#oamonographs — Public Fediverse posts

I really like the use of @internetarchive to host recordings of conference sessions.

The @copim team have done a really nice job here with the COPIM Conference 2026 recordings: https://archive.org/details/copim-conference-2026

Rich metadata, abstracts, links to slides. 💯

You can also watch on x2 & x3 speed which is _very_ handy since we're all pressed for time 🙂

#OAbooks #OAmonographs

Good metadata practice for open access books [webinar recording on Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2mZwIpIog

Why metadata matters, and how to create and use it most effectively

speakers: Hannah Hillen, Graham Bell, Jeffrey Edmunds

#OAbooks #OAmonographs #OpenAccess

Great to see more than 80 people on the Open Access Books Network call right now: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/

the subject of this one is: "From Permission to Publication: Managing Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books"

still a lot of confusion out there on this topic! Great to have a high-quality webinar on it.

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #OAmonographs

Nice to see Cambridge University Press unafraid to advertise & highlight a book that has an open access edition (spotted on p.20 of the LRB, vol. 46, no. 18).

The book “Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum” is available online & open access (link below) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-the-english-literary-curriculum/4B2B28BDD55CBC4852A17509A227D047

Remember folks: OA does not diminish print copy sales! Advertising the existence of an OA book is still a good idea, could potentially drive print copy sales.

#OAbooks #OAmonographs #OpenAccess

**New** DeGruter eBound University Press Library https://uplopen.com/about

a bit like DOAB but with extra functionality e.g. Hypothes.is integration, @wikidata concept mappings, and links-out to buy a paper copy from the original publisher

#OpenAccess #OAmonographs #OAbooks

Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12916

#OAmonographs #OAbooks

Went to my first ever London Book Fair this week.

I wouldn't say it was 'fun' but it was useful.

Most people at the London Book Fair want to sell books.

Open access business models for books are often supported by print copy sales.

OA ❤️ print copy sales (but not everyone realises this)

I'm sure I'll be back at the London Book Fair next year...

#OAmonographs #OAbooks #OpenAccess

ALL of the new 2024 MIT Press academic books will be open access again, 3rd year running, thanks to the 'Direct to Open' model

https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-presss-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-opens-access-to-full-list-of-2024-monographs/

#OABooks #OAmonographs #NoAPCs #NoBPCs #EquitableOA #OpenAccess

This is really great news: LSE Press and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) have entered into a new publishing partnership, which came into effect on 1 January 2024 and will see LSE Press publish the highly respected RGS-IBG book series from mid-2024 onwards, publishing up to four open access titles each year

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2024/01/08/royal-geographical-society-to-publish-its-book-series-open-access-with-lse-press/

#OpenAccess #OABooks #OAmonographs

New prizes for open access books https://www.acls.org/news/acls-launches-open-book-prize-to-expand-access-to-knowledge/ #OAbooks #OAmonographs #OpenAccess

Great to see @themitpress here in the fediverse

👍

#AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #OAmonographs

“Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books” an online conference: April 20th , 3.30-8.15pm (BST), and April 21st, 3-7pm (BST)

https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org/

#OpenAccess #OAmonographs

An Interview with The White Horse Press on Joining OASPA https://oaspa.org/welcoming-whitehorse-press/

#OpenAccess #OAmonographs #SubscribeToOpen #S2O

The 2023 Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship (6th - 15th March) looks really good. Programme here: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series/id/16702d4f-60aa-47a1-b72e-8e69be9d180f

Some highlights:

🎇 Wednesday 8 March | The Future of Copyright: Achieving Sustainable Universal Open Access through Copyright Reform (A Debate)

🎆 Monday 13 March | The Importance of Being Open: publishing OA monographs

✨ Tuesday 14 March | Reviewer needed: The future of peer review in academic publishing

#OpenAccess #PeerReview #OpenResearch #OAmonographs

PALOMERA - Policy Alignment of Open access Monographs in the European Research Area 👀
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999999999/project/101094270/program/43108390/details #OAmonographs #OpenAccess

Interesting... the penny just dropped for me reading this thread: https://mastodon.social/@zararah/109437684629350570

It's _really_ important to follow hashtags (as in click the button!) you're interested in here on Mastodon! You'll see posts from people you don't follow using that hashtag. I'm definitely going to make sure I'm now following the hashtags for:

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OAmonographs #OpenData #RightsRetention et cetera...

#NewHere

Delayed open access pilot ‘Greenlight’ aims to boost UK research with new (?) model.

Jisc and Peter Lang Group AG have announced a pilot project (5 books only?) for a new collective purchase model.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/open-access-pilot-greenlight-aims-to-boost-uk-research-with-new-model-16-nov-2022?utm_campaign=Headlines&utm_content=Headlines%2030%2F11%2F2022&utm_medium=Headlines&utm_source=Adestra+Email
#OpenAccess #DelayedOA #OAmonographs

Delayed open access pilot ‘Greenlight’ aims to boost UK research with new (?) model.

Jisc and Peter Lang Group AG have announced a pilot project (5 books only?) for a new collective purchase model.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/open-access-pilot-greenlight-aims-to-boost-uk-research-with-new-model-16-nov-2022?utm_campaign=Headlines&utm_content=Headlines%2030%2F11%2F2022&utm_medium=Headlines&utm_source=Adestra+Email
#OpenAccess #DelayedOA #OAmonographs

Delayed open access pilot ‘Greenlight’ aims to boost UK research with new (?) model.

Jisc and Peter Lang Group AG have announced a pilot project (5 books only?) for a new collective purchase model.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/open-access-pilot-greenlight-aims-to-boost-uk-research-with-new-model-16-nov-2022?utm_campaign=Headlines&utm_content=Headlines%2030%2F11%2F2022&utm_medium=Headlines&utm_source=Adestra+Email
#OpenAccess #DelayedOA #OAmonographs

Delayed open access pilot ‘Greenlight’ aims to boost UK research with new (?) model.

Jisc and Peter Lang Group AG have announced a pilot project (5 books only?) for a new collective purchase model.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/open-access-pilot-greenlight-aims-to-boost-uk-research-with-new-model-16-nov-2022?utm_campaign=Headlines&utm_content=Headlines%2030%2F11%2F2022&utm_medium=Headlines&utm_source=Adestra+Email
#OpenAccess #DelayedOA #OAmonographs

The recording (& slides) of the excellent OASPA webinar on rights retention for books and book chapters is now up online: https://oaspa.org/webinar-rights-retention-for-books-and-book-chapters/?utm_source=OASPA+News&utm_campaign=e7ed7c7169-Webinar+Recording+available+-+Nov+22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_457662dc26-e7ed7c7169-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&ct=t%28Webinar+Recording+available+-+Nov+22%29

#RightsRetention #OpenAccess #OAMonographs

Loving this transparency from UCL Press in regards to their published books.

* 266 books so far
* 6.6 million views
* over 37,000 print copies sold, despite the full book being OA online (crude mean calc: 139 sales per OA book?)

Fascinating.
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/statistics

#OpenAccess #OAmonographs #ReadUP

MIT Press Direct to Open books downloaded more than 176,312 times in ten months https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/mit-press-direct-to-open-books-downloaded-more-than-176312-in-ten-months/

#OpenAccess #OAMonographs #D2O