Table 1.
Open Access Monograph Business models
| Model | Description |
|---|---|
| Book processing charge (BPC) | A fee is charged by the publisher in order for the e‑book to be made open access. |
| Institutional subsidy / new university presses | An institution subsidizes publication at an open access press based at, or associated with, the institution. Academics based at the institution may receive discounts or fee waivers. |
| Library consortium (‘institutional crowdfunding’) | Libraries pledge a fee towards making a collection of books open access, covering some or all of the costs between them. Once enough libraries have confirmed participation and the target amount is achieved, the collection is made open access. |
| Library membership | Libraries or other institutions pay an annual membership fee to a publisher that underwrites some costs of making books open access. |
| Flip to Open | The book is initially sold as it would be under traditional publishing. Once the book meets a set target sales figure it is made open access. |
Figure 1.
Operational Workflow for Open Monograph Assessment (Project Phase One)
Figure 2.
Operational Workflow for Open Monograph Assessment (Business as Usual)
| Publisher | # of Go |
|---|---|
| Scheme title | |
| URL | # of Watch |
| Date received | |
| Deadline | # of Stop |
| Dead accepted / rejected | |
| Date of Review | Recommendation |
| Date of Decision | |
| OVERVIEW | |
| Description | |
| Open publishing model (e.g. membership model, Book Processing Charge) | |
| How many other UK HEIs have signed up to this? | |
| Red Amber Green Rating (G = Go, A = Watch, R = Stop) | |
| Red/ Amber/ Green | |
| UKRI Compliant | |
| Oxford Involvement (Have Oxford authors published with scheme/press? Will Oxford have editorial input?) | |
| Is scheme covered by existing JISC agreement? | |
| Open Ethos | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Overview | |
| Costs | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Overall Annual Cost | |
| Duration of deal | |
| Content | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Number of titles | |
| Frontlist? Backlist? | |
| Which disciplines? Multi‑disciplinary? | |
| Non Book content /membership benefits | |
| ACTIONS | |
| Queries and comments | |
| Comments of the E‑book steering Group | |
| Comments of the Open Monograph Advisory Group | |
| Recommendation of the Open Publishing Review Group | |
| ADDITIONAL FIELDS | |
| OVERVIEW | |
| Publisher category (e.g. traditional book publisher, Open Access publisher, scholarly society) | |
| Publisher background (how well established is the publisher?) | |
| Review Process (are the books peer reviewed?) | |
| Red Amber Green Rating (G = Go, A = Watch, R = Stop) | |
| Open Ethos | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Rights | |
| License | |
| Publisher Governance structure (publicly available?) | |
| Is the publisher Open Access mission focused? | |
| Does the publisher produce an annual report on funding and usage? | |
| Sustainability | |
| Costs | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Cost per book | |
| VAT payable | |
| Content | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Number of titles in frontlist (if relevant) | |
| Number of titles in backlist (if relevant) | |
| Number of titles by Oxford authors | |
| Level of choice of content | |
| Will we own all the offer content in perpetuity (regardless of if the open access funding target is met?) | |
| Technical Standards | Red/ Amber/ Green |
| Content channeled via DOAB? If yes, assume preservation & metadata harvesting ok. If not, list how metadata, etc. dealt with | |
| Preservation Policy (will the content be reliably preserved in the event of the publisher going out of business) | |
| Location of hosting |
| Scheme/ Publisher | |
|---|---|
| Analysis Form | [A link to the relevant Open Monograph Scheme Evaluation Form] |
| Publishing Model | |
| Description | |
| Content | |
| Cost | |
| Oxford authors | |
| STATS (calendar year) | |
| Usage stats (publisher) | [Stats provided by the publisher, with a top five books list and a link to a larger publisher provided counter report] |
| Usage stats (DOAB) | [Stats found via the Directory of Open Access Books dashboard, for both IP and region – though not combined as these are different methods of counting the same usage] |
| OTHER INDICATORS | |
| ORLO citations | [How many times books from this publisher/ scheme are cited on ORLO, the University of Oxford’s reading list service] |
| ORLO Usage | [How many times citations on ORLO are accessed, with a top five list.] |
| How many books added during support? | |
| Other | [Other indicators of scheme performance, such as whether the scheme raised the requested amount in the initial offering]. |