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Lucy Barnes is Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers.

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access

When a more restrictive open access licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

Some thoughts about how our focus on community, rather than profit, has benefited our press—and some reflections on the potential for community-driven open access (OA) to grow over the next few years.

Where does the money go? Explaining our Library Membership Programme

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Where does the money go? Explaining our Library Membership Programme

This post explains how our Library Membership Programme works, what it funds, and why we also ask authors who are able to apply for funding to do so.

Open Book Publishers Joins the Open Book Collective

Open Book Publishers Joins the Open Book Collective

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is delighted to announce that we have joined the Open Book Collective (OBC). Keep reading to find out more.

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Shrinking our carbon footprint: Open Access publishing and environmental sustainability

This Open Access Week’s theme of ‘Open for climate justice’ has given us at Open Book Publishers an opportunity to reflect on our own environmental impact as a press.

Open Access book usage in 2020: measurement and value

Open Access book usage in 2020: measurement and value

Given that the need for remotely accessible resources has risen so significantly in the last year, how has the usage of our books changed?

Annual Report 2020

Annual Report 2020

As you prepare to celebrate the holiday season, don’t miss out on our last 2020 newsletter to find out more about all our achievements, future plans and interesting news!

The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes

The cost of Open Access books: a publisher writes

OBP lays out our costs and revenue for the last financial year (2018 - 2019), to add some numbers to discussions about funding OA books.

OBP's draft response to the UKRI Open Access consultation

OBP's draft response to the UKRI Open Access consultation

Open Book Publishers' draft response to the UKRI Open Access consultation.

COVID19: Information and Resources from OBP

COVID19: Information and Resources from OBP

An update on our activities during the coronavirus crisis, and a collection of freely available and downloadable resources that might be useful during this time.

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

Online conferences

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

This post presents some examples and in-depth case studies of successful online conferences.

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

Online conferences

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

The simultaneous focus on multiple technologies and social contexts in conferences settings creates opportunities as well as problems for researchers.

Are virtual conferences good enough?

Online conferences

Are virtual conferences good enough?

Socially constructed obstacles to virtual conference adoption are large, but fragile. Change will be driven by improvements in technology, increased networked literacy and pressure to restrain costs – both financial and ecological.

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Online conferences

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Why do we have academic conferences at all, and what are the affordances and constraints of online conferences in meeting these needs?

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

Online conferences

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

We are all having to learn how to do more remotely, now and for the foreseeable future. This series of blog posts, drawn from 'Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene', deals with the why, the what and the how of online conferences.

The Environmental Impact of Open Book Publishers

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The Environmental Impact of Open Book Publishers

At Open Book Publishers, we are working to minimise our environmental impact. Find out more in this post.

Is prestige a problem? Considering the usefulness of prestige in academic book publishing

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Is prestige a problem? Considering the usefulness of prestige in academic book publishing

A reliance on prestige in academic publishing limits the choice of authors and the accessibility of research, and it deadens innovation. What might we replace it with?

Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint: Update One

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Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint: Update One

In December, we announced our intention to reduce our carbon footprint in 2020. This post includes more detail about our plans and an update about what we’ve achieved thus far.

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

We explain our concerns about COUNTER statistics as a measure of the usage of Open Access digital resources by members of a university library—and particularly when they are compared with similar statistics for ‘closed access’ and paywalled content.

OBP to Shrink our Carbon Footprint in 2020

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OBP to Shrink our Carbon Footprint in 2020

In 2020, OBP will be taking steps to shrink our carbon footprint, and we will be blogging about our experiences along the way.

What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data

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What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data

An easy-to-understand explanation of how we collect our book usage data, and why we have started to present it differently.