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Tom Grady replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi Markus,
Sounds like you’re going to be working on some really interesting stuff here. Good luck! In what way do you see this as producing something different to existing tools that already seem to do a lot of these things (I’m thinking, platforms like Coko and Editoria)? A diverse choice of open source tools is useful but sometimes I’m a bit…[Read more]
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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear Lucy,
the funding guideline was aimed at open access publishers or corresponding publishing activities. Accordingly, this is a bit of a thread running through all the projects:
Sustainability and financing parameters of business and transformation models (CODRIA, TOAA, TransMILL, TU9_Monos, Wallstein-OA, ScholarLedPlus, KOALA, OAdine),…[Read more]
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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, 11 months agoMore boOmArks! On Tuesday (2nd March) we will be speaking to Reggie Raju and Jill Claasson about the new continental OA platform for books and journals that has been launched in Africa. It should be a really interesting conversation, and as always is free and open to all — hope to see you there!
Zoom link available with the blog post here:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi Markus, this is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I was wondering, are all the 20 projects linked in some way, or are you all independent of each other?
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Community support for Open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoOne more: https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/02/open-access-for-backlist-books-part-ii.html
Sorry about all the baseball references.
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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Federal Ministry of Research and Education has funded various Open Access projects in Germany (see here). In the following, I briefly present ours, the development of an open source infrastructure called “Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)” for media-neutral (Open Access) publishing: https://os-aps.de/en/.
The background of the…[Read more]
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Christian Reinboth deposited Induktive Statistik – Übungsaufgaben mit Musterlösungen in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWährend meines Studiums der Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Hochschule Harz hatte ich in den Jahren 2002 bis 2005 das große Glück, als Tutor für verschiedene Statistik-Vorlesungen von Dr. Walter Strube tätig werden zu dürfen. Zu Beginn meiner Tutorentätigkeit konnte ich eine über die Jahre von Tutor zu Tutor weiterentwickelte Aufgabensammlung in Form…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman started the topic Community support for Open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI’ve started posting a series of blog posts on community support of open access books. The first two pasts are:
Creating Value with Open Access Books
Open Access for Backlist Books, Part I: The Slush Pile
Eric
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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, 11 months agoCambridge University Library is looking for a Scholarly Communications Specialist. The role involves developing support for open access monograph publishing. Deadline 15 March: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28708/
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare: A Critical Introduction.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin, Ema Vyroubalova, Elizabeth Pentland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe idea that Shakespeare is a global author has taken many forms since the building of the Globe playhouse in London in 1599. Performances of Shakespeare not only create channels between geographic spaces but also connect different time periods. Divided into two major sections, Shakespeare and World Cultures and Shakespeare and Genres, the…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoAuthor(s)
Altman, Micah
Abstract
In this blog post we look at the open data available on monograph publication, and use it to explore patterns and trends in open monograph publishing. This blog post takes the form of a guided, interactive, reproducible data analysis based on currently available public data. We aim for this exploration to inform…[Read more] -
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe University of London Press (an OA press) is looking for a Publications Officer in a part-time capacity. “An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Publications Officer to join the newly launched University of London Press based in the School of Advanced Study at a pivotal moment in its history. The Press is being focused towards a new…[Read more]
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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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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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Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years agoFirst presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.
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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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