<div dir="ltr">[Forwarded message from <span class="gmail_sendername">Danny Kingsley</span><span dir="ltr"> via </span><span dir="ltr">GOAL mailing list]</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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<div><Apologies for cross posting></div>
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<div>Hello all,</div>
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One of the bigger concerns expressed about the Australian Research Council (<a href="http://www.arc.gov.au/applicants/open_access.htm" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;vertical-align:baseline;outline:medium none;color:rgb(159,159,159)" target="_blank">ARC)
open access policy</a> is that it includes all publication outputs. That means books and book chapters*.</p>
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So what is happening out in monograph-land? As book sales plummet and traditional academic publishers struggle for survival, some organisations are looking at alternative models.</p>
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The AOASG has just added a new webpage to the site summarising some of the new initiatives in this space. "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Developments in OA monograph publishing" - </span><a href="http://aoasg.org.au/oa-monographs-developments" target="_blank">http://aoasg.org.au/oa-monographs-developments</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">/</span></p>
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Regards</p>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,254,254)">Danny</span></p>
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* Bear in mind that the ARC policy only applies to research that is funded from the 2013 round and into the future. That research will need to be undertaken and then crafted into book form, so it is unlikely that the issue of making books open access under
the policy will not hit reality for many years.</p>
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<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Dr Danny Kingsley</p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Executive Officer</p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">Australian Open Access Support Group</p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">e: <a href="mailto:eo@aoasg.org.au" target="_blank">eo@aoasg.org.au</a></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">p: <a href="tel:%2B612%206125%206839" value="+61261256839" target="_blank">+612 6125 6839</a></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">w: <a href="http://wwww.aoasg.org.au" target="_blank">wwww.aoasg.org.au</a></p>
<p class="" style="font-size:11pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt">t: @openaccess_oz</p>
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