Academics

Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

Read now a blog post by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk on their latest edited volume 'Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe'

OBP Newsletter

OBP Spring Newsletter 2021

We have exciting news about upcoming events, new and forthcoming publications, an interview with our developer Ross Higman and information on our open CFPs. There’s lots to explore below, so dive in to find out more about our plans for the months ahead...

About Us

Get to Know Us: An Interview with Adèle Kreager

Read an interview with our editor Adèle Kreager.

Online conferences

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

This post presents some examples and in-depth case studies of successful online conferences.

Online conferences

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

The simultaneous focus on multiple technologies and social contexts in conferences settings creates opportunities as well as problems for researchers.

Online conferences

Are virtual conferences good enough?

Socially constructed obstacles to virtual conference adoption are large, but fragile. Change will be driven by improvements in technology, increased networked literacy and pressure to restrain costs – both financial and ecological.

Online conferences

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Why do we have academic conferences at all, and what are the affordances and constraints of online conferences in meeting these needs?

Online conferences

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

We are all having to learn how to do more remotely, now and for the foreseeable future. This series of blog posts, drawn from 'Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene', deals with the why, the what and the how of online conferences.

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

Experimenting with Audio: Announcing Our First OA Audiobooks

Navigating AI in Academic Publishing: Balancing Efficiency, Expertise and Ethics

October 2024 Newsletter

Our reflections on ‘community over commercialisation’

Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

Successful econferences: examples and case studies

Time management and Continuous Partial Attention

Are virtual conferences good enough?

What do conferences do—and can econferences replace them?

Econferences: why and how? A blog series

Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Further Reading