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.
Libraries COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books We explain our concerns about COUNTER statistics as a measure of the usage of Open Access digital resources by members of a university library—and particularly when they are compared with similar statistics for ‘closed access’ and paywalled content.
OBP Newsletter Annual Report 2019 As we come to the end of this year, it is with great pride that we look back at the many exciting things that have happened here at OBP in 2019!
carbon footprint 2020 OBP to Shrink our Carbon Footprint in 2020 In 2020, OBP will be taking steps to shrink our carbon footprint, and we will be blogging about our experiences along the way.
Metrics What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data An easy-to-understand explanation of how we collect our book usage data, and why we have started to present it differently.
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!
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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
