An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece’s “addresses” in his book “The Clerk’s Tale: Poems” (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson’s work on the “apostrophe” in her book chapter “Toys R Us,” in her book “Persons and Things” (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman’s…[Read more]

This interview is one of the outputs of the online series OA Books Workouts: Scholars at Work, a project of the Open Access Books Network. The aim of the series is to share good practices regarding the writing, production, and technicalities of publishing an open access book.

The Open Access Books Network is an open network for anyone…[Read more]

The document presents a summary of the Voices From the Open Access Books Community sessions: a series of virtual workshops in which the OA books community discussed how a possible Plan S for books could look like.

Library publishing is continually shaped by the goals of their parent institutions as well as outside organizations, namely the commercial publishing oligopoly. The emergence of “transformative agreements” (“TAs”) represents a new relationship between universities and commercial journal publishers. However, the motivations behind these agreeme…[Read more]

Uncensored, pre-COVID-19 musings on “transformative agreements” and scholarly communication in two parts:
♦ Part One: Reflections on “Transformative Agreements”
♦ Part Two: Scholarly Communication Freedom Dreams