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[drf:675] Open Humanities Press/Public Knowledge Projectからのお誘い
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:55:00 +0900 (東京 (標準時))
皆様、
以下のようなお誘いを転送するようにという依頼が来ましたので、このリスト
に転送します。ぼくの知る限りこのリスト、とりわけ九大さん(紀要論文格付
け再出版プロジェクト)と京大さん(大学出版会・学部教員巻き込み型オープン
出版プロジェクト)とがこのプロジェクトに関心をもたれるのではないかと拝
察いたします。とはいうものの、何を求められているのかよくわからないCall
であることも事実ですが、、、、
土屋
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Call for Participants in an Open Access Faculty-Library Publishing
Partnership Development Grant
Open Humanities Press/Public Knowledge Project
September 23, 2008
Open Humanities Press and the Public Knowledge Project invite interested
libraries to join us in developing a grant proposal to form an
international faculty-library publishing partnership. Ideally this will
serve as a model for other scholar-led, open access (OA) monograph
publishing in humanities and social sciences disciplines.
Open access distribution is increasingly recognized as a viable solution
to today’s crisis in scholarly communications. Libraries have been one
of the most vocal and effective advocacy groups in promoting OA to
faculty. In addition to establishing institutional repositories in
support of the “Green Road” to OA (i.e. author-deposited pre- and
post-prints of scholarly materials), libraries are also beginning to
explore possible new roles as academic publishers through OA journal
hosting and digital book publishing (the “Gold Road” to OA).
Our proposed Open Humanities Alliance aims to build on these
developments by defining an innovative role for libraries as joint
providers of an open administrative and production infrastructure for
international, self-organizing, scholar-led open access publishing
projects. This project thus envisions a role for libraries not simply as
custodians of content but as active participants in the global market
for ideas, partnering with faculty in the publishing process and
facilitating the actual practices by which scholarly materials in the
humanities are typically created: scholars in specialized areas of
interest from different national and international institutions
collaborating to oversee the editing of peer-reviewed monographic series.
As part of a grassroots effort to effect a cultural shift in faculty
attitudes in favor of open access, this project is envisaged as a
demonstration aimed at fostering other scholar-led OA initiatives in the
humanities and social sciences through 1) the development of
sustainable, open source software that reduces publishing and
infrastructure costs, and 2) the leadership provided by OHP’s advisory
board (which includes some of the most influential names in the field)
whose members will oversee the selection and editing of a number of
high-profile monographic series. This initiative is a response, in part,
to what is currently the restricted market for scholarly monographs,
which severely limits the number of quality titles university presses
are able to take on, as well as the sales of those that are published by
traditional means. There is a decided need for new ways for authors in
the humanities and social sciences to work on book-length scholarly
projects, rather than see this important form continue to lose out to
the growing economic dominance of journal publishing.
We invite libraries to explore with us the roles the library community
might play as publishing partners in such an enterprise. Among others,
we are interested in finding innovative ways to cover copy-editing and
production costs, collaboratively developing production work-flows and
processes that can be shared across a number of OA publishing
initiatives, and forming an international alliance of institutions
supporting the publication of high-quality monographic series in the
humanities.
We envision the outcome of this project as an extensible and
transferable model for how libraries and faculty might collaborate to
spearhead and streamline a shift to open access in disciplines where the
book-length argument is likely to remain the preferred form of scholarly
communication.
The public archives of our planning discussion to date can be read at
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/ohp. Please contact Sigi Jöttkandt
(sigij @ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), Marta Brunner (martab @ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
or John Willinsky (john.willinsky @ xxxxxxxxxxxx) for more information.
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Open Humanities Press is an international open access publishing
collective specializing in critical and cultural theory. Launched in
2008, OHP was formed by academics to overcome the current crisis in
scholarly publishing that threatens intellectual freedom and academic
rigor worldwide. OHP journals are academically certified by OHP’s
independent board of international scholars. All OHP publications are
peer-reviewed, published under Open Access licenses, and freely and
immediately available online at http://openhumanitiespress.org/
The Public Knowledge Project is a research and development initiative
directed toward improving the scholarly and public quality of academic
research through the development of innovative online publishing and
knowledge-sharing environments. Begun in 1998, PKP has developed Open
Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems, free software for the
management, publishing, and indexing of journals and conferences, as
well as Open Archives Harvester and Lemon8-XML to facilitate the
indexing, formatting, and archiving of research and scholarship. This
open source software is being used around the world to increase access
to knowledge and improve its scholarly management, while considerably
reducing publishing costs.
Located at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University,
and Stanford University, PKP also sustains an active research program on
the impact of increased access to knowledge, with the resulting
publications, dating back to 1998, available from
http://pkp.sfu.ca/node/1410