Title: Analyzing Open – Gaining Insights into Global OA eBook Usage

Description: We are pleased to announce the next OASPA webinar which will explore questions around the effects of open access on books and how OA ebook usage data can be improved to better answer such questions in the future.

How does open access affect the readership of…[Read more]

Title: boOkmArks/Open Conversations About OA Books. The KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access

Description: Join us for a live Q&A session with Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven Libraries, Artes) about the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access – a special fund setup by the KU Leuven Libraries to support non-profit initiatives using the library budget.

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Title: Open Cafe: A free-flow conversation about OA books

Description: Join the Open Access Books Network (OABN) for a 40 minute free-flow conversation about Open Access books. Bring your own coffee and dial in at:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482

4PM CET

3PM BST

10 AM EDT

Date: 26 November 2020 10:00 am EST EST

Title: boOkmArks/Open Conversations About OA Books. Reassembling Scholarly Communications Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access

Description: Join us for a live Q&A session with Martin Eve about his recently published book: Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open…[Read more]

Title: boOkmArks/Open Conversations About OA Books. OPERAS in 2020

Description: Join us for a live Q&A session with Pierre Mounier (OPERAS) about OPERAS.

Link for event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482

4PM CET

3PM BST

10 AM EDT

Date: 10 November 2020 10:00 am EST EST

Title: Open Infrastructure Matters: Supporting Scholar-Led and Community-Driven Services to Advance Open Access

Description: This 20 minute session will examine three open infrastructure case studies: OpenCitations, OAPEN/DOAB, and the Public Knowledge Project. These three initiatives are currently being promoted by the Global Sustainability…[Read more]

Title: A new funding model for open-access monographs

Description: Introducing a novel business model and approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding

Register (free):

https://nettskjema.no/a/167493#/page/1
10:55AM CET
9:55AM BST
04:55 AM EDT
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Title: An Open Infrastructure for the Open Access Book: Needs & Challenges from a Library Perspective

Description: This workshop will take a closer look at the challenges and needs of libraries when it comes to an open infrastructure for open access books. It will start with a brief presentation about OAPEN and DOAB as open infrastructures for…[Read more]

Title: Institutional Open Access – What Works and What Doesn’t

Description: Institutionally funded Open Access (OA) for journals and books has been receiving increasing support from various players since 2012. Knowledge Unlatched, Open Library of Humanities, Luminos and TOME are a few examples of sometimes very different approaches. This ses…[Read more]

Title: Open Cafe: A free-flow conversation about OA books

Description: To celebrate Open Access week, join the Open Access Books Network (OABN) for a 40 minute free-flow conversation about Open Access books. Bring your own coffee and dial in at:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6027862482

4PM CEST

3PM BST

10 AM EDT

Date: 23 October 2020 10:00…[Read more]

Title: CC Summit: Open Access Books Toolkit, helping authors understand what CC licences mean for their open access books

Description:
The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit is a new free resource for academic book authors. Creative Commons licences are not well understood by authors. Part of this toolkit aims to address misconceptions about CC…[Read more]