Infrastructure for OA publishing Pierre Mounier EHESS – OpenEdition - Operas
Infrastructure for OA publishing
Pierre Mounier EHESS – OpenEdition - Operas
GREEN AND GOLD : AN OUTDATED PARADIGM
We need disciplinary approach
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Cc by-nc Salvador Garcia Bardon
The book is specific to humanities
Hard times for books/humanities (in open access world) !
Open archives….for articles
Gold road… for articles• « The research communications
system is in a period of transition towards open access. We believe that, at its simplest, this is a shift from a reader-pays to an author-pays system, which in turn requires a shift in publications processes and business models. The aim of our recommendations is to accelerate that process, but in an ordered way »
• « would require an additional £50-60m a year in expenditure from the HE sector: £38m on publishing in open access journals, £10m on extensions to licences for the HE and health sectors and £3-5m on repositories, plus one-off transition costs of £5m. »
… not for books
Europe ignores books
YET, INITIATIVES BLOSSOM IN EUROPE
CC By Ian Sane
« Scholarly startups »• Open Humanities Press• Open Book Publishers• Sdvig Press• Language Science Press• Open Library of Humanities
University Presses• Göttingen University Press• KIT• UCL Press• Firenze University Press• Editions de la MSH
Institutional publishers• OECD• World Bank• The Commonwealth• Nordic Council
New economic models
Knowledge Unlatched : news from the front
• KU is launching a second round in October with unlatching in early spring 2016
• This will be with 80 books from 25 publishers (pilot was 13 publishers, 28 books)
• Following this we expect to scale up more rapidly in 2016
• Research on usage of KU titles will be undertaken at Curtin University, Australia
• Downloads of pilot in first twelve months was over 1000 downloads per book in 170 countries
A virtual library for open access books
A digital publishing platform
INTRODUCING A NEW INITIATIVE : OPERAS
CC By-sa Naoya Ikeda
OPERASOpen access Publications in the European Research
Area for the Social sciences and humanities
http://operas.hypotheses.org
Common goals• Adopt common standards• Share R&D projects• Identify and adopt best practices• Benchmark business models• Advocate for humanities in open
access and open access in humanities• Provide unified seamless services at
european scale
• ESFRI : european strategy forum for research infrastructures
• Earmarks strategic initiatives for specific scientific communities
• Implies funding commitment at national level
• Specific funds at european level (INFRADEV)
• Next update of the roadmap in 2018• Legal entity at the end of the process
12 partners in 5 countries…so far
Association of European University Presses – AEUP (EU)Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università italiane – CRUI (IT)Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – ILIESI (IT)Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (DE)Knowledge Unlatched (UK)Max Weber Stiftung (DE)Oapen library (NL)OpenEdition (FR)Università Ca' Foscari VeneziaUniversità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (IT)Università di Torino (IT)Εθνικό Κέντρο Τεκμηρίωσης – EKT (GR)
JOIN US !
CC By-sa Jorge Royan
(cyber)infrastructure“a layer of information, expertise, standards, policies, tools, and services that are shared broadly across communities of inquiry but developed for specific scholarly purposes : cyberinfrastructure is something more specific than the network itself, but it is something more general than a tool or a resource developed for a particular project, a range of projects, or, even more broadly, for a particular discipline.”