Educational Publishing – August 2022
Oxford College Press points annual report
Oxford College Press has issued its annual report for the monetary 12 months 2021-22. Total, income have been up by greater than half, from £56.1m to £93.6m, on a barely elevated turnover (up from £754.5m in 2021 to £781.3m in 2022). The Educational division noticed development of 1.7%, with highlights together with 5% development in earnings from Journals, and reaching the milestone of 100,000 printed open entry articles. Nearly 1,800 new books have been printed, and new read-and-publish offers have been agreed in Australia and New Zealand, Italy, the UK, the US, Sweden, Spain, Cyprus, Croatia, and Lithuania.
ALPSP declares seven-strong shortlist for 2022 Innovation award
The Affiliation of Discovered and Skilled Society Publishers (ALPSP) has introduced this 12 months’s shortlist for its Innovation in Publishing award. The seven finalists are Charlesworth Gateway – the Paper Standing Notification Service from the Charlesworth Group; GigaByte, a rapid-publication journal printed by GigaScience Press; Hum, a Buyer Information Platform firm from Silverchair; Case Genie, the AI-informed case regulation instrument from ICLR and 67 Bricks; Impression Companies from Emerald Publishing; the Joint Dedication for motion on inclusion and variety in publishing, initiated and facilitated by the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Evaluation Commons peer evaluation platform from EMBO and ASAPbio. The award winner shall be introduced on the ALPSP Convention 2022, held in Manchester UK from 14-16 September
Taylor & Francis wins accessibility certification
Taylor & Francis, who not too long ago appointed Alex Robinson as Chief Industrial Officer, has achieved accessibility certification for its books by Benetech. The impartial non-profit organisation evaluated a variety of its new titles for a couple of hundred accessibility options over an eight-month interval earlier than awarding the writer the ‘International Licensed Accessible’ designation and a ‘Benetech Born Accessible’ rating of 99%.
Taylor & Francis subsidiary Routledge has in the meantime introduced a brand new partnership with the British Psychological Society (BPS) which is able to see at the very least six e-book collection launched through a brand new joint e-book programme. Greater than ten books shall be printed annually, whereas BPS members shall be entitled to reductions on all Routledge titles.
De Gruyter enters two new partnership agreements
De Gruyter has introduced a brand new book distribution settlement with the impartial family-run humanities and social sciences writer Berghahn Books. Greater than two thousand of Berghahn’s frontlist, backlist, and archive titles shall be hosted and distributed worldwide by De Gruyter; a fifth of its frontlist shall be accessible solely and DRM-free this manner. Libraries can even be capable of buy the writer’s total frontlist assortment with multi-user entry as a part of De Gruyter’s College Press Library (UPL) providing, initially launched in 2014 and now twenty publishers sturdy.
De Gruyter has additionally signed a Buy to Open settlement with Jisc Collections which is able to see the publication of as much as thirty open entry ebooks in three topic packages: Enterprise & Economics, Classical Research, and Linguistics. Publication prices shall be crowdfunded by collaborating libraries, which pays a single charge for limitless entry to the titles in every assortment: if the goal is met, titles will flip to open entry on publication; if not, then collaborating libraries will nonetheless retain perpetual entry to the collections they signed up for. The deadline for signing up is the tip of this month.
All change on the Affiliation of College Presses
Charles Watkinson, director of the College of Michigan Press and affiliate college librarian for publishing at Michigan, has assumed the presidency of the Affiliation of College Presses (AUP) for 2022-23; he succeeds Lisa Bayer, director of the College of Georgia Press. Additionally elected on the Affiliation’s Annual Enterprise Assembly have been Jane Bunker, director of Cornell College Press, as President-Elect; Amy Schultz, director of finance and operations at Stanford College Press, as Treasurer; Alexandria Leonard, senior operations analyst at Princeton College Press, as Treasurer-elect. Former Treasurer Mike W. Bieker, director of the College of Arkansas Press, will function a member-at-large, wherein function he shall be joined by Rachael Levay, editor-in-chief on the College Press of Colorado, and Wendy Queen, director of Undertaking MUSE at Johns Hopkins College Press.
The Affiliation of College Presses has additionally issued a report on the price of open entry monograph publication, as a part of a pilot mission – TOME (Towards an Open Monograph System) – developed in partnership with the Affiliation of American Universities (AAU), and the Affiliation of Analysis Libraries (ARL). The Value to Publish TOME Monographs, developed by researchers Nancy Maron and Kim Schmelzinger, studied the prices incurred by fifteen college presses in publishing 57 titles through the programme; the report types the primary a part of a extra complete examination of the initiative, now in its fifth and ultimate 12 months.
Additional success for the Open Library of the Humanities
4 establishments from the Finnish FinELib consortium – Abo Akademi College, the College of Jap Finland, the College of Helsinki, and the College of Jyväskylä – have signed as much as the Open Library of the Humanities’ library partnership subsidy mannequin. Two articles printed in OLH journals have additionally received awards: Dr Amy Butt received the 2022 Science Fiction Analysis Affiliation Progressive Analysis Award for ‘The Current as Previous: Science Fiction and the Museum’, printed within the OLH eponymous flagship journal, whereas Professor Jason Camlot received the North American Victorian Research Affiliation (NAVSA) Donald Grey Prize for greatest Victorian Research essay for his article ‘Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Materials and Conceptual Artefacts’, printed in 19: Interdisciplinary Research within the Nineteenth Century.
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Know-how from SAGE, the writer’s workflow and entry options division, has acquired the award-winning Sciwheel instrument that allows library customers to find, learn, annotate, write, and share analysis. The instrument, which incorporates browser extension and plug-ins for Google Docs and Microsoft Phrase in addition to an online utility, shall be built-in with SAGE’s Lean Library as a part of a complete educational workflow instrument.
Wiley, which final month appointed Dr. Brian O’Harold Hemphill to its board of administrators, is extending the usage of the Oable open entry workflow administration answer developed by Information Unlatched, which it acquired final 12 months. The answer will initially be rolled out its to 34 of its clients earlier than greater than two thousand present Wiley OA clients are migrated onto it by the tip of the 12 months.
Liverpool College Press has introduced the launch of a brand new e-book collection: Playwriting and the Modern: Important Collaborations. Commissioning editor Christabel Scaife shall be working with collection editors at Loughborough, Lincoln, Greenwich, and Royal Holloway on a collection supposed to extend the press’s protection of theatre and efficiency in its catalogue.
Emerald Publishing has signed the Menopause Office Pledge, committing it to create a supportive and understanding office for workers experiencing the menopause.
Alastair Horne is a lecturer in publishing research on the College of Stirling.
Alastair writes our STM Publishing and our Educational Publishing Newsletters.
