{"id":7909,"date":"2013-01-01T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T10:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2013-01-01T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T10:48:38","slug":"new-jisc-survey-on-arts-humanities-monographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/01\/01\/new-jisc-survey-on-arts-humanities-monographs\/","title":{"rendered":"New JISC survey on open access monographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details of a recent JISC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchinformation.info\/news\/news_story.php?news_id=1051\">survey in the arts and humanities and social studies<\/a>.  They asked if OA publishers could be allowed to recoup their costs on open access, by selling print-on-demand paper copies of monographs.  I guess this is consultation on the medium-range future, since the UK Research Councils and the HEFCE are both targetting journal articles and conference papers for OA first, not books (and thus presumably not monographs) or data.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d want (and might pay for during a research project, instead of a free PDF) wouldn&#8217;t be print, but a nicely formatted .mobi ebook file for my Kindle ereader. But if a publisher&#8217;s Kindle monograph costs \u00a365 (inc. shipping from the USA) and <a href=\"http:\/\/kindleebooks.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/06\/tutorial-pdf-to-kindle-for-academic-journal-articles\/\">a simple PDF to Kindle operation<\/a> is free, why would I not choose the latter, mangled formatting and all?  Many others will simply read their PDFs on an iPad, Kindle Fire or other tablet. <\/p>\n<p>However, it seems that for the moment print rules&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Print still dominates reading preferences, but less so for early career academics&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet I really can&#8217;t see university managers standing for academics charging the departmental credit-card \u00a350+ a time to get print monographs, once the PDFs are free online (as the legal requirement for OA widens out from just &#8220;research council funded&#8221; works to encompass <em>all<\/em> taxpayer-funded works).  To save costs managers might present their stick-in-the-mud academics with shiny new \u00a3150 tablets, and tell them to read all future PDFs on that or lump it.  Or, if print really is <em>vital<\/em>, the university might install a hired print-on-demand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xerox.com\/digital-printing\/printers\/print-on-demand\/espresso-book-machine\/enus.html\">book-printing machine<\/a> in the university&#8217;s printing works.<\/p>\n<p>Also some interesting statistics in the article, from a JISC survey of 690 (presumably all in the UK)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Creative Commons licensing is not well understood by humanities and social science academics, not only was awareness of CC low at only 40 per cent [&#8230;] Familiarity with open access is at 30 per cent and awareness is at 50 per cent, although this was before the Finch report&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of a recent JISC survey in the arts and humanities and social studies. They asked if OA publishers could &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2013\/01\/01\/new-jisc-survey-on-arts-humanities-monographs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-of-open-access","category-official-and-think-tank-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}