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Pablo Markin started the topic A journal publisher’s perspective in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoDear All,
In this post, Roger van Zwanenberg from Pluto Journals describes the context for its transition to Open Access, e.g., the decreasing viability of closed access, what decision-making options were available and the implications of the library-funded model, for journals as opposed to books:…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Japanese Mythology Syllabus in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoSyllabus for Japanese Mythology Spring 2021
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Gary Hall deposited A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTwo fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Eur…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi, great to see this article which ‘opens up’ the conversation and explores additional steps that could be taken – including books and chapters.
To add to Agata’s comments:
If there is indeed some level of agreement on the limitations and extent to which the Gold OA model, through a ‘Book-Processing-Charge (BPC)’ model, can work on a…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Ascetic Leader in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn this essay, I consider the ideal ascetic leader depicted in the Life of Moses attributed to Gregory of Nyssa: that leader is not a bishop, but a leader who has more experience with the day-to-day struggles of monks, particularly the kind of struggles described by Evagrius and writers influenced by him.
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoComments on proposed framewrok:
I think it would be worth thinking a bit more about what kind of OA you want to push for and integrate it with the proposed framework.
You already have a point about supporting business models other than these based on APCs, but there is no such consideration in the framework itself for books.
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Agata Morka started the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA brand new take on advancing OA in The Netherlands has just been published: https://zenodo.org/record/4455790#.YBGtRS1Q3s0. The authors reached out to the OABN for comments, so we are kicking off a discussion with first thoughts after having read the text.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe 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.
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Pablo Markin replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoYou are welcome Tom. Thanks for this feedback and greetings. The presence on the ORC has, indeed, been a mixed bag, but relatively consistent. I will do my best to target whatever posts I will be sharing in this list/area to book-related OA topics!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi 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]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing, Kathi — I’ll tweet this out from the OABN account.
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Kathi Inman Berens started the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMaster’s student student Olivia Rollins (Portland State University, Book Publishing) invites you to fill out a short survey (5-7 minutes) intended to measure the effects of the COVID pandemic on OA humanities publishing.
Access the survey here.
Thank you for taking time to fill out the survey and gather this knowledge.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Open Access, Public Goods and Market Players in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
The latest post at the Open Research Community discusses how the rise of Open Access is likely driven by market mechanisms affecting the scholarly publishing industry. As the post suggests, Open Access increases the possibilities for dynamic responses to shifts in aggregate supply and demand on the side of both institutions and…[Read more]
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A. Hilal Ugurlu deposited Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoFrom the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited A Non Philosophical Approach to the Sociology of Religious Pluralism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis paper follows Francois Laruelle’s non-philosophy and his non-religion and non-theology to suggest a non-philosophical approach to the sociology of religious pluralism. The entanglements of experiences of the religious end-user are analyzed vis-a-vis Laruelle’s thought and a dogma-free inclusive approach to religion is envisaged.
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 718 Topics in Buddhist Studies: Recent Scholarship McMaster University, Term II 2020–21 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCourse Description
In this seminar we shall read and discuss a selection of recent important works on and around Buddhism and material culture (in English). In addition we shall survey trends in recent Buddhist Studies scholarship produced in other languages (Chinese, Japanese, French, German, etc.). Students will be required to write regular,…[Read more] -
Sherri Barnes deposited The Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Project in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn an era of transformative open access journal agreements, the article examines the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project through a transformative lens. How might we apply transformativeness to open access monograph publishing? Is transformativeness measured in strictly financial and transactional terms, or…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing Pablo and congrats with this milestone and if I read it correctly over 1 post a day on average. Good luck with the ORC in 2021 and looking forward to seeing some OA-books related news pop-up from time to time!
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