There’s a new report out on metadata and OA books from COPIM:

Stone, G., Gatti, R., van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Arias, J., Steiner, T., & Ferwerda, E. (2020). WP5 Scoping Report: Building an Open Dissemination System. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.939caeab

This is part of COPIM’s WP5, which is aiming to ‘develop technical protocols and…[Read more]

There are a couple of in-depth posts that have been published in recent weeks by scholar-led presses discussing their business models in some detail (one of which I co-wrote, for full disclosure!) – they might be of interest to this thread:

• The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes by Lucy Barnes and Rupert Gatti, 28 May 2020
• We Got…

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