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 >
Voices from the OA Books Community 4: Discoverability and Metadata
‘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 >