digital humanities seminar at the open university

Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections

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58 HSS titles: 2006 - 2011

Experimental Group (29 titles)

Control Group (29 titles)

OA with CC licenceOAPEN Library

Publishers websiteInstitutional RepositoryGoogle Books (100%)

Standard e-book agreements

Publishers websiteE-book aggregators

Google Books (10%)

Print version available for sale E-book device friendly version available for sale

The research programme

1.How policies, processes and mechanisms need to change in order to enable OA publication of monographs?

2.What are the measurable effects of a move to OA monographs?

3.How do perceptions of OA monograph publication change among participants during the project?

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OAPEN-UK Research PlanEllen Collins, Research Information Network

Research process

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The HSS researcher survey

About the respondents

Before 1959 1960s 1970s 1980s and onwards Missing0.0

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23.021.6

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Career stage of survey respondents

Career stage

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UK Rest of Europe North America Rest of world Missing0.0

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Region of residence of survey re-spondents

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Social sciences Humanities Missing0.0

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Open access awareness

Open access awareness

Open access awareness

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Profits from publishing

Author priorities

Author priorities

Publisher choices

Author services

Author priorities

Self-publishing

Active authors funding

Reading habits

Reading habits

Reading habits

Scholarly communications goals

Scholarly communications goals

Scholarly communications goals

Conclusions

• Considerable potential for OAPEN-UK-style open access model

• Need to increase confidence and understanding of Creative Commons

• A push for CC BY may alienate researchers??• Need to investigate researchers understanding of

publisher’s services• Encourage authors to care more about post

publication elements• Quality is paramount – need to ensure that OA

model tackles negative perceptions

Thank you & Further Info

OAPEN-UK website:http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/

Twitter:@oapenuk

Diigo Group:OAPEN-UK

Caren Milloyc.milloy@jisc-collections.ac.uk

Twitter:@carenmilloy

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