Open access monographs

[Brian Owen <brian_owen AT sfu.ca>]

Hi, everyone.  Do we already have anybody from SPARC participating on this group?  They would certainly be a good way to involve libraries/consortia.  In Canada, we have the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) who negotiate national licenses for electronic resources on behalf of Canada's academic libraries, there are equivalent national agencies elsewhere.  And believe it or not, there exists the International Consortium of Library Consortia (ICOLC):

http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/

I offer some more comments on what could make an open access monographs publishing service very attractive to libraries/consortia and position it in a very distinct way from commercial counterparts.  The "open" focus of these publications makes it very natural and easy to emphasize all of the less restrictive usage and re-purposing options that would be readily available.  Many of the commercial vendors have gone to great lengths to wrap digital rights management software around their content and impose some very arbitrary usage restrictions, e.g. only one viewer per title at the same time, ability to print some/all of the content, and so on.  They also may place restrictions on how this content may be re-purposed in learning management systems, loaded into local institutional repositories, etc.

Library consortia have put considerable effort into developing model licenses for electronic content.  Although these are much better than the boilerplate provided by a vendor, they still represent a compromise on many of the more contentious areas around copyright, drm, etc.  Alternative publishers could help library consortia push these model licenses to be more heavily weighted in favour of libraries and their users.

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G.W. Brian Owen
Associate Univ. Libn. Processing & Systems
Simon Fraser University Library
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marta Brunner" <martab AT library.ucla.edu>
To: ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tuesday, 8 July, 2008 9:42:06 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [OA-monographs] Exploring financial models

There are folks here at UCLA and in the University of California system who have already started exploring alternative publishing models and the library's potential role in such endeavors.  I know that reps from the California Digital Library and UC Press have been here on at least a couple occasions to discuss this issue.  I am meeting tomorrow with the UCLA Library Scholarly Communication Steering Committee and would be happy to raise David's question about the best ways to involve libraries/consortia. 
 
Marta
 
 
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http://blogs.library.ucla.edu/literature/ ________________________________ From: ohp-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Barbara Cohen Sent: Tue 7/8/2008 8:21 AM To: davido AT openhumanitiespress.org; ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [OA-monographs] Exploring financial models There are a couple of librarians here who are very active in open access issues. They met Sigi and Gary when they were visiting here. I can pass along information to them and ask for a participatory role. Sigi, let me know the best way to proceed. For example, do you want to invite them into this formally? Or . . . ? Best, Barbara _______________________________________________ OHP mailing list OHP AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ohp
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