Open Book Publishers 15 Years of Open Book Publishers: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti Open Book Publishers (OBP), founded in 2008, celebrates its 15th year of operation this year. Read now an interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti where they discuss OBP's transformative journey in scholarly publishing.
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...
Language The Possibility of Signs This is the first of a series of blog post on one of our latest titles 'Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations'. Read William B. Bonvillian's reflections on the Simplified Signs project.
OBP Newsletter Get to Know Us: An Interview with Agata Morka An interview with our new European Co-ordinator for Open Access Books, Agata Morka.
carbon footprint 2020 The Environmental Impact of Open Book Publishers At Open Book Publishers, we are working to minimise our environmental impact. Find out more in this post.
carbon footprint 2020 OBP to Shrink our Carbon Footprint in 2020 In 2020, OBP will be taking steps to shrink our carbon footprint, and we will be blogging about our experiences along the way.
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.
bad actors 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.
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 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.