographs? Will going OA be a cheaper way of getting books into libraries On what basis will publishers be evaluated? What kinds of discussions will this report produce amongst OA funders ? Questions
Print Runs for Academic Books
Collaborate initiative – libraries and publishers working together A road to OA A space to learn together KU Research What is Knowledge Unlatched?
Round 2 78 books 26 publishers 8 small packages (cc 10 books per packages) five subjects (six packages) two publisher packages (Duke & Michigan) Just Completed
Five Subjects Round 2 History (2 packages) Literature Politics Media & Communications Anthropology
Edinburgh UP Liverpool UP Manchester UP Purdue UP Rutgers UP Temple UP Michigan UP Pilot Publishers (all also in Round 2) Amsterdam UP Bloomsbury Academic Brill Cambridge UP De Gruyter Duke UP
Leiden UP Monash UP Colorado UP Ubiquity Penn State UP Berghahn Fordham UP Round 2 – additional publishers Yale UP Routledge Pluto Toronto UP Brandeis UP Dartmouth UP
Proof of Concept* Pilot and Round 2 Proof of Process (Scale up over 2016/17) New platform, backlist books & journals) Proof of Sustainability (2018+) Self-funding through mark-up * Three Stages of Proof – Rick Anderson, Scholarly Kitchen Going Forward
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