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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 →

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 →

A platform for inclusivity

2021-02-23
On: February 23, 2021
In: boOkmArks, funding OA books, Libraries, OA press, Uncategorized

An conversation with Dr. Reggie Raju (Director of Research and Learning Services) & Jill Claassen (Scholarly Communications & Research), both from the University of Cape Town Libraries, took place in March 2021 to discuss this post about a continental platform for open research in Africa. The recording of the eventRead More →

Open Access books and [in]discoverability: a library perspective

2021-02-11
On: February 11, 2021
In: Discovery, Libraries, Metadata

By Jayne Kelly (Ebooks Administrator, Collections and Academic Liaison Department, Cambridge University Library) and Clara Panozzo (Latin American & Iberian Collections, Collections and Academic Liaison Department, Cambridge University Library) During the COVID-19 pandemic, two colleagues from different areas within the Collections and Academic Liaison department at Cambridge University Library haveRead More →

RSS Open Access Tracking Project – oa.books news

  • Book launch: "We so loved Open Access" | SciELO 25 Years September 27, 2023
    Coordinator: Jan Velterop Editor: Leila Posenato Garcia Authors: Abel Packer; Peter Suber; Robert Kiley; Rob Terry; Ginny Barbour; Martin Paul Eve; Melissa Hagemann; Subbiah Arunachalam; Bernard Rentier; David Prosser; Hélène Bosc; Susan Veldsman; John Willinsky; Dominique Babini; Jan Velterop Year: 2023 ISBN: 978-65-993452-6-5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21452/abec.2023.isbn.978-65-993452-6-5   Synopsis The SciELO Program was created in the late […]
  • Open access | Journals | Oxford Academic September 24, 2023
    "Open access (OA) is a key part of how Oxford University Press (OUP) supports our mission to achieve the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. We work closely with our publishing partners to ensure that we offer open access in a sustainable way that supports research publications for their communities and OUP offers authors an […]
  • Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist - The Scholarly Kitchen September 22, 2023
    "Developing sustainable open access book publishing models is particularly important for university presses which see the benefits of increased dissemination, but already operate under razor-thin margins, and subscribe to open models have gained traction in recent years. To gather evidence that we hope will provide new options for open access models, with generous support from […]
  • OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Quality Community Consultation September 22, 2023
    OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Quality Community Consultation Provide your feedback by the 15th of October via this form: https://forms.gle/3yRb7QfcodndHiTW9 About our work: This effort enables the community-governed sharing of quality, interoperable, Open Access (e)Book Usage (OAEBU) data. Our governance abides by Guiding Principles for OA Book Usage Data Services as we develop […]
  • Job: Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer, Opening The Future. Applications invited by Oct 08, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London September 20, 2023
    COPIM is reshaping how knowledge dissemination is funded and accessed. Do you want to be part one of the most ambitious and impactful projects working in open access scholarly publishing today? Your role will encompass three main areas:  engagement and outreach;  revenue model analysis and implementation;  creating an OA books information hub. You will take […]

RSS OA Books News – via Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)

  • Book launch: "We so loved Open Access" | SciELO 25 Years
  • Open access | Journals | Oxford Academic
  • Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist - The Scholarly Kitchen
  • OA Book Usage Data Trust | Data Quality Community Consultation
  • Job: Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer, Opening The Future. Applications invited by Oct 08, 2023 | Birkbeck, University of London

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