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Lucy Barnes

News from the Open Access Books Network: forthcoming events, a new look for the website and more

2022-10-14
On: October 14, 2022
In: OA Mythbusters, OABN update

September is over, the leaves are turning and the OABN coordinators can no longer pretend that it’s still summer – so we write with updates and announcements for the autumn! These include forthcoming events on OA usage data, the Gutenberg Project, and OA books on climate change, as well asRead More →

‘Copyright Flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering’: workshop invitation

2022-08-30
On: August 30, 2022
In: copyright

Dear OABN members, On behalf of the H2020 project reCreating Europe and COMMUNIA, we would like to invite the OABN community to the expert workshop on “Copyright Flexibilities: mapping, explaining, empowering”, which will be held in a hybrid format at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam andRead More →

Open café for small university presses: an update

2022-02-04
On: February 4, 2022
In: funding OA books, Metadata, OA press, OABN update

Last week, around 20 people from a number of presses[1] gathered online to meet one another and discuss key areas of interest for small university presses publishing Open Access books—particularly those areas in which collaborative problem-solving, information-sharing, collective action or mutual support might be valuable. We identified the following inRead More →

“Just doing it”: Five Talks on Digital Scholarship and Open Book Publishing

2022-01-26
On: January 26, 2022
In: Book authors, OA Workouts

By Jeroen Sondervan, Utrecht University Library In this post, Jeroen Sondervan reflects on the OA Workouts: Scholars at Work series he hosted for the Open Access Books Network, discussing what we learned and what others might draw from these examples of open scholarship. If you are interested in hosting aRead More →

Small university presses and OA books: come and join us!

2022-01-17
On: January 17, 2022
In: funding OA books, Metadata, OA press, OABN update

This year at the OABN, among other topics we want to focus on the challenges that small university presses face when publishing OA books — either in addition to a closed-access list, or as an entirely OA press. The issues faced by smaller university presses when publishing OA are oftenRead More →

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