10.5281/ZENODO.4683630
Eve, Martin Paul
Martin Paul
Eve
0000-0002-5589-8511
Birkbeck, University of London
"Opening the Future" - a New Funding Model for Open-Access Monographs: Introducing an Innovative Approach to Publishing OA Books through Library Membership Funding
Zenodo
2021
Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
libraries
business model
membership
Opening the Future
books
monographs
2021-04-13
en
https://zenodo.org/record/4683631
https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/43868
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/rluk21-opening-the-future-a-new-funding-model-for-open-access-monographs/release/1?readingCollection=c54e3610
10.5281/zenodo.4683631
https://zenodo.org/communities/copim
1.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access
<p>Eve, Martin Paul (2021) “Opening the Future” - a New Funding Model for Open-Access Monographs: Introducing an Innovative Approach to Publishing OA Books through Library Membership Funding. In: UKSG Annual Conference 2021, 12 April - 14 Apr 2021, Online.</p>
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<p>We outline the work of a university press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs), in launching an innovative revenue model to fund open access monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models like OLH and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, we present a new, sustainable OA publishing model that gives members exclusive access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. The model can be emulated by other scholarly presses who wish to take advantage of the opportunities that open access publishing affords.</p>
<p>Led by Dr Frances Pinter (Publishing Advisor, & founder of Knowledge Unlatched) and Professor Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, OLH & COPIM) the case study explores a new revenue model that will transition new titles at a well-known publisher to a viable open-access model. COPIM is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, publishers and infrastructure providers working on bringing about a new OA publishing ecosystem. Their remit is to build a revenue infrastructure, and examine production workflows and metadata, experimental publishing and archiving. The project is working with colleagues across the sector to document existing and potential ways of funding open-access monographs and is consulting with academics, publishers, libraries, funders, and policy makers.</p>
<p>The publisher case study aims to initiate and document a ‘working model’ as the next step in creating a practical toolkit and roadmap for other publishers considering OA - so we believe our presentation would be of interest to many of the UKSG Conference attendees.</p>