Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death Deadbeat Donors I was thrilled about the birth of my new grandson; yet as I held him, just a week after his birth, I wondered how he should feel about that event, or how I
Data Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One) There is quite a lot of discussion about how to finance the costs of publishing monographs in Open Access. While lots of alternative business models have been identified, actual hard data on the
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP's Business Model (Part Two) In the first part of this post I identified some of the problems I perceive with the legacy publishing model for academic books, articulated the primary objectives of OBP, and noted that at
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part Three) Here are our cost and revenue figures. As also reported at the OASPA conference, they are for the 12-month period from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015. Being based in the UK,
Black Inked Pearl My Life — Dreaming Aloud Brilliant Open Book! It means that for the first time in — wow am I that old (but not quite demented yet) — in over forty years, people in Africa have a real chance to
Jean McClure Mudge A Second Great Age of Revolution: Emerson and the World What does Emerson’s revolutionary message have to say to the world now? The famous uprisings that set the stage for Emerson in the first Age of Revolution were the American and French
Bhaskar Vira Why forests matter for the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger As the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit [https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/summit] convenes in New York this weekend to adopt the post-2015 development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals [http://www.un.
A Musicology of Performance From Stage to Page: Studying the Performance of Music Why study the performance of music? Is it not the composer who creates “the music” that listeners of Western classical music enjoy hearing? Does the performer matter? What can an instrumentalist, conductor or
Documentary Photography Camera Memoria: Some Thoughts Initiated by Lionel Gossman’s Thomas Annan of Glasgow Thomas Annan is a fascinating study, both in the particular case of Lionel Gossman’s fine monograph on this photographer [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/339/thomas-annan-of-glasgow--pioneer-of-the-documentary-photograph] (I nearly wrote ‘artist’) and in
All That Is Gold (OA) Does Not Glitter Earlier this month the VSNU (Association of Universities in the Netherlands) announced a boycott of Elsevier – the largest academic publisher in the world – in protest at its stranglehold on the academic community. The
