IWA Publishing – Developing an Open Access books portfolio SSP webinar  London, Tuesday 17th October 2017 IWA Publishing – Developing an Open Access books portfolio Rod Cookson, Managing Director

Who are we? We are an association publishing house, focused on research publication and with some practitioner content IWA is a charity with around 10,000 members worldwide Our goal is to spread knowledge about the world’s most valuable resource – water We publish 14 journals – c2,400 articles annually And c30 books each year – with a backfile of c800 titles Books are a key mechanism for reaching our practitioner audiences worldwide, often in Low Income Countries

1 Tentative steps on the road to Open Access book publishing So, Rod and Hakan have given you an overview of where we stand in the market and what our areas of strength are within the portfolio. I would like to talk now on how our proposition compares to those of our competitors. For the sake of time, I want to only focus only on those things that, in my opinion, are key to the success of a medicine & health science portfolio.

What have we done so far? First free access book in 2009, fully OA book in 2013 We have an online collection of 31 open books: 23 free-to-view 7 fully OA 1 non-OA book with 5 OA chapters More in the pipeline: 3 fully OA in production (including two Spanish translations) 3 fully OA with contracts pending 4 more OA books proposed Five most downloaded books all free to view – 20k+ downloads for one title

Fair fees: Book Publication Charge (BPC) for typical book of 140 pages $8,750 / £7,000 / €8,250 and for chapter of 15 pages $1,250 / £1,000 / €1,175

2 Partners help extend reach So, Rod and Hakan have given you an overview of where we stand in the market and what our areas of strength are within the portfolio. I would like to talk now on how our proposition compares to those of our competitors. For the sake of time, I want to only focus only on those things that, in my opinion, are key to the success of a medicine & health science portfolio.

OPEN ACCESS BOOK DATABASES

Performance since joining OAPEN in 2015 Pub date: October 2013 Print book sales: 2 Downloads: 781 (OAPEN), 385 (our e-Book) Pub date: August 2014 Print book sales: 56 Downloads: 106 (OAPEN), 523 (our e-Book) Pub date: October 2013 Print book sales: 10 Downloads: 498 (OAPEN), 129 (our e-Book)

Geography of our OAPEN downloads (Top 10 countries)

The future 3 So, Rod and Hakan have given you an overview of where we stand in the market and what our areas of strength are within the portfolio. I would like to talk now on how our proposition compares to those of our competitors. For the sake of time, I want to only focus only on those things that, in my opinion, are key to the success of a medicine & health science portfolio.

IWA Blue Notes – short, free e-books Short OA e-books on: Regenerative Water Services Water Sensitive Urban Design Basin Connected Cities Water-Wise Communities Potential for multiple series under each heading Each IWA Blue Note c30 pages long – so a series of three similar length to a short book Aim is to publish four series annually Sponsored by industry / research funders

The author’s dilemma?

Thanks to Sara Bosshart, Open Access Publisher