30th March 2023, 2.30pm-4.15pm BST (15.30-17.15 CET) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter We would like to invite our readers to the new 2023 webinar series “Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the Future”, run by Gold Leaf and sponsored by De Gruyter. This webinar explores the knotty world of OpenContinueContinue reading “Free the Books! The Path towards Open Access Monographs”
Category Archives: Open Access
The German new university press: small and perfectly formed or an enterprise in transition?
Gold Leaf have published a new report on German University Presses, which can be downloaded below or through the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5584519 Innovations in publishing technology and staunch commitment to Open Access have combined to produce a proliferation of “new” university presses in recent years. Often run by the university’s library by seconding a tiny groupContinueContinue reading “The German new university press: small and perfectly formed or an enterprise in transition?”
Enable! – A new platform for Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences
The German “Projekt DEAL” initiative has gained worldwide attention; for several years, the “Alliance of German Science Organizations”, which effectively represents all universities and research institutions in Germany, has been negotiating ground-breaking Open Access agreements with large journals publishers, most notably Wiley and Springer Nature. These deals apply mainly to large quantities of journals; institutions have beenContinueContinue reading “Enable! – A new platform for Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences”
From Open Access to Open Research: a summary of developments
As the OA movement picked up momentum, there were some watershed moments in the UK: the publication of the Finch Report (2012), which – to the surprise of many – chose the Gold “author pays” model (in which the author or his or her institution pays an APC, or Article Processing Charge) over the GreenContinueContinue reading “From Open Access to Open Research: a summary of developments”
White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher
Triggered in part by the Open Access movement and also by the desire of early-career researchers and students (undergraduates as well as postgraduates) to find reputable publishing outlets for their work, in recent years there has been a steep increase in the number of university libraries setting up or encouraging the foundation of presses forContinueContinue reading “White Rose University Press: the Library as Publisher”
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