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
Environmentalism and Social Performance We are pleased to announce the release of Heike Graf’s latest work The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication and the Digital Landscape. This collection of essays focuses on
Do Composers Live in a Bubble? Do composers live in a bubble? I do not think so. Years ago I had a musical conversation with a friend of mine. As a non-specialist, at some point he decided to pick
Art in Times of Conflict As OBP and I get ready to publish Theatre & War: Notes from the Field, my excitement is tempered with a little bit of – what I can only term – hopelessness. Because, you see, I
Enhanced Multi-Media Bilingual Edition of 'Rameau's Nephew': Bringing Education to Life Our award winning book, Denis Diderot ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ – ‘Le Neveu de Rameau’, winner of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies’ 2015 Prize for Digital Publication, has been re-issued as an enhanced bilingual
