If institutions & funders are serious about #OpenScience & #OpenResearch then they have to reassess reward & recognition systems for academics so that there is a culture change away from traditional prestige publishing #ScalingSmall#OABooks
It's about redirecting labour & funds to #open rather than propping up the status quo - part of this is for academic institutions to work with publishers to develop sustainable & equitable #openaccess options (not just those funded by TAs, APCs & BPCs)... #ScalingSmall#OABooks
Also key for publishers to work with academic libraries to ensure #openaccess content can be found & accessed via library discovery layers + embedded in teaching. #OA content should be as discoverable to library-users as paywalled content! #MetadataMatters #ScalingSmall#OABooks
@alittleroad in the chat, eloquent as ever:
"Partly it's building prestige ourselves through things like raising awareness of the significant work being done by non-commercial, OA publishers through different forms of advocacy and publicity" #ScalingSmall#OABooks
If we raise the profile of #OpenAccess & of #OApublishing, attract established authors/academics to publish OA, & work together to instil #OpenResearch as a key part of institutional & funder policies, then we will begin to change mindsets. #ScalingSmall#OABooks
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"The established supply chain for scholarly books presents a major challenge for small or new #OA publishers to thrive. Specialised title management systems, for instance, are difficult to access and many systems are not oriented to #openaccess books." #ScalingSmall#OABooks
"@COPIMproject has dedicated time and attention to this issue developing @Thoth_metadata, a #metadata management system, that aims to level the playing field between large and small publishers by alleviating some of the difficulties faced by scholar-led presses." #ScalingSmall
Today's final #ScalingSmall session is "Community Governance in Practice: Governance in #OA Spaces" - Janneke Adema (@Openreflections) describes the research that informed the establishment of a community governance structure for @COPIMproject & @OpenBookCollect
@Openreflections@COPIMproject@OpenBookCollect#ScalingSmall
COPIM envisions &supports an open inclusive diverse &community-led ecosystem for the creation &dissemination of #OABooks in which all knowledge producers are maximally empowered to communicate their research to the benefit of society without costs or barriers...
@jesherer We need to get better at measuring usage & impact for #OABooks - this is tricky for libraries in particular; we rely on institution-specific usage stats to demonstrate value for money; how do we measure our institutional usage of #OpenAccess content? #ScalingSmall
@jesherer We can get #OABooks usage stats based on IP-range; but this is just part of the picture - lots of usage is off-campus! If users don't go through authentication like EZproxy (because the content is open) how do we measure what institution they are affiliated to? #ScalingSmall
@ScholTom explains WP3 #OpeningtheFuture
Pilot case to show that publishers can transition their business to new #OpenAccess models that do not rely on BPCs but on community funding.
Developing online open toolkits for starting & running open access presses #ScalingSmall#OABooks
Library members pay a small annual fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a publisher’s backlist; membership revenue is used to produce new frontlist monographs which are #OpenAccess to anyone in the world! #OpeningtheFuture#ScalingSmall#OABooks
@mragucci Robust standardised #metadata is powerful for all stakeholders in information & knowledge exchange - but practices & standards vary greatly across content types. Ultimately, publishers & content providers have a responsibility to think downstream about the end user #NISOPlus2023
The opportunity costs of poor metadata re-use - Josh Brown from @MoreBrains_Coop
PIDs are keystone metadata! - Powering Reuse, Automation, Aggregation & Analysis #metadata#NISOPlus23
NOT reusing #metadata has costs in money, time and knock-on effects - rekeying of metadata is essentially unnecessary duplication of effort across sectors, institutions and individuals! #NISOPlus23