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By Ivana Morić Filipović, Head of Publishing Department, University of Zadar In 2017, the University of Zadar launched Morepress, a digital publishing platform designed to support the innovative creation and dissemination of scholarly, educational, and professional publications in open access. The platform serves as part of the university’s publishing activitiesRead More →

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UN@ éditions: Rethinking Prestige in Open Access Scholarly Publishing 1. About the press UN@ éditions is a diamond open access publishing platform founded in 2019 through a collaboration between three universities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Limoges, and Université de Pau et des PaysRead More →

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Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing What does “prestige” really mean in scholarly book publishing, and who gets to define it? How does the value placed on the “prestige” of a press impact new publishers, many of which are forming in order to publish open access work? ForRead More →