Sustaining Equitable Support for Open Access Monograph Publishing: Funder and Press Perspectives

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Over the past decade, a number of high-profile pilot projects have enabled dozens of university presses to experiment with open access (OA) monograph publishing. As several more initiatives are currently under way, now is an opportune time to step back and assess what we've learned to date and try to envision what the road ahead might look like. This session brings together both funding institutions and publishers with unique perspectives on the OA publishing landscape. On the funding side, in addition to collective action support of broader OA monograph initiatives, The Ohio State University Libraries and Emory University's College of Arts and Sciences have developed distinctive programs to support their campus faculty in publishing OA monographs. On the publisher side, the University of Minnesota Press and De Gruyter have followed different paths on the road to sustainable OA monograph publishing. As a founding partner of the Manifold platform, where it has built a rich library of its own OA monographs, the University of Minnesota Press has a deep understanding of how over 30 university presses and library publishers are supporting OA initiatives on the platform, from new digital only publications to OA formats and resources. Minnesota also helps to organize Manifold Community meetings and participates in discussions of the platform's development and sustainability. De Gruyter's University Press Library (UPL) program, which has helped dozens of scholarly presses increase their eBook sales, recently introduced an OA component to the program called UPLOpen. What lessons have these funding institutions and publishers learned along the way? How has their thinking evolved, and what if any changes could increase equitability for authors, funders, and presses in the future? A facilitated audience Q&A session with the speakers will follow the panel discussion.