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UCL LIBRARY SERVICES

UCL's Special Collections andUCL’s new publishing activitiesin an Internet age

Dr Paul Ayris

Director of UCL Library Services and UCL Copyright OfficerChief Executive, UCL PressAdviser to LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) on EU

matters and Horizon 2020Chair of the LERU community of Chief Information Officerse-mail: [email protected]


Contents

1. UCL SpecialCollections

2. UCL SpecialCollections – thefuture

3. UCL Press as anOpen Access press

4. Next Steps

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Plaster Relief by John Flaxman, Flaxman Gallery, UCL


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2. UCL SpecialCollections – Plans forthe Future

3. UCL Press as anOpen Access Press

4. Next Steps

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What does UCL hold?

One of the foremostuniversity collections ofmanuscripts, archives andrare books in the UK

7 kilometres of material

Medieval manuscripts andarchives

Early printed books,notably from the C.K.Ogden Collection andGraves Library

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Antiphonal (Fragment) 15th century


What does UCL hold?

Highly important 19th and20th century collections ofpersonal papers, archivalmaterial, and literature,covering a vast range ofsubject areas Anglo-Jewish materials

George Orwell Archive

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George Orwell, 1903-1950


Illuminated Bible13th or 14th cent.,Italy

Biblia LatinaLatin. 626 leaves.360 x 235 mm

MS. LAT. 9

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Jewish ServiceBook, 13th or 14th

cents, Spain

Castilian HaggadahHebrew. 58 leaves.242 x 188 mm

MS. MOCATTA 1


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Battlefield surgery

Hans Von Gersdorff,Feldtbuch derWundartzney(Strassburg: HansSchotten, 1530)

S R C 1530 G2


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Human Anatomy

Andreas Vesalius, Dehumani corporis fabricalibri septem

2nd ed.(Basileae:IoannemOporinum,1555)

S R C Folio1555 V28


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Views of themagnified world

Robert Hooke,Micrographia, or somephysiological descriptionsof minute bodies made bymagnifying glasses: withobservations and inquiriesthereupon

(London: printed by Jo.Martyn and Ja. Allestry,1665)

S R E Quarto 900 H6(1)


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Volcanoes

Sir William Hamilton(ed), Campi Phlegraei,Observations on theVolcanos of the twoSicilies, as they havebeen communicated tothe Royal Society

(Naples: [s.n.], 1776)

SR Johnston Lavis1776 H1


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Birds

John Gould, A Centuryof Birds from theHimalaya Mountains

(London: published bythe author, 1831)

S R E Folio 920 G6/1-4


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The firstoperation underether

Robert Liston, PatientCase Register,University CollegeHospital, 1846

380 x 240 mm

UCH/MED/H/MR/1/1846


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The classicdescription of thestruggle for life

Charles Darwin, On theOrigin of Species byMeans of NaturalSelection

(London: John Murray,1859)

Galton/1/5/2


Darwin did not keep themanuscript of this work

This single sheet is a faircopy in brown ink on bluepaper

It corresponds closely, withminor changes in proof, tothe printed text, which is inChapter VI, page 203

The book was published on24 November 1859

Pearson/10/2-3

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Paris literary andtheatrical worlds

67 manuscript letters ofEmile Zola, 1864-1885

221 x 170 mmMS Ogden 95


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4. Next Steps

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Digitisation

9 Digital Collections beingmade available by UCLLibrary Services

See http://digitool-b.lib.ucl.ac.uk:8881/R

Opening up materials tonew audiences

Helps preserves theoriginals by directing usersto digital surrogates

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Jeremy Bentham1748-1832

Bentham was the founderof the modern doctrine ofutilitarianism, a seminalfigure in legal philosophy, amajor theorist ofrepresentative democracy,and the originator ofcontemporary notions ofsurveillance through hispanopticon prison scheme

UCL’s collection consists ofaround 60,000 folios,arranged into 174 boxes

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Slavonic and EastEuropeanmaterials fromUCL SSEES

Travel Books

Historic Maps

Arthur Evans Archive

Funded by EU fundingin EuropeanaTravelproject

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A new map of the Kingdom of Hungaryand of the countries, provinces etc.bordering thereupon.London: Iohn Senex, c. 1725


George Orwell

Manuscripts andtypescripts

Literary Notebooks

Spanish Civil Warmaterials

Notebooks and diaries

Letters

Personalia

Photographs

Books covers

Journalism24


Typescript of 1984 with corrections

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CHOSU 5

In 1863, five young Samuraistudents of the Choshu clanwere smuggled out of Japanand travelled to England

At this time, Japan was aclosed society, where travelabroad was a capital offence

Itō Shunsuke (later ItoHirobumi) became Japan’sfirst Prime Minister in 1885

He established the cabinetsystem of government inJapan and drafted theconstitution of 1890

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Stavros NiarchosFoundation DigitalLibrary

The collection containsrare books and artworks related to Greekhistory, archaeology andculture which are madeavailable online for thefirst time Euclid materials

Archaeology materials

Flaxman collection

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28John Flaxman. Monument to the Baring Family.c. 1806

Euclid, Elementa.(Vicenza: Leonardus Achates de Basilea and Gulielmus de Papia,13 May 1491? or 20 June 1491?)Strong Room Euclid Quartos


Value of digital Special Collections

For libraries Early printed/manuscript

collections available to all

Supports UCL’s research-based learning agenda

Part of UCL 2034 Strategy

For users 24x7 access to a wealth of

content

New collaborations emerge

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Eleazar Albin: Albin’s plate of a Robin.London, 1738UCL. STRONG ROOM E QUARTO 920A5/1


Value of digitised Special Collections

For users Vast new research resources

are available to everyone

New forms of analysis arepossible using Text and DataMining techniques which arenot possible in a paper world

Helps fulfil the Science 2.0agenda

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Justinian’s ‘Pandects’. A parchment fragmentfrom the 14th century, consisting of one doublefolio leaf. UCL Library Services


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4. Next Steps

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UCL Publishing model

Journal publishing platform OJS (Open Journal Systems)

overlaying UCL Discovery asstorage layer

Research Monograph listbeing launched in 2014-15 Using Open Monograph Press

Textbook infrastructure Being constructed with JISC

project monies

Peer review will guaranteeacademic quality of outputs

Governance overseen byUCL Press Board 32

Open Access is anopportunity, not athreat

Publishing costs aremet by UCL (forUCL writers) or byauthors (if non-UCL)

Seehttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ucl-press


UCL Publishing Plans

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Year Books Journals Textbooks

Year 12014-15

6 5 hostedjournals2 publishedjournals

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Year 22015-16

15-20 6 hostedjournals4 publishedjournals

tbc

Year 32016-17

25-30 8 hostedjournals6 publishedjournals

tbc


UCL Publishing model

Open Access business model

Sales via Print onDemand/enhanced e-models

Books will be peer reviewedbefore publication

Innovative technical solutionsfor Monographs andTextbooks

Open up publishing to newcommunities

Global impact for theUniversity as an outcome

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A Box of Useful Knowledge

(Brougham Papers, UCL Library Services)


Monograph Publishing

Is Open Access a solution tobroken Business Model?

University Press takes onrole as monographpublisher

UK’s National MonographStrategy sees a role for OAmonographs

We need to be clear whatthe future of the scholarlymonograph is in a digitalworld

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UCL Special Collections, 15th century Book of Hours,with 19th century additions. MS. Lat. 25


The view from Arts and Humanities?

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http://blog.historians.org/2012/09/aha-statement-on-scholarly-journal-publishing/


Case Study – Shared Europeaninfrastructure for monographs?

19 European partners, led by UCL

European universities can becomepublishers themselves

Shared publishing infrastructurewith Open Access business models

Research monographs in the Arts,Humanities and Social Sciences

OAPEN to provide much of thetechnical infrastructure

Launched at UCL in December2013

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UCL Special Collections. Pentateuch,1666.STRONG ROOM MOCATTA Q B 12 TAR


Challenges for Text Books

Students want remote accessto core readings 24x7

In the US, just five textbookpublishers control more than80% of the $8.8 billiontextbook market

E-book publishers arenervous about making coursetexts available as e-books(free at the point of use) asthey do not want tocannibalize their print sales tostudents and lose revenue

38St Michael, by John Flaxman, UCL


Opportunities for Text Books

UCL academics, particularlyin Physical Sciences andEngineering, produce theirown textbooks

Open Access is a corevalue of UCL Press

Open Access to resourceswill be part of UCL’s newEducation Strategy

UCL’s International Strategywill also embrace OpenScholarship as an offeringto the global community

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COLLEGE COLLECTION PERSThe Centenary edition of the CollegeMagazine, June 1927


JISC Call - Institution as E-Text Bookpublisher

£75,000 awarded to UCL

To create an Open AccessE-Textbook publishingplatform To complement OJS for

journals and OMP formonographs

2 textbooks being deliveredas proof of concept

1 in Medical Sciences and1 in Social Sciences

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Public Archaeology

Course Book in PublicArchaeology

Will give overview based oncurrent undergraduate andpostgraduate teaching

Will take account of globalscholarship and practice

Target audience isundergraduates andpostgraduates

Lecturers in countries wherePublic Archaeology is agrowing field of practice 41


Plastic and Reconstructive surgery

Written by leading practitionerat Royal Free Hospital

Intended for MSc in Burns,Plastic and ReconstructiveSurgery

Will provide overview forstudents coming from a varietyof specialisms across the world

Course is only one of a handfulto train medics not only inpractice, but also in researchand innovation in materials andtechniques 42


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4. Next Steps

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Next Steps

Special Collectionsrepresent one of the greatassets of UCL

Digitisation opens upmaterials to newaudiences and helpspreserve originals

UCL is becoming apublisher

New role for researchlibraries in the 21st century

Old State House, Boston, USA


And Finally

Thanks forlistening

Happy to answerany questions

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