Where next for the Open Library of Humanities

CNI. 10th December 2018.

A research paper

Professor Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London

The Open Library of Humanities

Open Library of Humanities Megajournal / Multijournal / Not-for-profit / Collectively Funded

Planning since 2013

Press and Committees

Support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Mellon
  • $90,000 planning grant
    • University of Lincoln, UK, 2014-2015
  • $741,000 sustainability grant
    • Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2015-2018

Social Problems We're Trying to Address

Symbolic Economy

Economic Problems We're Trying to Address

Library Economy

The Subscription Model as it Exists

The current system: many libraries all paying relatively large amounts

The OLH Library Partnership Subsidy Model

Many libraries all paying smaller amounts

>200+ Libraries Financially Supporting the OLH in First Two Years

Some of the libraries supporting OLH: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge

27 Journals on or Supported by the Platform (909 articles in first year)

Journals on the OLH platform Cost per institution per article: around $1.10 per institution per article. 118,686 unique readers. Average of 131 readers per article. $0.008 per institution per reader.

Ongoing Project to "Flip" Subscription Journals

LingOA

Building Open-Source Publishing Technology

  • meTypeset: a JATS XML typesetter
  • CaSSius: a CSS regions PDF generator
  • Translation Layer

Societies and Model Uptake

Spreading the consortial model

The End

Thank you!

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