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

[Nason Bimbe]

Thanks Ina for the information.

Regards
Nason

On 1 March 2017 at 14:07, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> Dear Nason
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> 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).
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> 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/>.
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> Hope publishers and research institutions will take up this also.
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> Kind regards
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> Ina
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> *From:* IRTalk [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] *On Behalf Of *Nason
> Bimbe
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 28, 2017 5:49 PM
> *To:* irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
> *Subject:* [IRTalk] It’s time to heed the drive towards open books
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2017/02/28/its-time-to-heed-the-
> drive-towards-open-books/
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