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
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
