Hi John, Hi Lucy,

Many thanks to you both! The archiving approach described by Lucy and Sebastian sounds to be a good way forward (and I’ll drop Ellen a quick email as I’d be keen to hear her perspective too – thanks).

All best,

Emma

Hi Emma,

My colleague Laura at OBP confirms that our approach is similar to Sebastian’s. We:

– Archive old editions (and state ‘Archived’ on the title. See: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1096)
– Delete prices and purchase options to avoid readers purchasing an edition that is not up to date.
– Provide back and forward links between…[Read more]

Hi Emma,

My colleague at UNC Press, Ellen Bush, has some experience with this if you wanted a university-press perspective. She can be reached at Ellen.bush@uncpress.org.

John Sherer

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks so much – this is really helpful!

All best,

Emma

Hi Emma,

see here:

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/144

Former versions are available for reference. We provide back and forward links between the versions. Superseded book have a different cover image. We strive to have backlinks in the DOIs as well. We…[Read more]

Hi Eric, again short answer (above a certain number of characters or links my postings here unfortunately don’t seem to work): yes, we use Pandoc among others. See https://gitlab.com/sciflow/development/-/milestones and for technical questions or cooperations best contact Mr. Eichler or Mr. Borchert.

Hm somehow the posting here doesn’t work. Here in the absolutely rudimentary version: I would like to ask all publishers and editors who may be represented here in ‘Open infrastructure for OA books’ (commercial, institutional, professional societies, OJS/OMP series, series via repositories, etc.) to answer the survey on further requirements…[Read more]

A post from Dr Mayank Trivedi (https://hcommons.org/members/librarianhml/):

Hello, I am Dr Mayank Trivedi, working as University Librarian at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(https://www.msubaroda.ac.in/). Smt. Hansa Mehta Library(http://www.hmlibrary.ac.in/) is the second-largest University Library of India.

My more details can be…[Read more]

Hi Kevin. Thanks for linking to the OATP tag library for “oa.dei”.

FYI, here’s the OATP tag library for the conjunction “oa.dei AND oa.publishers”:

http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.dei+%23oa.publishers

OATP supports deep links like this to any boolean combination of tags. If you write me directly (peter.suber@gmail.com)…[Read more]

This is a rather old article, but might be useful:
Do developing countries profit from free books? : Discovery and online usage in developed and developing countries compared
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2013-11 | journal-article DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.103

John, you might mine http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.dei for useful sources.  I wish you could browse OATP by more than one tag at a time (all “oa.dei” and “oa.publishers”, for example), but I can’t figure out a way to do that.  Happy digging!