Jisc updates - OA monographs and etextbooks - Graham Stone
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- 1. Research & Development SueAttewell – Head of Change FE & Skills 1 August 2018 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbooks update This photo, “Stamps: lots of them!” is copyright (c) 2010 Michele Ursino and made available under a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence
- 2. OA monographs and New University Presses Quick update 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 2
- 3. OA mandate for monographs »The former HEFCE’s ‘announcement’ in 2018 that there will be a mandate for OA monographs in REF2027 › Effectively from 2021 › In December 2016, the four UK higher education (HE) funding bodies signalled their intent to extend the open access (OA) requirements of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to include long-form scholarly works and monographs in the exercise after REF 2021. 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 3
- 4. OA mandate for monographs 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 4
- 5. More on the Research England mandate »Two streams of work in preparation › Consultancy work:The specific purpose of this project is to gather a data set (supported by some qualitative evidence) to inform a set of recommendations for policy makers, funders and institutions.A final report will be presented to UK Research and Innovation by the end of the calendar year. – https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/456093c1-17ae-4548-814f-23b4fdb8ed9a › Engagement activities: event for learned societies and subject associations will be held in September, publishers event to follow › Plus a Synthesis report: provides an overview of the open access (OA) landscape for monographs, significant publishing activities, and recent reports that provide an insight into the transition to OA for academic books – https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Documents/2018/open-access- monographs-report.pdf 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 5
- 6. KE OA monograph report » OA monographs and the policies and models that support them seem to be growing » UK is a very commercial environment, business models may require significant change » Routledge, OUP, CUP, and Palgrave imprint make two thirds of all monographs published in the UK › publishing nearly 7,000 monographs while only accounting for 94 of the 594 UK OA titles listed in DOAB (Oct 2017) » Landscape survey follow-up being analysed › September 2018 publication date » Workshop in Brussels to be held in November 2018 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 6
- 7. New University Presses »In the UK we have a growing number of new university presses, many based in the library or library-academic initiatives »The Changing publishing ecologies study was driven by an approach from 28 member libraries »In the2017 survey we recorded 19 NUPs operating in the UK – this has risen to 21 in 2018 with the recent launch of LSE Press. At least 12 others may launch in the next 4-5 years 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 7
- 8. NUP contribution to REF2027 »SimonTanner’s analysis (2016) shows 8,513 books were submitted to Main Panel D (Arts and Humanities) for REF2014 »46% of all books submitted from ten publishers (3,926) »The total number of publishers returned to Panel D was 1,180 › Extremely long tail of publishers › Room for ALPs/NUPs? »…ability to contribute 14% of output given current capacity*? *Based on broad assumptions of 200 monographs per year and all titles being REFable 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 8
- 9. Support and guidance from Jisc » Supporting community building › Hello › UNIVERSITYPRESS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK » A call for funders and government agencies to support these initiatives » Integration with the library supply chain » Assistance with increasing number of tools and platforms to support publishing services » …and a NUP toolkit! 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 9
- 10. Integration with the library supply chain OA publishers have difficulty accessing the channels that library acquisition departments use to buy print and e-book content »Metadata »Mapping the library supply chain »Cultural change for collection management in libraries? »New forms of publishing 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 10
- 11. Operas Project 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 11 »A European research infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication, particularly HSS »White papers planned for summer 2018: 1. Advocacy 2. Tools (R&D) 3. Standards 4. Business Models 5. Best Practices 6. Multilingualism 7. Platforms and Services
- 12. Institution as e-textbook publisher project Toolkit launch 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 12
- 13. Aims of the toolkit »The toolkit will provide support to universities wishing to start or that are already in their initial stages of e-textbook publication »It provides practical help from the partner institutions and is aimed at all staff who may have an interest in this fast developing area; › Information professionals (librarians, university presses etc.) › Learning and teaching advisors › Educational technologists › Academic staff / authors › Programme leads › University leadership 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 13
- 14. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Why publish textbooks? 3. Publishing process 4. Support for Staff 5. Technologies 6. Marketing and distribution 7. Measures of success 8. Students as authors of e- textbooks »Project blog › https://etextbook.jiscinvolve. org/wp/ 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 14
- 15. E-textbooks Author motivation study 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 15
- 16. Understanding author/institution perspective »Purpose of project: understand motivations to produce textbooks/learning resources › Support institutions to encourage/facilitate production › Further diversify the environment › Test alternatives to existing models › Understand levers and barriers to change 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 16
- 17. Motivators and demotivators for academics 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 17 Academic • Other publishing priorities • Lack of practical support from institution • Work required to create the resource • Improvements to student experience • Relevant to courses taught • Filling a gap in the existing offering • Good for professional development
- 18. Open textbooks »UK Open textbooks project › Rolfe,V., & Pitt, B. (2018). Open textbooks – an untapped opportunity for universities, colleges and schools. Insights, 31, 30. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.427 »Author motivation survey to be released Aug/Sep 2018 »Look out for further work on open textbooks in 2018/19 »Project blog › https://etextbook.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 18
- 19. jisc.ac.uk Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND Further info Graham Stone Jisc Collections senior research manager Graham.Stone@jisc.ac.uk 31/07/2018 OA monographs and textbook update 19
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- Why do authors choose to publish textbooks? We know from earlier research (e.g. OAPEN-UK) that there’s not a great deal of prestige in textbook publication, but nonetheless people do it. Why? Finding out will help us support institutions who want to encourage their own researchers to produce learning resources, and possibly to do so under the institution’s own brand (e.g. via a university press, the library or similar) If institutions do this, it will diversify the environment, creating a bigger range of options for teachers and students to use in learning. Allow further investigation of how and where alternatives might work better (or worse) than existing models The research will also help us understand the levers and barriers to this change, ensuring institutions focus on the areas where their activities could have an actual impact.
- Not necessarily the case that the things which encourage academics are the opposite of the things which discourage academics Motivators pretty similar for previous authors (n = 68) and potential authors (n=145) Benefits to students Can see a real need for it Demotivators – we only have a small sample of people who were approached but chose not to publish (n=31) but presented here for context: Main issues were practical – amount of time needed to prepare a resource cited by 80% of respondents as a main reason for not publishing a textbook. Also, lack of practical support from the institution (e.g. buy-out of time) – much bigger proportion than e.g. no support from departmental superiors. Note that this was a real problem for those who have previously published a resource: 56% said it was more work than expected, and 24% said the institution was not supportive or helpful. So definitely a real concern. Academics consider the issue in relation to their own career and professional development: Those who did publish a learning resource were likely to say that a main reason for doing so was that it was good for their professional development or CV, and that it was relevant to the courses they were teaching (though note that only a third of those who cited this as a main reason also cited having materials prepared as a main reason – so this is not necessarily a practical issue). For those who chose not to publish a textbook (again, remember small n), over half cited other publishing priorities as a main reason.