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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.

    ---

    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

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