Data Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One) There is quite a lot of discussion about how to finance the costs of publishing monographs in Open Access. While lots of alternative business models have been identified, actual hard data on the
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP's Business Model (Part Two) In the first part of this post I identified some of the problems I perceive with the legacy publishing model for academic books, articulated the primary objectives of OBP, and noted that at
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part Three) Here are our cost and revenue figures. As also reported at the OASPA conference, they are for the 12-month period from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015. Being based in the UK,