The Lower Decks: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming online
Dates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023
Cost: Free
Sign up to attend: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup
The benefits of journal-independent open peer review
The founder of PeerRef, a journal-independent peer review service, presents trends in open peer review and pre-prints:
Elliott Lumb, "The benefits of journal-independent open peer review," Research Information, February 7. 2023, https://www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opinion/benefits-journal-independent-open-pe...
Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library:
Claire Woodcock, "Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law," Vice, February 9, 2023, https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer...
Entering a New Age of Digital Publishing: Dispatch from Digital Book World 2023
From the Scholarly Kitchen, a report on Digital Book World (DBW) held in Manhattan, January 16-18, 2023:
Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts
From the Scholarly Kitchen (January 18, 2023):
Guest Post – AI and Scholarly Publishing: A View from Three Experts
"Today’s guest post is a recap of the recent SSP webinar, “Ask the Experts: AI in Publishing”, held on October 6, 2022 by the moderator, Anita de Waard, who is VP of Research Collaborations at Elsevier.
OLH features in a European Commission report on business models for sustainable non-for-profit OA publishing
"The Open Library of Humanities is very honoured to have been showcased in a European Commission report on business models for sustainable non-for-profit OA publishing. The report, "Operationalising Open Research Europe as a collective publishing enterprise" published in October 2022, was commissioned by the European Commission for their Open Research Europe (ORE) publishing platform."
Charleston 2022 — Finding Paths to Open Access Book Publishing
A post by Erich van Rijn, Interim Director and Finance Director at the University of California Press, who reflects on Luminos, the University of California Press open access monograph publishing program:
Standard Ebooks
"Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost."
To learn more: https://standardebooks.org/
