Knowledge Unlatched: A new business model for Open Access monographs?
As part of our research into new business models in Open Access publishing we are interviewing managers at various scholarly publishers about the answers they find to the challenges posed by the...
View ArticleOpen Access (Books) vs. Double Dipping: An Ongoing Struggle
The dispute amongst scholars and policy makers about which road to take to Open Access (gold or green) revolves to a great extend around the problem (or danger) of double dipping. It is widely...
View ArticleRichard Poynder asks Alexander Grossmann: Where are we, what still needs to...
Just a few days ago, independent journalist and long-time Open Access observer Richard Poynder published a striking interview with former Vice President at De Gruyter, Alexander Grossmann, who lately...
View ArticleThe Web-scale University Press
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/11/07/the-web-scale-university-press/
View ArticleWhat happens when you make a book open access? New business models are...
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/08/open-access-monographs-challenges-remain/
View ArticleWhy I couldn’t publish my book Open Access
One of the most pressing problems Open Access currently still has, becomes very well apparent in my own story: there is no funding to publish a stand-alone book. When I planned to publish my book on...
View ArticleWhat Are the Costs of an Open Access Monograph?
The recently published Final Report of the Dutch OAPEN-NL project gives first answers to a still open question. THE PROJECT In October 2010, OAPEN Foundation, NWO and SURF started the pilot “OAPEN-NL:...
View ArticleKnowledge Unlatched releases pilot collection: 28 books made Open Access
We wrote about the business model of Knowledge Unlatched a while ago, an initiative that seeks to link libraries with publishers in order to ‘unlatch’ scholarly monographs, i.e. to publish them as Open...
View ArticleThe Returned: on the future of monographic books
The following open access article in Insights: the UKSG journal, written by Dr. Mercedes Bunz, Director of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Leuphana University), evaluates...
View ArticleWhat Is the Point of Academic Books?
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/point-academic-books-publishing-writing-literature-96610/
View ArticleNew Report on Monographs and Open Access
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/year/2015/monographs/#d.en.99908
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