1 July 2013 to 2 July 2013
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The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
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About
Jisc Collections, in partnership with OAPEN Foundation, is holding a two-day international conference to raise awareness of open access, increase understanding of key challenges and identify where international common policies and frameworks could support the adoption of open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
In the last two decades, monographs sales have rapidly declined from an average of over 2000 to just 200 – in line with library budgets reductions. In order to support the continued existence of the monograph and to move HSS in line with other areas of scholarly communication and research funder’s policies, a new open access business model is required. However, transitioning to new models requires institutional and cultural change alongside experimentation, testing and consultation.
Now is the time for consultation, collaboration and commitment; this conference will be the first to tackle open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences head on.
Key topics of the conference will include:
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new open access business models
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maintaining quality
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the future of peer-review
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creative commons licensing
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international policy development
Further information can be found on the Jisc Collections pages.
Programme
Monday 1 July
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Registration with tea and coffee
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Welcome and opening: Setting the scene
Martin Hall
Vice chancellor, University of Salford
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Keynote
Jean-Claude Guédon
University of Montreal
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Panel: HSS after Finch
Martin Hall
Vice chancellor, University of Salford (Chair)
Ruper Gatti
Open Book Publishers
Carl-Christian Buhr
European Commission
Sally Hardy
Regional Studies Assocation
Kim Hackett
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
Philippe Aigrain
Author of Sharing
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Lunch and posters
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Session: Promising business models
Brian Hole
Ubiquity Press (Chair)
Martin Eve
Open Library of Humanities
Caroline Edwards
Open Library of Humanities
Francis Pinter
Knowledge Unlatched
Carrie Calder
Palgrave Macmillan
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Coffee break
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Session: Copyright and Creative Commons
Ben White
The British Library
Joscelyn Upendran
Zilpa
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Session: Peer review and quality
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Modern Language Association (MLA)
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Launch: Directory of open access books
Sponsored by SpringerOpen and Brill
Bas Savenije
OAPEN
Eelco Ferweda
OAPEN
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Drinks reception at the British Library
Tuesday 2 July
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Registration with tea and coffee
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Showcase 1
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Open Book Publishers - Rupert Gatti and Alessandra Tosi
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OpenEdition - Pierre Mounier
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OECD - Toby Green
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Introduction to Strands
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Neil Jacobs
Programme director, digital infrastructure
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Strands morning session
Strand 1: How exactly do you get your monograph published in open access?
This strand is for HSS researchers and PhD students who are interested in the idea of an open access monograph. It will take them through the process step by step, introduce them to key sources of information and make sure they are aware of any issues.
Chair: Professor Tom Cochrane, Queensland University of Technology
- Connecting Research and Researchers - An Introduction to ORCID with Ed Pentz of CrossRef
- Get to grips with copyright and creative commons – A guide to Creative Commons for HSS researchers with Ernesto Priego, Lecturer in Library Science, City University London
- Find a reputable OA publisher – Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) with Janneka Adema, PhD in Media and Communication, Coventry University
- Funding, mandates and embargoes – what are the options? with Ellen Collins, Research Consultant, Research Information Network
- Tips for promoting your OA book with Will Brooker, Professor of Film Studies, Kingston University
- Tracking your book – what you show know about altmetrics with Lucy Montgomery, Vice Chancellors Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Strand 2: Open access books and the supply chain
The current supply chain is set up around publishers selling monographs and edited collections on one side and libraries and individual users purchasing on the other. In a move to Open Access, regardless of the business model, there will be changes to workflows, processes and new steps will be introduced.
The aim of this strand is to introduce delegates to some examples of changes to workflows and to work taking place in the area of metadata, quality assurance and standards to support the flow of OA monographs into the supply chain and the discovery of OA monographs by librarians and end users.
Participants will also be invited to join a discussion on discovery and dissemination of OA monographs and suggest other elements that will need to be explored and to support an effective supply chain.
Chair: Simon Bell, Head of Partnerships, British Library
- OA and metadata – quality assurance, transparency and CrossMark with Michiel Thijssen of Brill and Rachel Lammey of CrossRef
- Challenges in the supply chain and ONIX for OA books with Adam Purser of Palgrave and Graham Bell of EDItEUR
- Discovery and dissemination of OA monographs – a publisher’s perspective with Veronika Spinka of Springer
- Discovery and dissemination of OA monographs - a librarian's perspective with Jill Russell and Jon Andrews of the University of Brimingham.
Strand 3: How can funders and policy makers support the transition to OA monographs?
This strand is for policy makers and funders to look at where collaboration will help to support a robust research environment. The session will bring together policy makers and research funders that are interested or actively involved in supporting Open Access for monographs, through specific experiments, projects or funding schemes.
Chair: Bas Savenije, OAPEN
- Examples of funding programmes and OA book projects
- United Kingdom: Mark Llewellyn, AHRC and OAPEN-UK
- Netherlands: Annemarie Bos, NWO and OAPEN-NL
- Germany: Angela Holzer, DFG, and Ralf Schimmer, MPG
- Austria: Doris Haslinger, FWF
- Sweden: Thomas Neidenmark, Stockholm University
- Discussion session
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Lunch and posters
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Strands - afternoon session (1, 2 and 3 continued)
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Coffee
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Showcase 2
MPublishing - Shana Kimball
Open Monograph Press at Heidelberg - Andrea Hacker
Hybrid Publishing Lab - Simon Worthington and Mercedes Bunz -
Closing keynote
Cameron Neylon
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Close
Who should attend
Stakeholders in scholarly communications, eg:
- European research funders
- senior institutional managers
- publishers
- learned societies
- librarians
- researchers.