Want to know how to make #OpenAccess books accessible?
Join this free webinar on 27 April & hear from Joanne Fitzpatrick at @copim community, Richard Orme of DAISY Consortium & James Rice of The White Horse Press on why accessibility matters and the tools and strategies that can help:
NEW BOOK | The American Archipelago: A New Edition of Oscar Handlin’s Classic Anthology, 'This Was America', edited by Kenneth Weisbrode
Read the new edition of this classic text freely online in #OpenAccess or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0495
NEW BOOK | 'Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition' translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley
Freely available to read online or download, and available to buy in paperback, hardback or EPUB: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0483
NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
In the first of a series from our #CopimConference bursary attendees, Megan Kilvington, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian at York St John University, shares:
🧠 her reflections on the event,
🔜 what she will take forward from the conference,
🤝 advice for others thinking of getting involved with Copim
Read & share: https://copim.pub/reflections-of-the-copim-conference/
'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference'
In this post, @alittleroad summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here!
👉 https://copim.pub/exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books-a-copim-conference/
NEW BOOK | Spaces for Action: A Repository of Tools and Methods for a Socially Situated Architectural Education, edited by Guido Cimadomo and Ingrid C. Vargas Díaz
👉️ Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0503
NEW BOOK | 'Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah' by Jane Hathaway
The latest book in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, this groundbreaking volume marks a rare and transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah, a vast trove of documents generated by Egypt’s Jewish community between the 10th and 19th centuries.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0502
NEW POST | 'Choose Your Own Adventure' by Anna Beresin
Reflecting on the research process behind her latest book, 'Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change'
NEW POST | 'On Colonial Knowledge, Africa, and Imperial Russia' by Anita Frison
'the discourses, rhetoric and practices of Russian subjects in relation to Africa were deeply embedded in Western colonial culture'
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