Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia

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• Dr Frances Pinter, Bloomsbury Academic
• Wednesday 28 March 2012, 17:30-18:45
• Morison Room, University Library, Cambridge.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Michelle Heydon.

The current business model for publishing monographs has been in trouble for some time. The number of units sold is dwindling and prices are spiralling upwards. Some say it is a dying genre. However, scholars themselves not only wish to continue with this type of ‘long form publication’, they would prefer having these works published professionally. At the same time the benefits of digital distribution makes free to end user dissemination an increasingly important priority.

A new approach is needed in order to achieve what may at first glance appear to be trying to square a circle. We need to change how we fund the publishing process and make better use of technology. From the journal world we have an open access model that appears to work. Books are different and following the journals lead may not provide the best open access solutions. I will outline an open access model that differs from those prevalent in the journal world and which is being met with excitement from the library profession around the world.

About the Speaker

Frances Pinter has a particular interest in new business models for academic publishing and is developing a new type of library consortium that is intended to facilitate open access publishing of books.

She was the founding Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, which makes use of Creative Commons licensing for monographs. She now runs the Churchill Archive digitisation project for Bloomsbury. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Big Innovation Centre in London.

Previously she was Publishing Director at the Soros Foundation, working in 30 transition countries supporting publishing development after the fall of communism. In the late 90s she established EIFL , a library consortium that straddles nearly 50 countries and 2500 libraries. Earlier in her career she founded Pinter Publishers.

Please let Michelle Heydon, mh569@cam.ac.uk know if you plan to attend.

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