October 2021 – Open Access Books Network

Open Access Book Programs: Answering Libraries’ Questions

On: October 27, 2021

By Sharla Lair (Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, LYRASIS) The library community is looking for new ways to use the funds they steward to open more scholarly content. There are fairly established strategies for funding open access (OA) journals, but many librarians have been asking: WhatRead More →

Who you gonna call? OA Mythbusters

On: October 25, 2021

In: Discovery, funding OA books, Libraries, OA Mythbusters, OA press

For this year’s Open Access Week, the Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to introduce its latest video series: ‘The OA Mythbusters’. Through this video series the OABN community seeks to dispel a number of key myths around OA books. In these short videos, common statements will be addressedRead More →