Lucy Barnes

OBP Spring Newsletter 2020

Welcome to our Spring Newsletter! Amid all the uncertainties surrounding the COVID19 pandemic, at Open Book Publishers we remain committed to making knowledge accessible and we are still working —albeit from our separate homes— to bring you the latest news and open access academic books.

COVID19

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.

Online conferences

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

carbon footprint 2020

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.

Academic Publishing

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?

OBP Newsletter

OBP Winter Newsletter 2020

Welcome to our first newsletter of the year! We're celebrating the beginning of 2020 with fantastic news about the start of the COPIM project [https://copim.pubpub.org/], our new [https://www.openbookpublishers.

Польові зйомки: Оцифрування документальної спадщини у складних умовах

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

Opening Up Mathematics

Looking forward, looking back: William Moorcroft in the news

COVID19: Information and Resources from OBP

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

Are virtual conferences good enough?

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

The Environmental Impact of Open Book Publishers

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