Our newest ebook project, OAPEN-UK, commenced in October 2010 and is due to run until spring 2015. OAPEN-UK is a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).
Funded by JISC and the AHRC, OAPEN-UK will partner with publishers, research councils, authors, researchers and institutions in a practical, real time pilot that will gather a range of qualitative and quantitative data. The data will be evaluated to help stakeholders better understand the challenges and developments required to support open access scholarly monographs.
- To learn about why we are running this project and the objectives of the research, please see the overview section. This section also contains the project plan, the research plan and the steering group membership.
- The pilot section includes information on the real time pilot that starts in September 2011 runing for three years. It also tells you about the selection criteria for the titles included and which publishers are members of the project.
- Our project is linked to the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) project and the OAPEN section will tell you more about the research findings from OAPEN and the OAPEN Library, an open access scholarly monograph platform for HSS titles.
- In the further reading section we will post links to articles/blogs of interest and of course the reports and findings of the project as they are published.
- We will be running a large number of workshops, focus groups and speaking at events as part of this project. Details of these and news updates will be posted in the events and news sections.
This is set to be a very interesting and informative project, with much research gathered that we hope will be of use to all those involved in scholarly monographs.
Caren Milloy
Head of Projects