Academic Publishing Green, Gold, Diamond, Black – what does it all mean? There’s a lot of jargon surrounding Open Access publication, and as with all jargon it can confuse and obfuscate. Here is a simple glossary: Diamond / PlatinumImmediate Open Access publication by the journal
Academic Publishing APCs, BPCs, can I have some money please – who pays for OA? This is one of the most important questions for authors: if the reader doesn’t pay, who does? BPCs (Book Processing Charges) and APCs (Article Processing Charges) are fees levied on authors, their
Academic Publishing What should I ask a publisher about Open Access? There are many academic publishers who publish Open Access work, including some of the most well-known such as Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, The MIT Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer,
Academic Publishing An Academic’s Guide to Open Access For Open Access Week 2018, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that cover the basics of Open Access for academic researchers. We hope they give you the tools to navigate
Academic Publishing Why OBP is not participating in KU Open Funding: and why libraries should understand the reasons. Knowledge Unlatched has recently announced the launch of a new platform to fund Open Access (OA) books. In this post, we explain our concern with this platform and why we won't be participating.
Academic Publishing A Director Writes: The First Ten Years of OBP When Alessandra and Rupert invited me to join them in establishing Open Publishers as a Community Interest Company, I was delighted to accept. Having been a senior manager in the British Treasury I
Academic Publishing Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part Two) The next ten years: “We need to show this can be different.” While Gatti and Tosi are fiercely proud of what they have built, they believe the future of OBP lies in enabling
Academic Publishing Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One) Ten years ago today Open Book Publishers [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/14/1] was born. Non-profit, scholar-led and now the leading UK Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, OBP
Human and Machine Consciousness Human and Machine Consciousness - a systematic approach Consciousness is extremely important to us. What would life be worth without the smells, colours and sounds that fill our waking conscious experience? Coma patients who are unlikely to regain consciousness are allowed
Austerity Just Managing? and the articulation of Austerity The Independent has recently reported that in autumn this year, the UN Human Rights Investigator Professor Philip Alston will be researching the impact of Tory austerity measures in Britain.[1] The need for
