Tag: JISC
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Reblog: Taking back control: the new university and academic presses that are re-envisioning scholarly publishing
The LSE Impact Blog posted a blogpost written by Graham Stone and myself which I have reblogged underneath. A recent report from Jisc showcases the upward trend in universities and academics setting up their own presses in an environment increasingly dominated by large commercial publishing houses. Following up on the recommendations arising from this report,…
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The Rise of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK
Reblog from the Jisc Library & scholarly futures blog blog post by Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Graham Stone (Jisc) and Chris Keene (Jisc) Our new report: Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing maps the rise of new university presses and academic-led presses in the UK The landscape of academic publishing has seen…
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#OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice
Last week I attended the first major conference entirely dedicated to Open Access books in the HSS, in the British Library, organised by OAPEN and JISC. The two-day conference had a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers, established and new experimental projects in open access book publishing, and practical strands on funding, publishing for scholars and…
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Open Access and eBooks
One of the most heard objectives against eBooks (let alone against Open Access eBooks) is that nobody is going to read a whole book from a screen. Especially in the Humanities, where long stretched arguments are laid out over hundreds of pages, scholars and students will prefer a solid hard copy over reading from the…