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Hi everyone, we have a new vacancy at the DOAB & OAPEN for the role of Community Manager, responsible for the development of and engagement with our library community. This is a full-time position. OAPEN and DOAB have their offices in The Hague in the Netherlands, but the position is open to working remotely.
Application deadline by March 31st. More info:
https://oapen.org/oapen/article/5777597-job-opening-community-manager-at-oapen-doab
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Hello, we’re looking for a Finance & Administration Officer to join the OAPEN Team (fluent in Dutch and English). The Finance & Administration Officer will help us with the financial management of OAPEN’s operational and project activities. More info:
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Hello all,
Jisc is organising a webinar series on the topic of open access books related to the forthcoming UKRI open access policy. Please find more details below and don’t hesitate to register if interested!
In August 2021, UKRI launched a new open access policy, which for the first time includes a provision for long form scholarly works including monographs, book chapters and edited collections published from 1 January 2024. In preparation for policy implementation, a collaboration of UK university presses, supported by Jisc, have come together to hold three online events which will explore the wider benefits of open access for books, investigate the myths around open access for books, and address legitimate concerns and suggest ways to remove barriers to open access publishing. Please join us for the first webinar in this series which will focus on compliance vs. culture and engaging hearts and minds. Title: Introduction to open access for monographs: compliance vs culture Date: 02 November 2022 Time: 15:00 – 16:30 Who should attend
- Researchers/Academics, across all career levels
- Librarians/Scholarly Communications Managers
- Research Offices
- Rights holders
Contact For further information, please contact events@jisc.ac.uk
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Hi everyone, we are looking for a new team member that will help us with managing a Horizon Europe funded project about research funder policies and strategies for open access books across Europe and beyond.
We are looking for a colleague with skills and experience in project management and communication. Knowledge of the subject matter is not required, but we expect that the candidate will be curious and interested in learning new things
Job ad:
https://oapen.org/oapen/article/2575979-job-opening-project-manager
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Hi all,
Sharing on behalf of the IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group: The IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group is seeking proposals for 5-minute lightning talks to be presented at its Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, how your library publishing program:
- Promotes gender equality
- Advocates for climate action
- Supports quality education
- Promotes good health and well-being
- Creates partnerships for the SDGs
- Advocates for peace, justice and strong institutions
Have a look and submit your proposal – Deadline (to be extended) to the end of May:
https://2022.ifla.org/cfp-calls/library-publishing-special-interest-group/
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Open Position: The OAPEN Foundation is looking for a Project Manager to help with promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books. Responsibilities include participation in project activities, supporting technical operations, services and assisting with financial administration of the foundation. Full-time position:
https://oapen.org/oapen/article/13476357-we-are-hiring-join-the-oapen-team
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Hi John,
I’ve had a read through and think it is a really thoughtful and well-balanced vision and policy considering some of the current challenges and opportunities for opening up books. I’m not too familiar with similar visions and policies, some of the fully OA publishers do have a clear vision statement and the University of Michigan Press has a public mission statement and open access policy too (though I’m sure you may be familiar with these already).
It’d certainly be great to see more of these (especially from university presses and those publishers that have both open and closed content) and hear more about their OA vision through this thread in the coming months.
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Hi everyone, I’d like to share an exciting development for our Open Infrastructures in the U.S. (the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB) and OAPEN).
Earlier this week we announced a Collective-Action agreement between DOAB, OAPEN and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), becoming a part of the BTAA member libraries’ “strategic portfolio of investments in open infrastructure to support the growth of open science and open scholarship”.
We’re grateful to be a part of this portfolio and have the support of these 15 member libraries. Moreover, it is great to see investments in open infrastructure includes infrastructure for OA books specifically. Hopefully other open infrastructures/groups for books can build on this too.
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On April 7th, OPERAS and OASPA organised a workshop on ‘Innovative business models for open access book publishing – six approaches in Europe’. These six approaches were all applied to small or medium-sized academic book publishers and may be relevant for any small or medium-sized publisher interested in OA book publishing.
A short report, along with the recording of this event is now available here:
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Hi everyone,
I would like to invite you to participate in a short 8-10 minute survey on citizen science funding in the SSH, part of the Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues (COESO) project.
The survey is on citizen science funding in the SSH and the results will help the COESO project in identifying funding needs for different types of stakeholders in the SSH community for participatory research projects with and for society.
COESO gathers 15 partners from 6 different European countries. One of its main objectives is to work with funders to innovate funding schemes for citizen science in SSH.
More info can be found in this blog post. Responses can be submitted until April 15.
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Hi, 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 large-scale for books and chapters, a pilot testing into an alternative, Diamond OA model, could be interesting. Such a pilot and learnings from such a pilot can also be interesting for others, and lower the barriers for establishing an international collaborative funding model for books and chapters.
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Hello everyone,
I’m pleased to share that we have just launched the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit: A freely available toolkit: helping academic book authors to better understand open access book publishing.
More on the toolkit can be found here: https://oapen.org/oapen/article/10705775-launch-of-the-oapen-open-access-books-toolkit
or feel free to have a look at the toolkit website: http://oabooks-toolkit.org/
We aim to update the toolkit and add new content and features through regular update cycles, help, ideas and feedback are welcome!
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Reading books is something I personally enjoy. Books, whether these are scholarly books or non-scholarly books provide readers with an extensive and rich resource that can go into a level of detail and explore connections other formats cannot.
Books provide the author with an opportunity to tell an elaborate story, provide much needed context which certainly should be cherished as today’s world is increasingly faced with challenges such as polarisation, information bubbles and a lack of nuance. Open Access for books holds the potential to address these challenges.
As a final part of my studies, I did an internship at Knowledge Unlatched in Berlin back in 2017, where I was first exposed to the world of open access and particularly open access books.
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The 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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