In September 2019, Digital Science and Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 3-20
2. Live author Q&A with Eric Haines (lead editor 'Ray Tracing Gems and distinguished engineer at Nvidia) about his experience of publishing an open access book - slide 22
3. Understanding the value and impact of open books (Mike Taylor, Head of Metrics Development, Digital Science)
Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 23-58
4. How MIT is Reimagining OA Books and Open Knowledge Infrastructure (Catherine Ahearn, Content Lead, PubPub MIT Knowledge Futures Group) - slides 58-75.
R2R 2021: Diversifying readership for OA books (presentation by Mithu Lucraft)Springer Nature
Diversifying Readership Through Open Access: A usage analysis for OA books
● Mithu Lucraft, Marketing Director, Outreach and Open Research at Springer Nature
One of the attractions of publishing OA is the potential for greater reach, but is OA living up to its promise of expanding and diversifying the readership of books? In this session we present findings from the largest ever usage and citation study comparing OA and non-OA books, and show that OA books are read more, across more countries, than non-OA books, and reach more readers in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Explore open access books - Springer Nature event in New York (2019-09)Springer Nature
In September 2019 Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Welcome (Bill Tucker, VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature)
2. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 4-21
3. A funder’s perspective of open access books (Leslie Rutkowski, The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)) - slides 22-49
4. Tracking impact for open access authors: author services & tools (Christina Emery, Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 50-67
5. Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access book (Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy. Open access book authors: Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo), Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility), Sophie Mitra (Fordham University).) - slides 68-71.
The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? Springer Nature
Presented at the Charleston Library Conference in November 2017 by Ros Pyne, Head of Policy and Development, Open Research (Springer Nature).
This presentation looks at the findings of a white paper which Springer Nature published in Nov 2017, about how open access affects the usage of scholarly books.
It presents quantitative statistics and qualitative author / funder interviews.
RLUK Warwick Meeting | Academic Book of the Future, Samantha RaynerResearchLibrariesUK
This document provides an overview and progress report of the Academic Book of the Future project. The key points are:
1) The project is a collaboration between UCL, KCL, and other partners, funded by the AHRC and British Library, to examine the roles, purposes, production, curation and use of academic books.
2) Over the past year the project team has engaged with over 200 collaborators from publishers, libraries, booksellers and academic institutions to discuss issues around the academic book.
3) Preliminary analysis of REF2014 data on submitted books provides insights into publisher trends and book outputs across subjects that can stimulate further discussion.
4) Upcoming activities include publishing outcomes of
This presentation was provided by Charles Watkinson of University of Michigan Press, during the second half of the NISO Two-Part Webinar "Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know, Part Two." The event was held on August 19, 2020.
Acquisitions editors play an important role in the publishing process. They solicit projects, assess quality and contribution, support authors to improve work, forecast costs and sales, prepare manuscripts for production, and maintain the reputation of publishing programs. They act as product managers by developing product strategies, overseeing product development, and engaging in product marketing. Acquisitions editors are important for supporting academic innovation, diversity and inclusion, and facilitating public engagement by scholars. They help get important voices and ideas into publication and dissemination.
This document discusses challenges facing university presses in sustaining and reimagining the monograph format. It outlines some of the key challenges like lack of support, library budget cuts, and humanities scholars hesitancy to experiment with open access models. The document also highlights some new models and initiatives university presses are taking to address these challenges, such as open access publishing platforms and projects, discovery programs, and collaborations between presses. Overall, the document examines how university presses are innovating in their efforts to continue supporting high-quality scholarly monographs.
R2R 2021: Diversifying readership for OA books (presentation by Mithu Lucraft)Springer Nature
Diversifying Readership Through Open Access: A usage analysis for OA books
● Mithu Lucraft, Marketing Director, Outreach and Open Research at Springer Nature
One of the attractions of publishing OA is the potential for greater reach, but is OA living up to its promise of expanding and diversifying the readership of books? In this session we present findings from the largest ever usage and citation study comparing OA and non-OA books, and show that OA books are read more, across more countries, than non-OA books, and reach more readers in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Explore open access books - Springer Nature event in New York (2019-09)Springer Nature
In September 2019 Springer Nature held a researcher event exploring the topic of open access books. This slide deck includes presentation slides from each session:
1. Welcome (Bill Tucker, VP, Books, Medicine & Life Sciences, Springer Nature)
2. Why publish your book open access? (Rosalind Pyne, Director OA Books, Springer Nature) - slides 4-21
3. A funder’s perspective of open access books (Leslie Rutkowski, The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)) - slides 22-49
4. Tracking impact for open access authors: author services & tools (Christina Emery, Open access books Marketing Manager, Springer Nature) - slides 50-67
5. Author panel: Perspectives on publishing an open access book (Chair: Philip Getz, Senior Commissioning Editor, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy. Open access book authors: Daniel Hess (University at Buffalo), Juha Uitto (Global Environment Facility), Sophie Mitra (Fordham University).) - slides 68-71.
The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books? Springer Nature
Presented at the Charleston Library Conference in November 2017 by Ros Pyne, Head of Policy and Development, Open Research (Springer Nature).
This presentation looks at the findings of a white paper which Springer Nature published in Nov 2017, about how open access affects the usage of scholarly books.
It presents quantitative statistics and qualitative author / funder interviews.
RLUK Warwick Meeting | Academic Book of the Future, Samantha RaynerResearchLibrariesUK
This document provides an overview and progress report of the Academic Book of the Future project. The key points are:
1) The project is a collaboration between UCL, KCL, and other partners, funded by the AHRC and British Library, to examine the roles, purposes, production, curation and use of academic books.
2) Over the past year the project team has engaged with over 200 collaborators from publishers, libraries, booksellers and academic institutions to discuss issues around the academic book.
3) Preliminary analysis of REF2014 data on submitted books provides insights into publisher trends and book outputs across subjects that can stimulate further discussion.
4) Upcoming activities include publishing outcomes of
This presentation was provided by Charles Watkinson of University of Michigan Press, during the second half of the NISO Two-Part Webinar "Open Access Monographs: What You Need To Know, Part Two." The event was held on August 19, 2020.
Acquisitions editors play an important role in the publishing process. They solicit projects, assess quality and contribution, support authors to improve work, forecast costs and sales, prepare manuscripts for production, and maintain the reputation of publishing programs. They act as product managers by developing product strategies, overseeing product development, and engaging in product marketing. Acquisitions editors are important for supporting academic innovation, diversity and inclusion, and facilitating public engagement by scholars. They help get important voices and ideas into publication and dissemination.
This document discusses challenges facing university presses in sustaining and reimagining the monograph format. It outlines some of the key challenges like lack of support, library budget cuts, and humanities scholars hesitancy to experiment with open access models. The document also highlights some new models and initiatives university presses are taking to address these challenges, such as open access publishing platforms and projects, discovery programs, and collaborations between presses. Overall, the document examines how university presses are innovating in their efforts to continue supporting high-quality scholarly monographs.
This presentation was provided by Lorraine Estelle of COUNTER, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
Understanding the collective shared print collection (January 2015)Constance Malpas
Prepared for discussion by OCLC Shared Print Advisory Council, based on snapshot of data in WorldCat as of December 2014. Selections presented at OCLC Reserach Update at ALA-MW, 2 February 2015.
United We Stand: A Collaborative Approach to Legacy Print CollectionsMaine_SharedCollections
Slides from the October 21st, 2013 presentation given by MSCS Program Manager Matthew Revitt and Project PI Deb Rollins at the 2013 New England Library Association Annual Conference in Portland, ME. The session was jointly sponsored by The Academic Libraries Section (ALS) and the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL). A copy of the handout can be found here: http://www.maineinfonet.org/mscs/wp-content/uploads/MSCS-NELA-Handout.pdf
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
OCLC fringe: The costs of "open" - preliminary results from a global OCLC survey led by Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Manager, OCLC Research.
Despite growing support for Open Science, Open Access, and Open Government Information, measures of impact, investment, and cost for libraries and research organisations remain largely unknown. In order to better understand this landscape, OCLC conducted a survey in 2018 that focused on libraries’ ambitions, realities, and investments in support of open content. This survey represents a significant early effort to qualify and quantify library efforts in the field of open content at an international scale, and it collected data on library open content activities across multiple internal silos, including: e-resources management, institutional repositories, CRIS systems, digitised heritage collections, data archives, born-digital (legal) deposit, and more. The survey received more than 700 responses from 82 countries, with 72 percent of the responses coming from research and library institutions, providing a rich sample.
In this presentation, OCLC examines definitions of “open” and shares preliminary findings on library investments, assessments and planning, leading participants in a discussion about the implications for our global and connected future, as well as opportunities for collective action.
Melissa McLimans, a Community Liaison / Service Specialist who spends much of her time working in WiLS consulting services, traveled to Lake Geneva to present “Data Driven Libraries (link)” at the Lakeshore Library System’s Annual Trustees Dinner. As attendees enjoyed a lovely meal, Melissa shared examples of innovative and practical uses of data, including data dashboards and other methods to improve library decision-making process. Many of the examples came from WiLS’ strategic planning experiences or from libraries and library systems who are using data to make the best decisions possible.
Many thanks to Lakeshore Library System’s Director, Steve Ohs, for the invitation and opportunity to talk data!
If you have any questions or you're interested in learning more about Melissa's work, contact her at melissa@wils.org.
This project explored how the creation of a new digital health sciences library ebook collection allowed for greater integration of ebooks into course content, expanded the conversation around information literacy, created connections between the library faculty and classroom faculty, extended the awareness of the library’s budget and boosted support for the library.
Charleston 2010 future of collection development andersonivyanderson
This document discusses the future of collaborative collection development in libraries. It notes that libraries now face challenges like ubiquitous information, user disintermediation, declining use of physical collections, and the rise of digital technologies. It explores collaborative approaches taken by projects like WEST for journal storage and HathiTrust for digital books. While collaborative print book collection will be more difficult than journals, there are still opportunities for initiatives like shared e-book licensing, approval plans, storage facilities, and bibliographers. The future of collection may involve newer areas like web archiving, data publication, and earlier engagement in the research lifecycle.
Libraries face new challenges in the digital age, including decreasing budgets, changing user expectations, and new competitors. To remain relevant, libraries must embrace technologies like e-books, mobile apps, makerspaces, and 3D printing. They must redefine their roles and spaces, prove their value through metrics, and position their librarians as agents of change. By responding quickly to trends, reinventing themselves creatively, and meeting communities' evolving needs, libraries can future-proof their important roles.
Embedded Librarians: Building Relationships in a Massively Open Educational S...davidshumaker
The document discusses librarian engagement with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It begins by briefly reviewing MOOCs and examples of librarian involvement. The author argues that a sustainable model is for librarians to be involved in shaping their institution's MOOC strategy through an embedded librarianship approach. Embedded librarians have close relationships and shared goals with decision-makers to influence the evolving role of MOOCs. The document considers why embedded librarianship is well-suited for librarians to impact how their institutions adopt MOOCs.
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
**Important note - notes visible in downloaded presentation. **
An overview of research library collection trends. Presented in the context of changing demands of research and learning in a network environment. Behaviors shape technology; technology shapes behaviors. There is also some analysis of the RLUK collective collections study and a quick look at some characertistics of The Bodleian Libraries' collections.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managersIryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
This document provides an overview of open access and emerging networks of open research. It discusses the open access publishing landscape and growth of open access. It explores what "being open" means, including reducing friction around peer review, metrics, data sharing, and reproducibility. It addresses how to maximize the number of people research can reach by making it more open and managing the transition to open access. Key points include the importance of openness in solving large problems, measuring impact through article-level metrics rather than journal impact factors, and ensuring access to original data and documents.
Open access for researchers and students, research managers and publishersIryna Kuchma
The document discusses open access (OA), which refers to free online availability of peer-reviewed literature that allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles. It outlines the benefits of OA such as increased citation rates and access, as well as potential cost savings of OA publishing models. Next steps mentioned include encouraging researchers, managers, and libraries to support OA through various policies, repositories, and outreach.
This document provides an overview of open science, including definitions, motivations, and plans for implementation. It discusses:
1) Definitions of open science from various organizations and perspectives.
2) Motivations for open science, including addressing anomalies in the current scientific publishing system and enabling science to better serve societal needs.
3) National and international plans and roadmaps to transition to open science, focusing on open access, open data, incentives, and skills/training.
This presentation was provided by Lorraine Estelle of COUNTER, during the NISO Humanities Roundtable. This year's program was entitled "The Monograph in an Evolving Humanities Ecosystem," and was held on October 20, 2021.
Understanding the collective shared print collection (January 2015)Constance Malpas
Prepared for discussion by OCLC Shared Print Advisory Council, based on snapshot of data in WorldCat as of December 2014. Selections presented at OCLC Reserach Update at ALA-MW, 2 February 2015.
United We Stand: A Collaborative Approach to Legacy Print CollectionsMaine_SharedCollections
Slides from the October 21st, 2013 presentation given by MSCS Program Manager Matthew Revitt and Project PI Deb Rollins at the 2013 New England Library Association Annual Conference in Portland, ME. The session was jointly sponsored by The Academic Libraries Section (ALS) and the New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL). A copy of the handout can be found here: http://www.maineinfonet.org/mscs/wp-content/uploads/MSCS-NELA-Handout.pdf
Adaption—The Changing Nature of Libraries (Part 1 of 1), Roger SchonfeldAllen Press
Video of this presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV58tFYgA2g&index=4&list=PLybpVL27qHff3BVHuNXqYsqTs2e98_MpT
Sometimes survival means being faster, stronger, or smarter. Sometimes it requires flexibility, alertness, and the ability to adapt. Academic libraries are in the midst of a digital transformation, but in this transitional period some real tensions demand strategic nuance. An expert in the changing roles of the library, scholarly publisher, and learned society, keynote speaker Roger Schonfeld will lead us through the three tensions underlying the changing library environment. Each of these tensions is a budgetary tension, and each of them is a systems tension, and for each of them the library would benefit from a more sophisticated engagement by publishers and vendors.
Irish Studies - making library data work harderlisld
[Check out the notes for details] Explores how WorldCat can be interrogated to reveal interesting things about a subject domain - Irish Studies. Part one looks at a move to linked data, suggesting that this will better support research enquiries. Part two provides some simple examples of how bibliographic data can support 'distant reading', literary analysis at scale. The third section looks at the collective Irish Studies collection - how Irish Studies materials are distributed across library collections.
It was presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, 1 April 2016, University of Notre Dame.
OCLC fringe: The costs of "open" - preliminary results from a global OCLC survey led by Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Manager, OCLC Research.
Despite growing support for Open Science, Open Access, and Open Government Information, measures of impact, investment, and cost for libraries and research organisations remain largely unknown. In order to better understand this landscape, OCLC conducted a survey in 2018 that focused on libraries’ ambitions, realities, and investments in support of open content. This survey represents a significant early effort to qualify and quantify library efforts in the field of open content at an international scale, and it collected data on library open content activities across multiple internal silos, including: e-resources management, institutional repositories, CRIS systems, digitised heritage collections, data archives, born-digital (legal) deposit, and more. The survey received more than 700 responses from 82 countries, with 72 percent of the responses coming from research and library institutions, providing a rich sample.
In this presentation, OCLC examines definitions of “open” and shares preliminary findings on library investments, assessments and planning, leading participants in a discussion about the implications for our global and connected future, as well as opportunities for collective action.
Melissa McLimans, a Community Liaison / Service Specialist who spends much of her time working in WiLS consulting services, traveled to Lake Geneva to present “Data Driven Libraries (link)” at the Lakeshore Library System’s Annual Trustees Dinner. As attendees enjoyed a lovely meal, Melissa shared examples of innovative and practical uses of data, including data dashboards and other methods to improve library decision-making process. Many of the examples came from WiLS’ strategic planning experiences or from libraries and library systems who are using data to make the best decisions possible.
Many thanks to Lakeshore Library System’s Director, Steve Ohs, for the invitation and opportunity to talk data!
If you have any questions or you're interested in learning more about Melissa's work, contact her at melissa@wils.org.
This project explored how the creation of a new digital health sciences library ebook collection allowed for greater integration of ebooks into course content, expanded the conversation around information literacy, created connections between the library faculty and classroom faculty, extended the awareness of the library’s budget and boosted support for the library.
Charleston 2010 future of collection development andersonivyanderson
This document discusses the future of collaborative collection development in libraries. It notes that libraries now face challenges like ubiquitous information, user disintermediation, declining use of physical collections, and the rise of digital technologies. It explores collaborative approaches taken by projects like WEST for journal storage and HathiTrust for digital books. While collaborative print book collection will be more difficult than journals, there are still opportunities for initiatives like shared e-book licensing, approval plans, storage facilities, and bibliographers. The future of collection may involve newer areas like web archiving, data publication, and earlier engagement in the research lifecycle.
Libraries face new challenges in the digital age, including decreasing budgets, changing user expectations, and new competitors. To remain relevant, libraries must embrace technologies like e-books, mobile apps, makerspaces, and 3D printing. They must redefine their roles and spaces, prove their value through metrics, and position their librarians as agents of change. By responding quickly to trends, reinventing themselves creatively, and meeting communities' evolving needs, libraries can future-proof their important roles.
Embedded Librarians: Building Relationships in a Massively Open Educational S...davidshumaker
The document discusses librarian engagement with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It begins by briefly reviewing MOOCs and examples of librarian involvement. The author argues that a sustainable model is for librarians to be involved in shaping their institution's MOOC strategy through an embedded librarianship approach. Embedded librarians have close relationships and shared goals with decision-makers to influence the evolving role of MOOCs. The document considers why embedded librarianship is well-suited for librarians to impact how their institutions adopt MOOCs.
Looking at Libraries, collections & technologylisld
**Important note - notes visible in downloaded presentation. **
An overview of research library collection trends. Presented in the context of changing demands of research and learning in a network environment. Behaviors shape technology; technology shapes behaviors. There is also some analysis of the RLUK collective collections study and a quick look at some characertistics of The Bodleian Libraries' collections.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managersIryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
This document provides an overview of open access and emerging networks of open research. It discusses the open access publishing landscape and growth of open access. It explores what "being open" means, including reducing friction around peer review, metrics, data sharing, and reproducibility. It addresses how to maximize the number of people research can reach by making it more open and managing the transition to open access. Key points include the importance of openness in solving large problems, measuring impact through article-level metrics rather than journal impact factors, and ensuring access to original data and documents.
Open access for researchers and students, research managers and publishersIryna Kuchma
The document discusses open access (OA), which refers to free online availability of peer-reviewed literature that allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles. It outlines the benefits of OA such as increased citation rates and access, as well as potential cost savings of OA publishing models. Next steps mentioned include encouraging researchers, managers, and libraries to support OA through various policies, repositories, and outreach.
This document provides an overview of open science, including definitions, motivations, and plans for implementation. It discusses:
1) Definitions of open science from various organizations and perspectives.
2) Motivations for open science, including addressing anomalies in the current scientific publishing system and enabling science to better serve societal needs.
3) National and international plans and roadmaps to transition to open science, focusing on open access, open data, incentives, and skills/training.
Open access for researchers and research managersIryna Kuchma
Presented at “Gaining the momentum: Open Access and advancement of science and research” workshop, African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009, Thursday 14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. About enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Advanced and enhanced metrics. The evidences that Open Access leads to advancement of science and research.
Open Science refers to making scientific research and data accessible to all levels of an inquiring society. It encompasses initiatives related to open access publishing, open data, citizen science, collaboration tools, reproducibility, and enabling better incentives for scientists. The document discusses how discussions of open science evolved from earlier concepts of open source, open access, open data, and e-science/data-driven discovery. It outlines the different areas of open science according to common frameworks and provides examples of how the UK Royal Society, Dutch science council, and EU Open Science Policy Platform address each area through their initiatives.
The document discusses open and closed systems of knowledge sharing. It covers topics like Wikipedia, open source software, common goods, and deliberative democracy. Various examples are provided of open systems like Wikipedia, the OEIS database, and ProPublica's policy of allowing republishing of its stories. Challenges of open systems include reaching consensus and maintaining quality without objective metrics. The benefits include greater collaboration and integration of diverse ideas.
Wisconsin Distance Education Conference 2010 open access publishing seminarTerry Anderson
These are slides used by 4 authors of books released as Open Access by Athabasca University Press. The presentation also compares impact of open versus proprietary publication of scholarly work.
Open Access Bibliography revised by Rhiannon Myers for Information Services, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. All rights reserved by Information Services. For more information, see http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/collections/book-displays
The document discusses several recent developments related to open access and e-books:
1) The World Bank approved a new open access policy for its research outputs allowing public distribution and reuse of its work.
2) A Pew Research Center report examined how the rise of e-books is affecting libraries and their patrons. Librarians believe e-books have been good for libraries and reading in general.
3) Brazil will allow prisoners to have sentences reduced by reading books and writing essays on them.
The document then discusses how the book is being transformed from a simple digital copy to a new networked object, and how this impacts concepts like openness, libraries, readers and knowledge.
This document discusses open and closed systems as well as open source development patterns. It provides background on Michael Nielsen and his work promoting open science. It also discusses Wikipedia and the Mathworks programming contest as examples of open source development. Key differences between Wikipedia and Mathworks are that Wikipedia lacks an objective measure of quality while Mathworks competitions have clear scoring systems. The document explores challenges of establishing consensus and common goods in open systems.
The document provides an overview of the LiquidPub Snow Workshop 2010 agenda. The workshop will include parallel panels on Friday morning discussing dissemination and discovery of scientific knowledge, collaborative creation of scientific knowledge, and novel methods for organizing conferences. The afternoon will include collaborative sessions and informal discussions. On Saturday, there will be feedback from the advisory board. The document also provides summaries of the three panel discussions.
A description of my research on the effects of open access on monographs. I have examined the effects on sales, usage by developing countries, the role of open licenses, and citations/altmetrics.
The sheets contain links to the articles, which are freely available online.
Scholarly communication refers to the process by which academics produce and share knowledge. It began with scholars meeting to discuss ideas and corresponding through letters. As numbers grew, scholarly journals emerged in 1665 to facilitate the dissemination of research. Throughout the 18th-19th centuries, journals specialized and prioritized scientific findings. Major growth occurred post-WWII. Now, issues include author rights, visibility, and new publishing models like open access, which makes research publicly available online for free. Open access aims to address the "journal crisis" of rising costs limiting access. It benefits knowledge sharing and increased citations, though some debate potential disadvantages like loss of prestige or increased plagiarism risk.
Institutionalisation of an open access – a new possibility for research. A s...Birute Railiene
Birute Railiene. Institutionalisation of an open access – a new possibility for research : a survey of perception and demand
Paper for the 5th International Conference of the European Society of History of Science, Athens, 1-3 November 2012
Open Access Publishing and Widening Public Access to ResearchDr Xiang REN
A growing number of universities and funding bodies have adopted open access mandates that require publicly funded research to be publicly accessible. Research impact is defined as “an effect on, change, benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life beyond academia”. This presentation reviews the research and practices in widening public access to open access scholarship and identifies the issues and challenges in engaging the public with publicly funded research. It then discusses how to bridge the gap between public knowledge demands and open access scholarly content.
This document provides an overview of open access, including its benefits, key developments, licensing options, and publishing routes. Open access aims to make publicly funded research freely available online. It has grown due to technological advances enabling free distribution, and economic and social motivations for public access to publicly funded work. Major milestones include the Budapest and Berlin Declarations supporting open access. Publishing routes include open access repositories and journals, with the latter utilizing article processing charges as a business model.
Open Access: Improving scholarly communicationIryna Kuchma
Presented at the workshop “Open Access: How to improve accessibility, visibility and impact of your research outputs”, December 22, 2008,
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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Answers are given for all the puzzles and problems.)
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A Visual Guide to 1 Samuel | A Tale of Two HeartsSteve Thomason
These slides walk through the story of 1 Samuel. Samuel is the last judge of Israel. The people reject God and want a king. Saul is anointed as the first king, but he is not a good king. David, the shepherd boy is anointed and Saul is envious of him. David shows honor while Saul continues to self destruct.
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How to Manage Reception Report in Odoo 17Celine George
A business may deal with both sales and purchases occasionally. They buy things from vendors and then sell them to their customers. Such dealings can be confusing at times. Because multiple clients may inquire about the same product at the same time, after purchasing those products, customers must be assigned to them. Odoo has a tool called Reception Report that can be used to complete this assignment. By enabling this, a reception report comes automatically after confirming a receipt, from which we can assign products to orders.
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Explore open access books - Springer Nature & Digital Science event in Boston (2019-09)
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14:00 Why publish your book open access? Rosalind Pyne, Springer Nature
14:30 Live author Q&A with Eric Haines Eric Haines, Nvidia & Ros Pyne
15:00 Understanding the value and impact of
open books
Mike Taylor, Digital Science
15:45 OA books and open knowledge
infrastructures
Catherine Ahearn, PubPub & MIT
Knowledge Futures Group
16:30 General discussion
17:00 Networking drinks reception (Globe Bar & Café)
4. 3
What do we mean by open access?
How does it work in practice?
5. 4
#exploreOAbooks
• Free to read and download, with no restrictions, immediately on
publication.
• Version of record: The version that is free is the publisher‘s final typeset
version (PDF, ePub, HTML, MOBI formats).
• Licensed for re-use and sharing: Creative Commons licence means readers
may freely use and share the work.
• Highly visible and discoverable: Book is available from publisher platforms
and many third-party sites
• Print: OA books are also available in print.
• High quality: The same rigorous peer-review process, copyediting and
proofreading services as non-OA books
• OA fee: An open access fee covers the costs of making the work OA.
What is an open access book?
Free to read and share; highly visible & discoverable; high quality
6. 5
#exploreOAbooks
• Programme launched in 2012.
• Wide range of subject areas accepted
• Monographs, edited collections,
proceedings, short-form books, OA
chapters
• More than 800 OA books published so
far
OA books at Springer Nature
7. 6
#exploreOAbooks
Publishing an OA book with Springer Nature
You can also
choose to ‘flip’ to
OA later on
We apply the same
rigorous peer review
as for non-OA books
Fees depend on
format and length
CC BY allows for
maximum re-use
All e versions are
made OA; reduced
price for print
copies
Visibility via multiple
platforms and
marketing support
9. 8
For increased readership
OA brings increased visibility and readership of research
Source: Emery et al. Springer Nature. 2017. The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
-- Postdoctoral Scholar in
Management Science
and Engineering, USA
“it is really about
bringing the content to
people who shall be
reading it.“
10. 9
For increased readership
OA books are freely available from multiple platforms
Source: Emery et al. Springer Nature. 2017. The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
12. 11
To reach a wider global audience
There is an ethical argument for OA
“For me publishing a book that wasn’t OA on
the impact of international development would
be quite unethical, because I know that people
in Uganda would not be able to read the book.
For me [OA] was an absolute critical component
to the ethics of publishing.”
--- Helen Louise Ackers, Chair in
Global Social Science,
University of Salford
Source: Emery et al. Springer Nature. 2017. The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
13. 12
#exploreOAbooks
To reach a wider global audience
OA brings greater understanding of research globally and outside the
academic community
14. 13
To reach a wider global audience
Countries in the global south have high total views and downloads of
OA books per institution
Source: Montgomery et al. Knowledge Unlatched Research. 2017. Exploring usage of open access books via the JSTOR platform.
15. 14
To support reproducibility
OA helps verification of results, speeds up scholarly exchange
“with open science, it helps that
research results can be replicated,
verified, falsified, and reused for
scholarly as well as practical
applications.”
-- Falk Reckling, PhD, Head of
Department, Strategy – Policy,
Evaluation, Analysis, Austrian
Science Fund (FWF)
Source: Emery et al. Springer Nature. 2017. The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
16. 15
To comply with public access mandates
OA is being adopted by major funders and institutions worldwide
“There is a political drive in
Norway towards open access to
research […] OA publishing is one
way to help meet this political
agenda.”
-- Professor Aslak Tveito,
CEO, Simula Research
Laboratory
“If it is publicly-funded
research [...] then I
think the public has the
right to access these
results.”
--- Philosophy
Professor,
Germany
17. 16
To comply with public access mandates
There are an increasing number of funding initiatives for OA books
• Policies: 22 research funders and 43 institutions
worldwide mandate that researchers make their
books and chapters openly available
• Funding: 21 funders and 52 institutions
worldwide formally make funding available for OA
books.
Example OA book funding in the US
• Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem
(TOME)
• Gates Foundation
• 26 institutions
22
431
4
20
53
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Funders Institutions
OA book and chapter policies
OA encouraged
OA mandate - chapters
only
OA mandate - books and
chapters
18. 17
#exploreOAbooks
We offer a free open access support service to make it easier for our authors to
discover and apply for BPC funding, and to comply with funder and institutional open
access requirements.
Open access funding and policy support
Online resources:
• Lists of organizations that provide OA funding
for books and book chapters
• Policy advice and information
• www.springernature.com/gp/open-
research/funding
Personal funding and policy advice by email:
OAfundingpolicy@springernature.com
19. 18
Why should I publish my book open access?
• Immediate online access
• Increased readership
• Reach a globally more diverse audience
• Reach beyond academia
• Support reproducibility
• Meet public access requirements
20. 1919
The story behind the image
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896)
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and inventor
of dynamite. Dynamite made him very wealthy but partly
in response to concerns about its negative uses, he decided
to give the vast majority of his estate to establish the four
Nobel Prizes with a fifth awarded in his memory, to people
or organisations who promote peace around the world.
Thank you
Ros Pyne
Director, OA Books
Springer Nature
ros.pyne@springernature.com
@rospyne
Questions about our OA books programme:
OAbooks@springernature.com
Find out more:
https://www.springernature.com/oabooks
25. Your presenter...
● Mike Taylor, Head of Metrics Development at Digital Science
● Mostly working on Dimensions and Altmetric.
● Before Digital Science, I worked at a very large publisher for
twenty years. Over half that time on books, in a commissioning
team.
● Still a big books fan, and I regularly talk with small and large
book publishers - so I understand their pain!
● Have been very active in the research community - as part of
Orcid, Crossref, NISO. Have made contributions to Onix,
CASRAI etc.
● Actively involved in organizing conferences -
www.altmetricsconference.com -
www.transformingresearch.org - www.latmetrics.com.
● https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-5985@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
27. The Research Lifecycle
● “Some view the monograph as the central format through
which the humanities contributes to a 'diverse ecology of
inquiry and methods'.”
● Monographs represent different modes of communication:
○ Mature - Significant contributions towards thought
from established thinkers, eg Frodeman, R. (2014).
Sustainable Knowledge: a theory of interdisciplinarity.
Palgrave MacMillan; Latour, Bruno (2005).
Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-
network-theory. Oxford New York: Oxford University
Press.
○ Early stage - Published theses that ‘introduce our
intellectual contributions to a wider community’.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
28. The Research Lifecycle (1)
● Looking at “digital sociology” (using
Dimensions data).
● Looking at one line for all publications
gives
us a very singular impression of
growth.
● Looking at lines for different
publication type, and understanding
the differences in timing, motivation
and effort provides valuable
insights into the progression of a
topic.
● Monographs dance to a different beat
from research articles.
● The effort that goes into a monograph@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
29. The Research Lifecycle (2)
● Looking at “human migration studies” (using Dimensions
data).
● The axis represents twenty outputs - so in 2016, 23
chapters, and 19 monographs were published (they aren’t
chapters from the monographs).
● 2016 (and the years immediately before and after) were
years where there were significant issues regarding human
migration.
● These inflections are typically seen around “step changes”
in a field, and are frequently precursors to changes in other
publishing output, funding etc.
● This could be a case of theses being adapted / published
to meet a demand for content in the academic world.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
30. The Role of the Monograph
● The “laboratory” of arts, humanities, social sciences.
● Disproportionately important in these fields...
○ ...plus non-English scholarship
○ ...plus many parts of the world.
○ Therefore, not taking the monograph seriously damages the
integrity of global, multicultural, multi-lingual scholarship.
● The amount of scholarship involved in a monograph may be many
times more than in a research article or proceedings paper.
● A move towards “publish or perish” - at an increased velocity - may
change the nature of scholarship in these areas and push it towards
“quicker, shallower” outputs.
● To understand and value the monograph is to understand and value
all scholarship.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
31. “The State of Open
Monographs”
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
32. The State of Open Monographs - A white
paper● Grimme, Sara; Taylor, Mike; Elliott, Michael A.; Holland,
Cathy; Potter, Peter; Watkinson, Charles (2019): The State
of Open Monographs. figshare.
● https://figshare.com/articles/_/8197625
● https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8197625.v4
● Report addresses the question of how we integrate and
value monographs in the increasingly open digital scholarly
network. Analysis looked at the open monograph
landscape in 2019, the impact and role of monographs in
the scholarly record, the move towards open access and
the nuances in funding.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
33. The State of Open Monographs - Scope
● The Open Access Monograph Landscape in 2019
● How Many Monographs Are Published Each Year?
● Challenges in Information Supply Chain
● Valuing and Understanding Monographs - Their Role in the
Scholarly Record
● Understanding Costs and Finding Funding
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
34. The State of Open Monographs -
Conclusions (1)● Open access is still a relatively small part of the
monograph landscape. As of mid-2019, the Directory of
Open Access Books lists fewer than 20,000 OA books of
all dates (https://www.doabooks.org/). This is compared to
an estimated 86,000 monographs published internationally
every year.
● Initiatives such as Knowledge Unlatched and TOME are
experimenting with new business models that presume a
world where open access becomes the norm for
monographs.
● While monographs continue to be central to the intellectual
and professional identity of HSS fields, the technology for
publishing them continues to be driven largely by the
needs of a print and journal-based market. As a result,
monographs remain largely outside the growing digital
scholarly information infrastructure.@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
35. The State of Open Monographs -
Conclusions (2)● The challenges scholarly publishers face in adding open
access monographs to their publishing programmes
include issues with general discoverability and inclusion in
library catalogues. They also face the challenge of how to
measure the value and distribution of open access
materials, in the absence of sales data and difficulties
gaining usage data.
● Monographs famously collect citations at a slower rate
than journal-based research articles. Data in this report
from Altmetric shows that monographs also accrue impact
over a longer life cycle in a broader context, and show
higher rates of impact in policy documents and Wikipedia,
than equivalent journal-based articles.
● OA sheds a harsh light into how academic book publishing
is faring in its transition to a networked digital world, and
reveals dusty corners and dirty piles of laundry that we@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
36. The State of Open Monographs -
Conclusions (3)● The report shows how assessing the current state of open
access monograph publishing is particularly challenging, if
for no other reason than that the terrain is so messy — more
so even than it is for journal publishing.
● Key report recommendations for fully integrating
monographs into the digital scholarly information
infrastructure include:
○ Urging publishers to adopt DOIs at both a volume and,
preferably, chapter-level, that will support the discovery,
monitoring and impact of monographs across the increasingly
open scholarly infrastructure.
○ Recommending that distributors and aggregators make their
usage data available in interoperable and standard forms, and
support data aggregation and interoperability by consistent use of
DOIs.
○ That funders recognise the value that monographs contribute to
scholarship, and that they fund the move towards open access
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
37. Trends in Open Access
Monographs
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
38. Volume of Monograph Publishing
● To understand the relative adoption of Open Access in monograph
publishing, we need to know how many monographs are published per
year.
● This is not trivial: even a definition of
‘monograph’ is a challenge.
● In the white paper, we use three
different methods to calculate the
number of monographs published
per year, and came up with 86,000
for 2013.
● Initially, this seems like a large figure.
But our visibility of ‘monographs’ is
often skewed by our geographic,
lingual, disciplinary position.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
39. Rate of Open Monograph Publishing
● Given that there isn’t a number for the volume of monographs published
per year, it’s not unsurprising that there isn’t a number for the volume of
Open monographs.
● Eg, the Directory of Open Access Books only holds records for 20,000
books.
● Using Dimensions, it’s possible to extract some
values for Monographs published per year, and
Open Monographs published per year.
● Challenges with extrapolation: from this data
we might conclude that 20% of monographs
are Open.
● That’s probably wrong, but quantifying it is
very complex: neither DOI adoption nor Open is
evenly distributed amongst monograph
publishers.@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
41. Conclusions
● OA publishing in journals is growing, and growing
consistently (although it’s no longer accelerating).
● Open Monographs appears to be static, although
this is a difficult conclusion, given the unknowns: it
might be growing, but (arguably) it’s falling behind
- in terms of proportion.
● There are a number of issues to explore:
○ DOI adoption,
○ Open Access license challenges,
○ Lack of funding,
○ Lack of visibility,
○ General pressure on academics to publish
“more measurable” outputs.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
43. Overview of the market
● Journals revenue per year, estimated at $10B (https://www.stm-
assoc.org/2018_10_04_STM_Report_2018.pdf).
● Books revenue per year, estimated at £3.3B (reference, textbook, monograph,
collected works).
● Drilling down to monographs is challenging!
● (Having worked in a publisher that published all types, 10% feels like an appropriate
estimation…)
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
44. Funding and grants
● What is the cost of a monograph? According to Ithaka S+R, university monographs
estimate it to be $28-40k
● Sales have dropped, but costs have not.
● “The fee for existing open access options (ensuring all published material is converted
to XML, and then made available in html and PDF) for books currently averages
around £9,500, and we anticipate the average cost to make a book chapter open
access will be £1,800." (Wellcome Trust, 2013)
● UK Research Excellence Framework established a baseline OA Book Processing
Charge of £7500.
● Publisher BPCs vary from £5000-£11,000.
● The gap is forcing a closer look at the costs, funding and business models of
monograph publishing.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
45. Funders associated with Open Monographs
● Data from Dimensions
○ FWF Austrian Science Fund
(FWF)
○ Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC)
○ Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC)
○ Wellcome Trust (WT)
○ National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH)
○ Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNF)
○ National Natural Science@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
Author affiliation by Country
Germany
3000
United States
2671
United Kingdom
2202
China
483
Italy
430
Canada
411
Australia
410
Switzerland
377
France
346
Sweden
279
Russia
46. Lifecycle issues
● Examples have shown that there is possibly a trend towards publishing “shorter,
faster”, even in Arts and Humanities.
● Possibly related to issues of evaluation, but possibly related to funding.
● This problem is accepted as an ongoing issue:
○ That research funds may be limited to a short period of time, eg, 2-3 years.
○ Writing up the research in a monograph may go beyond this time span.
○ University fundholders and researchers are not clear on whether a book can be
funded, if it’s going to be published after the funding period.
○ Unclarity of policy => uncertainty => overhead => ‘comfort zone’ publishing.
● Some publishers will issue an invoice for book processing earlier than normal to
accommodate this.
● Some funders are looking to address this and protect book processing charges.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
47. ‘Hybrid’ business model, and licensing
issues● Whereas ‘hybrid’ in the journal world describes journals that are both OA and
traditional, monographs have their own issues.
● It is normal practice to make an e-version available for free, but to continue to sell a
paper version.
● Some issues arise:
○ What is the appropriate cost of a paper version, how to apportion costs? (Most
publishers systems would struggle with this granularity)
○ What license would apply, and help maintain sustainable publishing?
■ eg, CC0 would mean anyone could do anything with the ebook.
■ Translations, reversioning etc.
● Sensitivities of Arts, Humanities etc are often different to STEM, and need to be
acknowledged and accommodated. Funders, publisher and other agencies need to
be aware of discipline differences.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
49. The growing importance of data and metrics
● In the absence of sales figures, usage (downloads), citation and
shares will become increasingly important to show the impact of
Open Monographs.
● Free distribution, and fragmentation of platform data implies that
download data is likely to be partial (at best).
● Existing research evaluation strategies tend to be fine-tuned towards
STEM subjects and focus on the research article.
● Monographs and Open Monographs “dance to a different tune”.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
50. Is there a citation or Altmetric advantage for
Open?● This phenomena has been observed in journals / articles.
● A superficial look at Dimensions / Altmetric data suggests there’s an advantage.
● Data for History and Archaeology Monographs, published in 2014-2016, with 257
Open Monographs and 6651 non-Open Monographs suggests it is worth research:
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Altmetric
Coverage (%)
19.7% 16.7% 15.9%
Open Altmetric Coverage (%) 37.7% 26.9% 46.6%
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Mean Citations (N
= 6651)
4.85 2.01 1.37
Open Mean Citations (N =
257)
5.15 2.68 1.91
History
and
Archaeolo
gy
51. @herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Altmetric
Coverage (%)
16.30% 16.30% 16.30%
Open Altmetric Coverage (%) 53.60% 33.90% 46.10%
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Mean Citations (N
= 4843)
8.98 3.00 1.32
Open Mean Citations (N =
265)
12.54 4.24 2.83
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Altmetric
Coverage (%)
16.40% 17.40% 18.30%
Open Altmetric Coverage (%) 32.30% 28.40% 32.50%
2014 2015 2016
Non-Open Mean Citations (N
= 5514)
8.15 4.21 2.27
Open Mean Citations (N =
265)
10.18 8.11 4.48
Studies in
Human
Society
Communicati
on, Language
and Culture
52. One Graph:
Three
Phenomena!
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
1) Clear disciplinary
differences
2) Monograph citations
accrue slowly
3) Possible Open advantage
53. A three-year research
evaluation cycle is not
well suited to
monographs
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
Three years old Five years old
54. Research evaluation at 3 years disadvantages
monographs
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
55. Research evaluation and the Open
Monograph● Monographs and Open Monographs “dance to a different tune”,
when compared to STEM subjects and research articles.
● The strengths of monographs, and advantages to Open Monographs
become apparent over time.
● Short period research evaluation disadvantages both Monographs
(as a whole) and Open Monographs.
● Trust needs to be built in citations, Altmetric data, downloads in order
to displace sales figures.
● Conversations about the impact of Open Monographs need to evolve
to more appropriate data indicators and metrics.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
57. In summary
● Monographs play a key role in the development of intellectual thought.
● They are disproportionately important for discipline (Arts, Humanities, Social
Sciences, non-English languages and non-north/west hemisphere countries.
● Open Monographs have higher usage rates, citation rates and appear to have higher
Altmetric shares: they are more impactful.
● However, fragmentation of metadata and usage data may relatively harm their
discovery, usage and adoption.
● Funding policies need to be adapted to support the monograph life-cycle, and
shouldn’t inadvertently push researchers towards ‘short form’ research outputs.
● We will lose far more than we gain, if we don’t actively take steps to ensure
appropriate funding and evaluation of Open Monographs.
@herrison | m.taylor@digital-science.com
58. 7878
4.0
OA books and open knowledge infrastructures
Catherine Ahearn
Content Lead, PubPub
MIT Knowledge Futures Group
59. How MIT is Reimagining OA Books and
Open Knowledge Infrastructure
Catherine Ahearn, PhD
Content Lead, PubPub
MIT Knowledge Futures Group
Explore Open Access Books
Boston, MA
19 September 2019
60. A joint initiative of the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab
to develop and deploy technologies that form part of a new open
knowledge ecosystem.
61. KFG.mit.edu
- Support for mission-driven
publishers
- Assert institutional ownership
of publishing technologies
and platforms
- Bring like-minded groups and
individuals together
62. Mind the Gap:
A Landscape Analysis of Open Source
Publishing Tools and Platforms
https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/
64. Value in Experimentation
➔ Redefining the digital reading experience
➔ Supporting the development and evolution of new ideas
➔ Introducing transparency and openness in the review
process to provide greater value to authors and readers
65. OA Books
➔ Completed, published works
➔ Open peer review of contracted titles
➔ Open peer review of uncontracted titles
66. Frankenbook
➔ Edition for the 200th anniversary (2018) of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published by
the MIT Press in 2017
➔ Frankenbook published in January 2018 on PubPub
◆ Additional annotations from the editors
◆ Multimedia embeds in the text and annotation
◆ Labels added to annotations for tailored reading
◆ Functionality for use in classrooms
◆ Community discussion around the text
➔ Currently has 420 discussions and over 7,000 visits
67.
68. Data Feminism
➔ Data Feminism is a contracted manuscript by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
➔ Available for peer-to-peer review and to be published by the MIT Press as part of the
<strong>Ideas series
◆ All titles in the <strong>Ideas series will be open access and published on
PubPub with support from the MIT Libraries
➔ Had over 500 comments and over 3,000 visits at the close of open review
69.
70.
71. Works in Progress
➔ Works in Progress (WiP) are written works in early stages of development that
would benefit from an open peer review process.
➔ Provides authors the benefit of community feedback in the development of their
ideas, as well as the ability to publish a version of their work before more formal
publication.
➔ After the open review period, authors may revise the work and submit it for
consideration for formal publication. The MIT Press will have first right of refusal, and
all submitted manuscripts will be subject to our usual rigorous peer review.
72. Harvard Data Science Review
➔ Harvard-based publication published by the MIT Press on PubPub
➔ Launched on July 2, 2019
➔ Informed many of PubPub’s latest updates and the launch of the platform’s 7th
version
◆ Focused on article-view design
◆ Incorporates interactive data visualizations
◆ More customization features
73. Challenges in Experimentation
➔ Community engagement
➔ Community moderation
➔ Funding models
➔ Creating new workflows and/or integrating with existing
ones
74. Collaboration
➔ Create your own community
◆ Anyone can create a community or contribute to an existing one at no cost
➔ Provide us feedback
◆ All of our code is openly available on GitHub
◆ You can reach our team at team@pubpub.org
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77. 9797
The story behind the image
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
In a scientific world still dominated by men, Marie Curie
shone not only as an extraordinary pioneer in the field of
radioactivity, but also as a trailblazing female scientist. A
French-Polish chemist and physicist, Curie discovered two
new elements, polonium and radium, and revolutionised
our understanding of radioactivity, the process by which
unstable atoms decay by emitting energy in the form of
radiation. The first person of either gender to win or share
two Nobel Prizes, Curie is one of the most renowned
scientists of a generation, whose influences can be seen
throughout many areas of modern science, from particle
physics to medicine.
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