100th Book One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two) This is part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/611]. To read the first part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-one/] To read the final part,
100th Book One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One) Open Book Publishers was born in 2008, sparked into life by co-founder and managing editor Alessandra Tosi’s first-hand experience of the frustrations of academic publishing. The thrill of seeing her book in print was dampened by the realisation that, thanks to its exorbitant price and small print
Notes From The Editor OBP Nominated for Education Award We are delighted to announce that we are 2017 WISE Awards Finalists [http://bit.ly/2jtNQ4N]! The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) rewards organisations for their innovative and impactful approaches to today’s most urgent education challenges, and we are thrilled to be recognised alongside some very impressive projects.
Create your own OBP book with OBP Customise! Did you know you can create your own books using OBP content? This can be as simple as requesting a customised cover for one of our existing books (OBP Personal [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/60/1/obp-personal]), but we can also work with you to create a volume
Author Posts Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem - A Q&A with Flora Kimmich Q: How did translating Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem compare to your first translation with OBP, Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa? A: Wallenstein is in every sense a much bigger piece than Fiesco: three plays instead of one; in verse and not in prose; a major tragedy and not a first
Our Top Five Most Read Books of 2016 Happy New Year from Open Book Publishers! As we leave 2016 behind, join us in taking a look at our top 5 most read books of the year. 5. The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines by Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.) Number 5
Libraries and Open Access - The December Series For Open Access Week 2016, OBP published a series of blog posts by librarians, in which they shared their thoughts on Open Access books – all the blog posts can be read here [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/category/libraries-oa/]. But we didn’t want the conversation to end there! We
Open Access Week - Librarian Bloggers Needed! Open Access week is fast approaching! There are some fantastic events and other projects in the OA Week lineup, all available to look through on theOA Week website [http://www.openaccessweek.org/]. Here at OBP, we are planning some of our own projects for OA Week – we will be publishing
Environmentalism and Social Performance We are pleased to announce the release of Heike Graf’s latest work The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication and the Digital Landscape. This collection of essays focuses on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, drawing on case studies from around the
OBP Customised Sharing Knowledge Just Got More Personal OBP is delighted to announce the launch of OBP Customised, a new line of customised editions that lets readers create their own books! We are the first Open Access publisher in the UK to offer such a service – an exciting opportunity for readers to mix, match, and personalise their own
Academic Publishing Knowledge is for sharing Open Access: the future of academic publishing Researchers, authors and funding bodies are realising that the high price of access to academic books and journals means that only a select few can read their work. Open Access (that is, making texts free to read and reuse) helps spread research results
