Academics Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa By Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson. The book contains hundreds of photographs from Africa, such as this cheetah family, which are published as CC BY 4.0. Photograph by Markus Lilje,
Academic Publishing Why is open education resource creation, management and publishing important? Reflections for Open Book Publishers on Open Education Week 2020 Read this post to find out more about the take our authors and contributors have on OER creation, management and publishing.
Academic Publishing Is prestige a problem? Considering the usefulness of prestige in academic book publishing A reliance on prestige in academic publishing limits the choice of authors and the accessibility of research, and it deadens innovation. What might we replace it with?
open education Open education is key to the future of learning Photo by Nathan Dumlao [https://unsplash.com/@nate_dumlao?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/s/photos/open-sign?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_
Metrics What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data An easy-to-understand explanation of how we collect our book usage data, and why we have started to present it differently.
Academic Publishing OBP's responses to the UUK Open Access Monographs project questionnaire OBP has participated in the data-gathering exercise that is currently being carried out by Fullstopp Gmbh [http://fullstopp.com/] on behalf of the Universities UK Open Access Monographs working group. [https://www.universitiesuk.
Academic Publishing OBP blogs on tour We have recently contributed to two other blogs to talk about ScholarLed, the new OA consortium we have joined; and about the importance of Open Access publishing and what it can offer to
Academic Publishing Further Reading * An excellent Open Access quiz that covers many of the key issues https://www.lepublikateur.de/2018/08/27/open-access-quiz/ * A recently-released film about Open Access in academia, ‘Paywall: The Business of Scholarship’
Academic Publishing Reputation, reputation, reputation – quality control and reward systems In the past, Open Access publishing has been accused of being akin to vanity publishing or self-publishing, while the term ‘predatory publishing’ describes a phenomenon in which a publisher charges expensive fees for
Academic Publishing Copyright and licensing – what do I need to know? When you create original work, you possess the copyright.[1] When you wish to publish that work, some publishers might ask you to sign the copyright over to them as a condition of