Day 2 of the Open Access Research and Conference 2013 focuses on Open Data, Open Innovation and Open Publishing. In Session 8, Open Access Publishing, Dr Lucy Montgomery introduces Knowledge Unlatched: an ambitious attempt to create a globally coordinated, sustainable route to open access (OA) for book-length publications. Knowledge Unlatched is doing this by helping libraries from around the world to share the costs of making Humanities and Social Sciences monographs available on a Creative Commons license. [http://www.oar2013.qut.edu.au/program/speakers/montgomery.jsp] Dr John Byron [Book Industry Collaborative Council] presents on Free as in Love: the Humanities and Creative Arts in Open Access Publishing, in which he draws out issues regarding open accessing publishing highlighted in a recent examination of in the book publishing industry which was carried out under the auspices of the former government’s Book Industry Collaborative Council.[http://www.oar2013.qut.edu.au/program/speakers/byron.jsp] Dr Caroline Sutton [Co-Action Publishing, Sweden] is the last speaker at the conference, presenting on Innovation in the Age of Open Access Publishing. She begins by considering open access publishing as an innovation, including a review of the state of adoption among publishers using Roger’s bell curve (the Innovation Adoption Lifecycle) as a structure for discussing this. she considers the signs and examples of different forms of innovation that move beyond free access to research and argues that there are opportunities for innovation that we are missing.
Alternative title: Open Access and Research Conference - Day 2: Open Data, Open Innovation and Open Publishing
Creator(s): Lucy Montgomery, John Byron, Caroline Sutton