Such a shame to see CUP setting up exclusive deals like this, rather than shifting to scrap BPCs and welcome OA book proposals from anyone. A press with their resources and reputation should be showing more leadership and ambition, in my opinion.

This is really interesting and powerful Sherri — I’m very curious to know how (or if) you think things have moved on since the Huma study group you were part of in the late 2000s? Has progress been made on the issues you discussed, or are we still circling around the same questions?

If by subscribe you mean get email notifications for an MSU Commons group, yes.

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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Hi Alice Lynn! A public group in MSU Commons will be readable by the world, but only members of the MSU community will be able to contribute to it. Let me know if you have further questions!