I guess Sherpa for Books will eventually have this info? It’s in beta right now and with only a few publishers on, but I believe the idea is for Jisc to expand it as soon as they can: https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/oa-books

Worth also checking Holly Limbert & Dan De Santo’s dashboard which is also collating this kind of info (along with a lot more…[Read more]

New Vacancy at COPIM! Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer working with me on the Opening the Future revenue model. Deadline 8th Oct so get applying quick!

COPIM is reshaping how knowledge dissemination is funded and accessed. Do you want to be part one of the most ambitious and impactful projects working in open access scholarly publishing…[Read more]

Thanks for this really interesting reply Markus – my apologies for only just seeing it and responding now. I have somehow switched off my notifications so only just remembered to login and check!

Hi Markus,

Sounds like you’re going to be working on some really interesting stuff here. Good luck! In what way do you see this as producing something different to existing tools that already seem to do a lot of these things (I’m thinking, platforms like Coko and Editoria)? A diverse choice of open source tools is useful but sometimes I’m a bit…[Read more]

Hi Sebastian, thanks for this feedback. Hmm I’ll have a chat with my fellow authors and see if we can incorporate what you’ve told us here. Looks like we may have misinterpreted something along the way. This is very useful feedback and a great example of how this network works!

Best wishes,

Tom

Hi folks, we just published our (quite large!) report on revenue funding models for OA monographs. So, as promised, you can read and download it for free from here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836

If anyone has questions arising from this report then please do get in touch on here – happy to discuss and keep the conversation going.

@COPIM project (Work Package 3) is just putting the finishing touches to a report containing a comprehensive review of extant OA monograph revenue models – think there are about 17 or 18 models we’ve identified. (Some more practical than others, and I think all of them used in some kind of combination). We will hopefully publish the report next…[Read more]