Library/Press Collaboration at the University of Ottawa, Canada

Charleston Conference 2015

November 5, 2015

Tony Horava,

AUL Collections, University of Ottawa

Outline• University of Ottawa • The Press and the Library• Publishing Program• Open Access at the Press• OA Partnership agreement• Next steps

– a snapshot

• The world’s largest bilingual university (English/French)• One of Canada’s top 10 research universities • In Fall 2014 : 42,672 students enrolled

• 36,068 undergraduates• 6,604 graduates (Master’s and Ph.D)

• About 70% are anglophones and 30% francophones

Snapshot - cont’d• Ten faculties: Arts, Social Sciences, Education, Management,

Science, Engineering, Common Law, Civil Law, Health Sciences and Medicine

• Three libraries ( Arts & Sciences, Health Sciences, Law): total of 160 staff; 15M Collections budget

• Library collection: • 2.3M print books• 1.2M ebooks• 104K ejournals• ~900 research databases

• Founded in 1936• The only bilingual university press in Canada and the

oldest French press in North America• Reports to the Office of Research• Staff of six

• Mission: • To enrich intellectual and cultural life through the

publication and dissemination of scholarly works.• To extend the reach and influence of the University of

Ottawa and to associate its name with excellence in research and knowledge creation.

• 21 books to be published in 2015-16 (9 in French; 12 in English)

• Management board includes Press Director, University Librarian, a former Provost, and an independent publisher

• Editorial Board includes Press Director, AUL (Collections), a former Provost, and several professors

• Publishing formats: print, PDF, ePub, Kindle, POD

• Annual sales: approx $300,000 CAD

• Simultaneous print and e publication

• Most sales come from print books

Publishing Program - Collections

Francophone and Canadian Studies

Politics, Public Policy and Globalization

Contemporary Society

Amérique française Studies in International Development and Globalization

Visual Arts

Archives des lettres canadiennes

Law, Technology and Media Education

Mercure (copublication with the Canadian Museum of History)

Politics and Public Policy Criminology

Reappraisals: Canadian Writers

Philosophica

Regards sur la traduction | Perspectives on Translation

Religion and Society

Traduction littéraire | Literary Translation

Health and Society

Canadian Studies Cultural Transfers

Contemporary Issues

Distributors

• Print Sales - Prologue

- Ampersand- Servidis

- Patrimoine-Diffusion

• Print Distribution - UTP Distribution - Marston

- Librairie du Québec- Servidis

- Lightning Source - ExportLivre

• Electronic sales -Project Muse -JSTOR - Canadian Electronic Library - MyiLibrary - Proquest- EBSCO- Overdrive- Barnes & Noble- Kobo

OA Partnership Between the Press and the Library

An initial three year (2013-15) agreement to support the open dissemination (Gold OA – Creative Commons license) of selected monographs. Now succeeded by second agreement, 2015-18.

Key features:

• The Library now subsidizes four new titles per fiscal year

• The Library agrees to provide $10,000 per title, for a total of $40,000 per fiscal year.

• The Press agrees to provide the Library with an itemized production budget that includes other sources of pre-publication funding to determine the total of the subvention.

 

 

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• This subvention is meant to cover the direct costs of production and support OA dissemination. Other sources of funding (e.g. the federal Awards to Scholarly Publishing Program) must be utilized for this library funding to be applicable.

• The agreement will directly support the publications in the ‘Law, Technology and Media’ collection. Books in other collections that address current socio-cultural, economic and political issues are also preferred.

• ONIX data feeds to vendors now include link to the free PDF; the print or the epub can still be purchased.

Other features of Open Access

• The Press has released a total of 58 books as Gold OA (backlist titles); available on:

• Our consortial platform Scholars Portal Books and• uO Research (our institutional repository)

• Each fall, the Press releases 5 more backlist titles as Gold OA

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OA Funded Titles

• Sexual Assault in Canada - Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism

• The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law

• Sport Policy in Canada• Homelessness and Health in Canada• Transfert : Exploration d’un champ conceptuel • Rethinking Canadian Aid • Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era • eGirls/eCitizens

Sales and download data for OA Books

Where do we go from here?• Assessing the impact of OA titles• Aligning with scholarly communication goals and Open

Access program of the University• Assessing and developing new business models that

integrate OA strategies and OA thinking• Recognizing that print and digital need to co-exist for a

press to thrive in today’s world.

Thanks very much!

Tony HoravaAssociate University Librarian- CollectionsUniversity of Ottawa, Canadathorava@uottawa.ca