This guest post is by Lucy Barnes of Open Book Publishers and COPIM Since November 2019, the COPIM project has been building community-led systems and infrastructures to support and develop open access (OA) book publishing. We’ve focused particularly on how to enable smaller and medium-sized presses to thrive in an open access world, following… Read full article >
Webinar – Business Models for Open Access Books: A Compendium
As well as this recording, please find panelists slides – Lucy Barnes, Francois van Schalkwyk, Beth Bouloukos and Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei You can find the collection of case studies detailing the business models of a range of open access (OA) academic book presses at Business Models for Open Access Books. Resources… Read full article >
Growth of OASPA members book output: We see different patterns between books and journals
Each year, OASPA surveys its members about their publication output – both books and journals. We are delighted to once again have worked with Delta Think who have helped us by taking on the analysis, structuring and presentation of the data we collected, and in this guest blog post they highlight our books findings. This… Read full article >
Report published: OPERAS-P and OASPA workshop on innovative business models for OA books
Together with OPERAS, OASPA is hosting a series of three workshops on business models for open access books targeted specifically at small and medium-sized academic book publishers. These workshops are part of the OPERAS-P project work package 6 (Innovation), looking into innovative, non-bpc, business models to create a sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing… Read full article >
The Open Access Books Network: Voices from the OA books community
This is a guest post by Lucy Barnes (Open Book Publishers/ScholarLed/COPIM), Tom Mosterd (DOAB/OAPEN) and Agata Morka (OPERAS/COPIM/SPARC EU), the coordinators of the Open Access Books Network. The Open Access Books Network (OABN), begun by OAPEN, OPERAS, ScholarLed and SPARC Europe, is an open online community devoted to sharing knowledge and resources about all aspects… Read full article >