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 →

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 […]