The search for a sustainable model to support open access academic books continues, especially for literature in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. Many initiatives tend to be publisher-specific or small scale. Demand for and interest in open access content is high, but achieving sustainability is challenging, particularly for small and medium university presses. Publishers who converted licensed eBooks to open access saw usage surge by 5,500% on JSTOR.
How can we meet your scholarly community’s shared goal of increasing equity and access to knowledge while ensuring value for funding libraries, reducing the financial risk for scholarly publishers, and expanding authors' impact? In this webinar you will learn where we are on the path to open access, including program updates, accomplishments, and what we have learned so far. You will also learn what we have planned for the future of Path to Open. This webinar will feature a panel of Path to Open community members, including founding partner, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); Rebecca Seger, Vice President, Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships, JSTOR; John Lenahan, Vice President, Published Content, JSTOR; participating university presses; and library participants. They will share critical information about this innovative model for open access monograph publishing and ways for you to participate in Path to Open.
Presenters:
Rebecca Seger, Vice President, Institutional Participation and Strategic Partnerships, JSTOR, part of nonprofit ITHAKA
John Lenahan, Vice President, Published Content, JSTOR, part of nonprofit ITHAKA
Sarah McKee, Project Manager, Amplifying Humanistic Scholarship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Jennie Collinson, Director of Sales & Marketing, Liverpool University Press
Mary Dougherty, Director, University of Massachusetts Press
Tony Sanfilippo, Director, Ohio State University Press
Kate McCready, Visiting Program Officer for Academy-Owned Scholarly Publishing, Big Ten Academic Alliance
Moderator:
Matt Enis, Senior Editor of Technology, Library Journal
