More boOmArks! On Tuesday (2nd March) we will be speaking to Reggie Raju and Jill Claasson about the new continental OA platform for books and journals that has been launched in Africa. It should be a really interesting conversation, and as always is free and open to all — hope to see you there!

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Hi Markus, this is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I was wondering, are all the 20 projects linked in some way, or are you all independent of each other?

One more: https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/02/open-access-for-backlist-books-part-ii.html

Sorry about all the baseball references.

The Federal Ministry of Research and Education has funded various Open Access projects in Germany (see here). In the following, I briefly present ours, the development of an open source infrastructure called “Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)” for media-neutral (Open Access) publishing: https://os-aps.de/en/.

The background of the…[Read more]

Cambridge University Library is looking for a Scholarly Communications Specialist. The role involves developing support for open access monograph publishing. Deadline 15 March: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28708/

The University of London Press (an OA press) is looking for a Publications Officer in a part-time capacity. “An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Publications Officer to join the newly launched University of London Press based in the School of Advanced Study at a pivotal moment in its history. The Press is being focused towards a new…[Read more]