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February 2024

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Open access book publishing: a series editor writes

2024-02-20
On: February 20, 2024
In: Book authors
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In this post, Geoffrey Khan explains why he wanted his book series to be published open access, without charges to authors, and the success that the series has had.Read More →

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  • Solving the equity gap in open access with Bloomsbury Open Collections - Research Information September 12, 2025
    "Bloomsbury Open Collections for open access books. Our aim is to provide a route for Bloomsbury monographs to publish open access without the need for author-side fees, and thus to offer a more equitable and inclusive open access option. We launched the programme at the start of 2023 and are now in our third year. Read […]
  • ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards - ACLS September 12, 2025
    "The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023."
  • Harvard Library Shares the Public Domain: Unlocking Centuries of Knowledge for AI and Research | Harvard Library September 11, 2025
    "This year, Harvard Library made its Public Domain Corpus available to the public for research, teaching, learning, and creative activities. Kyle K. Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy at Harvard Library, explains what the corpus is and why it’s an important public access resource.... The HLPD Corpus is a dataset of nearly one million digitized public domain […]
  • Update on OBC's First Collective Development Fund award: Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books | Open Book Collective Information Hub September 10, 2025
    by Abdulsalami Kovo, Omo Oaiya, and Judith Fathallah   The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a second update from the first project awarded from our Collective Development Fund, titled ‘Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books’. Hosted at the Federal University of Technology Minna (FUTMinna), this project is establishing a sustainable […]
  • Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata | ALPSP Blog September 10, 2025
    This year, the judges have selected four finalists for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The finalists will be showcased in a lightning presentation session at the ALPSP Conference on 10 September, with the winners announced at the ALPSP Conference Awards Dinner. In this series, we learn more about each of the finalists and their entries.   […]

RSS OA Books News – via Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)

  • Solving the equity gap in open access with Bloomsbury Open Collections - Research Information
  • ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards - ACLS
  • Harvard Library Shares the Public Domain: Unlocking Centuries of Knowledge for AI and Research | Harvard Library
  • Update on OBC's First Collective Development Fund award: Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books | Open Book Collective Information Hub
  • Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata | ALPSP Blog

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