Textbooks Open SUNY Textbooks Chapter 1 Context Libraries Transforming Scholarly Communication amp Publishing Chapter 2 Pilots amp Rapid Prototypes Reprints New Works and more Chapter 3 Open SUNY Textbooks amp Librarian Roles ID: 387525
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Value of Open Educational Resources & Open TextbooksOpen SUNY Textbooks
Chapter 1 ContextLibraries Transforming Scholarly Communication & PublishingChapter 2 Pilots & Rapid PrototypesReprints, New Works, and more…Chapter 3 Open SUNY Textbooks & Librarian RolesChapter 4 Why?Chapter 5 Operationalizing the opportunity of a lifetime…Open SUNY Textbooks (Cooperative)Cyril Oberlander, SUNY Geneseo, moving to Humboldt State UniversityKate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo, PI for Open SUNY Textbook in JulySteve Weiter, Library Director, ESFPresentation available at: http://tinyurl.com/sunyla14
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Chapter 1
Context: OER & Textbooks are valuable to library publishingAcademic, Public, and Special Libraries are increasingly offering publishing services designed to:Transform Scholarly CommunicationorProvide new value aligned to needs At Milne Library… we don’t want to be a University Press or a Commercial Publisher, we want to create something new.
http://www.ny3rs.org/i2ny/publisher/1565-2
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http://www.librarypublishing.org
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Transforming scholarly communications & publishing makes sense
Content is integral to the future of higher education’s need to control cost & scale up...If we shift from procurement to production servicesWe typically see an annual cost increase of about 5-8%, sometimes a title may increase over 30%.Faculty scholarship is an unsustainable cost for colleges at a time when college costs are increasingly seen as unsustainable.
# Librarians & Support StaffSlide4
Chapter 2
Library Publishing Pilots & Rapid PrototypesSlide5
Reader Friendly Special Collections: Reprints pilot #1
Expand collection access & preservationRare books & Reprints
We were 1 of 3 libraries that hold this rare book…
Open Access
with benefits
Free
on Open Monograph Press (OMP)
Fee
on Amazon.com
(
CreateSpace
)
Revenue goes to
Special Collections
Free tool to detect works that are rare and not digitized, GIST GDM:
http
://www.gistlibrary.org/gdm/Slide6
C
reating new special collections… Pilot #2A Memoir + our Special Collections = Promoting Authorship & Special CollectionsSpecial Collections Librarian infused images from our archives…
another Librarian did copy editing…Slide7
Pilot #3:
Library as PublisherUse cases & best practices toolkitPublic & Academic Libraries
Today:Sold over 80 print books.+
Over 3,000 downloads of free
ebook
.
August 2013: 3,680 views,
1,881 new visitors
, 19% from outside U.S.
http://www.publishingtoolkit.org/
The
Library Publishing Toolkit
was an investment of $10K
USD (RBDB funding). In the
1st month of
use
August 2013,
cost
per use
amounts
to
approx
.
$
5.31 USD per use, based on 1,881 unique
visitors.
Today
,
over 3,168 unique visitors worldwide that is:
$3 per use &
decreasing
To reach 1,881 readers…
Traditional Publishing Model: Library purchasing print books $83.59 (avg. from YBP) Total: $157,232ILL Borrowing Model: Cost of resource sharing borrowing average at $9.62 and lending average at $3.93, Leon/Kress in Interlending & Document Supply; Total: $25,487
CostperUse$5.31to$3
Librarians wrote & published this book!Slide8
Pilot #4: Geneseo Authors in
MinervaPromoting Your Authors & Readers
Free + Revenue Strategies Co-Exist:
To inspire faculty &
students & readers
Since Oct. 25, 2013,
we sold 71 copies
, ($ goes to special collections)
&
360 views of the free
ebook
…Slide9
Chapter 3
Open SUNY Textbooks& Librarian RolesSlide10
Open SUNY
TextbooksA SUNY Libraries & Innovative Instruction Technology Grant funded open textbook publishing program9 Participating SUNY Libraries, others supporting the project; additional SUNY libraries, SUNY Press, & others.Building a sustainable academic friendly publishing model with faculty & librariesStarted in July 2012 (~2 years) publishing since October 2013Slide11
Goal 1: Reduce cost
Cost to Students College Board reports students or parents spend $1,200 per year on textbooks & suppliesUS GAO 2005 reported that spending on course materials in 2003 totaled: ~
$6.49 billion dollars; today $12B2013 GAO reported an 82% cost increase for textbooks from 2002-20122012 Student Debt Reaches $1 Trillion
2012
Florida Student Textbook survey
64% students didn’t buy textbook
,
49% took fewer courses, 45% didn’t register for course, and 27% dropped a course.
Survey n=22K+Cost of textbooks impacts learningHigh return on investmentSlide12
Potential Savings… per semester
Open SUNY Textbooks# Course Adoptions (minimal)Adoptions (likely ~ 2yrs)Avg. Savings $8,000/semesterBased on 2 coursessaving $16K SP14
30960
Estimate of 1/2 campuses select Open SUNY Textbook
Total Projected Savings / Semester
$240,000
$7,680,000 Slide13
Online Learning Environment
Goal 2: Create opportunities for teaching & learningEmpower
teaching & learning + teachers & learners.Future of learning environments & higher education needs fewer hurdles, reduction of barriers, and a variety of learning engagement strategies and tools
Online & Hybrid Learning
MOOC
Open Textbooks
Learning Management
Systems
Shared Reusable Digital Assets
Text
Audio
Video
Interactive
(Quizzes, etc.)
Learning Analytics
What role for Librarians here?Slide14
Librarians and Open SUNY Textbooks
What is the value proposition?CURATIONPROCUREMENTSlide15
Library Scholarship & Publishing Services
BenefitsTo StudentsEngaged learningFree or affordable books and textbooksInternships and paid positions that develop valuable skillsTo FacultyAuthorship services that promote their authorship and the institutionFree or affordable books and textbooksTo LibrariesAffordable resources
Valued serviceRevenue potential
http://www.geneseo.edu/library/publishingSlide16
OER learning objects lifecycle
Where is the librarian in this picture? What roles do we play?Slide17
EXAMPLE: Interactive quizzes with Feedback
Procurement or Curation: which role do we want?Who does the work?What are the benefits?Interactive quiz with immediate feedbackSlide18
Possible new library roles?
Or ones we are already doing…Slide19
Pilot #1 Open SUNY Textbooks Began July 2012
$20K IITG Grant awarded from SUNY to 5 libraries July 2012: SUNY Geneseo, Brockport, Environmental Science & Forestry, Univ. of Buffalo, Upstate. Fredonia joined Jan. 2013. SUNY Press consultant on project.Call for authors sent to 34K SUNY Faculty on Nov. 2012 Offered $3K to AuthorsIn 2 weeks, 38 proposals Grant funding limited to 4 titles. Libraries add ~$40K to fund 15 Open Textbooks
Selection by Library Directors & Librarians
15 Open Textbooks
1 in Anthropology
1 in Business
2 in Computer Sciences
2 in Education
3 in English
2 in Mathematical Sciences
1 in Music Education
3 in Sciences
Some interactivity; multiple choice, etc.
Pilot goal: Libraries collaborate and learn how to publish open textbooks.Slide20
Editorial Workflow & Production
Editorial workflow managed by libraries. Collectively, we provide Instructional Design support (Librarians & Consultant), Copyediting & Proofreading (Librarians or Freelance), Graphic design & layout (Milne Library), etc.Librarians orFreelance
Librarians find peer reviewers
Copyediting skills: Brockport, ESF, Fredonia, Geneseo, Morrisville, UB, & increasing…
Professional duties, university service, or extra service pay?
Pop Quiz
How many librarians know citation style guides?
How many are confident reading works in a discipline outside librarianship?Slide21
Distribution
Host: FREE online Open Textbooks as PDF & ePub on Open Monograph Press (PKP)Discover: Catalog in OCLC WorldCat, Minnesota Open Textbook Catalog & Merlot. Print: Print on Demand offered to authors via CreateSpace. Pilot 1 & 2 use CC BY NC SA; authors get 100% royalties.Marketing & Adoption role for librarians?
PDF
Print
On Demand (optional)
ePub3
Multimedia & Interactivity
http://
opensuny.org
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Open SUNY Textbooks
http://opensuny.org
Peer reviewers summary included inside textbook
Peer Review is key to adoption Slide23
Pilot 2
Revised Selection & Marketing ProcessInitial Phase: 12/18/2013 – 3/25/201446 proposals received, funded to publish 15Selection ProcessAbstract Blind Review & Questionnaire sent to faculty
in corresponding disciplines & in consultation with librarians at 14 Institutions. Sample questions:Clear Abstract?
How likely you would select this textbook for a course?
Strengths of this proposal?
What courses might this textbook be useful for?
What are crucial features for this textbook?
Would you be willing to serve as a peer reviewer?
Opportunity for engaging discussions about OERs
Compiled scores = Selection plus…
Market Analysis for Adoption & Peer ReviewSlide24
Open SUNY Textbook & Possible Librarian Roles
Writing Phase: 3/25/2014 – 1/15/2015Editing Phase: 6/1/2014 – 6/1/2015Access & Marketing Phase: 9/1/2014 – 9/1/2015
Librarians
demonstrated we can
administer
the whole publishing processSlide25
Outcomes
5 currently published so far…Pilot 1 2013-2014: 15 Open Textbooks1 - Anthropology1 - Business2 - Computer Sciences2 - Education3 - English2 - Mathematical Sciences1 - Music Education3 - SciencesPilot
2 2014-2015: 14 Open Textbooks1 - Anthropology1 - Biology
1 - Chemistry
2 -
Communication
1
-
Education
3 - English1 - Engineering1 - General Education1 - Mathematical Sciences
1 -
Philosophy
1 - Public Administration
1 - Social Work
Manuscripts from 27 of 64 institutions
Reduced cost to students already shown…
TITLES
# students
Natural Resources Biometrics
41
User’s Guide to Planet Earth 144
@ avg. cost of a book $83.59 YBP…
Spring semester students saved: $15,464.15
Organizational Development
9 Participating SUNY Libraries + SUNY Press
Established a recognized brand:
Open SUNY Textbooks
Established
role
for libraries
as publishers, and librarians as editors, and other roles…Developing curriculum for professional development and certification for librarians as copy editors, proof readers, etc.
Developing infrastructure; BaseCamp, OMP, etc.Lots of interest from faculty across SUNY and beyond, including variety of disciplines, and corporate interest.Marketing & News Scholarly Societies, local news, local, regional, and national presentations, 2 chapters in forthcoming books…Slide26
Open SUNY Textbook Global Value
July 1, 2013 – June 11, 2014 Over 15,000 unique viewersLiterature, the Humanities, and Humanity, published Oct. 22 2013Native Peoples of North America, Oct. 22, 2013Natural Resources Biometrics, Jan. 22, 2014A Story of Real Analysis, Feb. 18, 2014The Information Literacy User’s Guide, April 4, 2014Slide27
Chapter 4
Why?Slide28
Why Does any of this matter and why were we so keen to participate?Slide29
Librarian: Are you happy with the Library?Professor: Oh yes, they’re absolutely wonderful!
Librarian: That’s great to hear. So what are they doing that you really like?Professor: Um, well, when I contact them they respond right away, and they get me whatever I want. They can track down anything. They are diligent, responsive, just really nice people.Librarian: Great well, is there anything you’d like to see the library do more or better?Professor: gosh no, I can’t think of anything… They’re just terrific!Canick, Simon “Library Services for the Self-Interested Law School: Enhancing the Visibility of Faculty Scholarship”, Law Library Journal, V. 105 #2 2013 p. 179)The conversation Slide30
“You have to find $2 million dollars to cut out of the Academic Affairs budget next year.”
Well, we are terrific after all so that should save us, right?Will that conversation serve us well when the Provost is told:Slide31
How ESF uses the LibrarySlide32
Staff Hours Spent on Various ActivitiesSlide33
We need to redeploy that resourceWe can’t maintain positions to provide services/access that no one is using heavily or finds valuable.
Our Staff is Our Most Valuable ResourceSlide34
Over 20 years we have dramatically changed the TOOLS we provide library services with but we have haven’t significantly changes SERVICESOur Efforts are still centered around the use of physical “stuff.”Research/Learning is no longer centered around physical “stuff” and that’s reflected in the usage of the library as shown.
It is Time for new services to evolve.We can no longer do more with less – but we can do something different.And that different may keep us from having to do with less.What’s Different Now?Slide35
Metadata creation and management If we can catalog we can tagScanning and processing digital info
If we can scan and photocopy we already have this skillSupport of Teaching If we can create libguides and pathfinders we can embed Open Educational Resources into BlackboardLibrary as Publisher If we can assign barcodes we can assign DOIs, ISSNs, and ISBNs If we can READ, We can copy edit, we can seek reviewers We can (and do) support the visibility of faculty scholarship – and we should BUILD on thatAnd Kate’s going to elaborate on that NOWSkills and TasksSlide36
Chapter
5 Operationalizing Open SUNY Textbook PublishingOption A Each library go about publishing independentlyOption BCollaborate & partner to share infrastructure and incentivesSlide37
Sustainable Revenue Sources & Philosophy
Check Assumptions about Open Access…Is Revenue OK? Revenues can sustain the program long-termSelling Print on Demand with Royalty Share contracts with authorsCurrent contracts for Open SUNY Textbooks; authors get all royalties if they choose to sell print on demand.Beyond the pilot, to sustain the program, SUNY Counsel is reviewing contracts with royalty share: 50% Author / 50% ProgramAnyone see a better publishing contract?Selling platform convenienceOpen Access is free online at opensuny.org
We can also sell eReader / marketplace convenience, i.e.: Kindle Editions, Google Books, iTunes, Kubos, etc.?How comfortable are we with revenue
?
Important question given the need for higher education to control cost and increasingly diversify revenue sources.Slide38
Open SUNY Textbooks & Minerva Books
Library + Minerva Books, a Benefits Corporation PartnershipImagine if participating libraries had access to infrastructure and funding to continue publishing open textbooks…Minerva Books provides:Fiscal agent supporting authors and libraries publishing open textbooks. Revenue sharing with authors, cost recovery for programFree publishing infrastructure/platform.Incentives for Open Access publications at campuses.Scholarships and professional development for
publishingPartnership to support the growth
and sustainability for the Open
SUNY
Textbook program.
Potential
Funds: SUNY Student Tech Fees: $5 fee / student /
semesterSlide39
What librarians can do for faculty & students…
Promote adoption of OERs and Open Textbooks; especially Open SUNY TextbooksWhat are examples you are already doing? How do we share strategies?Attend Professional Development on Library Publishing, I2NY or Open SUNY Textbooks… anyone interested?CopyeditingProofreadingStyle guides Editorial principlesDevelopmental editingVolunteer proofreading, copyediting, Open SUNY Textbook teams, etc. Please contact: Pitcher@geneseo.edu Slide40
Open Textbooks and library publishing is an opportunity for libraries to curate engagement; connecting authors & readers, readers and researchers, teachers and learners…
Investing our resources in that business is essential to the future of higher education. Thank you. Questions?
Thanks to the 6 Participating libraries in Pilot 1, & 9 libraries in the Pilot 2, and IITG
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNY Fredonia
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Monroe Community College
SUNY Morrisville
SUNY OswegoThe College at BrockportUpstate Medical University
University at Buffalo& SUNY Press With support from 7 other SUNY libraries & growing… NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Buffalo State University, Delhi, Jefferson Community College, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Stony Brook University
…