Knowledge Unlatched

http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/

KU’s USP

• KU explained in 60 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-0PN19YOUk

• Focus on humanities and social science• Strong in motivating publishers to go OA• Strong in organizing financial support from the library

community – the most international consortium• KU Research: intensive research activity by Curtin

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KU round 1 and 2

KU has had a great start and scales well inround 2

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KU’s to date and next steps

• 100+ front list monographs made OA• 26 participating publishers• Community of ~300 libraries from 21 countries• Over 1.450.000$ raised from participating libraries

• Next steps:

• Expand to Book backlist• Expand to Journals

Creating Scale in Books

• KU wants to become more relevant to libraries• Book backlist titles:

– 2000-2015– English language only

• Books offered through subject packages• Return to publishers: 2.300€/title• Target price of 10€/title to libraries• Hosting on publisher platforms and OAPEN/HathiTrust• Publishers may continue to sell print titles at original price• KU will start to collect content from publishers in June 2016,

library pledging Sept – Nov 2016 (3 months)

KU offers to unlatch backlist at very low cost

Why journals?

• Major research funders worldwide are trying to find a way to foster OA and have been for several years.

• Publishers experience significant pressure to support OA, most significant players do by now

• KU is ideally suited to handle journals as well because of key parameters, such as cost of article processing charges, cost per article, cost per journal.

Expanding to Journals

The journal world needs KU to address the organization gap between libraries and publishers

Expanding to Journals

• Journal pilot aims at 30 journals, 20 articles p.a. each• Participating journals have to be 10 years old at least• Start with subscription year 2017• 3 year OA agreement (copyright year 2017 - 2020)• Goal: 350 libraries in year 1• Target price libraries: 160€ per journal title, €8 per article• Return to publisher: 45.000€ per journal title, 2.250€ per article

KU Journals – as simple as KU books!

Support & Join KU

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