MODULE 2:Humanities

Disciplinary Traits in Scholarly Communication• Long publication lifecycle

• Monograph culture and increasing significance of journals

• Print over Digital, but also increasing reliance on digitized materials

• High number of citations per publication

• Use of large number of primary sources

• Single authorship prevalent

• Library as a physical space; the library’s gateway is starting point for • research

• Publication cost a substantial part of the research cost

• Statistics and citation scores not commonly used in evaluation

What Humanists produce & the significance of the monograph

RIN and JISC Report, (2009), Communicating Knowledge: How and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their finding,[Online] Available at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/Communicating-knowledge-report.pdf

Open Access in the Humanities: status quo1. Already long history and increasingly growing awareness: 70% of respondents in OAPEN survey familiar with

OA publishing2. But… slower uptake than in STM field3. Overall, perception that OA is beneficial for research (eg. OAPEN and SOAP surveys), a change from past

attitudes Obstacles

• Less skilled in technology

• Fear that the print book will become extinct

• Worries about long-term availability of electronic publications/data

• Long lifecycle of publications

• Speed of publication generally not a priority

• Electronic publishing, and OA publishing, not part of the professional advancement evaluation process

• Copyright issues

• Proprietary attitude towards data, unwillingness to share

OA and publishing values

Digital Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report on User Needs, Janneke Adema, Paul Rutten, OAPEN Project, http://project.oapen.org/images/D315%20User%20Needs%20Report.pdf

Open Access Monographs

• The Monograph Crisis: In fact an opportunity

• A new model: Open Access Monographs

• New pilot models for monograph publishing

• Characteristics: Disciplinary and Technological

• Funding models and sustainability

Open Data in the Humanities

• Benefitso Data preservationo Enables data-intensive research in new ways and check on past

researcho Enables linking (Linked data)o Scholars in the humanities hesitant

• Slow uptake!

• Motive: Digging into the data challenge: Canada, US, UK, Holland. Funding for data-intensive research

Some resources for Open Access Research in the Humanities

Repositories• www.opendoar.org

Open Access Journals• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) www.doaj.org • JURN: www.jurn.org

Open Access Books• OAPEN www.oapen.org • Re-press www.re-press.org/ • Open Humanities Press www.openhumanitiespress.org

Open Access Data• Open Context http://opencontext.org• Archaeology Data Service: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/

What can you do in Open Access?

• Deposit your articles or data in an IR or a subject repository

• Negotiate your right to self-archive with your publisher

• Ask your publisher for Open Access options

• Publish in an Open Access journal or with an Open Access Book publisher

• Encourage your editorial board to support OA

• Participate in an editorial board of an OA journal

• Convert out of print works to digital objects and deposit them in a repository

• Participate in Open Access projects when your library invites you to

• Grant receipients: check you funder’s policies

Open up, get practical!

Image from: Palepu –Giustini – BCLA Conference 2008

Remember it takes only 10 minutes per

paper to self-archive!