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Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors

2025-09-03
On: September 3, 2025
In: Book authors, boOkmArks
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Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an open access (OA) book? Join this free online event which brings together researchers funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to talk about their experiences with OA book publishing.Read More →

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Open access book policies: The author’s experience

2024-09-09
On: September 9, 2024
In: Book authors, PALOMERA
With: 2 Comments

Wednesday 2 October, 14:00-15:00 BST / 15:00-16:00 CEST Register for the webinar At this free online event, we will hear from four authors about their experiences of publishing an open access (OA) book, and how they navigated policy mandates to publish OA.  Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University), Arturs LoginsRead More →

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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 →

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

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

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Voices from the OA Books Community Summary: The Great Polyphony

2021-07-22
On: July 22, 2021
In: Book authors, Discovery, funding OA books, Libraries, Metadata, OA press, OABN update, Voices from the Community

At the end of May 2021 the most significant series of events hosted by the Open Access Books Network so far, Voices from the OA Books Community, came to an end. The series, initiated in November 2020 at the OPERAS conference, was devoted to exploring different aspects of policy forRead More →

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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
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