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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoBooks have always mattered to me — as places to escape to, as ways to experience other points of view, and as treasure troves of knowledge and insight. Open Access is important because it enables so many more readers to engage with scholarly books. If done well — without flipping the costs from reader to author — Open Access has the capacity to…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always played an important role in my life as windows into the world. My work at the OAPEN Foundation is an extension of that: I hope that others also have the same experience.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhDOAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlandsemail:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks in general are important to me: they have shaped who I am, from gruesome Grimm’s tales to Ocean Vuong’s hauntingly melancholic nail salon stories. My background is in HSS, in art and architectural history, which are disciplines heavily depending on monographs as research outputs. I strongly believe that making scholarly books, especially in…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩ to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti. Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing. ELPUB 2019 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2019.21⟩. ⟨hal-02175276⟩
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Agata Morka started the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn this discussion thread we are asking all our group members the same two big questions , in order to get to know them a bit better and understand what makes them tick when it comes to OA books.
WHY ARE OPEN ACCESS BOOKS IMPORTANT TO YOU?
HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED WITH OA BOOKS?
Please share your thoughts with us!
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate and provide information around business models for Open Access books. What business models are out there for Open Access books? How are these evolving and are there particular challenges that could be addressed to improve these?
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Metadata & Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic aims to facilitate discussion and conversation around metadata (developments) specifically for Open Access books.
Group members can ask questions on metadata for Open Access books, share news updates, come up with new ideas and initiatives for improving metadata for OA books and highlight industry developments or opportunities.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe Dutch Research Council / Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) introduces a continuous call for funding OA Books stemming from NWO-funded research.
More Information: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news-and-events/news/2020/06/open-access-books-call-make-your-book-openly-accessible.html
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Tom Mosterd started the topic Developments for open access book funding & policies in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis topic covers new funding and policy developments for open access books. Group members are encouraged to post new developments within these two areas, sharing this with the wider open access book community.
When sharing new funding and policy developments please make sure to share a link/source where possible.
Feel free to ask any questions…[Read more]
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Christine Tobias deposited Shift, Sharpen, Share: Redesigning a Help Desk Portfolio to Enhance Discovery Support in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoOrganizational realignment between libraries and campus IT is challenging. It is also an opportunity to rethink library services. This presentation highlights the benefits of expanding a service portfolio and strategies to shift, sharpen, and share staff skills for success in providing enhanced electronic resources and discovery systems support.
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Katie Wilson deposited Global diversity in higher education staffing: Towards openness in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe adoption of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs in recent decades highlights an ongoing need for structural and cultural change within higher education institutions. It also raises questions around gender, race and disability politics, the decolonisation of diversity and neoliberal management of higher…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd uploaded the file: OAPEN OA Books Toolkit – Background Poster to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis is a poster presented as part of the OpenRepositories2020 Virtual Conference Session on the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit. The OAPEN OA Books Toolkit will be hosted on its own platform and provide authors worldwide with a useful resource that helps them to better understand and increase trust in OA book publishing.
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Ludovica Price deposited Beyond the multidisciplinary in fan studies: Learning how to talk among disciplines in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIn light of the Fan Studies Network’s statement regarding fan studies being overrun with whiteness, we are in a unique position to engage in scholarship that challenges the overwhelmingly white and Global North–centric structures that define how we study fan cultures. Multidisciplinarity, which may be understood as disciplines laid side by side, s…[Read more]
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Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoOver the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]
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Jasmine Burns deposited Images as Research Data and the Role of the Information Professional in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe goal of this paper is twofold: first to define “research data” in a humanities context through a discussion of the ways in which humanities researchers create and aggregate image collections, and second to address the processes by which academic libraries and information professionals can play an active role in supporting the treatment and per…[Read more]
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Falilat Olu Alabi deposited BEYOND THE BOOK: Public Libraries as Social Prescription Hubs: A case study of a London Public Library in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPurpose: – The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of public library activities on the health and wellbeing of library users. Concentrating on five library activities; knit and knit, rhyme time, learn my way, reading group and adult craft and calming colouring. It seeks to examine the implementation of the joint action path…[Read more]
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Demmy Verbeke deposited Open Access: Bedreidging of opportuniteit voor wetenschappelijke bibliotheken? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHet streven naar Open Access (OA), de vrije toegang tot wetenschappelijke publicaties, heeft de laatste tijd een nieuw elan gekregen door een aantal initiatieven van overheden en onderzoeksfinanciers. Toch kan men zich de vraag stellen of het niet om oude wijn in nieuwe zakken gaat. Er is al twee decennia sprake van OA – waarom zou er deze keer e…[Read more]
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Alexander Andrew Bell deposited A Pigment of the Imagination: in what ways is colour information? in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe world is ablaze with colour, and for artists and designers the spectrum is both a vital tool and highly informational. Whether found in the circadian rhythms of nature, contemporary works of art or art & design libraries, colour’s kaleidoscopic lens allows us to observe, experience, and communicate the tessellation of information present in o…[Read more]
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Kelly Anyfantaki deposited Information behaviour in serious leisure: building understanding from hobbyist book collectors in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPurpose: investigate the information behaviour of hobbyist book collectors as serious leisure participants and how it relates to information behaviour models and theories.
Objectives: study how hobbyist book collectors seek and use information, what their sources are, why they seek information in these ways, what difficulties they encounter, how…[Read more] - Load More