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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSession four: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Discoverability and Metadata
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/p7daWftSlLs- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkfLoVBSzdyBAiBEe-dLhWzjrzkY0VWf5cDqQxIiPw0/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1: https:/…
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).
Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Demographic Profiles and Procrastination of Employees: Relationships and Determinants in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoProcrastination is a plague that affects an individual’s working attitude and behavior. In relation, the organization will also suffer and its constituents along the way. This study assessed the demographic profile and the degree of procrastination among selected employees from a higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. The s…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen Position: Libraries Outreach Associate at Punctum Books. Closing date May 31.
https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/copim-libraries-outreach-associate/release/2 -
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession three: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Green OA for Books
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/DBaNh1nBBiQ- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOdSXAZU4WvmnDXrQDLDm4oNPXJpxSfShy9yg8d10Sg/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1: https://drive.go…
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Gary Hall deposited Postdigital Politics: or, How To Be An Anti-Bourgeois Theorist in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIn ‘Postdigital Politics’ I examine our contemporary postdigital political conjuncture. This conjuncture, I argue, springs from the crisis of representative democracy we are currently experiencing and involves a shift to more direct forms of democracy via postdigital communications. The latter is evident in the decentralised manner in which mov…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOn April 7th, OPERAS and OASPA organised a workshop on ‘Innovative business models for open access book publishing – six approaches in Europe’. These six approaches were all applied to small or medium-sized academic book publishers and may be relevant for any small or medium-sized publisher interested in OA book publishing.
A short report, along…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Licensing and open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen access books usually take a Creative Commons (CC) licence which permits authors to retain copyright, whilst allowing readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works under the terms of whichever licence is applied.
Which particular licence is deemed suitable for an open access book can differ depending on the preference and…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited The Marking of Poetry: A Rare Vocalization System from an Early Qurʾān Manuscript in Chicago, Paris, and Doha in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis paper provides updated digital images of four Qurʾān fragments from Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum (OIM) that appeared in Nabia Abbott’s Rise of the North Arabic Script, and calls attention to features of their paleography and vocalization which are not apparent from her original black-and-white plates. In doing so, it demonstrates tha…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession two: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Quality Assurance and Transparency
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/ooFGnKcdAQg
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NURw-KjT-zQZ1VAmSrghB02jF5JIPD5VD4dKqz5smyo/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
- Breakout 1…
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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 4 years, 9 months agoThe video is available from our talk with Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph: https://youtu.be/FDN0tTLrVTA
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoJust re-upping this post about the COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers, which closes on FRIDAY https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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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 4 years, 9 months agoHi all, We’re delighted to share details of the launch of Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera’s Dikeledi Ha Di Wele Fatshe, the first indigenous-language book to be published on the new continental platform for Open Access research in Africa. This launch was mentioned at our recent event with Reggie Raju & Jill Claasson about the platform.
The book will…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThanks, Sebastian – I’m afraid I don’t have access to MIT’s Zotero group, but happy to say that COPIM’s Work Package 3 team (Izabella Penier, Tom Grady (@scholtom) and Martin Eve) have made references from their report available in COPIM’s Zotero group – the WP3-specific Revenue Models collection is available at
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoNew on Knowledge Futures Groups’ Commonplace: Open Knowledge Infrastructures in Times of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.44d61468
(a reflective piece including some lessons that we’ve learned during the first year of COPIM)
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOpen Position: COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers. Application deadline: April 15, 2021.
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoSession one: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Scope
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/iFeZTRhbKpk
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsILEU7FcnkZnUafdUIN4WUoT8syPPYNmPDT0Hcv4xs/edit?usp=sharing
The overview of current OA books funder policies that we…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOpen Position: COPIM Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books @ Loughborough University
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Kath Burton deposited Public Humanities and Publication: A Working Paper in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis paper explores the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship. It is the product of a working group convened in February 2020 by Routledge, Taylor & Francis and the National Humanities Alliance to identify and discuss model practices for publishing on public and publicly engaged humanities…[Read more]
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Charles Häberl deposited Mandaic and the Palestinian Question in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoIn his 1875 description of the language, Theodor Nöldeke describes Mandaic as among the purest of the Aramaic languages and the furthest from Western Aramaic, particularly with respect to its lexicon. As Mandæans identify their faith with that of John the Baptist and his community of followers, this observation is not without relevance for a…[Read more]
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