Hm somehow the posting here doesn’t work. Here in the absolutely rudimentary version: I would like to ask all publishers and editors who may be represented here in ‘Open infrastructure for OA books’ (commercial, institutional, professional societies, OJS/OMP series, series via repositories, etc.) to answer the survey on further requirements…[Read more]

A post from Dr Mayank Trivedi (https://hcommons-staging.org/members/librarianhml/):

Hello, I am Dr Mayank Trivedi, working as University Librarian at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(https://www.msubaroda.ac.in/). Smt. Hansa Mehta Library(http://www.hmlibrary.ac.in/) is the second-largest University Library of India.

My more details…[Read more]

Hi Kevin. Thanks for linking to the OATP tag library for “oa.dei”.

FYI, here’s the OATP tag library for the conjunction “oa.dei AND oa.publishers”:

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

OATP supports deep links like this to any boolean combination of tags. If you write me directly (peter.suber@gmail.com)…[Read more]

This is a rather old article, but might be useful:
Do developing countries profit from free books? : Discovery and online usage in developed and developing countries compared
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2013-11 | journal-article DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.103

John, you might mine http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.dei for useful sources.  I wish you could browse OATP by more than one tag at a time (all “oa.dei” and “oa.publishers”, for example), but I can’t figure out a way to do that.  Happy digging!

Exciting opportunity — the University of Dundee are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Publishing Officer (Scottish Universities Open Access Press) within our Research and Resources Division, LLC&CI to implement a new Open Access University Press for Scotland:…[Read more]

This job application window has been extended — OBP are still looking for a software engineer, so please share far and wide!

Thanks for sharing Charles. Just registered as this can be quite relevant for us here to participate in! Tom

Open Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer to support our development of open source infrastructure for open access book publishing. 18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-30k. Closing date 26 September. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/37/1

Taylor and Francis are looking for a Partnership Development Manager for Open Access books, and a Content Development Manager for Open Access books. Closing date 26…[Read more]