Changing Publishing Ecologies. A Landscape Study of New University Presses and Academic-led Publishing
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 19403284
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- N - Research report for external body
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- Commissioning body
- Joint Information Systems Committee
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- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Academic or scholar-led publishing represents a grassroots publishing model in which academic presses are set-up and run by scholars rather than commercial publishers. This Jisc commissioned research report analyses the rise and growth of this new model which is fundamentally diversifying the scholarly publishing landscape. Adema is the first to identify and describe this distinct publishing model, providing a detailed analysis based on data collected via interviews with 14 internationally operating presses—including Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK) and punctum books (US). The report includes an opening essay based on original research co-authored by Adema and Stone, and a detailed 35-page analysis of academic-led publishers written by Adema. The aims of the research were to identify existing presses, their motivations, challenges they are facing, and support needed from Jisc or HE funders. The study recommended that funders should 1) further legitimise scholar-led publishing as a model; 2) support community building among scholar-led presses; 3) stimulate knowledge sharing among this community.
Based on this research, Adema was invited onto the UUK Open Access Monographs Working Group, and the report is cited in the UKRI Open Access consultation document. The research led to a £3.6M Community-led Open Publications Infrastructures for Monographs project, which will inform OA policy implementation for UKRI and the REF after 2021.
The research has been written up as part of a peer-reviewed article in LIBER Quarterly (Adema and Stone 2017) and has been presented at international library and publishing studies conferences, including invited keynotes—e.g., UKSG (UK), The Munin Conference (Norway), University Press Redux (UK), the OATage (Germany), LIBER (France), COASP (Austria), OpenAIRE (Netherlands). It has been widely referenced in policy documents, and library and information sciences journals, e.g., Learned Publishing, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Insights, New Review of Academic Librarianship, Publications, and Liber Quarterly.
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- Non-English
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