{"id":503,"date":"2014-04-11T01:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/?p=503"},"modified":"2014-04-11T01:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:42:52","slug":"a-new-open-access-model-designed-to-set-books-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/a-new-open-access-model-designed-to-set-books-free\/","title":{"rendered":"A new open access model designed to set books free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-profit group Knowledge Unlatched is piloting a collective procurement approach to open access books. The model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single title fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons license via the open access repository service OAPEN and the HathiTrust Digital Library as a fully downloadable PDF.<\/p>\n<p>Because the title fee is a fixed amount, as more libraries participate in Knowledge Unlatched, the per-library cost of securing open access for each book is reduced.\u00a0 By the end of February 2014 about 300 libraries had signed up to the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection includes <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.knowledgeunlatched.org\/collection-participate-1\/\">28 new books from 13 recognised scholarly publishers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/libraries-test-a-model-for-setting-monographs-free\/51455\">The Chronicle of Higher education Issue No:314<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the video on how it works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/27447311?rel=0\">knowledgeunlatched.org\/about\/how-it-works\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-profit group Knowledge Unlatched is piloting a collective procurement approach to open access books. The model depends on many libraries from around the world sharing the payment of a single title fee to a publisher, in return for a book being made available on a Creative Commons license via the open access repository service OAPEN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30960,10560,10557],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-libraries","tag-open-access","tag-open-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/openotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}