Guide to Creative Commons for humanities and social science monograph authors
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A booklet for authors in the humanities and social sciences specifically designed to help them understand the Creative Commons licenses.
... The OAPEN-UK research project also resulted in two guides. The Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors (Collins, Milloy, and Stone 2013) addresses concerns expressed by researchers, learned societies, and publishers and is aimed to help academics when they are faced with making decisions about publishing. The Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers (Collins, Milloy, and Stone 2015) provides an overview of OA for books and informs researchers about making their work available in open access. ...
... The Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors (Collins, Milloy, and Stone 2013) addresses concerns expressed by researchers, learned societies, and publishers and is aimed to help academics when they are faced with making decisions about publishing. The Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers (Collins, Milloy, and Stone 2015) provides an overview of OA for books and informs researchers about making their work available in open access. ...
This article describes the open access (OA) book platforms OAPEN Library and Directory of Open AccessBooks (DOAB), based on 1.the development and activities of OAPEN in the first ten years; 2. the underlying technical approach behind the platforms; 3. the current role of OAPEN and DOAB and future outlook.OAPEN started out as a project funded by the European Commission, and become a legal non-profit Dutch entity in 2011. It hosts, disseminates and preserves open access books. OA book publishing has been explored in several pilot projects. Its current collection contains over 24,000 documents. DOAB launched in 2012, inspired and supported by DOAJ. It became a legal non-profit Dutch entity in 2019, owned by the OAPEN Foundationand OpenEdition. It’s current collection contains close to 60,000 titles.The data model of both platforms is optimised for a multilingual collection and supports funding information. Ingesting books has been optimised to support a wide array of publishers and the dissemination of books takes into account search engines; libraries and aggregators and other organisations. The usage has grown in the last years, to 1 million downloads per month.The future developments entail increased support of research funders with the establishment of a FunderForum and multi-year research into policy development. DOAB will invest more in bibliodiversity, by adding more emphasis on African and Asian countries. Also,DOAB will roll out its Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM).OAPEN and DOAB will continue to work on developing reliable infrastructures, policy development and quality assurance around open access books.
Open access (OA) publishing model fosters growth of research and development activities in academic and research institutes. The study identifies the major OA initiatives in India. It was found that 105 Indian repositories are listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), constituting 3% of the total. The top 10 countries collectively produced 1,146,187 (63.4%) OA papers. Brazil has the maximum share of publications, 335,590 (18.6%), followed by United Kingdom 193,309 (10.7%), United States 115,078 (6.4%), India 94,156 (5.2%). India publishes 595 OA journals and is ranked fourth in the world. The maximum OA journals are on medicine and majority of journals are in English 584 (97.8%). Indian researchers have been ranked eighth in research publications with 351 (3.6%) papers. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the leading institution in publishing research on OA. s, Arunachalam, from M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai is the most prolific Indian author publishing research on OA with 10 (2.8%) papers.
If you work in a university, it is likely that you have heard the term ?open access? in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of pay-to-say publishing. In this book, Dr. Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. Broaching practical elements alongside economic histories, open licensing, monographs and funder policies, this book is a must-read for both those new to open access or scholarly communications and those with an already keen interest in the latest developments for the humanities.
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