Andrew Lockett (2018): Monographs on the move?: a view on ‘decoupling’ and other prospects. Insights, 31, 37. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.435
In the context of the recent debate about the movement towards a
monographs mandate for the UK, this opinion piece considers the logic of
‘decoupling’ that underlies it. It also looks at the real opportunities
to improve on the current extraordinarily durable high-price system for
publishing long-form research. Thinking around decoupled monograph
publishing has positioned academic authors as the individual consumers
of diverse publishing services (a wide array of which are fast emerging)
in the face of significant scholarly caution. Furthermore, a danger of
renewed market dominance by price-makers in an open access environment
remains, with the risk of inequitable outcomes that may mirror problems
that have arisen in journals. Opportunities may also arise for new local
initiatives, especially collective and community-based publishing, with
academic libraries likely to be in the middle of a fast-changing and
contested environment for publishing monographs.
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