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Overview » OAPEN-UK

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Guide to OA monograph publishing. Guide to Creative Commons. Project Aims and Objectives. OAPEN-UK is a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders make informed decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. The key objectives of the project are to:. Undertake a real time pilot. With HSS scholarly monograph titles. Establish what challenges each stakeholder faces in the open access scholarly monograph environment.

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OAPEN » OAPEN-UK

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Guide to OA monograph publishing. Guide to Creative Commons. In Europe, the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) project aims to develop and implement a long term European approach to realising the supply, visibility and usability of high-quality OA monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The goal is to foster the creation of new content by developing future-orientated publishing solutions, including an OA library for peer reviewed books in HSS. Site Created by Mickey and Mallory.

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Events » OAPEN-UK

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Guide to OA monograph publishing. Guide to Creative Commons. 8211; - – - – - – - -. Open Access Week: Dundee University. Caren Milloy presented an overview of open access monographs why, how and what next? The presentation covered the rationale behind OA monographs, the development of research in this area in the UK and an overview of the OAPEN-UK project. The presentation is available online. ALPSP International Conference 2013. Wednesday 11 - Friday 13 September 2013. The Belfry, nr Birmingham, UK.

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A note from Albert Prior and Paul Harwood, the authors of the JISC Collections e-textbook business model trials final report:. Ten UK HE institutions, eight textbook publishers and three aggregators took part in the trials, which started in May 2009 and finished in May 2010. Seventeen textbook titles were involved, in 24 separate trials across the 10 libraries. The trials followed a landscape report on digital textbooks in UK higher education, published in April 2009. The report provides a number of sugg...

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Case Studies » E-textbook Business models

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Ten UK universities participated in the e-textbook business model trials:. The University of Northampton. University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. University of St Andrews. University of the West of England. Each institution is different and there are many affecting factors in a trial like this. To capture these and to hear more about how the institutions felt the trial went, each institution was invited to write a short case study. These are available via the links on the left hand side.

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Overview » E-textbook Business models

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Our e-textbook business model study commenced in 2009 and completed in early 2011. The study was undertaken in two phases:. Phase one reviewed the current e-textbook landscape and put forward recommendations on possible business models that could be piloted following consultation with key stakeholders. The objectives of phase one were:. To provide an overview of the current status regarding the supply of textbooks in electronic form in the UK, drawing on experience from the US as appropriate;. Phase two ...

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wobble: April 2012

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Thursday, 26 April 2012. More Free Online Storage - Introducing Google Drive. We spent some time in the office yesterday discussing the launch of Google Drive. Googles own online storage service. This service offers 5 gigabytes of free storage to users and looks set to challenge services such as Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive. This post in the Telegraph. The video below will show you how Google Drive works. This previous wobble post. To read more of Wobble click here. Links to this post. 8220;Web confe...

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wobble: E-books for Adult Community Learners and Work-based Learners

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Friday, 20 April 2012. E-books for Adult Community Learners and Work-based Learners. To date, JISC Collection’s E-books for FE project. Has already helped many Further Education students across the UK by providing free access to e-resources for students studying a wide range of vocational and academic course in colleges. This works because by coordinating centrally, JISC Collections has been able to negotiate favourable pricing, terms, and conditions with content vendors. To read more of Wobble click here.