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 >
An Interview with The White Horse Press on Joining OASPA
The White Horse Press recently joined OASPA as member in the Small Professional Publisher category. The Press joins a growing list of over 210 OASPA members. We asked Dr Sarah Johnson, Partner, a few questions so we could learn more about The White Horse Press and the decision to become an OASPA member. Q…. Read full article >
Welcoming Bloomsbury Academic as an OASPA member
We recently welcomed Bloomsbury Academic as an OASPA member in the Large Publisher category. Bloomsbury Academic joins over 190 OASPA members. We asked Ros Pyne, Global Director, Research and Open Access, a few questions so we could learn more about Bloomsbury Academic and its connection to open scholarship and decision to become an OASPA member…. Read full article >
Welcoming The MIT Press as an OASPA member Copy
We recently welcomed The MIT Press as an OASPA member in the Professional Publisher (Large) category. The MIT Press joins over 190 OASPA members and 20 others in the Professional Publisher (Large) category. We asked Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access, a few questions so we could learn more about the organisation and… Read full article >
Guest post: A milestone for the open access book: 50,000 open access books in DOAB and counting
This is a guest post by Tom Mosterd, DOAB This post is available in Spanish and Portuguese. A milestone for open access – the Directory of Open Access Books now includes over 50,000 open access books published in 90 languages by 560 academic book publishers. The directory, representing scholarship from authors and publishers around the… Read full article >