“It’s a Movement, Not a Club”: TOME in the Growing Landscape of Open Monograph Publishing

“It’s a Movement, Not a Club”: TOME in the Growing Landscape of Open Monograph PublishingTOME MeetingJuly 22, 2019Washington, DC 2 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019Table of ContentsMeeting Planning Committee 3Meeting Goals 4TOME Progress Report 5TOME by the NumbersFields RepresentedFacultyAdministration & FundingThe First Four BooksImpact AssessmentPurpose of the ReferatoryTOME Publisher Perspectives 12SUNY PressJohns Hopkins University PressUniversity of California PressTOME Institutional Perspectives 17TOME in the OA Monograph Landscape 19The State of OA Monographs in EuropeThe State of OA Monographs in the UKThe State of OA Monographs in CanadaOA Usage Data TrustKeeping the Momentum 23Appendix A: TOME Background Reading 25 3 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019Meeting Planning CommitteeMeredith Asbury, AAUPeter Berkery, AUPressesRyan Bock, AAUBrenna McLaughlin, AUPressesKatie Monroe, ARLPeter Potter, Visiting Program Officer, ARLJudy Ruttenberg, ARLJessica Sebeok, AAUReport published by the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University PressesSeptember 5, 2019 4 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019Meeting GoalsOn July 22, 2019, the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) jointly hosted a meeting in Washington, DC, of the TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) community. TOME is a pilot initiative of the three associations that supports the digital publication of peer-reviewed scholarly books by participating university presses, allowing the open-access (OA) publication of these works online and broadly improving access to these works by scholars and the public.Jessica Sebeok of AAU welcomed meeting participants on behalf of the partner associations, and reviewed the meeting’s goal: to coalesce around actionable steps to grow the TOME initiative and maintain its momentum. Specifically, participants were asked to consider how the partner associations can:• Add more institutions that commit to offering publication subventions• Articulate what we accomplish by 2022 (Year 5 of the pilot)• Address the equity issue by including authors whose institutions don’t have TOME or who aren’t associated with institutions at all 5 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019TOME Progress ReportPeter Potter, Virginia Tech and ARL Visiting Program Officer Charles Watkinson, University of MichiganTOME by the Numbers• Cornell University became the 15th participating institution.• 62 participating university presses—17 of these have either published TOME books or have TOME books under contract.• 17 books published to date. These are published by: Duke University, University of California, Cornell University, Fordham University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Penn State University, and University of Washington.• The 18th book was just added to the TOME Figshare site. It is published by SUNY Press.• 23 more books in the queue for a total of 41 titles.Fields RepresentedHistory (5)Performing Arts/Music (5)English (5)Media Studies (4)Political Science (4)Critical Theory (3)Architecture (3)Art History (3)Anthropology (3)Cultural Studies (2)Performing Arts (2)Science, Technology, and SocietySociologyReligionEducation 6 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019Faculty16 assistant professors12 associate professors11 full professor1 adjunct professorAdministration & FundingTOME is funded and administered differently in the 15 participating TOME institutions.FundingLibrary 5Provost 4Combination of Library and Provost 6External 1 (Emory University is using Mellon funding)AdministrationLibrary 8Library + Provost 5Academic unit 2In most cases the funding is coming from either the library or the provost. When it comes to administering the program, however, the library is generally taking the lead. 7 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019The First Four BooksA COLONIAL AFFAIR by Danna Agmon Cornell University Press (CUP) Published March 2018Stats for OA edition:918 book downloads• 336 Kindle• 272 Author’s institutional website• 252 Publisher website (210 PDF / 42 EPUB)• 58 TOME Figshare113 chapter downloads• 113 JSTOR (120 views)• N/A Project MUSESales for print edition:• 143 cloth Year 1 (compare to 281 average Year 1 sales for CUP European history cloth titles)• 226 cloth LTDONTOLOGICAL TERROR by Calvin Warren Duke University Press Published April 2018Stats for OA edition:662 book downloads• 607 OAPEN• 55 TOME Figshare• N/A Author’s institutional websiteN/A chapter downloads:• N/A JSTOR• N/A Project MUSE 8 TOME Meeting — July 22, 2019Sales for print edition:• 38 cloth• 1,211 paperbackGAMING THE STAGE by Gina Bloom University of Michigan Press (UMP) Published July 2018Stats for OA edition:316 book downloads• 132 UMP Ebook Collection• 126 Author’s institutional website• 58 TOME Figshare483 chapter downloads• 272 JSTOR (605 views)• 211 Projec