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I'm very happy to be here to talk about open access book publishing. My name is Nils Stern and I'm the director of OAPEN Foundation and I will talk more about OAPEN but it goes all the way back to 2008 but I was only becoming director
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beginning of this year. My background is book publishing in the humanities and social sciences and I've also recently been at a library, the Royal Danish Library, as a licensed negotiator. Now I will share some slides. So today's topic is about publishing your
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book in open access question mark. As a researcher or as someone who is helping researchers to find publication channels this question might come up. We've seen great development in publishing and open access over the last
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decade and many things are going on at the moment. So it's a quite good question and this is what I will be talking about today from different perspectives but before I go into it just give you an idea of where I come
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from. So OAPEN Foundation is operating three platforms, the directory of open access books, DYB, which is a basic indexing service running on DSpace and we are operating this service together with OpenEdition in France and as a
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directory it's an indexing service directing users to other places where they can find the open access books. I will talk more about DYB later. And also the OAPEN library which is a premium service to publishers, libraries and funders hosting open access books and providing a number of different services.
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These two platforms have been selected, vetted and selected by SCOS, the Global Coalition to Open Infrastructure Services and SCOS recommends supporting
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the two platforms jointly. And finally the third platform we operate is the OAPEN OA books toolkit and OAPEN is a non-profit foundation, it's based on community funding and this is also why SCOS promotes that institution
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support such initiatives. Now for today there have been three questions in the abstract related to open access book publishing and they are quite relevant I think. The first one, are there quality criteria for open access book
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publishers that I should consider when choosing a publisher? So relating to the quality. The second one, which license should I use for open access books or chapters? And finally the third, where can I find information on the financial support of open access books? Obviously also very important. I will be
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using the toolkit to try to come up with some answers at least or give more information about where to find answers for these questions. And after going through these three questions I have a final question which I will come
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back to. Now this toolkit was launched in the autumn. It's a community-based toolkit in the sense that a number of experts in the field were brought together to write articles about open access book issues and the toolkit
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comprises more than 30 articles. They have been structured into the toolkit. There are three different ways of navigating the toolkit which I will show in a minute. And the toolkit is really aimed at book authors to better understand open access book publishing. And so it's meant as a help for authors
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but it's of course also targeted towards librarians or research support teams who help researchers in their daily work. Now to show you the toolkit I will open it. And this is how it looks like. We are here at the home
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page. On top here there are a few menus. For instance about what is open access OA myth busting. Quite importantly there are as you may know quite a few myths around and this article will deal with some of those.
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And something about the OA book landscape and about the toolkit. Now as I said there are three different ways in which to navigate the toolkit. We have this lifecycle which is really based on the research lifecycle. There's a FAQ section and there are keywords. And to answer the first question regarding the
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quality assurance aspect I'll just show you our visualization of the research lifecycle which has been divided into these eight stages. And if you for
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instance were about to submit a manuscript so you would be in this at this stage and you would then click on the link here and see that there are a few articles about aspects related to this particular stage in the research
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lifecycle. Now I could for instance start by saying how to choose a publisher for your open access book. And that will then take me to an article dealing with this specific aspect. In this article there's for instance there's linking to another article we can go there in a second. But
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there are interesting ideas to consider when you want to publish. For instance is the publisher member of OASPA the scholarly publisher association for the open access scholarly publisher association. Because there
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are some certain membership criteria that are relevant to ensure that the publisher lives up to certain criteria. Also OIPN hosts a list of publishers. There's the think check submit also for books. And there are a number of other things you can consider when you want to when you're looking
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for a publisher to publish your open access book. And here at the bottom you will see references and suggestions for further reading. And this is really how all the articles are composed in this toolkit with such a section on references and further reading. And of course the article itself. Now this one
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types of publishers and publishing services could be interesting because it gives you an overview of the type of publishers engaged in open access book publishing. And as you can see there are commercial publishers with a few
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examples here. University presses the so-called new university presses often you would call them also it could be library led or academic led in a way or born open access presses. There's also a scholar led and a library publishing in
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general all with some examples here on the right. Now for the services you would expect a number of different services quite similar to those you would expect from any publisher in scholarly book publishing. So of course peer review editorial services production marketing and distribution archiving and reporting.
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So really you should look out for and ensure that such services indeed are part of the service provision by the publisher. Now talking about quality you would probably also think about peer review and still as part of the life
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cycle you can go to a section on peer review and find this article. And here there is an article which is concerning peer review and for instance you can
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see here that the directory of open access books is also a good starting point for researchers because those book publishers who are in the directory have been screened for their peer review policy. Now again down here there are further reading and references to this article. So this was about the first question
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related to quality and peer review and now for the second question which was about the licensing which license should I choose for open access books. Then I will go to
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the FAQ section to show how that works and we have collected a number of questions here and you can see if you scroll down that there are questions within a number of different topics. Now if I want to know about licensing I could go for this question what
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license can I choose and I get to this page where there is a short answer to the question and the answer is related to the use of creative commons licenses and if I want to know more about
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the creative commons licenses I can go to this article and get much more information about what are the different types of licenses. What does it mean if I publish under a CC by license? Well fundamentally it means that you will always be
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given attribution to the work that you have published because that's according to the intellectual property rights tool belongs to you of course even though you publish with an open license but you can also make the license more restrictive using for instance
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a non-commercial or a non-derivative clause but this article helps you understand the different types of licenses that you can choose. Next question is really about funding which is I think really interesting because it's a crucial aspect of being able to publish open
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access that there is funding now in the keyword section which is the third way of navigating the toolkit you'll see that there is indeed also a keyword on funding and this keyword will
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lead to three different articles and I might want to see a list of funding sources for open access books that could be interesting and when I look at this article I see that the editorial advisory board of the toolkit has been compiling a list of funding sources for open access books
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and when I go here I see this spreadsheet which has collected a number of policies and given it's giving funding information from many different institutions all over the world and this spreadsheet will be updated
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and I invite all of you also if you have knowledge about institutions who have policies who are developing policies and and have funding information to contact us so that we can add it to this overview. Okay that was the three questions and then the bonus question
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the last one I just wanted to to add it's really about well why why should I why should I publish a book open access that might be a quite relevant question so you going
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back to the FAQ there is the question here why publish an open access book and that takes me to an article the benefits of publishing open access and I can have a choice between three different articles here I just choose the first one to see that it gives increased
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readership more diverse audiences and so on there are quite a number of advantages and I could even go on I could see that it says it gives increased readership maybe I want some evidence so I can go to this section and see a more elaborate article on metrics and what
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kind of evidence there is to support that open access books get more visibility and even are more cited according to this paper from spring in nature so there are quite a few things to
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look further into there are quite a few studies documenting the increased impact of distributing your books in open access and you can also for instance have a look at this section on dissemination discover discoverability and see what kind of ways the ways in which you
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can actually better distribute books when they are in open access I think for me with my publishing background that was really how I got into open access and book publishing because I realized that spending a lot of time on on the research the researcher spends often several
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years to produce a manuscript and then maybe another year it takes to to edit and to produce the book and then you want to have it well distributed and here open access is by far the most efficient way to do so but you need to do more than just put it on the website
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and there are a number of ways in which you can distribute it using standardized metadata integrating into library catalogs and discovery systems and so on and this is what I will spend the last part of this talk about showing for instance how the open library is working but
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before doing that I will just finish off in this toolkit by showing you who's responsible for it so the open is hosting the toolkit but there is an editorial advisory board behind it which
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is developing it through writing of articles it is it was launched in the autumn so it's still early days and we will be looking into how and which articles to develop and also
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gather feedback from the community so you're very welcome to contact us if you have ideas for articles that you think could be great to have in the toolkit so now I will go back to my slides and continue from here and just a few words on the OAPEN library as I said
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it was originally a project back in 2008 then turned into a foundation in 2010 it hosts today more than 15,000 open access books and chapters and so it's a hosting
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service for publishers distribution service and also preservation service we help a number of funders building their collections so authors who have been funded for let's say from let's say fwf they can deposit their book here or if you have funding from European Research Council
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you can go here and you will be able to deposit your book and then fulfill the requirements that the ERC is setting so in this way we work with funders and then of course we work with
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libraries because we offer the full platform of all the publications to be integrated into library catalogs in a number of ways there are the metadata are in mark 21 mark xml or you can
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draw it in ingest the the metadata using API so OAPEN is also running on dspace and you can see that the number of downloads have been also increasing quite significantly over the last
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couple of years in Germany this is also the case the OAPEN library is full of books in German actually there are almost a third of the books or 27 percent are in the German language and you can see quite a dramatic increase in the number of downloads from Germany in the
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open library especially in 2020 which could be because of the COVID that it has been relevant to search for books online of course due to lockdowns the directory of open access books
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it's an indexing service we screen all publishers that apply for to become a member of part of the directory of open access books for their peer review policy we do that for the OAPEN library too we also screen for their open license
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program and ensure that all books that are indexed in the directory of open access books have an open license we have more than 500 publishers in there with over 36 000 books
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indexed all the metadata is public domain and it's easy to integrate the the the metadata in your your library catalog and you can see that the number of numbers of books that are in
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in the catalog have also increased increased quite a lot over the years the directory was founded in 2012 and looking very much at the directory of open access journals so it was
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founded in close dialogue with the DOJ as part of the directory of open access books we are building something we call the certification service it's part of the operas research infrastructure which is research infrastructure for humanities and social sciences in Europe
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and this certification service which is currently just in in beta is meant to increase transparency about peer review of open access books and it's provided by the directory of open access books and as you can see here it's also already included in the European Open Science Cloud
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marketplace just to give you an example here's a snapshot of some of the publishers in the the UAB and as this fellow Guttingen was part of the the project behind this this was the Himeos EU funded project Himeos then Guttingen has applied this certification service
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and if you click on the the on the logo here you'll get some information about the peer review types which applies to Guttingen University Press so basically what who when and
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there can be different ways in which you can disseminate how you do your peer review so we are not judging what is the correct peer review but we are encouraging publishers to be
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transparent about the peer review procedure also at the book level so here's an example of a book from open book publishers was also part of the project and if you click on the on the logo here you will also get information about which peer review procedure has been part of
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of this book publication process so to round up on the two infrastructures the mission of them is really to build a branded collection of open access peer review books and to increase the visibility and retrievability of them and to promote open access book publishing in general
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and this is what i will finalize by by talking about very briefly so how we engage in the community i talked about and showed the the toolkit which is community based but we also engage heavily in the open access books network there are a number of events going on
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every month there is a so-called bookmark event interviews with people different people in in the community about open access books issues and upcoming we have five sessions where we
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collect voices from the community as input to coalition s because we know that coalition s is about to launch a policy for open access books and the first of these sessions will be next tuesday and then every second week for these five sessions
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so you're all very much welcome to to take part here and you can just search for voices from the oabooks community and then you'll get the link to to registering for for this
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this event these events and then also just a list of initiatives and projects that we take part in we are as i said part of the operas research infrastructure as a core member we are currently still part of the operas p project and the triple project to eu funded project within the framework of operas we're part of the enable the german enable initiatives
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initiative and the community-led open publication infrastructures for monographs project the coping project in the uk and we also engage into u.s initiatives one is the
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data trust pilot where the purpose is to to collect data and display them in a better way about the usage of maxis books and finally we have a local project with the scalp consortium in california about integrating the oapn library in in library catalogs there so with
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those words i thank you very much for your attention and i welcome any question thank you
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