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Tento sprievodca vznikol v rámci projektu OPAEN-UK. Hlavným riešiteľom projektu je správca databáz JISC Collections. Projekt je dostupný na webovej stránke: http://opaen-uk.jiscebooks.org/ccguide/ OPAEN-UK

Knowledge Exchange, a multi-national collaboration to support the development of digital infrastructure to enable open scholarship, commissioned a landscape study to analyse existing information about how OA monographs operate in the six KE countries, as well as Norway and Austria. The full report is available at knowledge-exchange. info/event/open-access-monographs. This summary provides an overview of the key areas, but is by no means a substitute for the rich information contained in the full report. About the project The brief for this project contained two main objectives: Analyse existing information about OA monographsin relation to OA policies, funding streams and business models Establish information gaps or areas where Knowledge Exchange could contribute to the development of OA monographs The resulting study drew on a literature review, a series of web-based questionnaires and qualitative interviews to understand the ecology of OA monographs in different countries.&nbsp

This guide has been produced to assist arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) researchers in understanding the state of play with regards to open access in the UK and what it means to them as current and future authors of scholarly monographs.

Objectives To understand the publishing priorities, especially in relation to open access, of 10 UK biomedical research funders. Design Semistructured interviews. Setting 10 UK biomedical research funders. Participants 12 employees with responsibility for research management at 10 UK biomedical research funders; a purposive sample to represent a range of backgrounds and organisation types. Conclusions Publicly funded and large biomedical research funders are committed to open access publishing and are pleased with recent developments which have stimulated growth in this area. Smaller charitable funders are supportive of the aims of open access, but are concerned about the practical implications for their budgets and their funded researchers. Across the board, biomedical research funders are turning their attention to other priorities for sharing research outputs, including data, protocols and negative results. Further work is required to understand how smaller funders, including charitable funders, can support open access.

An output of the OAPEN-UK project, this guide explores concerns expressed in public evidence given by researchers, learned societies and publishers to inquiries in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and also concerns expressed by researchers working with the OAPEN-UK project. We have also identified a number of common questions and have drafted answers, which have been checked by experts including Creative Commons. The guide has been edited by active researchers, to make sure that it is relevant and useful to academics faced with making decisions about publishing.\ud \ud This guide is made available in open access using a CC BY licence.

Graham Stone and Ellen Collins investigate whether 25 Research Things, an innovative online learning programme, could help researchers understand the value of Web 2.0 tools.

This paper presents the initial findings of OAPEN-UK, a UK research project gathering evidence on the social and technological impacts of an open access business model for scholarly monographs in the humanities and social sciences.