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Agata Morka replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoComments on proposed framewrok:
I think it would be worth thinking a bit more about what kind of OA you want to push for and integrate it with the proposed framework.
You already have a point about supporting business models other than these based on APCs, but there is no such consideration in the framework itself for books.
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Agata Morka started the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA brand new take on advancing OA in The Netherlands has just been published: https://zenodo.org/record/4455790#.YBGtRS1Q3s0. The authors reached out to the OABN for comments, so we are kicking off a discussion with first thoughts after having read the text.
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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 5 years agoThe recording of our conversation with Jeff yesterday is available here: https://youtu.be/wyzb1BJi8AU
Thanks to Jeff for such an interesting session, and to everyone who attended!
We’ll be announcing the next boOkmArks sessions in the near future. If you have an idea for a session, you can contact us at info@oabooksnetwork.org.
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Kath Burton started the topic Public Humanities and Publication working paper in the discussion
Scholarly Communication on Humanities Commons 5 years agoToday we are posting the first paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities working group: https://hcommons-staging.org/?get_group_doc=1003800/1611561373-PublicHumanitiesandPublication_workingpaper2021.pdf
Exploring the challenges associated with the publication of public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship, this paper is…[Read more]
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Kath Burton uploaded the file: Public Humanities and Publication to
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIncreasingly, humanities scholars are engaging communities in their research, teaching, preservation, and programming. This work, which is taking place around the world, can be broadly grouped together as public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship. Public humanities work encompasses humanities research, teaching, preservation and…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoYou are welcome Tom. Thanks for this feedback and greetings. The presence on the ORC has, indeed, been a mixed bag, but relatively consistent. I will do my best to target whatever posts I will be sharing in this list/area to book-related OA topics!
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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 5 years agoHi all, on Tuesday next week (26th Jan) at 3pm GMT the latest boOkmArks talk is taking place: I’ll be speaking to Jefferson Pooley, professor of media & communication at Muhlenberg College and director of mediastudies.press, about his experiences founding an academic-led, Open Access book publisher w/a BPC-free, library partnership model & a…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing, Kathi — I’ll tweet this out from the OABN account.
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Kathi Inman Berens started the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMaster’s student student Olivia Rollins (Portland State University, Book Publishing) invites you to fill out a short survey (5-7 minutes) intended to measure the effects of the COVID pandemic on OA humanities publishing.
Access the survey here.
Thank you for taking time to fill out the survey and gather this knowledge.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Open Access, Public Goods and Market Players in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
The latest post at the Open Research Community discusses how the rise of Open Access is likely driven by market mechanisms affecting the scholarly publishing industry. As the post suggests, Open Access increases the possibilities for dynamic responses to shifts in aggregate supply and demand on the side of both institutions and…[Read more]
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A. Hilal Ugurlu deposited Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands in the group
History on Humanities Commons 5 years agoFrom the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]
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Sherri Barnes deposited The Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Project in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn an era of transformative open access journal agreements, the article examines the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project through a transformative lens. How might we apply transformativeness to open access monograph publishing? Is transformativeness measured in strictly financial and transactional terms, or…[Read more]
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Kath Burton uploaded the file: Public Humanities & Publication Workplan Outline 2020 to
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoOutline plan for the working paper from the Publishing and Publicly Engaged Humanities Working Group (due 2021)
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing Pablo and congrats with this milestone and if I read it correctly over 1 post a day on average. Good luck with the ORC in 2021 and looking forward to seeing some OA-books related news pop-up from time to time!
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Pablo Markin started the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
This blog post briefly reviews the highlights of the Open Research Community (ORC) since its launch in early 2020: https://openresearch.community/posts/the-open-research-community-in-2020-a-year-in-review.
More specifically, in the last year, the ORC registered around 104,000 page views, had almost 28,000 new and returning visitors,…[Read more]
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