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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

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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

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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

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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

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• 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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New Business Models: Open Access | 19 November 2014 8

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Reaching wider audiences with OA books

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

[email protected]