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Leiden University. The university to discover.

Recent developments in Academic Publishing

Open Access e-books and Enhanced Publications

Janneke Adema Book and Digital Media Studies


1) Introduction

2) Focus Points

3) Trends and Developments

4) Open Access e-books: OAPEN

5) Enhanced Publications: JALC

6) Conclusion and Questions


Focus Points

- Dynamic functions, roles and collaborations

- Alternative business models

- Experiments with the format


ContentCreation[Authors]

ContentAcquisition[Publishers]

Quality Control[Publishers]

ContentDevelopment[Publishers]

Design[Publishers, Outsourced]

Copy Editing[Publishers and Free-lancers]

Typesetting[Typesetters]

Proofreading[Publishers, Authors, Free-lancers]

Warehousing and Distribution[Publishers and Distributors]

Bookselling[Booksellers,Bookclubs]

Printing and Binding[Printers]

[Agents][Packagers]

Sales and Marketing[Publishers]

Wholesaling[Wholesalers]

Institutions[Libraries etc.]

Consumers, Readers

The Publishing Chain (Thompson, 2005)


Trends and Developments

- Disintermediation- New players- What is a publisher?- New forms of (strategic)

collaboration- Open Access Publishing (also for

books)- Enhanced and liquid publications



OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks

- Developing an OA publication model for peer reviewed academic books in Humanities and Social Sciences

- Creating a large, freely available collection of current books in European languages in various fields of HSS

- Duration: 30 months- Start: September 1, 2008- Consortium: 7 University Presses and 2 Universities- Coordinator: Amsterdam University Press, the Netherlands

Actions undertaken under the eContentplus Programme (2005-2008)

to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable


Key objectives- To improve the accessibility, impact and

relevance of European research in Humanities and Social Sciences through the promotion of OA for primary publications

- To create and aggregate freely available peer reviewed HSS publications from across borders within an Online Library

- To engage stakeholders in the publication process

- To develop common funding models- To adopt common standards and metadata to

improve retrievability and visibility of HSS publications


Main Goal

OAPEN will create an Open Access publication network for publishers and other stakeholders involved in academic publishing within research in Humanities and Social Sciences.


Traditional Monographs

Sales have been declining steadily since the 70’s- Greco & Wharton: library purchases

•70’s: 1500•Now: 200-300

- Thompson: print runs & sales•70’s: 2000-3000 (print runs)•Now: 50% < 500 – majority < 750 (sales)


Google Book Search

Google Book Search has made a difference:•Millions of books have moved on to the internet

•Books can be easily found and searched

•Users expect books to be online•Therefore books need to be online•Thousands of Publishers have joined the Google Book Search Programme


OpenBook Publishers

Open Monographs: examples


Basic OA model

- Hybrid: Online and Print- Basic online edition is free- Printed edition is sold

- Author retains copyright- Long term availability Online- Based on repository infrastructure

- Publisher seeks fee for publication of OA online edition


- Enhanced Publications in Archaeology- Open Access e-journal published by

Amsterdam University Press- Collaboratory Project


Enhanced PublicationsAn enhanced publication is a publication that

is enhanced with three categories of information:

(1) research data (evidence of the research)(2) extra materials (to illustrate or clarify), or (3) post-publication data (commentaries,

ranking)[1]

[1] Saskia Woutersen–Windhouwer en Renze Brandsma, DRIVER, Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research II, July 2008, 12.


- To gain experience with the organization and technique of assembling and making available enriched publications

- Collaborative project- the ‘e-depot Nederlandse archeologie

(EDNA)’, in cooperation with Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and the ‘Digitaal Productiecentrum (DPC)’.

- The project contains work packages that address the technical, archaeological and user issues.


Conclusions and forecast

- The user is central- Traditions merge with innovation- Which collaborations will be most

sustainable?- Which business models will be most

sustainable?- Preserve the best of the old and

incorporate the possibilities of the new: stability, trust and quality


More information on both projects:

www.oapen.orgwww.jalc.nl