ResearchBuzz: FirehoseUC San Francisco: Announcing the Open Access UC-Authored Monographs Pilot Project. “The University of California (UC) Libraries are supporting several open access pilot projects intended to broaden access to UC research and scholarship by making UC-authored books freely available online.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/02/uc-san-francisco-announcing-the-open-access-uc-authored-monographs-pilot-project/
Public Knowledge ProjectAre you using #OpenMonographPress (OMP) to publish scholarly books, #monographs or other long-form works?
Join our Community Call with Zoe Wake Hyde @zwhnz to contribute to the future of OMP!
January 29, 8 AM PT
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COPIM[WEBINAR] We're taking part in the Bodleian Open Scholarship event series!
Join us online TOMORROW as we discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess #Monographs and #Theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
📆 Tues 13 January
🕰️ 2pm GMT
Book now 👉 https://go.glam.ox.ac.uk/OpenBookFutures
[WEBINAR] We're taking part in the Bodleian Open Scholarship event series!
Join us online on Tuesday 13 January at 2pm as we discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess #Monographs and #Theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
Book now 👉 https://go.glam.ox.ac.uk/OpenBookFutures
Join Joe Deville @openbookcollect at 20th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing later today!
🖊️ Opening books collectively: working together for a fairer future for books
⏰ 10:30-10:55
🔗 https://buff.ly/OqUVImX
LSE Press📣 Calling all LSE staff seeking BPC funding for publishing monographs Open Access.
✅ The LSE Open Access Books Fund is now open.
➡️ More details here: www.lse.ac.uk/library/rese...
#OpenResearch #OpenAccess #Books #ResearchCulture #Monographs #AcWri @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Open access books
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We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass 🧭
This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks 🛠️
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Ronald SnijderThomas, W. J., Kaefring, A. & Hoover, J. K., (2025) “Motivations and barriers to publishing #OpenAccess #book chapters and #monographs: An institutional perspective”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 12(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18280
Motivations and barriers to publishing open access book chapters and monographs: An institutional perspective
Introduction: Recent years have seen an increase in publishers exploring open access for monographs and book chapters. Programs like the Direct to Open from MIT Press and JSTOR’s Path to Open have provided avenues for libraries and authors to support open access monographs generally, but not campus authors specifically. On our campus, we have seen an increase in requests for and questions about publishing monographs and book chapters open access. Description of Program: We offer several options for support for open access article publishing, including transformational agreements, institutional memberships, and an open access fund, but have limited resources and strategies for supporting book and chapter authors to make their publications open access. To gauge our authors’ awareness and interest, we surveyed faculty who recently published a book or chapter about their publishing experiences with a focus on open access publishing. In addition to our survey, we conducted interviews with faculty to gain a better understanding of open access publishing from their perspective as recent authors. Next Steps: In response to this research, the library has explored new methods of supporting open monograph publishing and plans to develop open education resources and webinars about the open monograph publishing process.
... here's to the next million! 🎉
#OpenAccess #OpenResearch #Monographs #AcademicWriting #EconomiaLACEA #LSEPPR #PhilosophyofPhysics
MIT Press: MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. “The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to Open (D2O) has reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will open access to 80 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons.”