o SAS Publishing: books and monographs

Publishing: books and monographs

The School published over 30 Table 18 - SAS Publications

monographs, edited collections Types of Scholarly works 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 and other scholarly works, with Monographs 24 21 26 over 50 different ISBNs (different Edited Books 28 27 28 product formats of the same Other Scholarly works 6 2 3 work). Over 70% (same as last year) of the School’s titles were single disciplinary focused. Other scholarly works include reviews, research aids and primary resources.The distribution otherwise is fairly similar across the last two years.

2015-16 9 12 7

The number of publications produced in eBook form increased: in 2018-19, 45% of the overall electronic published works were ebooks, compared to 36% in 2017-18 (39% in 2016- 17 or 25% in 2015-16z. The number of items published as Open Access remained steady, at 21% of the total in 2018-19, compared to 26% in 2017-18.

Publication sales (the numbers of copies of frontlist titles (those published during the 2018-19 academic year) sold has decreased by 22%: 705 copies were sold in 2018-19 compared to 905 copies 2017-18 and 862 in 2016-17. This can be largely attributed to books being held back for publication under the new University of London Press imprint in autumn 2019. However, Institutes sold over 2,200 backlist titles in 2018-19, compared to 1,826 in 2017-18 (a 21% increase). This was due to a couple of titles coming out very late in the 2017-18 year meaning that their initial sales were recorded as backlist sales for 2018-19.

The number of views and downloads of the School’s open access publications (avaialble either via SAS-Space, JSTOR or the Humanities Digital Library) is Fig 22: Number of Downloads of SAS impressive, with over 151k record views. OA publications

The Humanities Digital Library 1 , is a cross-institute initiative which allows the School to publish new titles, through its 27908 31053 HDL open access programmes, as well as open SAS‐Space access versions of books previously Jstor available only in print. Each bookis available as a PDF (full text) but can also 7514 be purchased in print (hardback and paperback) or as an E-book (EPUB format). The library currently holds 44 titles (compared to 26 recorded in the previous year), including monographs, edited collections and shorter form works. For its second year running, the platform doubled the number of unique users, while the number of pages and visits more than tripled:

1 http://humanities-digital-library.org