This relates to OA journals rather than OA books, but I just spotted that OPERAS are looking for a research assistant to help with their Diamond OA study. Deadline 12th October, immediate start: https://operas.hypotheses.org/4387

The first two boOkmArks events are up:

• OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: demo and discussion with Eelco Ferwerda, Thursday 1st October 3pm BST/4pm CEST
• ‘Diversifying Readership Through Open Access’, discussing the recent SN/COARD paper on OA book usage with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon, Tuesday 6th October 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Also: we’ll be holding our first bOokmArks: Open Conversations about Open Access Books event tomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST with Eelco Ferwerda, the Director of OAPEN, about the Toolkit – how it was developed, who was involved & what he hopes it will achieve. Come along and bring your questions: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482 or submit them in…[Read more]

A new working paper looking for altmetric advantages in OA Books and Book Chapters:  Michael Taylor, “Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage” preprint on arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10442” This paper examines the altmetrics of a set of 32,222 books (of which 5% are OA) and a set of…[Read more]

So glad to see this group emerge (and was sorry to miss the launch event).

My interest in OA books started out as with my role as an OA advocate in a bundle of fields (media, communication, film studies) that span the book vs. article cultures. I started to write about these topics, and more recently founded a nonprofit, OA publishing house,…[Read more]

Somewhat immodestly, I’m going to kick this thread off by sharing a series of blog posts I wrote for OA Week 2018 about Open Access for authors:

• An Academic’s Guide to Open Access
• What should I ask a publisher about Open Access?
• APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA?
• Green, Gold, Diamond, Black, Hybrid – what does…

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A few recent posts and articles to get things started:

• What’s in a number? A closer look at Open Access readership data, Part One and Part Two by Laura Mesotten, a deep dive into book usage data and its presentation at Leuven University Press
• These reference a post of my own from late last year, What We Talk About When We Talk About Book U…

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A couple more posts on OA books and business models, all (relatively) recently published:

• State of Open Monographs Series: The Economics of Open Access Monographs and part two State of Open Monograph Series: Open access monograph funding, in which Sara Grimme and Charles Watkinson talk to Lara Speicher and Erich van Rijn
• Making OA Monographs…

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