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title: I am joining the OAPEN-UK, Open Access Monograph, Steering Group

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wordpress_url: https://www.martineve.com/2012/04/03/i-am-joining-the-oapen-uk-open-access-monograph-steering-group/
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<p>I'm delighted to announce that I am joining the <a href="http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/overview/steering-group/">OAPEN-UK Steering Group</a>, a great JISC project that is gathering evidence for the viability of Open Access monograph publication in the Humanities and Social Sciences. From their website:</p>
<blockquote><p>OAPEN-UK is a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences</p>
<p>OAPEN-UK will partner with publishers, research councils, authors, researchers and institutions in a practical, real time pilot that will gather a range of qualitative and quantitative data. The data will be evaluated to help stakeholders better understand the challenges and developments required to support open access scholarly monographs.</p></blockquote>
<p>I was really excited to hear about their project at the UKSG conference in Glasgow and look forward to talking more about this at a later stage.</p>
<p>If you're a researcher, can I also ask (I have already tweeted this!) that you fill out the <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/oapenukresearcher">survey on researcher behaviour</a>. It doesn't take long and is a crucial part of the research process for the future of the monograph and the challenges, and opportunities, brought by a digital medium.</p>
<p><i>Featured image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/">Gideon Burton</a> under a CC-BY-SA license.</i></p>