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Lucy Barnes edited the doc LIVE LIST: OA-books-related projects in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago -
Agata Morka created the doc LIVE LIST: OA books-related projects in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago -
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Sherri Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries. It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields. I asked Huma members (…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoReading 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…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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