Papers by Dr Frances Pinter
Knowledge Exchange has published a first-of-a-kind report that is the biggest landscape study on ... more Knowledge Exchange has published a first-of-a-kind report that is the biggest landscape study on the conditions and potentials for Open Access books yet. The report maps Finland, Netherlands, UK, France, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Austria; asking questions such as "Are books included in national Open Access policies?", "What kind of funding streams supporting open access monographs exist?", and "What variety of publishing models for Open Access monographs can be located?". The study shows t..
Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly: Central European University Press and Opening the Future
A talk at the UKSG online webina
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 26, 2022
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 26, 2022
Opening the Future
A talk to Australia's Group of 8 Libraries about the Opening the Future model for open access
Making Open Access Book Funding Work Fairly: Central European University Press and Opening the Future
A talk at the UKSG online webina
Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia
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Ophthalmologe, 2011
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Creative Industries Faculty, Jul 1, 2013
Specialist book length publications in the humanities and social sciences (including but not excl... more Specialist book length publications in the humanities and social sciences (including but not exclusively monographs) are experiencing a crisis. It is clear that the current publishing system is failing both the producers and users of scholarship and neglects many of the opportunities associated with networked culture. This paper introduces Knowledge Unlatched (www.knowledgeunlatched.org), which aims to improve the efficiency of markets for scholarly books.
The Serials Librarian
We outline the work of two university presses, with assistance from the COPIM Project, in buildin... more We outline the work of two university presses, with assistance from the COPIM Project, in building an innovative revenue model to fund Open Access (OA) monographs at a traditional publisher. Building on library journal subscription models and on Knowledge Unlatched's approach to monograph funding, this OA publishing model (called "Opening the Future") gives members special access to a backlist, with the revenue then used to make the frontlist openly accessible. We examine the general landscape of OA and funding models and discuss some of the challenges and benefits. KEYWORDS open access, monographs, academic publishing, funding models This is an accepted manuscript for an article in Serials Librarian. BODY OF PAPER The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, in many ways, the fragility of the humanities and social sciences research publication ecology. As researchers were locked down and out of libraries, publishers scrambled to make research openly accessible. The need for such access was most apparent in the natural sciences, where access to medical research was urgently needed. In the humanities and social sciences (HSS), though, there was a similar unlocking. Researchers in these disciplines keenly felt the benefits of such freely available content. However, the challenge of
This document is a report prepared for the JSTOR Presses project "Exploring Usage of Open Ac... more This document is a report prepared for the JSTOR Presses project "Exploring Usage of Open Access Books via the JSTOR Platform". JSTOR's Open Access Books platform launched in October 2016. The first four publishers to submit content to the platform were UCL Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press and California University Press. Usage of the OA books made available via JSTOR by these publishers has been far in excess of the usage that each publisher has previously recorded via other distribution channels. This report is the outcome of research commissioned and funded by the four presses. It engages with usage data made available by JSTOR relating to OA books in order to assist publishers in understanding how their OA content is being used; inform strategic decision making by individual presses in the future; and shed light on the potential for data relating to the uses of OA books to support the potential of open access books to reach wide audienc...
This report explores the extent to which Open Access (OA) specialist scholarly books can be seen ... more This report explores the extent to which Open Access (OA) specialist scholarly books can be seen by the communities that might make use of them. It also identifies the key challenges that will need to be tackled in order to ensure that OA books are fully integrated into digital landscapes of scholarship; as well as the steps that need to be taken to achieve this goal. The report focuses on Open Access books made available by publishers and platforms that are part of the OPERAS network, which is focused on the development of European research infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication. Specialist scholarly books are the core research output of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ensuring that they are integrated into digital landscapes of scholarship will play a decisive role in the future of these disciplines, and their impact on the world. Identifying gaps in existing infrastructure and creating a roadmap to address them is vital groundwork. This report form...
Knowledge Unlatched
Accentuate the Positive, 2013
Exploring the Uses of OA Books via the JSTOR Platform
This report is the outcome of research commissioned and funded by four presses. It engages with u... more This report is the outcome of research commissioned and funded by four presses. It engages with usage data made available by JSTOR relating to OA books in order to assist publishers in understanding how their OA content is being used; inform strategic decision making by individual presses in the future; and shed light on the potential for data relating to the uses of OA books to support the potential of open access books to reach wide audiences. More broadly this study will be of interest to librarians and research funders. It shows in depth the patterns of usage of OA books that are emerging, especially at the chapter level. Amongst the conclusions this study shows that more so than journals, the book business has been driven by intermediaries throughout its history. Even in the transition to ebooks intermediaries continue to be important in the widespread distribution of book content. Thus, having book content available through the full range of discovery outlets is critical to ensuring access to research communities. The high proportion of readers originating in North America and already on the JSTOR platform when they access the books examined in this study hints at the continued importance of multiple distribution pathways for OA books as a mechanism for ensuring that the key outputs of the Humanities and Social Sciences make their way beyond academia. Encouraging are the hints that users at institutions who might not otherwise afford access to publishers’ books (remembering that JSTOR customers subscribe to a wide range of different journal and book collections) are using OA books. These appear to include high schools and community colleges
The independent publisher
Logos, 1990
Why Book Processing Charges (BPCs) Vary So Much
The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2018
Observers of monograph publishing often complain of a lack of transparency around publishing “cos... more Observers of monograph publishing often complain of a lack of transparency around publishing “costs”. There is the sense that BPCs are arbitrary and do not relate to real costs. In a landscape study covering eight European countries (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and UK) my colleagues and I came across BPCs ranging from €500 to €18,500 ($585 $21,640). Here I aim to explain why by looking at what services are offered for a BPC and also explain why coming up with precise and comparable costs is problematic. The figures are taken mainly from UK and global English-language publishing, however, the basic considerations do not differ greatly from those found elsewhere. A glossary of accounting terms is provided at the end of this article. One purpose of this article has been to indicate that BPCs and APCs are not the same and to show how greater transparency can lead to getting to reasonable BPCs with less acrimony than has been the case with journal APCs.
The Academic Book of the Future, 2016
Ripping off the physical covers of the 'book' and moving swiftly into the digital realm immediate... more Ripping off the physical covers of the 'book' and moving swiftly into the digital realm immediately raises a number of issues around form, substance, supply chains, delivery platforms, discoverability and business models. Heated ideological, philosophical, pedagogical, and political debates leave people either exhilarated or exhausted. The meaning of the word 'book' itself will never again be confined to that of a physical object to be held, admired, loved, subject to spilt coffee, or burning by dictators. The 'book' will be defined more around its function than any of its other characteristics. This chapter discusses some of the factors that need to be understood when pondering the new function of the 'book'.
LOGOS: Journal of the World Book Community, 2007
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