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Impact of Social Sciences – What happens when you make a book open access? New business models are emerging, but challenges still... (Impact of Social Sciences – What happens when you make a book open access?
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How journal publishers are profiting at the expense of taxpayers, researchers, and universities.
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These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a handful of years.
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The seminar “Open Access: International and Domestic Policies” was held at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on January 22, 2014. Open access has become increasingly important in the journal publication process, and the policies that surround both the publication and distribution are controversial. Drawing from careers in open access agencies such as AAAS, SPARC, and the Potomac Institute, the three panelists highlighted core features of US open access policy, as well as the business models of open access.
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WASHINGTON -- If the open access movement can’t replace the traditional publishing model of scholarly journals, what problem is the effort trying to solve?
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Initial studies into the effect of open access monographs suggest little to no impact on sales, but an increase in discoverability and online usage. (What happens when you make a book open access?
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"Initial studies into the effect of open access monographs suggest little to no impact on sales, but an increase in discoverability and online usage.
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Governance in Africa (GiA) is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal offering original research, expert commentary and policy briefings on a number of themes relevant to contemporary governance in Africa. Its objective is to build and consolidate knowledge in this field, to increase the reach and impact of research, and to influence policy at the highest levels.
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Over the past several weeks, Baker-Berry Library has hosted a variety of events aimed at informing students and faculty about the open access movement, a national campaign to make scholarship freely accessible worldwide. The events culminated in Open Access Week, which concludes Friday.
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The most important thing art museums do is make their collections, exhibitions, programs and scholarship available to the broadest possible public. When it comes to measuring success and mission fulfillment by that last part — accessibility — Los Angeles-area museums are on a roll.
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One of the abiding debates about the Internet is the extent to which it represents a step change in the way that societies — and economies — will function in the future. What is undeniable is that the Web has sparked a growing number of "free" and "open" movements that challenge current economic models — including the Free and Open Source Software movements, the Open Access Movement, Open Source Journalism, and Creative Commons. Many also believe that the peer-to-peer (P2P) phenomenon has significant implications for the traditional top-down model on which modern societies are based.
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As the number of Open Access articles in the scientific market grows, many wonder where we are headed. Is the road ahead "gold" or "green"? What difference does it make? Will the shift to OA prove a boon — or disaster — to scholarly research and publication? Find out these answers and more as Kaufman suggests considerations for publishers to take into account when developing an open access business model.
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Open Access (OA) is usually associated with academic scholarship and its relationship to the “paywall” by proponents and critics alike. Librarians and faculty have long been using OA as a way to challenge for-profit publishing monopolies and the barriers they create to the transmission, distribution, and consumption of information. In response to this trend, recent critics of an expanding OA movement in higher education include the American Historical Association (AHA), which in the summer of 2013championed a six-year embargo on history dissertations, believing this would protect junior colleagues’ intellectual property rights. Many librarians and scholars have pushed back, arguing that the organization’s action is too guild-centric.
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Samuel Gershman has gathered some interesting statistics that remind us of the cost benefits of Open Access in higher education. At a recent presentation at a University here in Quito, Michel talked about the cost savings of using open scientific instruments, if a University was also to move their digital infrastructure over to linux and free software that would also represent a considerable saving on licensing fees. It is widely known that open approaches bring considerable cost reduction, the Rep Rap for example reduced costs by a factor of 10. Imagine if such a cost reduction could be applied to higher education. Does that means higher education could be available to 10 times the number of students?
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Back in the summer of 2010, I sent an email to a group of liberal arts college library directors, all members of the Oberlin Group of 80 college libraries, suggesting a crazy idea: what if we jointly investigated the possibility of starting an open access press. It turned out Bryn Geffert of Amherst College was composing a similar message (though a much more considered one) at almost exactly the same time. We both believed that our libraries could contribute something imaginative to the open access movement that reflects our liberal arts perspective, our wish to bring knowledge to the world, and our conviction that even small schools like ours can make good things happen. We formed a task force to explore the idea, brought in Melinda Kenneway of TBI Communications as a consultant, and now we’re close to wrapping up the first stage. The name we chose was inspired by Archimedes’ claim that he could move the world if given a place to stand and a lever.
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The value of opening up data for use in development is likely to dwarf any commercial worth, say experts.
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According to the National Library, “all published content, in all media” is being digitized, which includes “material dating from the Middle Ages up to the current day.”
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Over the last decade there has been a rapid evolution toward increased scholarly publishing online. Much of it remains proprietary publishing available only through paid access, but there are now a number of peer-reviewed gold access online scholarly journals, and book publishers commonly make a table of contents and a sample chapter freely available. Google meanwhile has made the complete texts of millions of public domain books available for free. And there are countless websites devoted to more narrowly defined online publishing projects.
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In 2012, the Finch Report produced a roadmap towards greater open access publishing in the UK, which was accepted by the Government. RCUK rapidly reasserted its own open access policy and, crucially, provided dedicated funds to support its implementation in UK universities. HEFCE subsequently announced a consultation on developing an open access policy for the REF exercise which will follow REF2014 – perhaps learning something from the academic backlash against RCUK’s speedy response – which is currently underway. What do all these publications and policies have in common? They have all carefully avoided the tricky issue of open access for monographs.
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An article by Darren Palmer and Ian Warren has been published in the latest issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (Vol 2, No 3). Darren and Ian’s article ‘Global Policing and the case of Kim Dotcom’ uses the case of Kim Dotcom to explore the growth of ‘extra territorial’ police powers as part of the broader transformation of global policing.
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With falling party memberships and a narrowing gene-pool of candidates, parties need to open up. Supporters should be able to sign up and vote online just as easily as they are able to buy something on Amazon.
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