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Academics Urge Peers To Self-Publish Research
Academics are looking to their own Open Access ventures to create new spaces for monograph publishing, a conference on OA in the humanities and social sciences heard last week. Read More »
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Early Career Researchers Making Their Own Luck – With Help From The Internet
Launching our new blogging platform for early career academics, Kathryn Eccles, historian turned digital humanist, extols the career benefits of staying open minded and switched on Read More »
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Hacking Open Access: Sustainable Publication For Humanities
Although the open access movement has been going strong for over 10 years in the areas of natural sciences and medical sciences, the humanities and social sciences have lagged behind. However, OA is not only an exclusive STEM approach anymore, the humanities are also considering how they can transition in this direction...
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Knowledge Unlatched and University of Michigan Library Announce Collaboration to Advance Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), a not-for-profit company based in England, and University of Michigan Library (U-M Library), a major research library based in Michigan, are pleased to announce that they will collaborate to study and overcome remaining obstacles to the spread of Open Access scholarly publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Under the arrangement, U-M Library will provide a North American base for KU which has recently also established presences in Germany and Australia...
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Knowledge Unlatched Enables a Further 78 Books to Be Open Access
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the 'unlatching'* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe. This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide...
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Knowledge Unlatched Select 2016 off to a strong start: 53 Publishers submit 681 titles
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, has commenced preparations for its next front list and backlist collections: KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 follows on from the successful unlatching of new books earlier this year, bringing the total to over 100 Open Access books. This time KU will offer subject-based packages of both new books and complementary older books that will be of high value to both researchers and students in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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KU Launches Pledging Period for KU Select 2016
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access monographs, today launches its next front list and backlist collections; KU Select 2016. KU Select 2016 offers 343 titles to libraries (147 front list to be published between November 2016 – April 2017 and 196 backlist published between 2005 – 2015) with 16 subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences...
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Open Access And The Humanities
On Thursday, June 27th at 2 pm, Harvard will host a public talk about Open Access and the Humanities in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center. Presented by the Open Library of the Humanities Academic Project Directors, Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, they will discuss [the following]. Read More »
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Transcribing Manuscripts With Crowdsourcing
Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the power of crowdsourcing, or getting lots of people to each do a little bit of work. Scientists in particular have utilized this to get people to go through huge amounts of data. This approach has also been used in the humanities, in the collection of data for local histories, for example. Read More »
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