Open access monographs

[Sigi Jöttkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>]

Hi all,

Welcoming Raym Crow to this list, this seems a good opportunity to give 
you an update on the OHP/SPO OA monographs collaboration.

We'll be making a public announcement about our pilot project soon, but 
I'm happy to report that OHP has secured commitments for 5 open access 
series which will be edited by senior members of OHP's editorial 
advisory board and produced and distributed by SPO. We hope to publish 
around 5 monographs this year, and are working on an ambitious plan to 
rapidly scale OHP's editorial operations over the next couple of years.

Last month we also wrote a draft for an NEH Institutes for Advanced 
Topics in the Digital Humanities grant to fund a series of workshops 
around the future of the monograph/new forms of scholarly communications 
and the role libraries might play in this future. On the advice of the 
NEH officer, we've now decided to apply for funding the OHP/SPO 
collaboration through a different grant program, but if anyone here is 
interested in having a look at our workshops grant draft with a view to 
possibly spearheading the workshops series, please feel free to email. 
We were envisaging them as an opportunity to bring different entities 
together (scholar publishers, librarians, forward-looking university 
presses, developers of open source publishing software) to explore in a 
hands-on way scholars’ needs for the next generation of scholarly 
communications, with a focus on the long argument or book form.

Best,
Sigi