The recording of our conversation with Jeff yesterday is available here: https://youtu.be/wyzb1BJi8AU

Thanks to Jeff for such an interesting session, and to everyone who attended!

We’ll be announcing the next boOkmArks sessions in the near future. If you have an idea for a session, you can contact us at info@oabooksnetwork.org.

Hi all, on Tuesday next week (26th Jan) at 3pm GMT the latest boOkmArks talk is taking place: I’ll be speaking to Jefferson Pooley, professor of media & communication at Muhlenberg College and director of mediastudies.press, about his experiences founding an academic-led, Open Access book publisher w/a BPC-free, library partnership model & a…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing, Kathi — I’ll tweet this out from the OABN account.

The recording of yesterday’s discussion with Demmy Verbeke about the KU Leuven Fair OA Fund is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUkUloCpWs&feature=youtu.be

Well worth catching up with if you couldn’t make it!

Hi all — we have another boOkmArks talk next week on Tuesday at 3pm UK time (4pm CET, 10am ET) speaking to Demmy Verbeke about the KU Leuven Fair OA Fund: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2020/12/01/financing-change-ku-leuvens-fair-oa-fund/

Details in the post above, all welcome as ever! It should be an interesting…[Read more]

More boOkmArks talks scheduled for November and December (including one next week):

10 November (3pm GMT / 4pm CET / 10am ET): Pierre Mounier (Associate Director of Open Edition and Coordinator of OPERAS) discusses the OPERAS-P project.  • Blog post • Event link

23 November (3pm GMT / 4pm CET / 10am ET): Martin Eve (Professor of Lite…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>An interview with the COPIM project about open infrastructure: https://www.force11.org/blog/infrastructure-series-open-access-books</p>

Just a quick reminder that the next boOkmArk event is TOMORROW at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST; we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!

Just to follow up here (and not intended to hijack the thread) but does anyone know if there has been an effort to collate a resource that sets out publisher policies on this issue? We had a question about OA books and doctoral theses at the Frankfurt Book Fair panel on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit, and it’s sparked a discussion on Twitter…[Read more]

Hi Hans,

This is possibly not what you’re after, but I did find a list of resources from UKRIO about this topic: https://ukrio.org/research-integrity-resources/research-integrity-resources/open-access-and-doctoral-theses/

Hopefully others will have something more longform/authoritative (thanks for flagging that manual; I hadn’t come across it…[Read more]

The next boOkmArk event is next week! On Tuesday October 20th at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!