knowledge unlatched – navigating through the rapids of change
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Open Access and Books in the Humanities
and Social Sciences
Dr. Frances PinterFounder
Knowledge Unlatched
• A sustainable route to OA for
specialist scholarly books
• Ensure that HSS books are as
accessible as OA science journals
The KU Vision
• Reduce waste in the supply chain
• Ensure that origination costs are
covered
• Achieve universal Open Access
• Make the purchasing process easier
• Ensure good discoverability
What Do We Want?
• OA edition & sales from print and/or ebooks Bloomsbury Academic
• Institutional Support for Press Amherst, UCL Press
• Library-Press collaboration Mpublishing/Michigan
• Funding body BPC NOW Netherlands, FWF Austria, Wellcome UK, Max Planck Society, Germany
• ‘Author’ side publication fee Palgrave, Springer, MUP
• Library consortium Knowledge Unlatched
Routes to Open Access
• Not-for-profit• Collaborate initiative bringing
libraries and publishers together to develop one route to OA for books
• A road to OA• A space to learn together• A consortium of libraries paying a
Title Fee (BPC) to publishers to make their books OA
What is Knowledge Unlatched?
What We Did
Small Pilot 2013/14
Worked with the community
Proof of Concept
• Collected Books from Publishers• Surveyed Libraries• Construction of the Model 13 publishers, 28 books Average hb price $95 Average Title Fee $12,000 Recruit 200 libraries to pay $60 per book
Pilot Project Design
Title Fee Participating Libraries Cost per Library
Title Fee Examples
$10,000 250 $40.00
500 $20.00
$15,000 250
$60.00 500
$30.00
• 297 libraries pledged
• 24 countries
• Collection cost reduced from $1680 to $1195 per library
• Per book/per library cost dropped from $60 to under $43
• 100 libraries pre-registered for next round
• 13,000 downloads in 138 countries
Pilot Project Results
Pilot Collection Publishers
Amsterdam University PressBloomsbury AcademicBrill
Cambridge University PressDe GruyterDuke University PressEdinburgh University Press
Liverpool University PressManchester University Press
Purdue University Press
Rutgers University Press
Temple University Press
University of Michigan Press
One Package, Five Subjects
Pilot Collection
• History• Literature• Politics• Media &
Communications• Anthropology
Global Sign Ups
United States (122) United Kingdom (77) Other* (41)Australia (24)Germany (18)Canada (15)
*Countries included in the Other category less than 5% each – with 7 sign ups: Netherlands; 5 sign ups: Denmark and Israel; 4 sign ups: New Zealand; 3 sign ups: Sweden; 2 sign ups: France, Spain and Switzerland; and 1 sign up per country: Austria, Belgium, China, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, South Africa and Turkey.
• Hosting: OAPEN, HathiTrust
• Metadata: MARC21 & MARCXML
• Discovery: WorldCat, Summons
• Preservation: Portico, CLOCKSS
Hosting, Preservation, Metadata
• Managing data flow better
• Consortia models
• Activating new Library Steering Committee
• Producing substantive report on pilot
• Designing a study of usage and impact
• Preparing a ‘White Paper’
• Working on the next phase
What we are working on now
PartnersJisc CollectionsLYRASISMax Planck SocietyNew York Public LibraryOAPEN
Key SupportersBig Innovation CenterBritish Library TrustOpen Society FoundationHEFCE, SFC, DELNI
Founding LibrariesQueensland University of Technology
The University of Melbourne
The University of Western Australia
KU Supporters
DiscoverabilityDiscoverabilityDiscoverability
The Big Issue
Thank you
Knowledge Unlatched
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