Our Top Five Most Read Books of 2016 Happy New Year from Open Book Publishers! As we leave 2016 behind, join us in taking a look at our top 5 most read books of the year. 5. The Sword of Judith:
Libraries and Open Access Open Scholarly Publishing and Libraries: Putting Conviviality into the Workflow for Monographs The immaturity of open access monograph publishing compared with that of its siblings of journal and article publishing is well known. This is in spite of the evidence that “open access monograph publishing
Libraries and Open Access A Librarian’s Advice on Making the Most of Open Educational Resources Due to the advent of the World Wide Web, there has been a paradigm shift in educational systems, in terms of its aspirations and its systems and sources. Classrooms are changing; in virtual
Libraries and Open Access Acceso Abierto Accesible y Recursos de Información en Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos ¿Por qué Acceso Abierto Accesible? Bueno, en principio… ¿Y por qué no? Para el año 2017 habrán hecho ya 15 años desde la iniciativa de Budapest para el Acceso Abierto [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.
Libraries and Open Access Accessible Open Access and Information Resources on Disability and Human Rights Why Accessible Open Access? Well, in principle … And why not? By the year 2017 it will have been 15 years since the Budapest initiative for Open Access [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read]. Various
Author Posts Trump and the Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Finance Challenge On 9th November, after his victory in the American Presidential election, Donald Trump declared, “We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re
Libraries and Open Access Open Access Books and the Need to Catch Up I want to like e-books, I really do. I like the idea that I can access my book anywhere I am, from any device I happen to be using at the time. I
Libraries and Open Access - The December Series For Open Access Week 2016, OBP published a series of blog posts by librarians, in which they shared their thoughts on Open Access books – all the blog posts can be read here [https:
Libraries and Open Access The Monograph Crisis: Open Access for Art and Design Scholarship Electronic monographs are not as straightforward as journals. As a librarian assisting students in their research, ebooks don’t come up as frequently and when they do it usually involves resolving issues that
Libraries and Open Access On why we should Love Open Access Books; a UK Librarian’s Perspective. Many librarians in the UK (and as a profession, librarians have a long standing tradition of Open Access advocacy) find it galling that the term ‘ Open Access’ is increasingly met with either a
