Open Monographs by Roxanne Missingham - presented at the Research Support Community Day 2017

1. Open monographs: a new research
challenge
Roxanne Missingham, ANU Library

2. Open monographs
• Open educational resources – a time that
has come
• Open scholarly monographs
• Sitting within a changing environment
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3. ANU Open Access Policy
• The University's Open Access Policy
contains a commitment to the
dissemination of research findings as
essential both to:
 differentiate the University's research
excellence and
support national and international research
excellence.

4. ARC & NHMRC –
• ARC: from 1 January 2013, Any publications arising from an
ARC supported research Project must be deposited into an
open access institutional repository within a twelve (12) month
period from the date of publication. http://www.arc.gov.au/arc-
open-access-policy
• NHMRC: from 1 July 2012 NHMRC requires that any
publication arising from NHMRC supported research must be
deposited into an open access institutional repository and/or
made available in another open access format within a twelve
month period from the date of publication.
https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding/policy/nhmrc-open-
access-policy

5. Benefits of open access
• Delivers a worldwide audience larger than any subscription-based journal,
regardless of its prestige or popularity.
• Demonstrably increases the visibility of your research. Publishing in the
University's repository also sends data to Google Scholar, Trove and other
discovery services.
• Significantly increases the impact of an authors' work, thereby creating
potential for a higher number of citations. The impact of your research can
be seen through the University repository's statistics as well as citation tools
including the Altmetric donut.
• Helps researchers satisfy the requirements of funding bodies, such as
the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC).
• Enables researchers to manage and promote their publications.
• Provides a persistent web address for each article that can be used for
citation
• Ensures the ongoing preservation of a digital copy of your thesis.

6. Real impact….
The Post-Embargo Open Access Citation Advantage:
It Exists (Probably), It’s Modest (Usually), and the
Rich Get Richer (of Course)
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo
urnal.pone.0159614
• open access citation advantage as high as 19%
Research impact of paywalled versus open access
papers http://www.1science.com/oanumbr.html
• On average, open access papers produce a 50%
higher research impact than strictly paywalled papers.
(study of 3.3. million papers)

7. Engagement
2016 Downloads
1.
Protected Area
Governance and
Management
12,008
2.
Aboriginal History
Journal: Volume 27
8,554
3. The Joy of Sanskrit 8,237
4.
Professionalism in
the Information and
Communication
Technology Industry
8,103
5.
Aboriginal History
Journal: Volume 39
8,067
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Educational change
Flipped classrooms
MOOCS
Open access
Use of technology including Facebook

9. Research and library roles
• Store
• Inform
• Collaborate
• Digital literacy
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11. Based on evidence based course
design
• “read-think-discuss-listen-review”
• Influenced by peer construction model
• Teams formed in class to investigate with
seeds
• Detailed observations to assess changes
in response to environmental factors
• Peer mentors support the teams
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The plant detectives: innovative undergraduate teaching to inspire the next generation of plant biologists
Elizabeth A. Beckmann1, Gonzalo M. Estavillo2, Ulrike Mathesius3, Michael A. Djordjevic3 and Adrienne B. Nicotra3*
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2015.00729/full

12. Course  eTextbook
• Continuous improvement cycle within
class
• High satisfaction - clear expectations,
effective learning activities, ready access
to learning opportunities, appropriate
assessment, and overall satisfaction.
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13. Students progressing to
honours
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14. • “… one of the most memorable courses of my whole degree.”
• “I loved [this course] and have already recommended it to my first-
year friends.”
• “One of the most interesting and influential courses I have taken in
my degree.”
• “This was the best course I have taken so far during my time at
university, not only for the academic/scientific knowledge I gained,
but for the invaluable lessons regarding the importance of team work
and interpersonal relationships.” (Anonymous student feedback).
• Online use: Jan–June 2016: 113….a good start
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Jan–June 2016: 113
Jan–June 2016: 113

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16. Opening up education
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https://pixabay.com/en/book-open-pages-literature-933280/
Online text lead to changes
in classroom
– McComas Taylor
Digital as pedagogy

17. Open access and textbooks
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19. Impact studies
• adoption of no-cost open digital textbooks
significantly predicted students’ completion
of courses, class achievement, and
enrolment intensity
• Virginia State University School of
Business students using open textbooks
“tended to have higher grades and lower
failing and withdrawal rates than those in
courses that did not use” the texts.
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20. Dimensions
• Openness
• Interactivity
• Literacy skills
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21. What are the author issues?
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0.0%
20.0%
40.0%
60.0%
80.0%
100.0%
120.0%
Royalties/Advances
books
journals
other
Revenueselfpublishing
books
journals
others
otherpaymentsfrompublishers
books
journals
others
Government
PLR/ELR
books
journals
others
Governmentother
books
journals
others
Collectingsocieties
books
journals
others
Otherpaymentforrights
books
journals
others
Awards/grants
Publicationssubsidy
books
journals
others
Externalgrant
books
journals
others
Internalgrant
books
journals
others
Other
books
journals
others
Who pays the authors?
$0 $1-1,000 $1,001 - 2,500 $2,501-$5,000 $5,000 +

22. A typical scholarly author
• Is an author of 2-5 articles a year
• Authors of book chapters and books also
author journal articles
• What do they pay?
– less than $2,500 for publishing (copy editing,
image fees, index, design) – more for books
than journal articles
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23. A typical scholarly author
– Collecting societies payments
• 95.4% of book authors receive $0, 1.1% between
$1 and $1,000
• 97.7% of journal authors receive $0, 2.3% between
$1 and $1,000
• 96.7% of other publication authors receive $0,
3.4% between $1 and $1,000
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24. Future
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Not the Book of the dead https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/BD_Hunefer.jpg

25. Library engagement
• Role in scholarly communication
ecosystem
– Role as facilitator of access
– Role in increasing academic knowledge
– Incorporating this approach into
information/digital literacy program
– Embedding digital literacy within the products
– Rich skills required
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