Speaker Abstracts
Susan Whitfield
- Model of International Dunhuang Project (IDP) as an international collaboration which distributes ownership and shares skills
- identfying common goals while recognizing institutional limitations and agendas
- building trust
- sharing ownership and devolving responsiblities
- passing on skills
Saskia de Vries
The scholarly book in the digital age faces challenges such as economic constraints, changing attitudes of readers using the internet and new possiblities offered by electronic media. Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) as book-oriented sciences therefore are especially effected. This refers to their respective publishers, often organised as not-for-profit presses or small and medium size enter
At the same time the mentioned scholarly fields and publishers could benefit especially from Open Access publishing with its potential to reach new audiences and limit publishing costs.
I will present OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks), a so-called Targeted Project co-funded by the EC within its eContentplus Programme.
OAPEN aims to develop and implement an Open Access publication model for academic books in HSS. Our goal is to achieve a sustainable European approach to improve the quantity, visibility and usability of high quality academic research and foster the creation of new content by developing future-oriented publishing solutions, including an open access library for peer reviewed books in HSS.
We are working on developing a new businessmodel for Open Access monograph publishing together with our stakeholder group, that includes representatives from Research founding bodies as NOW and the KNAW in the Netherlands, but also from Sparc Europe, SNE - the French Publishers Union, ESF - the European Science Foundation, DFG -the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK, JISK and institutions in other European countries.
To developing a new, OA model for academic books, it is necessary to collaborate across borders, with both publishers and stakeholders in Scholarly communication. This is achieved through our External Stakeholder Group, but also through OAPEN’s Partner network, and through contacts with various EU institutions and projects.