OA Mythbusters

News from the Open Access Books Network: forthcoming events, a new look for the website and more

On: October 14, 2022

September is over, the leaves are turning and the OABN coordinators can no longer pretend that it’s still summer – so we write with updates and announcements for the autumn! These include forthcoming events on OA usage data, the Gutenberg Project, and OA books on climate change, as well asRead More →

Who you gonna call? OA Mythbusters

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 →

Publizieren in der Medienwissenschaft — Andreas Kirchner über Open Access als Standard | Open Media Studies December 5, 2022
by Andreas Kirchner englisch version via gTranslate: I recently noticed that the editors of the journal MEDIENwissenschaft: Reviews | Reviews has started to specifically mark Open Access publications that are subject to review - a clear indication of a change in media studies publication practice. In book list 4/22, 64 out of 186 titles, a […]
How would you describe yourself? | OAPEN Blog December 5, 2022
by Ronald Snijder Almost everyone has at one time or another been asked to describe themselves. For the books and chapters in OAPEN and DOAB this happens all the time: many libraries, publishers and content aggregators want to know exactly what is in our collection. In order to answer these questions, we provide daily updated […]
De Gruyter launches not-for-profit foundation: De Gruyter eBound | De Gruyter December 5, 2022
De Gruyter, independent scholarly publisher and founder of the University Press Library distribution model, is launching De Gruyter eBound, a not-for-profit foundation, in the United States. The initiative’s goal is to support the publishing, sustainability, and accessibility of mission-driven scholarly monographs for not-for-profit and Open Access publishers. Among other planned activities, De Gruyter eBound will […]
How would you describe yourself? – OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic books December 5, 2022
How would you describe yourself? We have updated our MARCXML and ONIX feeds, in order to better disseminate the books and chapters in our collections. Almost everyone has at one time or another been asked to describe themselves. For the books and chapters in OAPEN and DOAB this happens all the time: many libraries, publishers […]
SCOAP3 launches open books program – SCOAP3 December 2, 2022
"The world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³), has officially launched a new initiative to make books in particle physics and related domains fully open access, under the SCOAP³ for Books program. Since the launch of SCOAP³ in 2014, the transition to open access for […]