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Open Access books: Jisc work in the area | Jisc Scholarly Communications

Open Access books: Jisc work in the area | Jisc Scholarly Communications | Everything open | Scoop.it

Most of the posts on this blog concern open access to journal articles. In this post, jointly authored by Neil Jacobs, Caren Milloy, Neil Grindley, Chris Keene and Liam Earney, we take a look at Jisc’s current work in the area of OA books.

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Knowledged Unlatched invites university libraries to open access publishing pilot - Creative Commons

Knowledged Unlatched invites university libraries to open access publishing pilot - Creative Commons | Everything open | Scoop.it
Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. This guest blog post was written by Lucy Montgomery, deputy director of Knowledge Unlatched.

Knowledge Unlatched is inviting university libraries to join the pilot of a new approach to achieving open access for specialist scholarly books.

Specialist books in the Humanities and Social Sciences, or monographs, sell for between $50 and $200. Monograph publishing is in danger...
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How long till we have Open Access books? The Sociological ...

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There's an extremely informative article on the LSE Impact Blog giving a useful overview of the still uncertain future of open access monographs. There are a variety of potential models which could be adopted for publishing ...
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Launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

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www.openaccess.nl (Official launch of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) at the OA-Books conference 1 July at the BL in London.
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Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection of Books Will Become Open Access, 300 Libraries Pledge Support | LJ INFOdocket

Knowledge Unlatched Pilot Collection of Books Will Become Open Access, 300 Libraries Pledge Support | LJ INFOdocket | Everything open | Scoop.it

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is pleased to announce that its Pilot Collection of 28 new books from 13 scholarly publishers will become Open Access. The KU Pilot Collection is the first step in creating a sustainable route to Open Access for Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) books.

Support from a minimum of 200 libraries willing to participate in the KU Pilot was required in order to achieve this goal

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A new project to investigate monographs and open access - HEFCE

A new project to investigate monographs and open access - HEFCE | Everything open | Scoop.it

HEFCE luanch new project to examine open aces publishing in the arts, humanities and social sciences.


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Thierry Belleguic's curator insight, January 23, 2014 8:56 AM

HEFCE has launched a new project to investigate the issues regarding open access publishing of monographs and other long-form scholarly works. The project, being undertaken in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, aims to identify and draw together a body of evidence concerning monographs and open access publishing.

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OAPEN Library

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Welcome to OAPENonline library and publication platform

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.

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