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Libraries and Open Access

Created for Open Access Week 2016, our ‘Libraries and Open Access’ blog series aims to give librarians and other library workers a space to connect with one another and discuss their thoughts and experiences with Open Access. We’d love to hear your thoughts! If you want to submit a post, send it to libraries@openbookpublishers.com

Where does the money go? Explaining our Library Membership Programme

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Where does the money go? Explaining our Library Membership Programme

This post explains how our Library Membership Programme works, what it funds, and why we also ask authors who are able to apply for funding to do so.

The University of Worcester joins Open Book Publishers' Library Membership Scheme

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 our joint public/university library The Hive and our involvement in diamond Open Access initiatives such as

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

COUNTER Metrics: An Unsatisfactory Measurement of a University’s Usage of Open Access Books

We explain our concerns about COUNTER statistics as a measure of the usage of Open Access digital resources by members of a university library—and particularly when they are compared with similar statistics for ‘closed access’ and paywalled content.

Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library

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Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library

We have grave concerns about the approach and business model of the Open Research Library, and those of its creator Knowledge Unlatched, which we will set out in this post.

Why OBP is not participating in KU Open Funding: and why libraries should understand the reasons.

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Why OBP is not participating in KU Open Funding: and why libraries should understand the reasons.

Knowledge Unlatched has recently announced the launch of a new platform to fund Open Access (OA) books. In this post, we explain our concern with this platform and why we won't be participating.

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Open Scholarly Publishing and Libraries: Putting Conviviality into the Workflow for Monographs

The immaturity of open access monograph publishing compared with that of its siblings of journal and article publishing is well known. This is in spite of the evidence that “open access monograph publishing could indeed offer researchers new opportunities” (Collins et al., 2015), broaden, and deepen the impact of such

A Librarian’s Advice on Making the Most of Open Educational Resources

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A Librarian’s Advice on Making the Most of Open Educational Resources

Due to the advent of the World Wide Web, there has been a paradigm shift in educational systems, in terms of its aspirations and its systems and sources. Classrooms are changing; in virtual classes, courses are conducted through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), lectures are presented in online/audio-video form.

Acceso Abierto Accesible y Recursos de Información en Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos

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Acceso Abierto Accesible y Recursos de Información en Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos

¿Por qué Acceso Abierto Accesible? Bueno, en principio… ¿Y por qué no? Para el año 2017 habrán hecho ya 15 años desde la iniciativa de Budapest para el Acceso Abierto [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read]. En adelante se han gestionado diversas iniciativas, como la Declaración de Bethesda [http://ictlogy.net/

Accessible Open Access and Information Resources on Disability and Human Rights

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Accessible Open Access and Information Resources on Disability and Human Rights

Why Accessible Open Access? Well, in principle … And why not? By the year 2017 it will have been 15 years since the Budapest initiative for Open Access [http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read]. Various initiatives have since been taken, such as the Bethesda Declaration on Open Access in 2003 [http://ictlogy.

Open Access Books and the Need to Catch Up

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Open Access Books and the Need to Catch Up

I want to like e-books, I really do. I like the idea that I can access my book anywhere I am, from any device I happen to be using at the time. I own a Kindle and for books that are available on the Kindle, this is the case: I

The Monograph Crisis: Open Access for Art and Design Scholarship

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The Monograph Crisis: Open Access for Art and Design Scholarship

Electronic monographs are not as straightforward as journals. As a librarian assisting students in their research, ebooks don’t come up as frequently and when they do it usually involves resolving issues that come with difficult user interfaces. Disparate platforms and constricting digital rights management (DRM) result in poor usability

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On why we should Love Open Access Books; a UK Librarian’s Perspective.

Many librarians in the UK (and as a profession, librarians have a long standing tradition of Open Access advocacy) find it galling that the term ‘ Open Access’ is increasingly met with either a stifled yawn or a rant about the inequities of article processing charges, publisher profits and the bureaucratic

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Open Access books? I Thought OA was for Journals!

“I thought open access was about academic journals – why are you talking about books?” This is a common refrain that I hear when begin talking about the importance of open access books, one that I myself made not long ago, and I suspect this remains the case for many other