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

OBP to Take a Leading Role in £2.2 Million Project to Develop Open Access Book Publishing

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OBP to Take a Leading Role in £2.2 Million Project to Develop Open Access Book Publishing

On 14th June, Research England announced [https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/] the award of a £2.2 million grant to the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) [https://www.copim.ac.uk/] project, which is designed to build much-needed community-controlled, open systems and infrastructures that will develop

Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library

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Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library

We have grave concerns about the approach and business model of the Open Research Library, and those of its creator Knowledge Unlatched, which we will set out in this post.

OBP blogs on tour

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OBP blogs on tour

We have recently contributed to two other blogs to talk about ScholarLed, the new OA consortium we have joined; and about the importance of Open Access publishing and what it can offer to authors. Catch up with those posts here! * University of Kent, Office for Scholarly Communication “Innovation in Scholarly

Further Reading

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Further Reading

* An excellent Open Access quiz that covers many of the key issues https://www.lepublikateur.de/2018/08/27/open-access-quiz/ * A recently-released film about Open Access in academia, ‘Paywall: The Business of Scholarship’ https://paywallthemovie.com/ * An introduction to Open Access by Peter Suber [https://cyber.harvard.edu/~psuber/wiki/

Reputation, reputation, reputation – quality control and reward systems

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Reputation, reputation, reputation – quality control and reward systems

In the past, Open Access publishing has been accused of being akin to vanity publishing or self-publishing, while the term ‘predatory publishing’ describes a phenomenon in which a publisher charges expensive fees for guaranteed publication while failing to provide peer review or even basic editing.[1] Reputable Open Access publishers

Copyright and licensing – what do I need to know?

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Copyright and licensing – what do I need to know?

When you create original work, you possess the copyright.[1] When you wish to publish that work, some publishers might ask you to sign the copyright over to them as a condition of publication, so that they can disseminate the work exclusively and therefore maximise its profitability. However, you do

Green, Gold, Diamond, Black – what does it all mean?

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Green, Gold, Diamond, Black – what does it all mean?

There’s a lot of jargon surrounding Open Access publication, and as with all jargon it can confuse and obfuscate. Here is a simple glossary: Diamond / PlatinumImmediate Open Access publication by the journal or book publisher without payment of a fee. Copyright may be retained by the author and permission

APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA?

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APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA?

This is one of the most important questions for authors: if the reader doesn’t pay, who does? BPCs (Book Processing Charges) and APCs (Article Processing Charges) are fees levied on authors, their institutions or their funding bodies to pay for Open Access publishing (also known as author-side fees). It’

What should I ask a publisher about Open Access?

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What should I ask a publisher about Open Access?

There are many academic publishers who publish Open Access work, including some of the most well-known such as Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, The MIT Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Elsevier, and so on. There are also publishers whose entire publishing output is made available on an

An Academic’s Guide to Open Access

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An Academic’s Guide to Open Access

For Open Access Week 2018, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that cover the basics of Open Access for academic researchers. We hope they give you the tools to navigate this vital subject with confidence. * What should I ask a publisher about Open Access? [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part Two)

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Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part Two)

The next ten years: “We need to show this can be different.” While Gatti and Tosi are fiercely proud of what they have built, they believe the future of OBP lies in enabling the growth of other Open Access publishers. Gatti sees this as the way to achieve significant and

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

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Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

Ten years ago today Open Book Publishers [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/14/1] was born. Non-profit, scholar-led and now the leading UK Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, OBP began as a small-scale experiment, a passion project for co-directors Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti. They were

Knowledge is for Sharing: Support Us!

Knowledge is for Sharing: Support Us!

We’re a not-for-profit Open Access academic press, and we’re dedicated to making outstanding books that are free for everybody to read. We don’t charge authors to publish with us. We don’t put our content behind paywalls. If you believe in open access publishing, now you can