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Last week, on the 22nd of January, the report Monographs and Open Access, written by Geoffrey Crossick for HEFCE, was released. I would like to respond to the specific way in which the monograph cr…
Note: We shared links to early information about the new UC Press publishing programs launching today and discussed below on infoDOCKET last week as well as last October.
Luminos is University of California Press’ Open Access publishing program for monographs. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production and marketing as our traditional program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.
Mark Edington considers the real crisis in academic publishing.
Scholarly monographs, long the gold standard for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, have been in a downward spiral for some time.
Scholarly articles, filled with indubitable knowledge and analysis, only exist for the general public behind pricey paywalls. So one lecturer is advocating for them to be free of charge.
From the U. of California Press: University of California Press is entering into the Open Access space with the launch of two new products: a mega journal focused on three core disciplines (life and biomedical sciences, ecology and environmental science, and social and behavioral sciences) and a mon...
Initial studies into the effect of open access monographs suggest little to no impact on sales, but an increase in discoverability and online usage. But there are still many hurdles to overcome bef…
[Open Access Week in 2014 is October 20-26.] Have you noticed that scholarly books are getting more and more expensive? It’s not just the journals that are exorbitantly priced. Yesterday I didn’t …
Professors and librarians consider the advantages of digital, the reluctance of many tenure committees to look beyond print, and the possibility of paying the costs of publishing works by young
Monographs and book chapters now counted under Wellcome's OA policy.
We're a membership organisation, providing digital solutions for UK education and research.
A small trove of scholarly books from the Brandeis University Press is now freely available in multiple digital forms from the university's Institutional Repository thanks to an open access partnership with the University Press of New England and Dartmouth College.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the public good.