« Les Presses universitaires de Rennes (PUR), en collaboration avec 11 universités, ont lancé une initiative inédite pour promouvoir la science ouverte. Elles offrent 46 ouvrages en libre accès sur la plateforme OpenEdition. (…) »
« University presses, as one of the major content providers in the scholarly e-book market, especially in humanities and social sciences (HSS), play a critical role in the production and distribution of new knowledge and culture. We investigate the relations among university presses, academic libraries, and e-book vendors, by examining university…
« L’édition éco-responsable et la sobriété numérique sont des concepts qui visent à la fois à réduire l’empreinte environnementale du numérique (public) et à promouvoir l’éco-conception, en particulier pour les structures éditoriales qui publient encore des revues et des monographies imprimées. Les débats doivent, d’une part, amener à réfléchir à l’utilisation…
« A study of the costs incurred by university presses in publishing scholarly monographs through the TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) pilot project. Researchers received data from 15 publishers on 57 TOME titles published through mid-2021. This report will be incorporated into a full assessment of the TOME pilot. (…) »
« The theme for the International Open Access Week in 2021 is ‘Building Structural Equity’. Equity for everyone is a challenge in publishing in general. However, it is a task that needs to be dealt with for open access publishers as their business models, in general, need to include equal opportunities…
« This toolkit will support and give guidance to new university presses and library-led publishing ventures as well as those with a hybrid model, who publish open access and non-open access material. It is free-to-access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, independent and interdisciplinary with articles written in…
« In a Charleston Library Conference session at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the discussion centered on the changes brought by open access for academic libraries, researchers, and publishers. (…)
The Charleston Library Conference, one of the most important events for academic libraries and publishers, today (October 16)…
« This summer, as part of the WP2, we started a series of European-based workshops, aiming at gaining a better understanding of the national-specific issues surrounding collective funding for OA books from a library perspective. The first online workshop took place on July 30th 2020.
The…
« L’Université de Lorraine poursuit son cycle de séminaires sur la Science Ouverte:
Quelles sont les grandes tendances de l’édition scientifique ? Quelles sont les attentes des financeurs de la recherche (Ministère, ANR, Europe…) ? Quelles sont les évolutions en cours ou à anticiper pour les presses universitaires en France et…« This is Open Access Week, an opportunity for concentrated information sharing and reflecting on issues and policies. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” which seems an apt theme for exploring open access (OA) and books, and particularly…
