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...
... We imagine a world in which open access books in all their forms are produced and disseminated anti-competitively, collaboratively, and responsive to, as well as driven by, the community of communities dedicated to public knowledge and the love of the book. #ScalingSmall
@JudithFathallah discusses the values & practices of small #OA publishers (eg @ScholarLed consortium) when developing governance models as 'Knowledge Commons'
Different stakeholders hopefully share common aims & interests, but power is not equally shared. #ScalingSmall#OABooks
How do #OA publishers see the elements, resources, & actors involved in their governance structures? - From financial resources to human resources & labour, from technological systems & digital infrastructure to rules & bylaws of their form of incorporation #ScalingSmall#OABooks
Independence and flexibility is highly valued by many smaller scholar-led presses (ie. separation from a particular university of institution) - as was informal & dynamic methods of governance. #ScalingSmall#OABooks
@JudithFathallah's research developed some contextual recommendations for small scholar-led #OA presses related to implementing governance structures to pre-empt potential problems. The recommendations advocate for diversity & representation as well as transparency #ScalingSmall
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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
@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
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
@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