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Research libraries – future roles and challenges
Dr Paul Ayris
Director of UCL Library Services, UCL Copyright Officer,Chief Executive, UCL Press
President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)Chair, LERU (League of European Research Universities) Chief Information Officer Community
e-mail: [email protected]
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Open Access APC payments
University publishing
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Open Access APC payments
University publishing
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Main stumbling block to Gold OA is cost of APC (Article Processing Charges)
Finch estimated average APC as £1450 per article
Government now (31/1/14) calls for publishers to reduce subscription rates at institutional level
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Policy Developments
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Who pays?
Funders UCL Decision Tree at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/ plots path for individual researchers
General OA Guide also available
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APC payments
JISC Collections trialling a shared service to UK universities
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OAK will manage OA funds held in universities
And payments for APCs for Gold OA publishing
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RCUK workflow process
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Gold APC payments represent an opportunity for new services to construct payment infrastructures to support university research
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Open Access APC payments
University publishing
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Monograph Publishing
Is Open Access a solution to broken Business Model?
University Press takes on role as monograph publisher
Long form monographs, peer reviewed
Short monographs in AHSS – new publishing format?
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UCL Press Imprint repatriated from
commercial publisher Launched as an OA Press
in August 2013 Publishing research
monographs, journals and textbooks
£75K won in JISC project call to construct e-textbook infrastructures
A department of UCL Library Services
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The view from Arts and Humanities?
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http://blog.historians.org/2012/09/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing/
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Shared European infrastructure for monographs?
19 European partners, led by UCL European universities can become
publishers themselves Shared publishing infrastructure
with Open Access business models Research monographs in the Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences OAPEN to provide much of the
technical infrastructure Launched at UCL in December
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What could be achieved?
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OUTPUTS
Shared publishing infrastructure Shared by 19 partners Scaleable to all European Universities Advocacy for new solutions to solve monograph crisis
Marketing frameworks
Business Modelling activities
At least 180 OA monographs in 35 series
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Indicative series in European collaboration
35 series titles proposed in total Subject area
Media History and Film Theory Media studies, Film theory
Spirituality Studies in Theology Theology
World Oral Literature Series Literary Studies
Iranian Studies Middle Eastern Studies
Law, Governance and Development Research
Law, International Studies
Interdisciplinary Issues - Art, City, Society Urban Studies
New Ideas in Human Interaction Linguistics
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Conclusion
Gold OA infrastructures Gold APC requires payment
infrastructures Flexible enough to cope with a
variety of funder mandates and user needs
University Library as publisher Requires publishing platforms and
associated infrastructures Needs of research community
now being identified
Library has major role in research support
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Thanks for listening Happy to answer
questions
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Thanks!
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