1. OA and scholarly books,
the Australian landscape
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Ross Coleman
Director, Collections, Digital and eScholarship
University of Sydney Library

2. Resisting the tide
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4. › OA is more than free ebooks, also more nuanced
› Integrated landscape of scholarly communication
› Opportunities and imperatives in the Australian landscape
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5. Integrated landscape of scholarly communication
› Networking technologies – new opportunities/potential for innovation
› Traditional publishing ‘crisis’ – production, distribution, business, sustainability
› Publishing alternatives – including library-based publishers
› Need for global impact and reach
› Government policies – funding mandates, ERA, HERDC
› eResearch infrastructure and services
› Market/audience/research gaps and needs
› Changing research practices and new modes and expressions of knowledge
› New partnership and collaborations for experimentation
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6. Government view - defining the research
monograph
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10. The landscape is one of scholarly climate change
› Purpose of scholarly publishing – to maximise the reach, profile and impact of
Australian scholarship
› Traditional scholarly/academic publishing in trouble and dysfunctional – gaps in
publishing
› New payers filing the vacuum – library based publishers
› Business models - hybrid models
› Who owns the copyright?
› Opportunities to integrate with eResearch infrastructure and services
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12. Library based publishing
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13. Global access and profile
› “Australian university presses have an important role of providing access to
scholarly works for non-academic readers. And Open Access publishing by
Australian universities has also contributed to the high international access of
this nation’s research (over 65% of downloads of open access Australian
university press books are from overseas).”
› Roxanne Missingham, The death of the academic book and the path to Open
Access, The Conversation, 22 October 2013
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20. Publishing and research support
eResearch
Publishing
Profile and impact
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21. › Thank you
› r.coleman@sydney.edu.au
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