Presentation for COASP conference Amsterdam september 2015

1. Infrastructure for OA publishing
Pierre Mounier EHESS – OpenEdition - Operas

2. GREEN AND GOLD : AN
OUTDATED PARADIGM

3. We need disciplinary approach

4. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Cc by-nc Salvador Garcia Bardon

5. The book is specific to humanities

6. Hard times for books/humanities
(in open access world) !

7. Open archives….for articles

8. Gold road… for articles
• « The research communications system
is in a period of transition towards
open access. We believe that, at its
simplest, this is a shift from a reader-
pays to an author-pays system, which in
turn requires a shift in publications
processes and business models. The
aim of our recommendations is to
accelerate that process, but in an
ordered way »
• « would require an additional £50-60m
a year in expenditure from the HE
sector: £38m on publishing in open
access journals, £10m on extensions
to licences for the HE and health
sectors and £3-5m on repositories, plus
one-off transition costs of £5m. »

9. … not for books

10. Europe ignores books

12. YET, INITIATIVES BLOSSOM
IN EUROPE
CC By Ian Sane

13. « Scholarly startups »
• Open Humanities Press
• Open Book Publishers
• Sdvig Press
• Language Science Press
• Open Library of Humanities

14. University Presses
• Göttingen University Press
• KIT
• UCL Press
• Firenze University Press
• Editions de la MSH

15. Institutional publishers
• OECD
• World Bank
• The Commonwealth
• Nordic Council

16. New economic models

17. Knowledge Unlatched : news from the
front
• KU is launching a second round in October
with unlatching in early spring 2016
• This will be with 80 books from 25
publishers (pilot was 13 publishers, 28 books)
• Following this we expect to scale up more
rapidly in 2016
• Research on usage of KU titles will be
undertaken at Curtin University, Australia
• Downloads of pilot in first twelve months
was over 1000 downloads per book in 170
countries

18. A virtual library for open access books

19. A digital publishing platform

20. INTRODUCING A NEW
INITIATIVE : OPERAS
CC By-sa Naoya Ikeda

21. OPERAS
Open access Publications in the
European Research Area for the Social
sciences and humanities
http://operas.hypotheses.org

22. Common goals
• Adopt common standards
• Share R&D projects
• Identify and adopt best practices
• Benchmark business models
• Advocate for humanities in open access and
open access in humanities
• Provide unified seamless services at european
scale

23. • ESFRI : european strategy forum for research
infrastructures
• Earmarks strategic initiatives for specific
scientific communities
• Implies funding commitment at national level
• Specific funds at european level (INFRADEV)
• Next update of the roadmap in 2018
• Legal entity at the end of the process

24. 12 partners in 5 countries…so far
Association of European
University Presses – AEUP
(EU)
Conferenza dei Rettori delle
Università italiane – CRUI
(IT)
Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche – ILIESI (IT)
Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen (DE)
Knowledge Unlatched (UK)
Max Weber Stiftung (DE)
Oapen library (NL)
OpenEdition (FR)
Università Ca' Foscari
Venezia
Università degli Studi di
Napoli Federico II (IT)
Università di Torino (IT)
Εθνικό Κέντρο Τεκμηρίωσης
– EKT (GR)

25. JOIN US !
CC By-sa Jorge Royan

26. (cyber)infrastructure
“a layer of information, expertise,
standards, policies, tools, and
services that are shared broadly
across communities of inquiry but
developed for specific scholarly
purposes : cyberinfrastructure is
something more specific than the
network itself, but it is something
more general than a tool or a
resource developed for a particular
project, a range of projects, or, even
more broadly, for a particular
discipline.”

27. Thanks!
pierre.mounier@openedition.org
@piotrr70
http://openedition.org