towards open scholarship: digital publishing and the humanities

TOWARDS OPEN SCHOLARSHIP: DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND THE

HUMANITIESAlma Swan

Key Perspectives LtdTruro, UK

OAPEN workshop, Frankfurt Book Fair, 15 October 2009

Digital journals

RIN (John Cox, 2008) STM (2009)0

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SCONUL statistics (UK libraries)

Total journala Print only e-only Print-plus-e0

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Publishers Major commercial publishers Small commercial publishers Societies University presses


Open Access journals By definition, digital 4366 currently listed in the DOAJ AHSS titles published mainly by societies and

scholars Cover all fields in AHSS


Fields in which OA journals are published


Business models Community production Advertising (e.g. BMJ) Institutional subsidy Institutional membership (e.g. BMC) Print sales Article-processing charges Collaborative purchase schemes (e.g.

SCOAP3)


Technologies and systems Open Source packages e.g. Open Journal

Systems (OJS) Repository softwares Bespoke software Open Humanities Press


Open Journal Systems


Web publishing communities


Digital books Slow start but now taking off UTx Dallas (Safley): print version’s circulation

declined from 67465 in 2004 to 50993 in 2005 (first 11 months)

Auburn University (Bailey): print usage declined by one-third from 2000-2004

Published by variety of presses and publishers, including textbook publishers

Big usage in universities of e-textbooks: 26 titles gained 65,000 usage sessions in 13 months (JISC study) with 761,352 page views


SCONUL statistics (UK libraries) Total e-books (in all libraries): 1,312.064 Mean number per site: 9439 Maximum number per site: 100,000 Median number per site: 2100 Minimum number per site: 0


Open Access books Many publishers putting toes in the water,

including many university presses Includes commercial publishers (Bloomsbury’s

new imprint, Bloomsbury Academic)


Business models National Academies Press: free online page-

by-page since 1996 and now free downloads (with a few exceptions)

Mostly some variation on free online plus hard copy sales

OAPEN exploring this


University-level developments Budget crisis


University-level developments Budget crisis Anxieties over access and affordability Collapse in dissemination of young researchers’

work in humanities Realism about future prospects and an awakening

to the serious problems in dissemination Digital repositories and their roles (a locus for peer

review) Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) as a response

to the general problem in scholarly communication


EOS and a EAUP Shared concerns and a shared (problematic

and challenging) future to resolve Natural affiliation and a common set of values Universities’ role in dissemination is being

forefronted How EOS and EAUP could co-operate:

Shared membership systems Shared meetings Promote a vision for the future where the academy

takes back control of dissemination


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