Hi Sebastian, thanks for this feedback. Hmm I’ll have a chat with my fellow authors and see if we can incorporate what you’ve told us here. Looks like we may have misinterpreted something along the way. This is very useful feedback and a great example of how this network works!

Best wishes,

Tom

A few recent posts and articles to get things started:

• What’s in a number? A closer look at Open Access readership data, Part One and Part Two by Laura Mesotten, a deep dive into book usage data and its presentation at Leuven University Press
• These reference a post of my own from late last year, What We Talk About When We Talk About Book U…

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A couple more posts on OA books and business models, all (relatively) recently published:

• State of Open Monographs Series: The Economics of Open Access Monographs and part two State of Open Monograph Series: Open access monograph funding, in which Sara Grimme and Charles Watkinson talk to Lara Speicher and Erich van Rijn
• Making OA Monographs…

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Hi folks, we just published our (quite large!) report on revenue funding models for OA monographs. So, as promised, you can read and download it for free from here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836

If anyone has questions arising from this report then please do get in touch on here – happy to discuss and keep the conversation going.

Yes please @scholtom!

@COPIM project (Work Package 3) is just putting the finishing touches to a report containing a comprehensive review of extant OA monograph revenue models – think there are about 17 or 18 models we’ve identified. (Some more practical than others, and I think all of them used in some kind of combination). We will hopefully publish the report next…[Read more]

Such a shame to see CUP setting up exclusive deals like this, rather than shifting to scrap BPCs and welcome OA book proposals from anyone. A press with their resources and reputation should be showing more leadership and ambition, in my opinion.

This is really interesting and powerful Sherri — I’m very curious to know how (or if) you think things have moved on since the Huma study group you were part of in the late 2000s? Has progress been made on the issues you discussed, or are we still circling around the same questions?