KU at AAUP June 24 2014

Frances Pinter

Knowledge Unlatched

Winner: 2014 Brill / IFLA Open Access Award

Knowledge Unlatched

What we (collectively) accomplished

Evolving environment

Vision for the future

Next steps

Roadmap for this Afternoon

University Presses in US Duke University Press Purdue University Press Rutgers University Press Temple University Press University of Michigan Press

University Press in Europe Amsterdam University Press

University Presses in UK Cambridge University Press Edinburgh University Press Liverpool University Press Manchester University Press Commercial Publishers in Europe Bloomsbury Academic Brill De Gruyter

Publisher Community

Global Library Community

Who ‘we’ are

United States (122)

Canada (15) United Kingdom (77)

Other* (41) Australia (24) Germany (18)

*Countries included in the Other category less than 5%

Collecting Books from Publishers Surveying Libraries Construction of the Model 13 publishers, 28 books Average hb price $95 Average Title Fee $12,000 Recruit 200 libraries to pay $60 per book

Pilot Project Design

Developed survey with Informed Strategies and the New York Public Library

US: Sent to all ARL libraries + 116 libraries with an identified interest in OA

UK: Survey distributed via RLUK and Jisc Collections

Pre Pilot Surveys

One Package, Five Subjects

History Literature Politics Media & Communications Anthropology

Pilot Collection

297 libraries pledged 24 countries Collection cost reduced from

$1680 to $1195 per library Per book/per library cost dropped from

$60 to under $43 Since pledging closed over 100 libraries

pre-registered for next round

Pilot Project Results

Hosting: OAPEN, HathiTrust, British Library

Preservation: Portico, CLOCKSS

Metadata: MARC21, enhanced by Duke University Library

Discovery: WorldCat, Summons

Hosting, Preservation, Metadata

CC BY CC BY NC CC BY NC ND CC BY ND

Creative Commons Licenses

Global Usage Data

121 countries downloaded titles

24 countries have members of KU In 3 months (Mar-May) mean average

of downloads per title is 263

Usage Data

KU Members 80%

Dev Countries 20%

Greater Access to Content

20% of downloads are in Developing Countries and 80% of downloads are in countries with KU members

Explore How to measure impact of monographs How do altmetrics apply to books How to measure usage by library without

access controls Examine Users by IP address International reach Books compared to others in category

KU Research on Usage

A sustainable route to OA for specialist scholarly books

Ensure that HSS books are as accessible as OA science journals

Experiment with new content and new models

The KU Vision

KU South

KU in other languages

KU helping digital first / new open presses

Additional Opportunities

Infrastructure development

Potential Partners

Funding the scaling-up stage

But first … our next steps

Managing data flow better Consortia models Activating new library committees Producing substantive report on pilot Designing a study of usage & impact Recruiting more publishers Recruiting more libraries

What we are working on now

What else?

Thank You

Knowledge Unlatched