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 →

Register now! COPIM "Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books" conference, April 20 & 21, 2023 @ online | Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) March 24, 2023
Save the date & register now! The Community-Led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) is happy to announce its Final Conference,“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, to take place online on April 20, 3.30-8.15pm (BST), and April 21, 3-7pm (BST). Full programme online at: https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org/programme-overview The Scaling Small philosophy (see e.g. […]
Register now! COPIM "Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books" conference, April 20 & 21, 2023 @ online | Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) March 24, 2023
Save the date & register now! The Community-Led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) is happy to announce its Final Conference,“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, to take place online on April 20, 3.30-8.15pm (BST), and April 21, 3-7pm (BST). Full programme online at: https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org/programme-overview The Scaling Small philosophy (see e.g. […]
Register now! COPIM "Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books" conference, April 20 & 21, 2023 @ online | Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) March 24, 2023
Save the date & register now! The Community-Led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) is happy to announce its Final Conference,“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, to take place online on April 20, 3.30-8.15pm (BST), and April 21, 3-7pm (BST). Full programme online at: https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org/programme-overview The Scaling Small philosophy (see e.g. […]
Job: Open Access Book Designer and Typesetter | Open Book Publishers March 24, 2023
Open Book Publishers, a non-profit open access academic publisher, is looking for a full-time Book Designer and Typesetter. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and typesetting open access books published by OBP. The duties will include formatting text, images and audio/visual files to create beautiful printed and digital books and covers, as well […]
Guest Post - Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It? - The Scholarly Kitchen March 23, 2023
"At the University of North Carolina Press, we recently completed a four-year initiative to support the publication of open access (OA) monographs by university presses in the discipline of history. Through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP)—generously funded by the Mellon Foundation — we published fifty-nine titles with nineteen different presses. SHMP was unique among OA initiatives […]