Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
Over a period of 30 years or so, average sales of monographs have dropped as libraries have had to cut down on book acquisitions
The big deals brought down the unit costs of journals, overall spending continued to increase at the same pace
Many of the publishing and business models within open access book publishing are based on collaborations between stakeholders and on the sharing of resources, infrastructures and skills
Summary
It has become widely recognized that in the case of monographs, the traditional business model for books is losing its sustainability. In response to the economic restraints of printed monographs, many publishers and academic institutes, in particular research libraries, have started to experiment with digital and open access (OA) publication of monographs. OAPEN is the first international project to develop an open access model for publishers and stakeholders in scholarly communication. OAPEN stands for Open Access Publishing in European Networks[1]. It is a 30month project co-funded by the European Union[2], to develop and implement an OA publication model for peer-reviewed academic books in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). EELCO FERWERDA Coordinator OAPEN and Publisher Digital Products Amsterdam University Press
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