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OPEN MONOGRAPHS AND OPEN PEER REVIEW AT PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Ros Pyne, Research & Development Manager, Open Research
Nature Publishing Group / Palgrave Macmillan
5 December 2014
Palgrave Macmillan’s model for OA books
• Authors charged an ‘Open access publishing charge’ (=APC for books)
• ALL online versions of book are open-access (PDF, ePub, Kindle version)
• Licensed under CC BY
• Print versions available at cost
• We do not subsidise OA through sales of alternative formats or through secondary
revenues
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Why this model?
• Consistent, sustainable and future-proof
• Transparent: charges are associated with true costs of publishing
• Full open-access – no compromise
Open access at Palgrave Macmillan
June 2011: Hybrid open-access offering for
Palgrave journals
January 2013: Open-access option for
monographs and Palgrave Pivots
(short-form books)
November 2013: First OA monograph
published, ‘A History of Fungal
Disease’
April 2014: Fully OA journal, Palgrave
Communications, open for submissions
July 2014: First hybrid OA chapter, in 'The
Social Construction of Death’
October 2014: First OA Pivot, ‘Seeing
Ourselves Through Technology’
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Palgrave’s open access books in numbers
Published
• 3 OA monographs
• 1 OA Palgrave Pivot
• 1 OA chapter
Forthcoming
• 3 OA monographs
• 2 OA Palgrave Pivots
• 2 OA chapters
Funders
• Wellcome Trust
• University of Bergen
• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
• Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO Humanities)
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Open access sales and usage
As of October 2014:
• Nearly 700 views (COUNTER)
• 9th most accessed title 2014 YTD
• More than 300 Kindle downloads
• 5* rated on Amazon (2 reviews)
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Author’s comments on ‘Seeing Ourselves Through Technology’
“Palgrave have done a great
job of showing that [the
book is open access] clearly
in the catalogue text and
when distributing to
bookshops
It’s not half-hearted
open-access-but-don’t-
tell-too-many-people-
about-it, Palgrave is
unabashedly proud to be
publishing an open
access book.”
http://jilltxt.net/?p=4117
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Reaching wider audiences with OA books
7
• Make it easy to find OA titles on publisher platform
• Arrange deposit in subject and institutional repositories (no standard
deposition route so far)
• Provide MARC records so librarians can add to catalogues
• Make available via non-academic platforms, e.g. Kindle download,
Google Books
• Encourage funders and authors to share and promote OA books as
widely as possible
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Reaching wider audiences with OA books
9
• Make it easy to find OA titles on publisher platform
• Arrange deposit in subject and institutional repositories (no standard
deposition route so far)
• Provide MARC records so librarians can add to catalogues
• Make available via non-academic platforms, e.g. Kindle download,
Google Books
• Encourage funders and authors to share and promote OA books as
widely as possible
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Some book-specific OA challenges
• Funding: Higher costs, fewer authors,
books most important in HSS – funding
gap
• Workflows: Trad. book workflow
involves contracting at start of process
• Permissions: Hard to secure OA
permissions for third-party material
• Systems: Publisher and industry
systems not set up to handle OA (esp.
for hybrid chapters)
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Open peer review for monographs
12
• Palgrave’s trial of open peer review ran Jan-March 2014
• Interactive, 'crowd-sourced' open peer review – proposal and
sample chapters posted to a blog-based platform and open to public
comment for six weeks.
• Ten titles in economics, sociology and cultural and media studies.
• Open peer review took place after initial review of proposals, while
authors were writing books.
• Focus on constructive discussion and developing works, not
gatekeeping.
• Chapters in trial were free, not OA, but our experiment was done
with awareness that open peer review has a natural relationship
with OA.
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Response
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• 14 open reviews posted.
• 6 of the 10 works received at least one review.
• 29 reviews/comments in total including author and Palgrave editorial
responses.
• 3 authors received private comments via email.
• The most reviewed proposal was Marco Magnani's Creating
Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe, which received 6 open
reviews.
• 3,700 visits (14,000 views) over six-week trial period.
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Reflections on “crowd-sourced” open peer review
14
• Hard to secure open comments – would work better attached to an
existing online network, or via standard review requests.
• Need to allow authors to choose the point in the writing process at
which works are opened to review.
• Editors felt comments were not sufficiently detailed or
comprehensive to substitute for traditional peer review.
• Authors were enthusiastic about possibility of encouraging debate
and receiving additional feedback – all were keen to participate in a
future trial.
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Thank you For more information
please contact
ROS PYNE
Research & Development Manager,
Open Research
M +44 (0)7764 203646
T +44 (0) 20 7843 4619