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Markus Putnings replied to the topic Open infrastructure for OA books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Federal Ministry of Research and Education has funded various Open Access projects in Germany (see here). In the following, I briefly present ours, the development of an open source infrastructure called “Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)” for media-neutral (Open Access) publishing: https://os-aps.de/en/.
The background of the…[Read more]
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Christian Reinboth deposited Induktive Statistik – Übungsaufgaben mit Musterlösungen in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWährend meines Studiums der Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Hochschule Harz hatte ich in den Jahren 2002 bis 2005 das große Glück, als Tutor für verschiedene Statistik-Vorlesungen von Dr. Walter Strube tätig werden zu dürfen. Zu Beginn meiner Tutorentätigkeit konnte ich eine über die Jahre von Tutor zu Tutor weiterentwickelte Aufgabensammlung in Form…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Umkämpfte Kunstfreiheit – ein Differenzierungsvorschlag in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago„Political Correctness“, „Identitätspolitik“ und „Cancel Culture“ werden heutzutage überwiegend als Waffen von Konservativen eingesetzt, um ihre Privilegien gegen emanzipative Neuregelungen zu verteidigen. Solche Neuregelungen als Einschränkung der Kunst- und Meinungsfreiheit zu kritisieren ist deshalb meist falsch. Tatsächlich tragen „Politic…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman started the topic Community support for Open access books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoI’ve started posting a series of blog posts on community support of open access books. The first two pasts are:
Creating Value with Open Access Books
Open Access for Backlist Books, Part I: The Slush Pile
Eric
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Vladimir Kozlov deposited «Где Гитлер?”. Повторное расследование НКВД (МВД) СССР обстоятельств исчезновения Адольфа Гитлера (1945-1949)». М.: РОССПЭН, 2016 in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis book is about an unusual police investigation, in which a certain suicide, found in the bunker of the Imperial Chancellery, as it should be before the establishment of the truth, was called “victim”. This is a story about the work of Stalin’s special services in Germany, about palace intrigues and the hopes of people who imagined at the end…[Read more]
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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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Natascha Drubek deposited Filme über Vernichtung und Befreiung. Die Rhetorik der Filmdokumente aus Majdanek 1944-1945 in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn July 1944, the Red Army was advancing through Eastern Poland when they discovered the first traces of the camps. On reaching Lublin they found an enormous compound behind barbed wire in the city’s suburb of Majdanek. Embedded with the Soviet army were film crews, who made the first images of a Nazi camp, among them the “flight survivors” Olga a…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory 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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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
Soviet and Russian history and culture 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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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.
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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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