Date: Monday 1 – Tuesday 2 July 2013

Venue: The British Library, London

Event details

JISC Collections, in partnership with the OAPEN Foundation, is holding a two-day international conference to:

• raise awareness of open access
• increase understanding of key challenges
• identify where international common policies and frameworks could support the adoption of open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS)

In the last two decades, monographs sales have rapidly declined from an average of over 2000 to just 200 – in line with library budgets reductions. In order to support the continued existence of the monograph and to move HSS in line with other areas of scholarly communication and research funder’s policies, a new open access business model is required. However, transitioning to new models requires institutional and cultural change alongside experimentation, testing and consultation.

Now is the time for consultation, collaboration and commitment; this conference will be the first to tackle open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences head on.

Key topics of the conference will include:

• new open access business models
• maintaining quality
• the future of peer-review
• creative commons licensing
• international policy development

A full conference programme will be available shortly

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to stakeholders in scholarly communications including:

• European research funders
• senior institutional managers
• publishers
• learned societies
• librarians
• researchers.

For more details on all of the speakers please download a pdf of the programme here