‘Voices from the Open Access Books Community’ is a series of discussion-based events that bring together as many members of the OA books community as possible to analyse different areas of policy for Open Access books. These discussions will feed into a policy document that will be created by SPARC Europe, and presented to cOAlition… 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 >
Workshop invitation: Innovative business models for open access book publishing in Europe
Workshop: Innovative business models for open access book publishing in Europe Wednesday 7th April, 14:00-16:00 CEST OASPA is supporting the work of the OPERAS-P project which is looking into innovative, non-bpc business models to create a sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing in Europe. Following the publication of a library landscape study, investigating the opportunities… Read full article >
Webinar: Open Book Metadata: Speaker key takeaways, attendee questions answered and webinar chat resources
Following our recent Open Book Metadata webinar, we asked our speakers to respond to the unanswered questions posed by attendees via the webinar Q&A channel. You can find those questions and answers below as well as speaker key takeaways and an edited curated list of resources and comments shared via webinar chat. This may be… Read full article >