Heute ist Welttag des Buches und des Urheberrechts!
Daher haben wir euch ein Best-of unserer Materialien zum Thema Open-Access-Bücher zusammengestellt:

🔗 Was sind OA-Bücher?: https://open-access.network/informieren/publizieren/open-access-buecher

📽️ Finanzierung von #OpenAccess Monographien: https://doi.org/10.5446/49535

🗞️ Blogpost: Eine Politik für OA-Bücher beginnt in der Einrichtung: https://open-access.network/blog/eine-politik-fuer-open-access-buecher-beginnt-in-der-einrichtung

Ihr wollt euch zu dem Thema #oabooks vernetzen? Dann schaut gern bei unserer Fokusgruppe vorbei: https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen/fokusgruppe-open-access-buecher

#weltbuchtag

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:

https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/04/16/how-to-make-your-open-access-books-more-accessible-and-why-it-matters/

#Accessibility #OAbooks

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

#OAbooks #ImmigrationHistory

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

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #Enlightenment

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

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #PopularScience

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/

#OAbooks #OpenAccess

'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/

#OAbooks #OpenAccess

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

#OAbooks #OpenAccess

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

#OAbooks #OpenAccess

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'

👉️ https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0173.0288

#OAbooks #OpenAccess