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

The first two boOkmArks events are up:

• OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: demo and discussion with Eelco Ferwerda, Thursday 1st October 3pm BST/4pm CEST
• ‘Diversifying Readership Through Open Access’, discussing the recent SN/COARD paper on OA book usage with Ros Pyne and Cameron Neylon, Tuesday 6th October 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Also: we’ll be holding our first bOokmArks: Open Conversations about Open Access Books event tomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST with Eelco Ferwerda, the Director of OAPEN, about the Toolkit – how it was developed, who was involved & what he hopes it will achieve. Come along and bring your questions: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482 or submit them in…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

I’m pleased to share that we have just launched the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.

More on the toolkit can be found here: https://oapen.org/oapen/article/10705775-launch-of-the-oapen-open-access-books-toolkit

or feel…[Read more]

A new working paper looking for altmetric advantages in OA Books and Book Chapters:  Michael Taylor, “Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage” preprint on arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10442” This paper examines the altmetrics of a set of 32,222 books (of which 5% are OA) and a set of…[Read more]

Hi Christina,

Thanks for sharing the invitation for this great initiative here! Please do feel free to share any updates on the project here as it would certainly interest myself and I’m sure many others in the Network.

Invitation to inform an OA Ebook Usage Data Trust pilot

On behalf of the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust pilot project (https://educopia.org/data_trust/), I want to welcome all to contribute to our on-going development of global use-cases for OA book usage data. Anyone can join the conversation and inform the development of the global pilot…[Read more]

So glad to see this group emerge (and was sorry to miss the launch event).

My interest in OA books started out as with my role as an OA advocate in a bundle of fields (media, communication, film studies) that span the book vs. article cultures. I started to write about these topics, and more recently founded a nonprofit, OA publishing house,…[Read more]

Somewhat immodestly, I’m going to kick this thread off by sharing a series of blog posts I wrote for OA Week 2018 about Open Access for authors:

• An Academic’s Guide to Open Access
• What should I ask a publisher about Open Access?
• APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA?
• Green, Gold, Diamond, Black, Hybrid – what does…

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