Lucy Barnes

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.

carbon footprint 2020

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.

Experimenting with Audio: Announcing Our First OA Audiobooks

Navigating AI in Academic Publishing: Balancing Efficiency, Expertise and Ethics

October 2024 Newsletter

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

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

Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint: Update One