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
TWITTER: @oabooksnetwork
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Martins Uze E. Tugbokorowei deposited Mangrove Forest Folklore and the Drama of J. P. Clark-Bekederemo in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThe drama of the Niger Delta region has enjoyed robust scholarship. This essay interrogates J. P. Clark-Bekederemo’s drama against the cultural milieu of the region and tries to investigate the connections between the rich folklore of the area and the wealth of poetry and imagery contained in his drama. The essay investigates the terrain,…[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 7 months, 1 week agoACLS is hiring a Project Manager, Higher Education Initiatives: Publishing Initiatives (2-year term) based in New York, to ‘focus on instigating changes in the book publishing ecosystem that would strengthen the goals of the mission-driven constituencies involved, while addressing the risk factors and constituents’ concerns that currently stand a…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Defund Culture in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 8 months agoThe spread of the Omicron variant this winter was met with renewed calls for the UK Government to fund the arts and culture through the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic and beyond. ‘We are in crisis mode’, Nicolas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, told the BBC’s Newsnight programme. ‘We need to see short-term finance, we need to see loa…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoHi all,
Sharing on behalf of the IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group: The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group is seeking proposals for 5-minute lightning talks to be presented at its Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoOpen Position: The OAPEN Foundation is looking for a Project Manager to help with promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books. Responsibilities include participation in project activities, supporting technical operations, services and assisting with financial administration of the foundation. Full-time…[Read more]
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Bonnie Russell replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months agoFantastic news!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months agoHi all, Tom, Agata and I are pleased to announce that the OABN has become an OPERAS Special Interest Group (SIG), and as such it is now formally supported by OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area.
The OABN will continue to…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd edited the post Open Access Books Network becomes an OPERAS Special Interest Group in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 10 months agoThe Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to share that it has become an OPERAS Special Interest Group (SIG), and as such it is now formally supported by OPERAS, the European Research Infrastructure […]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoI’ve been doing some more digging into accessibility resources and have found the following:
– Improving the Accessibility of your Mainstream Digital Content, which seems to be a wealth of resources from the Inclusive Publishing group, coordinated by the DAISY consortium: https://inclusivepublishing.org/about-the-inclusive-publishing-hub/
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Luca Baffa replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoAt OBP we have adapted our InDesign-based workflow to produce accessible EPUBs. So far it has been a mixture of adopting some new typesetting practices and doing some post-production work. It’s still a work in process, if anyone has comments on this I am all ears!
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Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoWe have recently discovered that pdfs produced with LaTeX have a certain treatment that does not interface well with common screenreaders for visually impaired people. Fixing this is actually a major project and will get pretty gory. We will not have the funds available at LangSci to do this on our own, but we might apply for some funding. If you…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis channel was set up after the Open Cafe discussion on the accessibility of OA books, at which a number of links were shared, so I will drop them here for future reference:
– EU directive on accessibility, coming into force in 2025: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882
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Lucy Barnes started the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis is a place to discuss or share information about any aspect of the accessibility of open access books: standards, technical solutions, negotiating with service providers, collective strategies, and more!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoNEW COLLECTION: Myself and François van Schalkwyk of African Minds have put together a collection of OA book publisher business models, with contributions from a number of presses. The collection is here: https://oabooksbusinessmodels.pubpub.org/
We’re keen to add to it, so if your press might be interested in contributing, take a look at the…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Dissertating in Public in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoKathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]
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Subaveerapandiyan A deposited Plagiarism Software is a Creator or Destroyer for Effective Writing in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 11 months agoPlagiarism is malpractice, the fabrication of others’ “ideas or work” published without the proper permission or
citation of the original contributors. Plagiarism is detected through different software, i.e., Turnitin, before publishing
any research data. The present survey study assesses whether academicians, researchers, and scholars aroun…[Read more] -
Jeroen Sondervan deposited “Just doing it”: Five Talks on Digital Scholarship and Open Book Publishing in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 12 months agoIn this post, Jeroen Sondervan reflects on the OA Workouts: Scholars at Work series he hosted for the Open Access Books Network, discussing what we learned and what others might draw from these examples of open scholarship.
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Christian Reinboth deposited DigiShop Harz – Dorfladen 2.0: Machbarkeitsstudie in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 12 months agoEine funktionierende Nahversorgung mit Lebensmitteln und Gütern des alltäglichen Bedarfs ist ein wesentlicher Gelingensfaktor für eine als zufriedenstellend empfundene Lebenssituation in ländlichen Räumen. Aufgrund des demografischen Wandels sowie der Abwanderung in die alten Bundesländer, ergeben sich insbesondere in ländlichen Räumen in den neu…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes edited the post Open café for small university presses: an update in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 12 months agoLast week, around 20 people from a number of presses[1] gathered online to meet one another and discuss key areas of interest for small university presses publishing Open Access books—particularly those areas i […]
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Lucy Barnes edited the post “Just doing it”: Five Talks on Digital Scholarship and Open Book Publishing in the group
Open Access Books Network: on Humanities Commons 1 year agoBy Jeroen Sondervan, Utrecht University Library
In this post, Jeroen Sondervan reflects on the OA Workouts: Scholars at Work series he hosted for the Open Access Books Network, discussing what we learned and what […]
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