A presentation given to librarians at the OA and Repository Event in London in May 2016. - What is KU? - Past Collections - Next Collections: KU Select 2016 - KU Research

1. A New Collaborative Model
for OA Monographs
Christina Emery
PartnershipManager
Knowledge Unlatched
christina@knowledgeunlatched.org

2.  What is Knowledge Unlatched?
 What we’ve done so far
 KU Select 2016
 KU Research
 What can you do?
 Questions
This presentation

3. KU – London
KU – Berlin
KU – USA
KU Research – Perth
Knowledge Unlatched

4.  Collaborate initiative – libraries and
publishers working together
 A road to OA
 A space to learn together
 KU Research
 KU in 60 seconds:
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/ku-in-60-seconds/
What is Knowledge Unlatched?

5. 1980
2010
3000
350
2000
1990
2000
Print Runs for Academic Books
1000

6.  A very small market (libraries)
 Library budgets under pressure
 Journals have become (much) more expensive
 The number of monograph titles has increased
 Print runs for each title have decreased
 Publishers must spread the costs of publishing
each title over a smaller number of copies
Why Are Books In Trouble?

8.  Knowledge Unlatched is helping libraries
from around the world to coordinate their
monograph purchases
 Libraries can choose to jointly offer a Title
Fee payment to publishers
 In return, publishers make titles selected by
the community Open Access on a Creative
Commons licence without an embargo
How Does it Work?

9.  The Title Fee represents the basic cost of
publishing a book
 Payment of the Title Fee allows publishers to
feel confident that they will break even on
each title
 Because the Title Fee is a fixed amount as
the number of libraries pledging increases,
the cost per library decreases
What is a Title Fee?

11. Two Rounds of Frontlist Books
What we’ve done so far
Pilot – 28 books from 13 publishers
Downloads in 18 months –
70,000 in 175 countries (avg 2.5k per book)
Round 2 – 78 books from 26 publishers
Unlatching from April 2016

13. Libraries Participating in KU
167
44%
85
23%
53
14%
28
7%
24
6%
23
6% United States (167)
United Kingdom (85)
Other* (53)
Australia (28)
Germany (24)
Canada (23)
Excluding Consortia

14. Five Subjects
Round 2
 History (2 packages)
 Literature
 Politics
 Media & Communications
 Anthropology

15. Key Features of Round 2
 78 books in 8 packages
 Minimum for 6 packages - £1,823
 Maximum for all eight packages - £2,683
 Capped amount – avg ca. £34 per book

16. Edinburgh UP
Liverpool UP
Manchester UP
Purdue UP
Rutgers UP
Temple UP
Michigan UP
Pilot Publishers (all also in Round 2)
Amsterdam UP
Bloomsbury
Academic
Brill
Cambridge UP
De Gruyter
Duke UP

17. Leiden UP
Monash UP
Colorado UP
Ubiquity
Penn State UP
Berghahn
Fordham UP
Round 2 – additional publishers
Yale UP
Routledge
Pluto
Toronto UP
Brandeis UP
Dartmouth UP

18. Accessing the Books
www.collections.knowledgeunlatched.org

19. Expanding Front list
 150 titles
 Publishing dates Q1-2017
 17 subject areas in HSS
Exploring Backlist
 150 titles
 Published in 2005-2015
 17 subject areas in HSS
Next: KU Select 2016

20.  Apr-May: Submission of titles
 June: Selection process completed
by librarian committee
 July: Metadata & website prep,
author permissions etc
 Aug-Nov: Library pledging period
 Dec-Jan: Billing libraries & unlatching
 2017: Expansion to Journals
KU Select 2016 - Timeline

21. Partners
CLOCKSS
HathiTrust
Jisc Collections
LYRASIS
Max Planck Society
New York Public
Library
OAPEN
Portico
Key Supporters
Big Innovation Centre
British Library Trust
Open Society
Foundation
Founding Libraries
Queensland University
of Technology
The University of
Melbourne
The University of
Western Australia

22. KU Research
 Developing an international network of researchers,
librarians, publishers and digital intermediaries
 Focussed on understanding processes of innovation
and change in research communication ecologies
 Utilising data and networks arising from KU
 Exploring the distribution and uses of OA books
 Methodologies for sharing data with stakeholder
communities

23. What can you do?
1. Start discussions with colleagues about KU
2. Earmark acquisitions budget for KU Select 2016
3. Pre-register on our website for updates:
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org
4. Send us nominations for the Library Selection
Committee.

24. Thank You!
Connect with us on:
Twitter @Kunlatched
Facebook /KnowledgeUnlatched
LinkedIn /company/knowledge-unlatched
Winner: IFLA/Brill Award for Open Access 2014
Winner: Curtin University Award for Best Innovation in Education
2015

25. Questions?
Christina Emery – KU, Partnership Manager
christina@knowledgeunlatched.org
Assoc. Prof. Lucy Montgomery – KU Research, Director
lucy@knowledgeunlatched.org
http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org
http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org