Open Access Monographs. and e-publishing

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1 Open Access Monographs Dr. Marianne Alenius Managing Director Niels Stern Head of Marketing and e-publishing

2 Prof. John Willinsky Stanford University and PKP Public Knowledge Project The monograph provides researchers with the finest of stages for sustained and comprehensive sometimes exhaustive and definitive acts of scholarly inquiry. A monograph is what it means to work out an argument in full, to marshal all the relevant evidence, to provide a complete account of consequences and implications, as well as counter-arguments and criticisms. (John Willinsky: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 12, no. 1, February 2009.)

3 Prof. John Willinsky Stanford University and PKP Public Knowledge Project Libraries spent twice as much on books as they did on journals in 1969, while by 2006, journals were gobbling up three times as much of the library budget as books for these same libraries (ARL 2007). (ibid.)

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5 Museum Tusculanum Press / Museum Tusculanums Forlag Traditional Scholarly Publishing (International and Danish) Founded 1975 as an independent scholarly press at the University of Copenhagen Commercially Operating Foundation Main subject areas: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology Publishing genres: monographs, anthologies, series, journals, dissertations, text editions and translations of historical texts Approx. 50 new peer reviewed monographs and anthologies pro anno (of which several are two and three volume books) and 10 journals Has published in more than 15 languages on average approx. 50% in Danish, 40% in English Backlist of titles 12 employees on salary (some full time, some part time) + volunteers

6 Museum Tusculanum epress Pioneer in digital publishing in Scandinavia since 2002 Established an online bookshop for e-books and printed books (2004) First in Europe to develop DRM for e-books based on the encryption software FileOpen for Adobe PDF (used by British Library today) First in Denmark to join international aggregators collections (2004) First to join Google Book Search in Scandinavia (2005) First to sell e-licences (of e-monographs and e-journals) to Danish research libraries (2007) Has participated in several international digital projects: OAPEN, NOAP, MoG, hprints

7 EC conference Brussels, February 2007 Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area. Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age

8 Lars Bjørnshauge Director, Lund University Libraries Project coordinator of NOAP (Nordic Open Access Publishing Aiding Scientific Journals Towards Open Access Publishing) Co-funded by Nordbib (Nordic Council),

9 Dr. Sijbolt Noorda, President VSNU We should be aware of the many serious small and medium size publishers doing an important job for the monograph in HSS. (At the EC conference Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area. Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age, Brussels, February 2007)

10 co-funded by the European Union

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12 Open Access is beneficial for all stakeholders Scholars Universities Funders Publishers Libraries

13 A change of the financial flow is needed

14 Mixed models

15 The hybrid model

16 Author pays model

17 Public Research Funding Austrian Research Foundation

18 Don t demand OA without funding it

19 Don t condemn the publishers but set incentives for a system change

20 Open Access Publication Fund Dutch pilot project: OAPEN-NL Euro Euro

21 Reallocation of library budgets

22 No model fits all

23 Thank you for your attention! Marianne Alenius, Niels Stern,