The Open Access Books Network is a space for passionate conversations about OA books. Researchers, publishers, librarians, infrastructure providers — indeed, anyone who is interested — can discuss any aspect of OA books here. This group was begun by members of OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and SPARC Europe.
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DISCUSSION — contribute to any of the discussion threads, or start your own!
SITE — check out our latest blog posts, and get in touch (info@oabooksnetwork.org) to propose a post on any aspect of OA books.
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DOCS — go here for collaborative documents on OA book projects and resources.
CONTACT: info@oabooksnetwork.org
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Lucy Barnes edited the post Financing change: KU Leuven’s Fair OA Fund in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 3 days, 8 hours agoThe author of this post, Demmy Verbeke (Head of KU Leuven Libraries Artes), also spoke with us about the KU Leuven Fair OA Fund at a ‘BoOkmArks: Open Conversations About OA Books’ event. A recording of our conversation is available here.
by Demmy Verbeke
If you want change, try something new.
This seems comically simple advice, but it is…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 days, 3 hours agoExciting opportunity — the University of Dundee are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Publishing Officer (Scottish Universities Open Access Press) within our Research and Resources Division, LLC&CI to implement a new Open Access University Press for Scotland:…[Read more]
Pablo Markin started the topic Open Access, Publishing Market Transformations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 days, 7 hours agoDear All,
The emergence of Open Access might be approached not only as a consequence of differentiation dynamics in the publishing market, but also as a likely response to the multidimensional contradictions and cross-cutting global pressures this market demonstrates:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes edited the post Our Events in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoThis page contains information about our events, including our boOkmArks series, our forthcoming talks and an archive of all our past events.
Sign up to hear about forthcoming events via our Mailing List.
Forthcoming events
OA BOOKS WORKOUTS: SCHOLARS AT WORK
This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days agoThis job application window has been extended — OBP are still looking for a software engineer, so please share far and wide!
Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Crossref Event: Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThanks for sharing Charles. Just registered as this can be quite relevant for us here to participate in! Tom
Charles Watkinson started the topic Crossref Event: Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThe Crossref Books Advisory Group is holding a free webinar on “Fixing the Information Supply Chain for Scholarly ebooks – Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices.” It’s not solely about OA ebooks, but of course OA sheds a stark light on some of the current issues. The date is Tuesday October 19, 11-12:30 pm ET / 4:00 – 5:30 pm BST / 5:00 – 6:30…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoOpen Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer to support our development of open source infrastructure for open access book publishing. 18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-30k. Closing date 26 September. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/37/1
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoTaylor and Francis are looking for a Partnership Development Manager for Open Access books, and a Content Development Manager for Open Access books. Closing date 26…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes edited the post A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoUPDATE AUGUST 2021: a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S.
What should a Plan S for books look like? This is a question we’ve been thinking about at the O…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoHi all, a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. We note that cOAlition S have recognised the OABN as a useful forum for community engagement in their statement…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic How to use the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoHi all,
Just a quick note to flag that we’ve switched off the Events calendar function on the site. People weren’t engaging with it, so instead of spending time updating it we’ll be focused on coordinating talks and workshops, fostering discussion, and making more people aware of this network. Anyone interested in a calendar of OA events might…[Read more]
Pablo Markin started the topic OERs, Benefits and Perceptions in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoDear All,
In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]
Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoFYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]
Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoDear All,
Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]
Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 months agoHi Philippa, I’d be happy to discuss this — at OBP we have been approached by people interested in translating our OA books and I could talk through how we deal with this. Essentially, if the book is licensed CC BY then anyone can produce a translation as long as appropriate attribution is given, although it would also be best practice to say…[Read more]
Philippa Grand started the topic OA and translations in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 months agoI have a question about OA and translations and wonder if anyone has any expertise in this area and if they would mind if I got in touch? At BUP we are discussing whether we might publish an English edition of an OA book originally published in German, but I don’t know if there is any best practice here or how best to approach it, and have…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 3 months agoHi all: the summaries from our Voices from the OA Books Community series are now available (thanks to the support of SPARC Europe) and will remain open until 12 August: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2021/07/22/voices-from-the-oa-books-community-summary-the-great-polyphony/
Many thanks to all who contributed to the sessions!
Agata Morka wrote a new post Voices from the OA Books Community Summary: The Great Polyphony in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 3 months agoAt 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 […]
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Thank you for this much-needed initiative. This blog posts mentions “a list of books which have thus appeared, together with their readershap data, is available https://www.kuleuven.be/open-science/what-is-open-science/scholarly-publishing-and-open-access/open-access-kuleuven/fairoabooks/fair-oa-books”
I was wondering where the readership data…[Read more]
Thanks. I found another blog post of ours which also deals with the book downloads vs. chapter downloads problem. You can find it here: https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/08/12/access-stats-for-open-access-books/
Hi Sebastian,
Sorry – only saw your question now.
The overview of the subsidized books is on https://www.kuleuven.be/open-science/what-is-open-science/scholarly-publishing-and-open-access/open-access-kuleuven/fairoabooks/overviewfairoabooks/overview-fair-OA-books. Readership data are only gathered after a while, so the first 8 books don’t have…[Read more]