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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Yes please @scholtom!

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?

There’s a new report out on metadata and OA books from COPIM:

Stone, G., Gatti, R., van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Arias, J., Steiner, T., & Ferwerda, E. (2020). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.939caeab

This is part of COPIM’s WP5, which is aiming to ‘develop technical protocols and…[Read more]

There are a couple of in-depth posts that have been published in recent weeks by scholar-led presses discussing their business models in some detail (one of which I co-wrote, for full disclosure!) – they might be of interest to this thread:

• The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes by Lucy Barnes and Rupert Gatti, 28 May 2020
• We Got…

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Books have always mattered to me — as places to escape to, as ways to experience other points of view, and as treasure troves of knowledge and insight. Open Access is important because it enables so many more readers to engage with scholarly books. If done well — without flipping the costs from reader to author — Open Access has the capacity to…[Read more]