OPENING THE FUTURE
This content covers revenue models for open-access monographs, including community-led publication infrastructures, new business models for presses, print persistence, membership models, and more. It also explores challenges and strategies for transitioning existing presses to open access models amidst the impact of Covid-19.
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OPENING THE FUTURE Revenue models for open-access monographs Professor Martin Paul Eve
COMMUNITY-LED OPEN PUBLICATION INFRASTRUCTURES FOR MONOGRAPHS 3m funded project Research England Arcadia a charitable Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin Infrastructural gaps
Revenue model report WORK PACKAGE 3: KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE New business models for presses Conversion of existing presses to OA models
REVENUE MODELS FOR OA MONOGRAPHS Print persistence Book processing charges Minor models
OPENING THE FUTURE Membership models Subscription models Combine the two Dynamic scaling Low risk
FOR WHOM? Existing presses Presses with backlist Libraries without OA budgets Libraries that support OA initiatives
SETUP Collection website: https://www.openingthefuture.net/ Project Muse hosting frontlist and backlist OAPEN hosting the OA frontlist LYRASIS and Jisc Collections in USA and UK A report on how presses can use this model
SO WHAT BUSINESS MODELS FOR PLAN S? We need to avoid BPCs will not lead to systemic transition Membership models to support born-OA presses (Open Book Publishers, punctum) Opening the Future to transition existing presses but: Covid-19 fallout has yet to hit. We must ensure that OA is the thing that is supported as we come out of this as its benefits are clear.