Three fascinating projects being supported by Copim's Experimental Books group in this thread -- worth exploring! 🧵

For open monographs, collective library subscription is the key: these initiatives don’t demand extra funding, undervalue publisher input or create divisions, say Anthony Cond (Liverpool University Press) and Jane Bunker (@CornellPress). #OA #LivOpenMonograph
bit.ly/3wiBT8R

Our Scholarly Communications Newsletter April issue is out! Lots to catch up with incl. Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter's new #OpenAccess Strategy, recently launched Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Declaration on #OpenResearch , a new tool, Infra Finder from Invest in Open Infrastructure and more! #ScholComm mailchi.mp/2920b1e587ed/b…

This was a wonderful event to be part of, and enormous credit and thanks to the organising team at Zadar and OPERAS -- huge amounts of hard work will have gone into making it such a success! 👏👏👏

We can do it. University of Lorraine is unsubscribing from big deals and saving 450.000 euros to be reinvested in #OpenScience activities #OPERAS2024

OASPA is a partner in the #PALOMERA project. You may be interested in this blog post by Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) about the conversations the project has been having with different stakeholder groups and the things being learned.

PALOMERA Conversations: A Deep Dive at openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/03/26/pal…

📕📢Découvrez notre site web!
+ qu'une vitrine pour nos publications, il fournit l'accès intégral à la quasi-totalité de nos ouvrages de #recherche
➡️: editions.univ-lorraine.fr
Université Lorraine Comité pour la science ouverte Public Knowledge Project (PKP) #scienceouverte #openscience #openaccess #OpenMonographPress

Half the OtF team is on the train to Liverpool today for their v timely symposium on OA for monographs, discussing issues noted by Liverpool University Press here: timeshighereducation.com/blog/open-mono…
COPIM ([email protected]) David Prosser UK Research and Innovation rachelbruce Steven Hill

Agree with this. I think one factor behind author reluctance to publish OA (one of many) is that these issues aren't talked about enough (and authors in secure employment at universities are protected from at least some of them).

The Open Library of Humanities launches 7 new journals: openlibhums.org/news/700/

This increases the OLH’s portfolio to 30 journals currently publishing, with a further 3 high-profile journals who will be leaving their commercial publishers in Spring-Summer 2024 to relaunch at the OLH. (1/2)

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2024. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📆 30/06: openlibhums.org/news/690/

Time is running out to register for the IOAP Open Monograph Publishing webinar on Thursday 25th April 2-3.30pm. Chaired by Lai Ma and featuring presentations by Niels Stern Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) Ellen Breen and Markus Pauli. Plenty of time for Q&A. Details below.

🇮🇹Our 'Around the World with the OABN' series continues with a post all about Italy!📷 📷

Nicola Cavalli nicolacavalli shares insights into the state of Open Access book publishing in Italy. The post is written in Italian & English:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/23/aro…

#OAbooks

The IOAP is hosting a webinar on Open Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Thursday 25th April 2-3.30pm. Registration is free but booking is essential. lnkd.in/eeDsVwhs
Niels Stern Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) Ellen Breen Markus Pauli Lai Ma

(2/2) Wkshop 7: How To Facilitate Horizontal Collaboration Between Community-Led Infrastructures for Equitable and Bibliodiverse Futures for Open Access Books? 17:00–18:30 CEST w/ Toby Steiner Rupert Gatti Thoth (@[email protected]) Niels Stern

(1/2) Going to #OPERAS2024 tomorrow (24 April)? Then go see Wkshop 5: Diamond Open Access for books: Community Support in Theory and Practice, 15:15–16:45 CEST with Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) Silke Davison OAPEN & other colleagues. Also later that day >>

Dr Linda Porter Thank you for raising this. So many academic books are way beyond my price range and my local library, now run by a charity, can’t always access them either.

Dr Linda Porter I agree Linda. I’m not an academic and there are books out there I want to read, but I cannot justify the price to myself to buy them.

Dr Linda Porter Great point Linda, thank you for raising it. I was lucky enough to be gifted an academic text last year that I desperately wanted to read but was out of my price range. Surely, more people would read them if they were affordable.

The historian Dr Linda Porter reviews Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735, ed Eilish Gregory and Michael C Questier. This is an important and interesting collection of essays, but at £109.99, she asks, how many can afford to read it?
Read her review: bit.ly/HistoriaReview…