The 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

Just 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/

Hi 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]

Session 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]

On Tuesday 23 March at 4PM CET / 3PM GMT / 11AM EDT, we will be speaking to 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.

Join us to discuss this new bursary, as well as the challenges f…[Read more]

The video of our discussion with Reggie Ragu and Jill Claasson about the new continental platform for #OA publishing in Africa is now available! https://youtu.be/5QIIsFt6ax8

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!

Zoom link available with the blog post here:…[Read more]

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?

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]

The 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.

Hi all, on Tuesday next week (26th Jan) at 3pm GMT the latest boOkmArks talk is taking place: I’ll be speaking to Jefferson Pooley, professor of media & communication at Muhlenberg College and director of mediastudies.press, about his experiences founding an academic-led, Open Access book publisher w/a BPC-free, library partnership model & a…[Read more]