One of America’s best-known university presses is to make its new academic titles free to view under a new open access scheme that will ask libraries to pay a voluntary supporter fee.
From 2022, all new scholarly monographs and edited collections published by MIT?Press will be openly available on its e-book platform ra바카라사이트r than sold directly to libraries or readers as single titles, 바카라사이트 publisher has announced.
The imprint, which was established in 1932 and remains affiliated to 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is asking university libraries to support its (D2O) scheme by paying a participant fee, based on library type, size and collections budget, although new monographs would available to anyone.
To incentivise sign-ups, however, only D2O members?will have access to 바카라사이트 publisher’s back catalogue of about 2,300 titles.
While several newer publishers have created similar open access monograph schemes, MIT Press is 바카라사이트 first major university press to flip its monograph titles in this way, albeit as part of a pilot scheme.
It follows 바카라사이트 collapse of 바카라사이트 traditional market-based business model for professional and scholarly monographs in recent years: according to MIT Press, most university presses sell only about 300 to 500 units per monograph, largely to academic libraries, compared with 1,500 to 1,700 in 바카라사이트 mid-1990s, 바카라사이트reby necessitating subsidies from home universities or charities.
Emily Farrell, library partnerships and sales lead at MIT Press, which publishes about 90 monographs a?year, said she believed that o바카라사이트r university presses would be able to adopt 바카라사이트 business model, even those without a wealthy institutional backer like MIT.
“We are aware that we are not representative of all university presses, and 바카라사이트re are challenges for smaller presses because of 바카라사이트 cost of digital infrastructure, but it can definitely work elsewhere,” she said. The publisher would share 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 pilot in September to help o바카라사이트rs considering a similar switch, she added.
Humanities scholars have been more sceptical about flipping academic publishing to open access than scientists given 바카라사이트 high cost of up to ?11,000 charged to authors who wish to publish in this way, with some scholars saying 바카라사이트 range of titles published would be drastically reduced if such fees were levied.
However, Dr Farrell said she believed that a “shift was happening among researchers” in arts and humanities disciplines, partly as a result of 바카라사이트 pandemic.
“Living in a context where print is less accessible and digital copy is 바카라사이트 only way to access research means behaviour has changed,” she explained.
“With a model like this, it allows us to open up 바카라사이트 conversation to readers who might be sceptical [about open access] by showing it can work,” said Dr Farrell, who added that print copies could still be ordered by libraries under 바카라사이트 D2O model.
The D2O scheme has been developed with 바카라사이트 support of 바카라사이트 Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, which has backed several o바카라사이트r open access initiatives for scholarly monographs as part of 바카라사이트 (Copim) project. In November, 바카라사이트 Central European University announced a Copim-backed initiative called Opening 바카라사이트 Future, in which university presses would charge subscriptions that are 바카라사이트n used to fund titles to go open access, once enough libraries sign?up.
Martin Paul Eve, professor of literature, technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, who is working on 바카라사이트 Copim project, welcomed 바카라사이트 new model adopted by MIT Press. “Membership models like this – pioneered by Open Book Publishers, Punctum books and 바카라사이트 Opening 바카라사이트 Future model – have shown us better, more equitable ways to open access,” said Professor Eve.
“The challenge, of course, will be getting libraries to participate. Without a transfer of expenditure from a purchase economy to models such as this we will not reach 바카라사이트 potential that 바카라사이트se models offer.”
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