Supporting and encouraging authors to publish Open Access Monographs with no REF2029 mandate

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Event Start June 12, 2025 10:00 am	Event End June 12, 2025 12:00 pm	Booking closes June 5, 2025 12:00 pm
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This ALN webinar is hosted online by the Research Support Group and Lancaster University.

It will explore how libraries are making the case for Open Access Monographs in the absence of a REF mandate. In August of last year, REF confirmed that the 2029 Research Excellence Framework will not have a mandate for Open Monographs, instead open access requirement for submission of longform outputs will be in place for the next assessment exercise, with implementation from 1 January 2029. Whilst this has delayed a sector wide transition to OA Books, there is still a need to support and encourage authors to publish open access monographs to encourage culture of Open Research and ensure the sector is ready for the 1st of January 2029.

This event will feature perspectives of both Library’s and publishers through a series of presentations followed by a discussion and and question and answer session.

It is aimed at librarians and research support staff who advise academic about the publication process, academics interested to hear about initiatives about OA monographs.

Speakers:

Emily Nunn and Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield) will discuss their Open Monographs case studies project, which aimed to showcase OA monograph publishing across the faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social Science, and feature a range of publishers, funders and career stages.

Leah Maughan (Northumbria University) will discuss the challenges they are facing as a library and Northumbria’s approach to developing a strategy in preparation for REF2029.

Judith Carr (Edge Hill) will discuss how they are engaging with authors, editors and their approach to communications in relation to Open Monograph publishing.

Tom Morley (Lancaster University) will discuss Lancaster’s approach to encouraging a culture of Open Monograph publishing and a program of activity that has been developed to support this. Colleagues from the COPIM project will discuss multiple ‘success stories’ from Open Book Collective, Open Book Publishers, and Opening the Future – and how this may pose as a solution to challenges related to Open Monographs.

Tom Grady (Opening the Future) and Kevin Sanders (Open Book Collective) will talk about some of the successes of Copim Open Book Futures, and how initiatives like these are readying the sector for a Diamond open access books reality.

With an open access requirement for submission of longform outputs in place from 1st January 2029, it was clear from sector feedback last summer during the REF consultation that we will need to increase the number of realistic/affordable venues for author choice before that date. Programmes like the Open Book Collective and Opening the Future are enabling more publishers to offer these avenues. Collective funding is generating revenue for a diverse range of publishers, supporting them to move away from a reliance on BPCs to fund open access book publication. Through collective investment in their time, expertise and money libraries can meaningfully participate in this process of delivering more – and more equitable – opportunities for researchers.

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