This post offers the network an update on PALOMERA’s activities as it passes its first six-month milestone, including information about the OABN’s PALOMERA Series of workshops, and gives details about new ways to get involved with PALOMERA via a survey and further events.Read More →
Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at UCLA, and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. He is also co-founder, with Lisbet Rausing, of Arcadia Fund, which supports work that promotes open access, and projects that preserve endangered culture and nature. Professor Baldwin’s latest publication, Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly KnowledgeRead More →
The Open Access Books Network (OABN) is working with the PALOMERA project, a two-year initiative funded by HORIZON Europe that seeks to investigate why so few Open Access (OA) funder policies include OA books, and to provide actionable recommendations to change this. We will be hosting a PALOMERA Series ofRead More →
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 →
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 →