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
Academic Publishing OBP's responses to the UUK Open Access Monographs project questionnaire OBP has participated in the data-gathering exercise that is currently being carried out by Fullstopp Gmbh [http://fullstopp.com/] on behalf of the Universities UK Open Access Monographs working group. [https://www.universitiesuk.
Academic Publishing 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
Academic Publishing 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’
Academic Publishing 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
Academic Publishing 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
