Katherine Parker-Hay, an Editorial Officer for the Open Library of Humanities (OLH),"discusses the unique culture of OLH and some of the associated advantages of collaborating with us to publish a Special Collection":
Friends;
A link from H-Hist-Bibl led me to the Open Arabic Periodical editions, a collaborative effort to post open access digital copies of historic Arabic journals. The project appears to be coordinated by Dr. Till Grallert of the Orient Institute in Beirut.
You can learn more at the links below.
The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, invites submissions on any aspect of the Robin Hood tradition.
Friends:
Wiki Journals are open-source collections of peer-reviewed articles that may also be integrated into Wikipedia. It gives authors a way to "publish" their wikipedia articles in a form that can be cited and credited.
The WikiJournal User Group is responsible for publishing the journals and includes editors, authors, reviewers, and interested parties. Anyone may join the user group.
"Pluto Journals, the social sciences publisher based in London, UK, has successfully reached the goal to flip its complete journal portfolio of 21 journals to Open Access from 2021 onwards.
The project “Pluto Open Journals” was realized in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched (KU), and supported by the conceivers of the ground-breaking Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model, Libraria, a group of anthropologists and other social scientists committed to Open Access."
Friends:
Below is an excerpt and link from an article about the efforts of the Internet Archive to preserve research that was published in defunct open access journals. It is entitled "The Internet Archive Has a New Tool to Save Research Papers From Vanishing" by Samantha Cole for the Vice Media website, Sep 17 2020
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
"Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), and EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) ... are pleased to announce their joint efforts to further support libraries worldwide in their move to OA. Through cooperation they will help publishers shift paywalled subscription journals to OA publications thanks to the innovative Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model in which libraries fund the publication of journal content to be made open worldwide. "
Friends:
The link below will take you to a spreadsheet listing materials that university presses are making available on open access during the COVID-19 crisis. Happy reading!
https://covid19.up.hcommons.org/open-up/
Margaret
