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On: July 13, 2023

In: OABN update

Introducing Silke Davison

On: June 29, 2023

In: OABN update

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Setting up an Institutional Open Press: First steps

On: June 23, 2023

In: Publisher Spotlight

Using Open Monograph Press for open access book publishing at Scottish institutions

On: June 14, 2023

In: Publisher Spotlight

Athena Unbound: An interview with Peter Baldwin

On: June 14, 2023

In: copyright, funding OA books, interview

The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans - Columbia Journalism Review September 17, 2025
"US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of expression is at best uncertain. The list includes the Follett Corporation ($2.8 billion in annual revenues), Clarivate ($2.6 billion), EBSCO Industries ($3.1 billion), KKR ($22.7 billion), […]
Research Associate in Open Book Futures. End of play: 26 September 2025 | Loughborough University September 17, 2025
Job title Research Associate in Open Book Futures Job reference REQ250824 Date posted 10/09/2025 Application closing date 26/09/2025 Location Loughborough Package Specialist and Supporting Academic grade 6 from £35116 to £45413 per annum. Subject to annual pay award. Job description School of Design and Creative Arts Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access […]
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 […]