ATGthePodcast 252 - Understanding the Impact on Print Revenues When University Press Books are Open Access

Against the Grain - The Podcast

Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the session titled: Understanding the Impact on Print Revenues When University Press Books are Open Access presented by Erich van Rijn, Director, University of California Press; Laura Brown, Ithaka, John Sherer, University of North Carolina Press; and Miranda Bennett, Director of Shared Collections, California Digital Library.

In February 2022, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Association of University Presses (in partnership with Ithaka S+R) a grant to study the impact of open access books on the sales of print books. While there is a prevailing desire among members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) to do more OA publishing, presses cite long-term, sustainable funding models as the top problem in implementing OA strategies, and the sale of print books remains a critical cost-recovery mechanism even for open access titles. In this session they will share both an overview of the results and key findings of the data collected from university presses as well as some perspectives from one of the participating publishers, and project co-Principal Investigator, and a collections librarian. They will also share perspectives on what impact we feel the data will have on publishing programs, library collections, and open access strategies.

Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/toyz0S-_5dI

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/erichvanrijn/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-brown-186920a/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-bennett-162596201/

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