Working Title: The Complete Guide to Open Scholarship
Editors: Darren Chase & Dana Haugh
Submission Deadline: December 1st
Publisher: ALA Editions
Book Description
This peer-reviewed collection will bring together a dynamic set of librarians, scholars, practitioners, policy makers and thinkers in order to take measure of the open access movement. Critical essays, research, case studies and other pieces will create a substantial, far-reaching text. This collection will be critical and practical, and provide practical examples and theory in understanding the open access movement, open data, open educational resources, open knowledge, and the opportunity for an open and transformed world.
More and more universities--often spearheaded by university libraries--are adopting open access policies as a practical way to promote open access and further the research enterprise, while countering the often closed, restrictive and costly scholarly journals and databases. This book will provide a substantial and practical overview of the open access movement, along with critical essays and consideration of the meaning of open access and its potential to leverage existing technology to transform how we support, share and access research.
We are looking for case studies, research, and critical essays on various aspects of open access scholarship, including:
- Library Open Access Initiatives (implementations, challenges, processes, training, promotion/outreach, etc.)
- Open Access Publishers & Journals (reception, evaluation measures, predatory publishers)
- Repositories (green open access, university-specific, network of open repositories, discipline-specific platforms)
- Open Educational Resources (current landscape, value/usage, challenges)
- Open Data (data repositories, linked data, metadata, research data management)
- Publishing Models (gold open access, new models, university presses, peer-review etc)
- Research consortia, governmental & NGO initiatives
- Public access to publically-funded research
- University policies on open access (issues of mandatory vs. voluntary, on-boarding faculty/staff, creating buy-in, etc.)
- Future of open access
- Other areas of open scholarship
Timeline
Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2017
Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 15, 2017
Submissions
Please use this form to submit abstracts of 200-500 words.
Abstracts should briefly describe your topic and how your chapter relates to open scholarship. Multiple submissions are welcome. If your submission is tentatively accepted, the editors may request modifications. Material cannot be previously published.
Abstracts should briefly describe your topic and how your chapter relates to open scholarship. Multiple submissions are welcome. If your submission is tentatively accepted, the editors may request modifications. Material cannot be previously published.
Final chapters will be in the 3,000-5,000 word range (some exceptions will be made for longer chapters). Chapters will be peer-reviewed.
Please direct any questions to Darren Chase (darren.chase@stonybrook.edu) or Dana Haugh (dana.haugh@stonybrook.edu)
About the editors
Darren Chase is Head of the Center for Scholarly Communication, Stony Brook University. His research interests include open access, crowdfunded research, online learning, digital badging and information literacy. Darren has written and presented widely on myriad scholarly publishing topics. He spearheaded the development and eventual adoption of the Stony Brook University Open Access Policy, and coordinates the annual Stony Brook University Open Access Symposium.
Dana Haugh is Web Services Librarian at Stony Brook University Libraries where she leads the design and development of the library’s web presences. Her research interests include web design, open access, marketing & outreach in libraries, and information literacy. Dana has extensive experience writing for top journals and monographs in the library field. She’s particularly focused on ensuring scholarship is openly accessible and helps manage her university’s institutional repository which promotes open access to scholarship published by Stony Brook University faculty.
