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Open Access
[1:3] The Impact of COVID-19 on Scholarly Communications
Feeding the Elephant is pleased to introduce our [1:3] series. In this series, we pose 1 question to a librarian, a publisher, and a scholar—the 3 main stakeholders in the scholarly communications ecosystem—to get each perspective on a particular issue. Here, we posed the question:
P2L4 Summit Follow-up: How Can Presses & Libraries Work Together to Advance Anti-Racism
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.
Note: This was the third panel of the P2L conference held July 22. A recap of the first two panels can be found here.
Lisa Bayer, Director, University of Georgia Press, sent us this summary.
P2L Summit: University Presses and Libraries: Partners in Digital Transformation
P2L4, a conference sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses), brought together a group of publishers and librarians via Zoom on July 22 to talk about scholarly publishing.
Racism and Protest Resource List
Dear subscribers,
In light of the ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Feeding the Elephant has compiled a list of resources (many freely accessible) from libraries, university presses, and scholars on the subjects of racism, racial justice, police brutality, and protest.
Interview with Charles Watkinson (Director, University of Michigan Press) on Open Access Publishing
University of Michigan Press is part of Michigan Publishing, U-M’s academic publishing division, and part of the University Library.
New Additions to the Open Access Resource List
Hello everyone,
The Open Access Resource List has been updated with additional resources. Please check it out and if you have anything else add, reply to this post to let us know!
Thank you!
--Feeding the Elephant team
Open Access Resource List
Greeting everyone!
On behalf of Catherine Cocks, Yelena Kalinsky, myself, and Feeding the Elephant, we would like to share an Open Access Resource list. This list is organized by category: Publishers and Open Access, Reports, Op-Eds, and Digital Initiatives.
The HSS Monograph and Open Access in an Era of Falling Library Budgets
A post from Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications
Recently, four pieces of news about publishing came to my attention. The conjuncture struck me as illuminating some of the key problems besetting the current scholarly publishing ecosystem.