Morning on the Clyde. #UKSG15 pic.twitter.com/knmZUT2mNV
— Martin Paul Eve (@martin_eve) April 1, 2015
Day 3 of this event started with an engaging yet shorter than scheduled Plenary Talk by Martin Eve.
University of Lincoln / Open Library of Humanities
"While article processing charges (APCs) are emerging as a key way in
which existing publishers can adapt to gold open access, this mode is
problematic in many ways. Considering the existing subscription
publication ecosystem as a risk/ cost-pooling mechanism leads to the
conclusion that APCs are a concentration of risk that may come with
damaging institutional consequences, particularly in the
humanities disciplines. Consortial and co-operative modes of
funding gold open access, however, do not come with these drawbacks but
are susceptible to free riders. In this talk I will address the
theoretical backdrop to these models and evaluate the range of current
offerings. Noting that classical economic incentives do not seem to operate in a world of inter-library loans, I end with a description of the model that we are
implementing for our Andrew W Mellon Foundation funded initiative, the
Open Library of Humanities".
Some notes and tweets.
Article Processing Charges are unaffordable for many Institutions.
In the Humanities, books are very important. The HEFCE mandate however excludes monographs.
Is #openaccess a solution without a problem? @martin_eve has heard it described this #oa #UKSG15
— Chris Banks (@ChrisBanks) April 1, 2015
Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a not for profit mega journal.
How do you build trust/prestige ?
Eve: building prestige and trust are one of the hardest things to do for new OA enterprises but necessary to become accepted #UKSG15
— oapen-uk (@oapenuk) April 1, 2015
OLH started off in 2013, initially under the name of PLOHSS (Public Library of Humanities & Social Sciences) ("sorry to anyone from PLOS, we've got a different name now, so lawyers, back off ")
OLH has no article processing charges. So how does they fund this ?
@martin_eve Article processing charges are unaffordable for many disciplines #UKSG15
— lorraineestelle (@lorraineestelle) April 1, 2015
APCS concentrate costs, subscriptions spread them. @martin_eve #oa #UKSG15
— Chris Banks (@ChrisBanks) April 1, 2015
Their model inverts the ILL system, Libraries instead pay into a common pool, this benefits all libraries. OLH have "significant evidence" that this model works. Mention was made of "double dipping" practices in the open access system.
.@martin_eve showing the OLH model for funding, causing a ripple of publisher heartattacks as it'll cut down on double dipping, etc #UKSG15
— Ben O'Steen (@benosteen) April 1, 2015
Eve suggests that we are not seeing enough innovation in models to support OA HSS - OLH is trying to innovate and think new #UKSG15
— Caren Milloy (@carenmilloy) April 1, 2015
Frankly, I think that there is possibly more innovation in the humanities publishing space than the sciences @martin_eve #oa #UKSG15
— Chris Banks (@ChrisBanks) April 1, 2015
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