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Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance

What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.

Is a Rights Retention Clause needed for OA books?

When discussing funder-imposed Rights Retention Strategies (RRS) there is an important consideration for funders of Open Access (OA) books that differs from journals. It will be explored in this post.

A People’s Voice

We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.

Open Book Publishers - Summer Newsletter - August 2022

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter! We have information on our open Call for Proposals, new publications, latest reviews, interviews, features, blogs and more!

Maggot Medicine

Read now: a new blog by Dr Frank Stadler, editor of 'A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics'.

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