Opening the Future: A New Open Access Model for Books

Presentation, part of the OPERAS 2020 Panel "A Plan S for Academic Books: Voices from the Community". November 2, 09:30-12:00 (CET, UTC+01:00) In 2019, DARIAH, EASSH and OPERAS organized a roundtable gathering researchers, publishers, publishing infrastructures and other types of stakeholders to discuss the challenges and opportunities of a Plan S for academic books. One year later, SPARC Europe joined the group to prepare a workshop to invite the community to discuss how collective action from funders could support the open access publication of academic books. The workshop will be composed of a panel discussion followed by a collective writing session to produce a report that will form the basis of feedback to cOAlition S to support them in their policy development for OA books. This collective effort will be shared with the community for comments in the Open Access Book Network before sharing it with cOAlition S. Martin Paul Eve: Opening the Future: A New Open Access Model for Books In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will discuss a new economic model for open access to research monographs and edited collections that should be implementable across the university press landscape. Based on the recent revenue report for the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, this talk will detail the existing options and then describe the Opening the Future model, in which subscriptions to a backlist are used to fund an open-access frontlist. The talk will give information about the pilot case of Opening the Future at the Central European University Press and set out the next steps in the project.Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin