climate change Linking Climate Justice and Open Access: the case for truly public knowledge Read Now: Mihnea Tănăsescu's blog on climate justice, academic research and OA written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.
About Us Shrinking our carbon footprint: Open Access publishing and environmental sustainability This Open Access Week’s theme of ‘Open for climate justice’ has given us at Open Book Publishers an opportunity to reflect on our own environmental impact as a press.
Our books Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.
Academic Publishing Is a Rights Retention Clause needed for OA books? When discussing funder-imposed Rights Retention Strategies (RRS) there is an important consideration for funders of Open Access (OA) books that differs from journals. It will be explored in this post.
Our books A People’s Voice We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.
OBP Newsletter Open Book Publishers - Summer Newsletter - August 2022 Welcome to our Summer Newsletter! We have information on our open Call for Proposals, new publications, latest reviews, interviews, features, blogs and more!
Our books Maggot Medicine Read now: a new blog by Dr Frank Stadler, editor of 'A Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy: Clinical Practice, Therapeutic Principles, Production, Distribution, and Ethics'.
Our books The Merger Mystery Read Now: a new blog by Geoff and J. Gay Meeks, authors of 'The Merger Mystery: Why Spend Ever More on Mergers When So Many Fail?'.
Our books The Makings and Remakings of The Juggler of Notre Dame, A Medieval Miracle of the Virgin and Its Modernization: An Anthology Hear ye, hear ye! This is not to announce that a court is in session but that a story book is nearly ready to be opened. Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings, by Jan M. Ziolkowski, is forthcoming.
Libraries The University of Worcester joins Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme > At the University of Worcester we’re delighted to be able to support the Open Book Publishers (OBP) programme. Our values are intellectual openness, democracy and love of learning; they are symbolised by
