From: Danny Kingsley <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 04:32:30 +0000

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

One of the bigger concerns expressed about the Australian Research
Council (ARC) open access policy is that it includes all publication
outputs. That means books and book chapters*.

So what is happening out in monograph-land? As book sales plummet and
traditional academic publishers struggle for survival, some
organisations are looking at alternative models.

The AOASG has just added a new webpage to the site summarising some of
the new initiatives in this space. "Developments in OA monograph
publishing" - http://aoasg.org.au/oa-monographs-developments/

Regards

Danny

* Bear in mind that the ARC policy only applies to research that is
funded from the 2013 round and into the future. That research will
need to be undertaken and then crafted into book form, so it is
unlikely that the issue of making books open access under the policy
will not hit reality for many years.

Dr Danny Kingsley
Executive Officer
Australian Open Access Support Group
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