How Can We Make Open Access Work for Books?

Date: 
Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Advanced Topics in OA Webinar. Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing / Director, University of Michigan Press. As journal articles reach an open access tipping point, academic books are in danger of being marginalized. Monographs suffer from issues around funding (where is the money going to come from?) and the structure of the information supply chain (how can we make OA books discoverable when commercial entities control the main channels?).

Open Access from a Humanities Perspective: Contextualizing Openness and Accessibility, Interrogating the Meaning of Metrics, and Digging Deep on Process, with Some Numbers for the Math Fans.

Date: 
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Advanced Topics in OA Webinar. Karin Wulf, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, which has been publishing the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal in early American scholarship, and Professor of History at the College of William & Mary. This webinar will focus on the diversity of scholarly publishing, looking at the ways that humanities scholarship develops from a collaborative, community process and is typically published with non-profit, often society and university publishers.

The implications of open access models from the STM Society publisher point of view, with special attention to the services and costs that society publishers take on when they publish journals.

Date: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

OhioLINK Advanced Topics in OA Webinar. Angela Cochran,  Managing Director and Publisher at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The implications of open access models from the STM Society publisher point of view, with special attention to the services and costs that society publishers take on when they publish journals. Limited capacity, OhioLINK and ICOLC only.

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