Country-/region-specific metadata formats for OA books: Discussion of MAB2 as legacy standard in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and its relation to MARC21 and ONIX.

Bülte, T. (2020) Welche (Um-)Wege nehmen Metadaten für Open-Access-Bücher vom Verlag zum Discovery System der Bibliothek? [What (re-)routes do metadata for Open Access books ta…[Read more]

MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship has recently advertised its “selective bibliography” on The Economics of Scholarly Monographs:

• Introduction & Framing: https://libraries.mit.edu/creos/research/economics-of-scholarly-monographs/
• Zotero library:…

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>An interview with the COPIM project about open infrastructure: https://www.force11.org/blog/infrastructure-series-open-access-books</p>

Happy OA Week. The OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) data trust project is celebrating by releasing two of our project’s draft outputs for community review.

Today, BISG released our project’s draft report of the OA book supply chain, prepared by Michael Clarke and Laura Ricci. To quote the press release:

The draft report is being distributed broadly to…[Read more]

The video recording of yesterday’s discussion with the Open Access Tracking Project is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zvosU68ek&t=34s

Just a quick reminder that the next boOkmArk event is TOMORROW at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST; we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!

The Open Access Tracking Project has been covering this topic. See the items tagged with both “oa.etds” and “oa.embargoes”.

http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.etds+%23oa.embargoes

The items are listed in the order tagged (most recent first), not the order published. I just tagged some older items to make sure they were included.

Just to follow up here (and not intended to hijack the thread) but does anyone know if there has been an effort to collate a resource that sets out publisher policies on this issue? We had a question about OA books and doctoral theses at the Frankfurt Book Fair panel on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit, and it’s sparked a discussion on Twitter…[Read more]

Hi Hans,

This is possibly not what you’re after, but I did find a list of resources from UKRIO about this topic: https://ukrio.org/research-integrity-resources/research-integrity-resources/open-access-and-doctoral-theses/

Hopefully others will have something more longform/authoritative (thanks for flagging that manual; I hadn’t come across it…[Read more]

Bring your own coffee on October 22 at 4 PM CEST/3 PM BST/ 10 AM EDT and dial in to talk to the OA books community! It will be a free flow chat, we got 40 min booked, we thought it would be a nice coffee break to have at the end of the OA Week 2020. Hope to see you there. Link to the event:…[Read more]

The next boOkmArk event is next week! On Tuesday October 20th at 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST we will interview Peter Suber and Milica Ševkušić about the Open Access Tracking Project. The blog post is here – submit any questions you have on the post or in this thread, and join us on the day via this link. Hope to see many of you there!

The video recording of last week’s discussion with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon about their OA book usage analysis is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv_YYYj946o

Open Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer “who is enthusiastic about open source and Open Access initiatives”! https://openbookpublishers.com/section/133/1

The Open Access Tracking Project tracks OA-related news about jobs (tag “oa.jobs”) and books (tag “oa.books”). A boolean feed of items with both tags shows jobs related to OA books: http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/item_search?q=%23oa.jobs+%23oa.books

All OATP feeds are crowd-sourced and updated in real time. You can make them more…[Read more]

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