<font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from OAPEN. --Peter Suber.]</font></font></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">New OAPEN Report: Overview of Open Access
Models for eBooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences</font></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">A new survey of Open Access book publishing confirms a wide
variety of approaches, as well as a continuing search for the optimal
publishing- and business models. While Open Access is still in an experimental
phase of trying out new models, and tracking the readers’ online and
offline preferences to gauge the best way forward, some trends and patterns
have started to emerge. </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This recently conducted survey of a wide international range
of publishing initiatives compares the publishing- and business models they
employ, while examining their reasons for engaging in Open Access. The report
cites findings from case studies including major academic presses (such as Yale
University Press, the MIT Press, the University of California Press),
commercial publishers (Bloomsbury Academic), library-press partnerships (the
University of Michigan Press), academic led-presses (Open Humanities Press),
commercial-academic press ventures, as well as other partnerships, which all
offer Open Access to anything from a single title to the entire retro-digitized
backlist.</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">While it is too early to confirm with any certainty which
models are the most viable in the long term, it is clear that sustainable
long-term business models require a measure of external funding, while cutting
costs and creating efficiencies through the use of shared resources, digitized
production process and a new range of revenue sources.</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The full report can be found here</font><font color="red"><span style="color:red"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></font><b><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.oapen.org/images/OpenAccessModels.pdf" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.oapen.org/images/OpenAccessModels.pdf</font></a></span></font></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Wiki </font></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">In late April, OAPEN will launch a
moderated wiki listing all the initiatives outlined in the report.</font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">We expect the wiki to become a valuable
resource for the Open Access community and for future Open Access publishers,
and we hope we can depend on the Open Access community to assist us in keeping
it up-to-date and complete. If you know of any initiatives missing from the
report that should to be mentioned on the wiki, please email </font></span></font><b><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; "><a href="mailto:J.Adema@aup.nl" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">J.Adema@aup.nl</font></a></span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">. Once the wiki is online, you will be able to add updates
directly.</font></span></font></p>
<h2><b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Expert Workshop on Copyright and Open Access
Book Publishing</span></font></span></font></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">A joint </font></span></font><b><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.oapen.org/" title="http://www.oapen.org/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">OAPEN</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">/</font><a href="http://www.ences.eu/" title="http://www.ences.eu/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">ENCES</font></a></span></font></b><b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">expert
workshop on ‘Copyright and Open Access book publishing’ was
organized on February 15th. The workshop focused on the practical legal issues
faced by OAPEN and publishers regarding Open Access monographs in the
Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference report and individual
presentations can now be found online at the ENCES website via the following link:</font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/documentation-of-the-workshop/" title="http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/documentation-of-the-workshop/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/documentation-of-the-workshop/</font></a></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"><span style="color: black; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For more information, please visit: </font></span></font><b><font color="blue"><span style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/" title="http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">http://www.ences.eu/workshop-10-amsterdam/</font></a></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">For more information, contact </font><a href="mailto:e.ferwerda@aul.nl" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Eelco Ferwerda</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> (Amsterdam University
Press)</font></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS</font></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">JISC Conference – April 12 to 13 – London, England</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UKSG Conference – April 12 to 14 – Edinburgh, Scotland</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">London</font></font><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> International Book Fair –
April 19 to 21 – London,
England</font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine
and Medicine 3 – May 27 to 29 – Leiden
University, The Netherlands</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span lang="EN-GB"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">OAPEN is a Targeted Project co-funded by the EC
within its eContentplus Programme. </font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">OAPEN aims to develop and implement an Open Access
publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(HSS). Our goal is to achieve a sustainable European approach to improve the
quantity, visibility and usability of high quality academic research and foster
the creation of new content by developing future-oriented publishing solutions,
including an Open Access Library for peer reviewed books in HSS. The 30-months
project started in September 2008. </font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Learn more about OAPEN by visiting the website: </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.oapen.org/" title="blocked::http://www.oapen.org/
http://www.oapen.org/" target="_blank">www.oapen.org</a></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font><br></font></p></div></div></div>