On Open Access: Thoughts from our Authors

For Open Access Week 2020 we invited our authors to share their thoughts on the topics of equity, accessibility, open knowledge and open access publishing. Continue reading to find out what they had to say.

Simplified Signs: My brother’s gift, delivered by Open Book Publishers

by William B. Bonvillian When my brother, John Bonvillian, an emeritus faculty member at the University of Virginia, died in 2018, he had just put the finishing touches on the capstone project of his academic career in psychology and linguistics – the Simplified Signs Project.   Simplified Signs are a manual sign

Open Access: the Start, not the End of the Equity Journey

Read this post about equity, inclusivity and Open Access by Dr Louise Bezuidenhout and Dr Sara de Wit from the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), University of Oxford.

News Flash: R. O. Blechman Turns Ninety!

The Brooklyn-born R. O. Blechman, Bob to his intimates, qualifies officially as a nonagenarian on October 1, 2020. This blog post, despite being candleless and cakefree, celebrates the occasion, with more than enough social distancing to satisfy the strictest epidemiologist.

On 'Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century'

Read Emma Frost's reflection on our Open Access title 'Waltzing Through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century'.