Libraries and Open Access Open Access books? I Thought OA was for Journals! “I thought open access was about academic journals – why are you talking about books?” This is a common refrain that I hear when begin talking about the importance of open access books, one
Digital Scholarship, Networked Scholarship, and Other Side Effects of Open [1]As an early-career librarian, I am fortunate to have come into a world of academic libraries that already values Open Access. I learned about open access in my courses and discussed it
A History of Open Access at The Royal Library of Belgium The Royal Library of Belgium [http://www.kbr.be/en]’s collections have been growing since the XVth century. Throughout its history, from the Library of the Dukes of Bourgogne to the present
A Few Thoughts about Open Access Books Electronic books, better known as e-books, first arrived in the early 1970s as digital versions of their print counterparts (Loan, 2015). Since then, they have become an invaluable component of the publishing market
Open Access and Content and Discovery The University of Nottingham has a long history of supporting open access [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/open-access/index.aspx] publishing to further extend the reach and impact of our academics’
The Ups and Downs of Institutional Repositories Institutional Repositories (IR) have become a staple of most academic libraries. They are generally populated by Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs )and faculty peer-reviewed manuscripts, also known as post-prints in the parlance of
Medieval Book Customisation and Open Access: a Brief (and slightly tortured) Comparison Kathryn Rudy’s latest book Piety in Pieces [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/477], details the activities of medieval book owners who personalised their books by inserting new pages, drawings, and notes. These
Leveraging Distributed Proofreaders for Open Content Enhancement (and some unexpected consequences) For many years, Villanova University’s Digital Library [https://digital.library.villanova.edu]has been providing open access to out-of-copyright books, journals, newspapers, and other content. From the beginning, this content was provided
What does it mean for a work of literature to be “against criticism”? What does it mean for a work of literature to be “against criticism”? After all, it is a sure fact that the market conditions for the reception of much literary fiction are fostered
Open Access Week - Librarian Bloggers Needed! Open Access week is fast approaching! There are some fantastic events and other projects in the OA Week lineup, all available to look through on theOA Week website [http://www.openaccessweek.org/]. Here
