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Private sector Engagement

PublishOER - Rightscom

Publishers

ALTO UK - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., Bright Lemon Ltd.

HALSOER - Oxford University Press

ORBIT - Cambridge International Examinations, Cambridge University Press -re publishing a course book - successful negotiations with Cambridge University Press in this respect and they have indicated their support for this work.

PublishOER - Elsevier - A scenario document had been produced (‘straw man’ scenarios) to use with publishers to raise awareness of open publishing and test possible approaches to new business models. An initial base line evaluation report had been produced to inform the partnership. An online permission request system was being specified and developed, and Elsevier sample content was being tested for high speed conversion to other formats and online access.  The partners were very committed to the project.

"Major changes in publishing have occurred in the past 6 months with the announcement of Apple iBooks and other publishing activities. The publisher involved in PublishOER has been faced with considerable press attention, relating primarily to journal publishing and the rise of open publishing."

A series of interviews had been carried out in February/March 2012 with representatives from the project partners.  Questions were framed in order to gain a baseline of information about why the partners became involved in the project, and what, in their opinion, is important about the project.

There was a commonality of views given by publishers and academics alike (and polarised as to whether the project was likely to change practice), even though interviewees had different perspectives.

PublishOER partners were aware of the changing landscape, i.e. SOPA, Apple’s announcements and changing business practices, especially in regard to Elsevier and both the SOPA and Research Works Acts. Elsevier were not trying to restrict public access to journals/articles, but they did need to look at the situation from a sustainable perspective. Many of the arguments that had been raised (especially regarding the Research Works Act) were around government policies that make the sustainability of a publishing model unclear. The project was aware of sensitivities. Elsevier agreed to involved their permissions departments and legal advisers, as appropriate.

Digital Literacy and Creativity (OMAC) - Core Education (not for profit commercial partner)

Industry

CORE-SET - Materials e-Learning Technologies Ltd (MeLT), Sellafield Ltd, TWI, Ceram, Exova, Kalzip, 

REACTOR

SMEs

REACTOR -offered a variety of information to input to the resources and also act as tester and users of final resources - saw the value of them to support sales people explaining technical aspects to customers and for staff training.   Green Energy Solutions, Invest In Doncaster, Daikin, HRP Technical, Danfoss Heatpumps, Polypipe, Magnomatics,Frank Halsam Milan,

Opening up a future in Business  - SMEs as contributors (filmed interviews)