This poster explains the governance structure of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Sci... more This poster explains the governance structure of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), focusing on good governance principles: transparency, trust, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Feb 15, 2022
We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanit... more We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the H2020 project OPERAS-P. This article explores the theme of Open Research Data and its role in the emergence of new models of scholarly writing. We examine more closely the obstacles and fostering conditions to the publication of research data, both from a social and a technical perspective.
The document presents a summary of the Voices From the Open Access Books Community sessions: a se... more The document presents a summary of the Voices From the Open Access Books Community sessions: a series of virtual workshops in which the OA books community discussed how a possible Plan S for books could look like.
This report has been created as one of the deliverables of the OPERAS-P Task 6.2 (Innovative busi... more This report has been created as one of the deliverables of the OPERAS-P Task 6.2 (Innovative business models) of the OPERAS-P project. The main objective of this task is to develop, collate and share information about alternative funding models for open access (OA) books. 1. Academic Libraries and OA Books in Europe: A Landscape Study by RupertGatti and Agata Morka (Part 1 of this document). This report was published inFebruary 2021, as a result of a desk research and 14 interviews conducted with librarians representing 14 European countries: the OPERAS core members: (Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Netherlands), with addition of Spain and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). It examined each country according to the following areas of interest: 1. general characteristics of library systems for e-content and OA<br> publications, 2. library community and open access, 3. OA book policies, 4. OA book funding, 5. lib...
This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholar... more This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books, and provides an informed view of how a book benefits from OA publication. It also highlights the challenges involved in measuring the impact of OA on scholarly books and suggests that there is much to do across the whole scholarly communications network in supporting authors and their funders. Part 1 of the report presents the findings of the quantitative analysis. The average performance of OA books, as measured by usage, citations and online mentions, was compared to the average performance of non-OA titles. Part 2 presents feedback from authors and funders who were interviewed about their experiences and perceptions of OA book publishing with Springer Nature. Interviews focused on: the impact of OA on books; OA book metrics that are of most relevance to authors and funders; and authors' and funders' expectations and experiences of, as well as motivations for, OA book...
There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing foc... more There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing focus on monographs in particular. There are a number of existing and emerging OA monograph policies, which are leading to an increased focus on business models. Given this dynamic landscape, it was felt that a more in-depth understanding was needed of European monograph publishers' current business models for open access, their challenges, and their views on how infrastructure for open access monographs could be improved. This white paper builds on the previous OPERAS Business Models Special Interest Group white paper on Business Models for Open Access (Speicher, et al., 2018). In particular, OPERAS wished to gain a better understanding about how the social sciences and humanities (SSH) publishing community applies or could apply collaborative models for open access books, and what issues it encounters in this context. We further wanted to recognise the challenges publishers faced when...
This poster explains the governance structure of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Sci... more This poster explains the governance structure of the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), focusing on good governance principles: transparency, trust, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Feb 15, 2022
We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanit... more We present here highlights from an enquiry on the innovations in scholarly writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the H2020 project OPERAS-P. This article explores the theme of Open Research Data and its role in the emergence of new models of scholarly writing. We examine more closely the obstacles and fostering conditions to the publication of research data, both from a social and a technical perspective.
The document presents a summary of the Voices From the Open Access Books Community sessions: a se... more The document presents a summary of the Voices From the Open Access Books Community sessions: a series of virtual workshops in which the OA books community discussed how a possible Plan S for books could look like.
This report has been created as one of the deliverables of the OPERAS-P Task 6.2 (Innovative busi... more This report has been created as one of the deliverables of the OPERAS-P Task 6.2 (Innovative business models) of the OPERAS-P project. The main objective of this task is to develop, collate and share information about alternative funding models for open access (OA) books. 1. Academic Libraries and OA Books in Europe: A Landscape Study by RupertGatti and Agata Morka (Part 1 of this document). This report was published inFebruary 2021, as a result of a desk research and 14 interviews conducted with librarians representing 14 European countries: the OPERAS core members: (Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Netherlands), with addition of Spain and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden). It examined each country according to the following areas of interest: 1. general characteristics of library systems for e-content and OA<br> publications, 2. library community and open access, 3. OA book policies, 4. OA book funding, 5. lib...
This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholar... more This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books, and provides an informed view of how a book benefits from OA publication. It also highlights the challenges involved in measuring the impact of OA on scholarly books and suggests that there is much to do across the whole scholarly communications network in supporting authors and their funders. Part 1 of the report presents the findings of the quantitative analysis. The average performance of OA books, as measured by usage, citations and online mentions, was compared to the average performance of non-OA titles. Part 2 presents feedback from authors and funders who were interviewed about their experiences and perceptions of OA book publishing with Springer Nature. Interviews focused on: the impact of OA on books; OA book metrics that are of most relevance to authors and funders; and authors' and funders' expectations and experiences of, as well as motivations for, OA book...
There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing foc... more There have been significant recent developments in the OA publishing world, and an increasing focus on monographs in particular. There are a number of existing and emerging OA monograph policies, which are leading to an increased focus on business models. Given this dynamic landscape, it was felt that a more in-depth understanding was needed of European monograph publishers' current business models for open access, their challenges, and their views on how infrastructure for open access monographs could be improved. This white paper builds on the previous OPERAS Business Models Special Interest Group white paper on Business Models for Open Access (Speicher, et al., 2018). In particular, OPERAS wished to gain a better understanding about how the social sciences and humanities (SSH) publishing community applies or could apply collaborative models for open access books, and what issues it encounters in this context. We further wanted to recognise the challenges publishers faced when...
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