Open Access Monographs Dr. Marianne Alenius Managing Director Niels Stern Head of Marketing and e-publishing
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.)
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.)
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 1300+ titles 12 employees on salary (some full time, some part time) + volunteers
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
EC conference Brussels, 15-16 February 2007 Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area. Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459
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), 2007-2009 www.ub.uit.no/wiki/noap
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, 15-16 February 2007)
www.oapen.org www.oapenwiki.org co-funded by the European Union
Open Access is beneficial for all stakeholders Scholars Universities Funders Publishers Libraries
A change of the financial flow is needed
Mixed models
The hybrid model
Author pays model
Public Research Funding Austrian Research Foundation
Don t demand OA without funding it
Don t condemn the publishers but set incentives for a system change
Open Access Publication Fund Dutch pilot project: OAPEN-NL 125.000 Euro + 240.000 Euro
Reallocation of library budgets
No model fits all
Thank you for your attention! Marianne Alenius, alenius@mtp.dk Niels Stern, niels@mtp.dk