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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always played an important role in my life as windows into the world. My work at the OAPEN Foundation is an extension of that: I hope that others also have the same experience.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhDOAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlandsemail:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks in general are important to me: they have shaped who I am, from gruesome Grimm’s tales to Ocean Vuong’s hauntingly melancholic nail salon stories. My background is in HSS, in art and architectural history, which are disciplines heavily depending on monographs as research outputs. I strongly believe that making scholarly books, especially in…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩ to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩
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Agata Morka started the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn this discussion thread we are asking all our group members the same two big questions , in order to get to know them a bit better and understand what makes them tick when it comes to OA books.
WHY ARE OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IMPORTANT TO YOU?
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH OA BOOKS?
Please share your thoughts with us!
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate and provide information around business models for Open Access books. What business models are out there for Open Access books? How are these evolving and are there particular challenges that could be addressed to improve these?
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate discussion and conversation around metadata (developments) specifically for Open Access books.
Group members can ask questions on metadata for Open Access books, share news updates, come up with new ideas and initiatives for improving metadata for OA books and highlight industry developments or opportunities.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe Dutch Research Council / Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) introduces a continuous call for funding OA Books stemming from NWO-funded research.
More Information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2020/06/open-access-books-call-make-your-book-openly-accessible.html
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic covers new funding and policy developments for open access books. Group members are encouraged to post new developments within these two areas, sharing this with the wider open access book community.
When sharing new funding and policy developments please make sure to share a link/source where possible.
Feel free to ask any questions…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd uploaded the file: OAPEN OA Books Toolkit – Background Poster to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis is a poster presented as part of the OpenRepositories2020 Virtual Conference Session on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit will be hosted on its own platform and provide authors worldwide with a useful resource that helps them to better understand and increase trust in OA book publishing.
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Ismail Royer deposited Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims – Urdu in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThis is an Urdu translation of the work “Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims”
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Carrie Love started the topic Fellowship CfA: “Rethinking Premodern Jewish Legal Cultures” 2021-22 Katz Center in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoFellowship Opportunity
Application Deadline: October 12, 2020
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to open a call for applications for the first of two successive fellowship years devoted to Jews and the law:
Jews and the LawYear 1: Rethinking Premodern Jewish Legal…[Read more]
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Learning to differentiate between apparent synonyms in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoRabbi Reuven Chaim Klein shows us how to use the Hebrew language as a model for understanding the differences between similar words
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Are We Bodies or Souls Richard Swinburne Prabuddha Bharata March 2020 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoI was intrigued by the title of this book. Finally, I thought, the Western academia has come to terms with the incorporeality of the individual soul as presented in Indian philosophy. Richard Swinburne’s introduction dispelled my delusions. He proposes that individuals are not bodies but are souls and implies that these souls have properties and t…[Read more]
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Jonas Richter deposited Weltanschauliche Elemente in Dänikens Paläo-SETI in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoZusammenfassung – Prä-Astronautik oder Paläo-SETI präsentiert sich als grenzwissenschafliche Forschung über außerirdische Einflussnahme auf die menschliche Entwicklung. Sie beansprucht für sich, Anomalien in der Geschichte besser zu erklären als die einschlägigen Wissenschafen wie z. B. die Archäologie oder Indologie. Die Schrifen Erich von Dä…[Read more]
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Jonas Richter deposited Traces of the Gods: Ancient Astronauts as a Vision of Our Future in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAncient astronaut speculation (also called paleo-SETI), often labeled pseudoscience or modern myth, still awaits in-depth research. Focusing on Erich von Däniken and reconstructing his views on god and cosmology from scattered statements throughout his books, this article analyzes his attitudes toward science and religion as well as his concepts…[Read more]
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Jonas Richter deposited Götter-Astronauten. Erich von Däniken und die Paläo-SETI-Mythologie (preview) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoInhaltsverzeichnis, Einleitung und Literaturverzeichnis meiner Dissertation // table of contents, introduction and literature sections of my PhD.
https://www.lit-verlag.de/publikationen/psychologie/71842/g-ouml-tter-astronauten -
Jonas Richter deposited Paläo-SETI in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDescription of Paleo-SETI (ancient astronaut/ ancient alien narratives and theories) as a field of anomalistic inquiry, providing short summaries of its history, basic assumptions, methods, and problems
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Guatemala’s Catholic Revolution Bonar L Hernandez Sandoval H-Socialisms February 2020 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThroughout this book, Hernández Sandoval emphasizes the schism between the leadership of different Catholic parishes that supported conservative, anti-communist, and even military governments, and the missionaries who worked directly among the citizenry and who defied prevailing structural and political restraints and at times participated…[Read more]
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Ellie Mackin Roberts deposited Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion: Death and Reciprocity in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis volume presents a case for how and why people in archaic and classical Greece worshipped Underworld gods.
These gods are often portrayed as malevolent and transgressive, giving an impression that ancient worshippers derived little or no benefit from developing ongoing relationships with them. In this book, the first book-length study that…[Read more]
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Yvonne Aburrow replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Pagan Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWelcome Patricia. I know a lot of Polish Wiccans who will be very interested in your books.
I had The Bath House at Midnight but didn’t find the magic described in it to be very different from the rest of Europe. I was expecting more chyerti (bannikoi, domovoi, leshy etc).
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