OAPEN-UK: An open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences¹

Issue title: 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – ELPUB 2012 – Social Shaping of Digital Publishing: Exploring the Interplay between Culture and Technology

Guest editors: Ana BaptistaGuest Editor, Peter LindeGuest Editor, Niklas LavessonGuest Editor and Miguel A. BritoGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Milloy, Caren^{a; *} | Stone, Graham^b | Collins, Ellen^c

Affiliations: [a] JISC Collections, London, UK | [b] University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK | [c] Research Information Network, London, UK

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Caren Milloy, Head of Projects, JISC Collections, Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place, London, UK. E-mail: [email protected].

Note: [1] Paper also published in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ISBN 978-1-61499-064-2.

Abstract: This paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.

Keywords: Open access, scholarly monograph, humanities and social sciences, culture, technology, business models, research study

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2012-0655

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 31, no. 3-4, pp. 249-258, 2011