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Duncan Money deposited ‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990 in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA little-known feature of the vast migrant labour system that supplied South Africa’s gold-mining industry was the Deferred Pay Interest Fund. For much of the 20th century, a portion of the wages owed to African mine workers was deferred and remitted to them only at the end of their contracts. This is well-known, but what happened to the i…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Alternative pathways to universal basic education : through the lens of Almajiri nomadic schooling in northern Nigeria in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSession five: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Rights Retention and Licensing
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/yzhrFPvoITg- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1utEvB1q0DxGxW86EcE07ijPmaeDWC80C0fpNE4eQfXg/edit?usp=sharing
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSession four: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Discoverability and Metadata
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/p7daWftSlLs- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkfLoVBSzdyBAiBEe-dLhWzjrzkY0VWf5cDqQxIiPw0/edit?usp=sharing
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoHi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).
Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOpen Position: Libraries Outreach Associate at Punctum Books. Closing date May 31.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSession three: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Green OA for Books
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/DBaNh1nBBiQ- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sOdSXAZU4WvmnDXrQDLDm4oNPXJpxSfShy9yg8d10Sg/edit?usp=sharing
Meeting notes:
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Duncan Money deposited Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White mineworkers in comparative perspective, 1911-63 in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIndustrial mining on the Central African Copperbelt attracted substantial, if transient, white populations from the outset, though these communities have been treated separately. Many thousands of white traders, prospectors, mineworkers, engineers, general itinerants and would-be settlers were attracted by the copper boom and often spent time…[Read more]
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Duncan Money deposited Africa–EU relations and natural resource governance: understanding African agency in historical and contemporary perspective in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis article examines the changing forms of African agency in the context of contestations over natural resource governance with the European Union. The authors argue that EU policy is motivated by material self-interest but that it has not been able to successfully implement these policies. The way these policies have been challenged by African…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOn April 7th, OPERAS and OASPA organised a workshop on ‘Innovative business models for open access book publishing – six approaches in Europe’. These six approaches were all applied to small or medium-sized academic book publishers and may be relevant for any small or medium-sized publisher interested in OA book publishing.
A short report, along…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Licensing and open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen access books usually take a Creative Commons (CC) licence which permits authors to retain copyright, whilst allowing readers to redistribute, re-use and adapt the content in new works under the terms of whichever licence is applied.
Which particular licence is deemed suitable for an open access book can differ depending on the preference and…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession two: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Quality Assurance and Transparency
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/ooFGnKcdAQg
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NURw-KjT-zQZ1VAmSrghB02jF5JIPD5VD4dKqz5smyo/edit?usp=sharing
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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, 9 months agoThe video is available from our talk with Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph: https://youtu.be/FDN0tTLrVTA
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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, 9 months agoJust re-upping this post about the COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers, which closes on FRIDAY https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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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, 9 months agoHi all, We’re delighted to share details of the launch of Dr Rethabile Possa-Mogoera’s Dikeledi Ha Di Wele Fatshe, the first indigenous-language book to be published on the new continental platform for Open Access research in Africa. This launch was mentioned at our recent event with Reggie Raju & Jill Claasson about the platform.
The book will…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThanks, Sebastian – I’m afraid I don’t have access to MIT’s Zotero group, but happy to say that COPIM’s Work Package 3 team (Izabella Penier, Tom Grady (@scholtom) and Martin Eve) have made references from their report available in COPIM’s Zotero group – the WP3-specific Revenue Models collection is available at
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoNew on Knowledge Futures Groups’ Commonplace: Open Knowledge Infrastructures in Times of the Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.44d61468
(a reflective piece including some lessons that we’ve learned during the first year of COPIM)
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Tobias Steiner replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoOpen Position: COPIM WP5 Product Manager for Open Medatada System (Full-time or Part-time) @ Open Book Publishers. Application deadline: April 15, 2021.
https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-product-manager-ft-or-pt/
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoSession one: Voices from the Open Access Books Community – Scope
The video recording of the main session is here: https://youtu.be/iFeZTRhbKpk
- The chat from the meeting is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsILEU7FcnkZnUafdUIN4WUoT8syPPYNmPDT0Hcv4xs/edit?usp=sharing
The overview of current OA books funder policies that we…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoOpen Position: COPIM Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books @ Loughborough University
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