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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, 11 months agoCambridge 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/
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Lucy Barnes uploaded the file: Exploring the Public Evidence on Open Access Monographs to
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoAuthor(s)
Altman, Micah
Abstract
In this blog post we look at the open data available on monograph publication, and use it to explore patterns and trends in open monograph publishing. This blog post takes the form of a guided, interactive, reproducible data analysis based on currently available public data. We aim for this exploration to inform…[Read more] -
Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Job ads section for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe 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]
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Pablo Markin started the topic A journal publisher’s perspective in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoDear All,
In this post, Roger van Zwanenberg from Pluto Journals describes the context for its transition to Open Access, e.g., the decreasing viability of closed access, what decision-making options were available and the implications of the library-funded model, for journals as opposed to books:…[Read more]
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Justin Walsh deposited Photography and the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis chapter describes the International Space Station Archaeological Project and the importance of photography as a source of evidence for life and society on ISS.
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Justin Walsh deposited Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis paper investigates the material culture of icons on the International Space Station as part of a complex web of interactions between cosmonauts and the Russian Orthodox Church, reflecting contemporary terrestrial political and social aairs. An analysis of photographs from the International Space Station (ISS) demonstrated that a particular…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTwo fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately: that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole, with almost a quarter graduating from Oxford or Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern Britain one of the most unequal places in Eur…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Business, Values, and EU’s Response to Protests in Ukraine: Cases from 2003–2004, 2010, and 2013–2014 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis book aims to uncover and assess changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Ukraine in the times of wide-scale social protests in Kyiv. To accomplish this task, this book enlists and analyses documents, agreements, and treaties which establish the frameworks for EU-Ukraine cooperation. It also identifies the interests of lobbying groups in…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi, great to see this article which ‘opens up’ the conversation and explores additional steps that could be taken – including books and chapters.
To add to Agata’s comments:
If there is indeed some level of agreement on the limitations and extent to which the Gold OA model, through a ‘Book-Processing-Charge (BPC)’ model, can work on a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited An Interactional Theory of Truth: On Searle on Truth and Facts in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis is a critique of the logicist theory of truth and facts set forth in the final section of John R. Searle’s book ‘The Construction of Social Reality’ (1995). Searle’s logicist account, much in the line of his theory of speech acts, is contrasted to a pragmaticist and interactionalist perspective on truth, facts, and discourse. Keywords:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoComments on proposed framewrok:
I think it would be worth thinking a bit more about what kind of OA you want to push for and integrate it with the proposed framework.
You already have a point about supporting business models other than these based on APCs, but there is no such consideration in the framework itself for books.
Also, in the…[Read more] -
Agata Morka started the topic Advancing Open Access in The Netherlands: discussion in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA brand new take on advancing OA in The Netherlands has just been published: https://zenodo.org/record/4455790#.YBGtRS1Q3s0. The authors reached out to the OABN for comments, so we are kicking off a discussion with first thoughts after having read the text.
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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 5 years agoThe recording of our conversation with Jeff yesterday is available here: https://youtu.be/wyzb1BJi8AU
Thanks to Jeff for such an interesting session, and to everyone who attended!
We’ll be announcing the next boOkmArks sessions in the near future. If you have an idea for a session, you can contact us at info@oabooksnetwork.org.
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Kath Burton uploaded the file: Public Humanities and Publication to
Publishing and the Publicly Engaged Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIncreasingly, humanities scholars are engaging communities in their research, teaching, preservation, and programming. This work, which is taking place around the world, can be broadly grouped together as public and publicly engaged humanities scholarship. Public humanities work encompasses humanities research, teaching, preservation and…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoYou are welcome Tom. Thanks for this feedback and greetings. The presence on the ORC has, indeed, been a mixed bag, but relatively consistent. I will do my best to target whatever posts I will be sharing in this list/area to book-related OA topics!
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