1. Library/Press Collaboration at Liverpool
Andrew Barker
Head of Academic Liaison,
Special Collections & Archives
@andcarebarker

2. Some Context: Traditional Library Publisher Relations
The relationship between librarians and publishers is often like that of a dog and a lamp post... with each one thinking the other is the dog. 
Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 25 December 2005

3. The Library View of the Publisher
Subscription Prices!
Lack of Availability of Key E-Textbooks!
Licensing Issues!
Photograph © Alison Whitehorn, 2015

4. The Publisher View of The Library
High Expectations!
Open Access Demands!
Suspicion!
Photograph © Alison Whitehorn, 2015

5. Come Together ?
So why would University of Liverpool Library & Liverpool University Press want to collaborate?
Photograph © Andrew Dunn, 25 December 2005

6. With a Little Help from My Friends
The University of Liverpool is in a strong position to support and enhance scholarly communication because it has a Library and a Press ... and teachers, researchers, etc

7. What is Liverpool University Press?
Third Oldest in the UK – Founded in 1899
Reborn in 2004
Publishes approximately 70 books a year and 25 journals
Specialises in Literature, Modern Languages, History and Visual Culture.

8. What is Liverpool University Press?
“Liverpool University Press does a lot of things you wouldn’t expect from a university press and thinks outside the usual confines of publishing.”
“This is a publisher that relishes a challenge.”
“There’s a lot of dynamism and innovation around Liverpool University Press”

9. Initial Partnership
LUP Library Advisory Board
Modern Languages Open

10. We can work it out: the library/press advisory board
Discussion forum
Ideas for collaboration
An anthropological study
Questions often lead to further questioning of our own processes

11. Modern Languages Open

12. Modern Languages Open Launched 2014
Interdisciplinarity across the modern languages
Gold Open Access under a CC-BY or CC-BY- NC licence
Rigorous peer review pre-publication, interactivity post-publication
International dissemination under the imprimatur of a university press

13. Moving it on… Informal Discussions Getting deeper into the Library
What are our needs?
Library- Books!
Image: The Quarrymen plus their instruments , Ronald Saunders, Wikipedia

14. Should we collaborate on or textbooks or monographs?
Image: The Quarrymen plus their instruments , Ronald Saunders, Wikipedia

15. Student TEXTpectation
Fees = Textbooks
I want it NOW!

16. How’s the perceived lack of textbooks impacting?
Student Experience
National Student Survey – ULMS and Law

17. Getting Better…. What our users are saying:
‘In general, the library book stock needs to be increased, especially those that are recommended for particular modules.’
‘Library resources are out-of-date and there are not enough of them.’
‘Books are not available, limited copies or no copy at all.’
‘The library is usually lacking in resources, providing only one (if that) copy of a text that is used by many and is otherwise too expensive to purchase’.
‘Library resources can be stretched at key times’.

18. What can we do about it? Some Thoughts: Buy more print?
‘Free Books for All’ - Manchester/Middlesex/Plymouth model?
Co-Creation..? But How? Where’s the Money..?

19. Enter Jisc…

20. Call for proposals – February 2014
Sent to HSS Faculty
Tight deadline
Open to all proposals
Technology choices driven by e-textbook ideas
Decision made by the Press and the Library.
E-textbooks to be Open Access
POD print version for sale

21. (e)Paperback writer Essentials for Financial Management
By Jason Laws, Management School
To be used on the largest taught module in the institution – 900 students, many from XJTLU
Students currently use a book retailing at £56
The module is also taught in XJTLU
Much of the material exists already in lecture notes and VITAL.
Co-created – The Author will ‘road-test’ sections on students.

22. Xerte

23. (e)Paperback writer
Using Primary Sources: A Guide for Students Jon Hogg, History
To be used across taught courses in the School
Will utilise Library/Archive resources
Section editors for each period
Large number of contributors, including students
Potential for outreach, recruitment, schools
Three POD volumes accompanying the site
The potential to expand into other areas, e.g. SACE

24. Biblioboard

25. The Long and Winding Road
Academics will write
Press will select, shape, edit, credentialise, produce POD, market, distribute
Library will provide technical creation
CLL, CSD and a steering group will ensure the books meet all pedagogical and technological standards
Material available in late 2015

26. Fab!
Pro-Vice-Chancellor : 'will significantly enhance the Liverpool student experience through the elimination of cost to students for course materials, and the opportunity to tailor those materials to exact pedagogical requirements.’
University Librarian: 'visionary, innovative and practical ... it demonstrates the way the Library and the University Press at Liverpool are working together to change the landscape of information provision for the better.'

27. Tomorrow Never Knows ?

28. Thank You
Questions?