I'll be speaking online at the #FORM4Open conference on Monday 20 October, on 'Advancing Open Access Books through Community-Driven Collaboration' with my @copim.bsky.social colleague @kirahopkins.bsky.social.

Looking forward to kicking off #OAWeek with an excellent conversation!

#ALPSP2025 is going glam for the evening

Travelling up to Manchester for #ALPSP2025, where I'll be chairing a session on 'Enabling Open Access Book Publishing for Scholarly Societies' featuring @paulakennedy.bsky.social & @rbnmyr.bsky.social.

Looking forward to talking about innovative approaches to society #OA book publishing!

Is it time to tap the sign?

I am also somewhat skeptical about the rigour involved here, given this.

I don't always think that 'more time = better', but I'm equally unconvinced that faster always equals better and we can just add tech, go faster.

Fascinating presentation by @emmabooth.bsky.social about Manchester's approach to #OAbooks

Particularly interesting to see that a role in the governance is important to them & the intention to 'commit a significant portion of our monograph budget to supporting these schemes' - NOT just an OA fund.

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Elaine argues this is a FALSE ECONOMY: short-term gain for long-term pain.

"We have to advocate that these models and presses are as much a priority as any other library expenditure if we want to see change."

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Elaine argues that more prestigious presses charge higher fees, knowing that demand will always be there, and institutions that can afford it will pay: prestige breeds prestige! In this way we end up with a two-tier system: thoroughly unethical.

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More figures, comparing the OtF model to BPC. At the moment, these models ARE indeed small-scale, but we have to start somewhere and with support, they can grow. Is it better to stick with what we've got...?

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The answer: all of those things, multiple times over. What does 'sustainability' mean in THIS context? Can we afford to sustain THIS system?

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Now we're quizzing... What could you buy with all that money?

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How much money are we talking? $1.06 billion in publication fees to 5 publishers between 2015 and 2018 😮

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NEW WEBINAR from the OABN: 'Open access book policies: The author’s experience'

This event in the #PALOMERA Series explores what it's like to publish an OA book, & author experiences of policy mandates

📅 Wed 2 Oct
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