National Scholarly Communications Forum 2015 monographs

National Scholarly Communication Forum 2015

Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian

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Why do we worry about monographs?

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Libraries

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University presses: a case study

• Declining book circulation (University of Utah 21% decline 2011-3, ANU semester 1 2014-5 15% decline)

• university press titles represent about 9% of total printed books in the library

• university press titles account for about 17.5% of book circulations annually

• of university press titles that circulate at least once, the % circulating is falling

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/07/28/how-important-are-university-press-books-to-the-library-one-case-study/

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Digital natives

http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/cartoons-on-digital-natives-and-immigrants/

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Electronic vs Print use: ANU Library collection 2015

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Debate

http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/Year/2015/monographs/Title,101531,en.html

https://openreflections.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/the-monograph-crisis-revisited/

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Interpreting Chekov

Borny, Geoffrey, 1942- . Interpreting Chekhov. 2006

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Security and Privacy

Security and Privacy: Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management in Contemporary Liberal Democratic States. John Kleinig, Peter Mameli, Seumas Miller, Douglas Salane and Adina Schwartz, 2011

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• Exhuming passions : the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia / editors, Katie Holmes, Stuart Ward. Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2011

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Tampering With Asylum Revised EditionAuthor: Frank Brennan UQP 2006

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http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/files/2015/07/Guide-to-open-access-monograph-publishing-for-researchers-final.pdf

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