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SUMMARY:Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia - Dr France
 s Pinter\, Bloomsbury Academic
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CONTACT:Michelle Heydon
DESCRIPTION:The current business model for publishing monographs has been 
 in trouble for some time. The number of units sold is dwindling and prices
  are spiralling upwards. Some say it is a dying genre. However\, scholars 
 themselves not only wish to continue with this type of ‘long form public
 ation’\, they would prefer having these works published professionally. 
 At the same time the benefits of digital distribution makes free to end us
 er dissemination an increasingly important priority. \n\nA new approach is
  needed in order to achieve what may at first glance appear to be trying t
 o square a circle. We need to change how we fund the publishing process an
 d make better use of technology. From the journal world we have an open ac
 cess model that appears to work. Books are different and following the jou
 rnals lead may not provide the best open access solutions. I will outline 
 an open access model that differs from those prevalent in the journal worl
 d and which is being met with excitement from the library profession aroun
 d the world. \n\n*About the Speaker*\n\nFrances Pinter has a particular in
 terest in new business models for academic publishing and is developing a 
 new type of library consortium that is intended to facilitate open access 
 publishing of books. \n\nShe was the founding Publisher at Bloomsbury Acad
 emic\, which makes use of Creative Commons licensing for monographs.  She 
 now runs the Churchill Archive digitisation project for Bloomsbury. She is
  a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and the Big Innovatio
 n Centre in London. \n\nPreviously she was Publishing Director at the Soro
 s Foundation\, working in 30 transition countries supporting publishing de
 velopment after the fall of communism. In the late 90s she established EIF
 L\, a library consortium that straddles nearly 50 countries and 2500 libra
 ries. Earlier in her career she founded Pinter Publishers.\n\nPlease let M
 ichelle Heydon\, mh569@cam.ac.uk know if you plan to attend.
LOCATION:Morison Room\, University Library\, Cambridge
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