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Quo vadis University Presses
1. Quo Vadis University Presses?
Frank Scholze
Leibniz Publik, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, 23.10.2013
KIT-BIBLIOTHEK
KIT – Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales Forschungszentrum in der Helmholz-Gemeinschaft
3. What do they have in common?
Unit of a research institution or university
Monograph publishing
Journal publishing with focus on HSS
Focus on sholarship
Some form of business model
Some form of collaboration
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4. Business models
Publishing (e-)books for sale
Publishing open digital plus paid print editions and other
add-ons (freemium)
Searching for the new …
Crowdfunding
Cooperation, membership …
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5. Publishing for sale
OUP, CUP, UCP …
Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University)
Started as journal plattform
2012 University Press Content Consortium (UPCC)
JSTOR (ITHAKA)
Started as a digitized journal plattform
2011 books at JSTOR
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6. Publishing open digital plus paid add on
OAPEN
Library and service plattform
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) launched July 1, 2013
Majority of UPs in Germany
National Academies Press in the US
Australian National University E-Press
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7. KIT Scientific Publishing as example
Founded in 2003
2010 integration of University Press and Helmholtz publishing activities ->
KIT Scientific Publishing (KSP)
3 staff, 1 coordinator
# of projects per year
180
# of available titles
1000
among them
E-only-publications
Series
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60
Journal
7
101
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8. KSP – policy and features
Fast
Integrated service
Open Access
Print on Demand
Author fees
KIT as brand
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11. AEUP Joint Catalog
Catalog platform for members of AEUP
Presses are responsible for their own content
Print + E
Books + journals
Back list, front titles, announced, out of print
No sales platform
Cooperation with business partners
Hosting concept with breebook GmbH (Bremen)
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15. Trends
Digital transformation and new business models
Open access as (the) model of publication
Content designed for service
Collaboration and branding
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While the dominant form of scholarly book publishing in the future will clearly be digital,
as a practical matter university presses today still get at least 90 to 95 percent of their sales
revenue from printed books, even as the market for scholarly monographs continues to
shrink. University presses also operate in an institutional environment that regards publishing
on a break-even basis (including subsidy) as virtuous, even if that means losing ground to
inflation. The combination of these factors means that it is virtually impossible for university
presses to generate surplus investment capital from current operations.
Proposals and plans for new business models should explicitly address two issues: the
potential impact of the new model on existing parts of the press’s program and the
requirements, both operational and financial, for making the transition to the new model.
Ideally the consideration of these issues would involve the relevant author community as well
as the press, its partners such as libraries or societies, and the funding agency.
Open Access in European Networks (OAPEN),
seeks to develop a new model for the open access university press by supporting publication
through a combination of publication fees, grant support, and institutional support
The OAPEN publication model is being promoted through several pilot projects in different
European countries. In the Netherlands, a pilot program including 50 books will be published
over the next two years, with funding from the Dutch national research council. A similar pilot in
the UK will be managed by JISC
Collaboration
officially established in 1937
AAUP has 131 member presses as of 2013
Fundamental models
Open and distributed content and service plattforms
Integrated and consolidated “clouds”
Developments I would like to see
Enhanced peer review
Transparent pricing
Go for stm journal publishing
