This resource matching worksheet asks learners to match a goal to the appropriate open scholarship infrastructure or information resource. It was created to accompany the curated list ‘Resources to Support Open Scholarship’ which is available at this link: https://doi.org/10.17613/nhf2-9a92

The range of resources available to researchers who want to engage in more open research practices is expanding rapidly. These resources are being created by communities that are passionate about open access, open science, open infrastructures, and research practices that reflect the values of research communities, and include diverse…[Read more]

Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions of scholarly publishing is built on economic principles, explicit or implicit. Can we afford open access (OA)? How do we pay for high‐quality services? Why does it cost so much? In this article, we argue that the sterility of much of this debate is a result of failure t…[Read more]

This white paper was prepared by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage:
Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors are: Brian O’Leary (BISG) and Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas). The project team, who contributed editing and
improvements, include C…[Read more]

This document is an extract from the report Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data, which forms part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework.

Attendee agenda associated with an invitation-only workshop held in Tribecca, NY on December 3-4 2018. The workshop involved key stakeholders in OA eBooks and formed part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework.

This report was prepared by KU Research as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework. Primary authors were: Cameron Neylon, Lucy Montgomery, Nic Suzor, Joanne Gray and Alkim Ozaygen. The project team, who contributed editing and improvements, included Kevin Hawkins (University of…[Read more]

On 19 June 2013 Knowledge Unlatched and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School jointly convened a one-day workshop titled Open Access and Scholarly Books in Cambridge, MA. The workshop brought together a group of 21 invited publishers, librarians, academics and Open Access innovators to discuss the challenge of making…[Read more]

This chapter explores how and why copyright’s role is expanding and changing in China,
focusing on recent developments in digital content markets. It considers the impact of
uneven media sector reform processes on the emergence of ‘born digital’ copyright
industries in China. There are signs that the commercial benefits of copyright
com…[Read more]

What is it about?
This report explores the extent to which Open Access (OA) specialist scholarly books can be seen by the communities that might make use of them. It also identifies the key challenges that will need to be tackled in order to ensure that OA books are fully integrated into digital landscapes of scholarship; as well as the steps…[Read more]

This document is a report prepared for the JSTOR Presses project “Exploring Usage of Open Access Books via the JSTOR Platform”.
JSTOR’s Open Access Books platform launched in October 2016. The first four publishers to submit content to the platform were UCL Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press and California University P…[Read more]