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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe 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.
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Pablo Markin replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoYou are welcome Tom. Thanks for this feedback and greetings. The presence on the ORC has, indeed, been a mixed bag, but relatively consistent. I will do my best to target whatever posts I will be sharing in this list/area to book-related OA topics!
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi 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]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing, Kathi — I’ll tweet this out from the OABN account.
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Anne Eakin Moss deposited The Camera Shot and the Gun Sight in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article examines the link posited by Virilio and others between the camera shot and gun shot, arguing that this link operates differently in the context of Soviet vs. Western fantasies of agency, community and technology. Comparing THE LOST PATROL (USA 1934, John Ford) with TRINADTSAT (THIRTEEN, UdSSR 1936, Mikhail Romm), it asks what kind of…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens started the topic Survey: Has COVID Impacted Humanities OA? in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMaster’s student student Olivia Rollins (Portland State University, Book Publishing) invites you to fill out a short survey (5-7 minutes) intended to measure the effects of the COVID pandemic on OA humanities publishing.
Access the survey here.
Thank you for taking time to fill out the survey and gather this knowledge.
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Pablo Markin started the topic Open Access, Public Goods and Market Players in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
The latest post at the Open Research Community discusses how the rise of Open Access is likely driven by market mechanisms affecting the scholarly publishing industry. As the post suggests, Open Access increases the possibilities for dynamic responses to shifts in aggregate supply and demand on the side of both institutions and…[Read more]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]
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Sherri Barnes deposited The Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Project in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn an era of transformative open access journal agreements, the article examines the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project through a transformative lens. How might we apply transformativeness to open access monograph publishing? Is transformativeness measured in strictly financial and transactional terms, or…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThanks for sharing Pablo and congrats with this milestone and if I read it correctly over 1 post a day on average. Good luck with the ORC in 2021 and looking forward to seeing some OA-books related news pop-up from time to time!
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Pablo Markin started the topic The ORC in 2020 in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear All,
This blog post briefly reviews the highlights of the Open Research Community (ORC) since its launch in early 2020: https://openresearch.community/posts/the-open-research-community-in-2020-a-year-in-review.
More specifically, in the last year, the ORC registered around 104,000 page views, had almost 28,000 new and returning visitors,…[Read more]
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited The Struggle to Create a Regional Public in the Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire: the Case of Kazanskie izvestiia in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn the early part of the reign of Alexander I (1801-1825), the emperor sought to reform Russia through the creation of new European-style institutions. The aim was to ensure that Russia’s great-power status would be retained through updating its institutions, in line with a reform impulse dating back to Peter the Great and before. Among the new i…[Read more]
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