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allocation of their grant for research to the institutions which they fund, with effect from 2015-16.
‘It also provides accountability for public investment
in research and produces
evidence of the benefits of this investment while benchmarking information and establishing reputational yardsticks, for use within the higher education (HE) sector and for public information. HSS plays a key role in these activities and Emerald is dedicated to optimising their impact.’
Caren Milloy of Jisc concluded: ‘Open access will likely create new opportunities, new models and help researchers share their research with a wider readership. We’re keeping researchers up to date on open access through the OAPEN-UK Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers. We need to develop standards to support open access monograph publishing – and make it easy.
publications distil the vast body of literature in a subject area into a more digestible format. ‘Written by top people in the field, each issue will provide a snapshot of the state of scholarship with author’s commentary and analysis. Taken together the numerous issues of Brill Research Perspectives will constitute a multidisciplinary reference library for research and classroom use.’ Due to be launched in 2016 with 13 journals, Brill Research Perspectives will publish two to six issues annually across multiple subject areas. Each journal issue will also be available as a book in both print and electronic format. After a successful trial period in 2014, Emerald extended its partnership with the online platform Kudos to help increase the impact of published articles and implement a value add service for Emerald authors. Kudos provides a valuable set of resources towards helping academic authors achieve their goal of illustrating the value of their work to the wider society and extend their impact and visibility.
The use of other platforms such as Figshare increase the scrutiny of data, however also allow the ability for content users to preview the data before they access the whole article. This helps the author determine the impact of their research as their paper may have been
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downloaded if the user found the data of use. Casalini Libri’s Digital Division has also launched a new initiative by offering a New Title Information service for both print and electronic format to institutions, resulting in the supply of ebooks to the same level of service which they traditionally have been supplying paper format titles. The addition of records for digital editions to the normal workflow will facilitate the selection and acquisition of single e-books for libraries. A special feature has been added to the Casalini Libri website to allow searches to be filtered for print or electronic publications.
Looking ahead
So what is the future for HSS research publishing? Emerald’s Sleeman said: ‘The future may be uncertain and slightly confusing for researchers publishing from the HSS communities, but Emerald will continue to strive to assist authors, institutions and faculties who need to work within the new Research Excellence Framework (REF) last conducted in 2014.
‘The primary purpose of REF 2014 was to
assess the quality of research and produce outcomes for each submission made by institutions by
informing the selective
‘Imagine that say, Oxford University Press has implemented an open access model – how does the monograph that has been made open access get into the institutions repository? How do researchers who are looking on Amazon or in the library catalogue know that there is an open access version of the book available?
‘How do we make sure that libraries, who purchase the print and electronic copies, are aware that there is an open access version?
‘We are at an early stage and we need a range of experiments with business models’
How does the researcher know what licence the book is available under and where they can get alternate formats? These are some of the areas that Jisc Collections in partnership with OAPEN Foundation are exploring in their Investigating Open Access Monograph Services project – and the answers will be critical to the uptake of open access monograph publishing.’
Also there is positive news around HSS funding, particularly in relation to Horizon 2020. When announcing the Horizon 2020 budget recently, the European Commission acknowledged the importance of funding for HSS, thus helping the delivery of future HSS research.
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