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Engage with PALOMERA via the OABN!

2023-03-02
On: March 2, 2023
In: funding OA books, OABN update, PALOMERA, Voices from the Community

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 →

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 →

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 →

Open Access Book Programs: Answering Libraries’ Questions

2021-10-27
On: October 27, 2021
In: funding OA books, Libraries

By Sharla Lair (Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, LYRASIS) The library community is looking for new ways to use the funds they steward to open more scholarly content. There are fairly established strategies for funding open access (OA) journals, but many librarians have been asking: WhatRead More →

Who you gonna call? OA Mythbusters

2021-10-25
On: October 25, 2021
In: Discovery, funding OA books, Libraries, OA Mythbusters, OA press

For this year’s Open Access Week, the Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to introduce its latest video series: ‘The OA Mythbusters’. Through this video series the OABN community seeks to dispel a number of key myths around OA books. In these short videos, common statements will be addressedRead More →

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