[IRTalk] It’s time to heed the drive towards open books

[Ina Smith]

Dear Nason

Thank you very much for this, and I agree that open books/monographs the next big thing. We are exploring as part of the National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum (under guidance of Susan Veldsman & Desre Stead).

As far as systems concern – also see Open Monograph Press<https://pkp.sfu.ca/omp/>, and SciELO Books Network<http://books.scielo.org/en>. And also DOAB<http://www.doabooks.org/>.

Hope publishers and research institutions will take up this also.

Kind regards
Ina

From: IRTalk [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Nason Bimbe
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Subject: [IRTalk] It’s time to heed the drive towards open books

One of the less remarked upon aspects of the Consultation on the Second Research Excellence Framework (REF) (HEFCE 2016/38) is the quiet but bold statement in Annex C that the UK funding bodies intend the current open-access policy to be extended to monographs for the as-yet unannounced third exercise in the mid-2020s.

At present, HEFCE’s policy for green open-access (OA) deposit applies only to journal articles or conference proceedings with an ISSN. Ten years from now, we have been warned, the situation will look very different and books will be included.

The set of needs here is formidable; when it comes to books, we are not talking about depositing author-accepted manuscripts. So institutions need to begin thinking now about the strategies that they will deploy to meet these forthcoming obligations.

http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2017/02/28/its-time-to-heed-the-drive-towards-open-books/
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