Open access monographs: an overview

Open Access in journals is well established and understood; however OA monographs are in the relatively early stages of development.

This Webinar will cover the following topics:

• Brief history and context, including policies;
• Developing infrastructure;
• Business models;
• Publishers;
• Future developments.
  

Main learning outcome is an understanding of:

• The place of OA monographs in Open Science
• Policies
• The publishing landscape
• Business models.

This webinar has been provided by UKeIG. You can find details about their work and events on their group website.

Biography

Having taken early retirement as University Librarian at Bournemouth in 2012, David Ball (davidball1611@gmail.com) works as an independent consultant, researcher and interim manager, specialising in aspects of higher education, particularly scholarly communication and Open Access/ Open Science, e-books and e-journals, procurement, library and related systems, virtual learning environments, staff development. 

David has worked as a consultant on numerous Open Science projects, mainly for SPARC Europe; these have  included Open Data Champions (https://openscholarchampions.eu/opendata/), PASTEUR4OA (http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/) and FOSTER (https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/project/).

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Non Members = £25 + VAT

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