Open Access books are widely available, but still too often treated as isolated records.
OpenAIRE and OAPEN are working to change that:
🔹 delivering reliable usage data (COUNTER-conformant)
🔹 improving interoperability across infrastructures
🔹 connecting books to projects, funders, datasets, and more
1/ We are delighted to welcome Helsinki University Press @HelsinkiUPress to the OBC! This brings to 20 the total number publishers & service providers that are part of the OBC, all deeply committed to building a sustainable future for #OAbooks https://obc.copim.pub/helsinki-university-press-joins-the-open-book-collective/
HUP is a fully open access publisher operating within Helsinki University Library. It is known for its high quality peer-reviewed publications and has particular strengths in the humanities, education and the social sciences.
If you're attending the #operas2026sciros conference, day 1 will open with workshop 'From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books' 📢📚🇸🇮
⏰ 9:00, Wed 20 May
📍 Staszic Palace – Room 132
@PublicKnowledgeProject
#DOAB
#OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters
What role did colour play in the long nineteenth century?
'Colour Matters: Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)' ed. by Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol & Matthew Winterbottom provides a fresh investigation of the materiality, politics & sensory experience of colour during this period.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0501
You can also read a blog post by the author, exploring the theme of equity that underpins the book.
'Transforming universities with an equity focus' by Richard Heller: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
NEW BOOK | A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam by Phillip Stokes
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0517
[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
Hosted at Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, this project is building capacity for and access to and publishing high-quality academic open access (OA) books produced by researchers at several institutions across Colombia. The strategy involves supporting the development of infrastructure within these institutions and establishing a training program that builds capacity for publishing open access (OA) books.A shared portal will also be created to disseminate these publications. Now, project lead Wilson Martinez Guaca provides an update on the work and deliverables achieved so far.
NEW BOOK | From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity edited by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk
This is the much-anticipated second volume following Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (2023).
It can be freely accessed digitally or purchased in hard copy here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508
🤝 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬
The Copim Open Book Futures project may finish today, but it's not the end!
The fantastic #CopimCommunity continues!
Members of the OBF project are booked up well into 2026 so keep an eye on our socials for more info 👀
And join our new mailing list 👉 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=copim
NEW BOOK | 'Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia, Vol. 2' by Miranda J. Morris, Erik Anonby and Janet C.E. Watson
The latest book in the Semitic Languages and Cultures series can be purchased or freely read and downloaded here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0538
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