OBP Newsletter OBP Autumn Newsletter Welcome to our recent news and releases! We're celebrating the autumn with new and award-winning titles, innovative software developments, and the release of the first OA texbook on conservation biology. Read on for more!
Why political scientists and linguists are now talking about language politics in the Himalaya Why a book on The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/980] and why now? The title of the book might provide some answers. As the title
Author Posts The Shifting Politics of Representations of the Himalaya: From Colonial Authority to Open Access On an uncharacteristically sunny afternoon in late September, 50 students, staff and faculty gathered at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies [https://pwias.ubc.ca/event/book-launch-the-politics-language-contact-in-the-himalaya] in Vancouver to celebrate the
Why the politics of language needs examples from beyond the Global North I was invited to reflect on and situate The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/980] in the broader multidisciplinary debate on the politics of language. Let
International relations History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective – Erik Ringmar International Relations (IR) can be defined as the study of the interconnectedness of nations on a global level, merging the disciplines of economics, history, political science and law to examine such topics as
Open Infrastructure 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.
bad actors 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.
English Literature Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line In the three-volume second edition (1987) of Tennyson’s complete poems, editor Christopher Ricks cites more than twelve hundred instances where phrases and short passages are similar or identical to those occurring in
migration Women and Migration; a vital contribution to the narrative of migration Migration has been intertwined with human life from its very beginnings. The nomadic spirit of our ancestors led them from Africa to Asia between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago, and today,
German Literature Hölderlin, Gaskill, and the art of translation Among scholars and enthusiasts of romantic literature, Hölderlin is certainly best known for his beautiful lyric poetry. Engaging themes of exile, divinity and the natural world, his poems ingeniously incorporated classical Greek syntax
