tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4250/feed_itemsTomMosterd's bookmarks2022-12-05T05:39:11-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/60978502022-12-05T05:39:11-05:002022-12-05T05:39:11-05:00How would you describe yourself? – OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic books
<h1>How would you describe yourself?</h1>
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<p>We have updated our MARCXML and ONIX feeds, in order to better disseminate the books and chapters in our collections.</p>
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<p>Almost everyone has at one time or another been asked to describe themselves. For the books and chapters in OAPEN and DOAB this happens all the time: many libraries, publishers and content aggregators want to know <em>exactly</em> what is in our collection. In order to answer these questions, we provide daily updated metadata exports – see <a href="https://oapen.org/librarians/15635975-metadata">here </a>(OAPEN) and <a href="https://www.doabooks.org/en/librarians/metadata-harvesting-and-content-dissemination">here</a> (DOAB).</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/59316012022-11-16T09:22:22-05:002022-11-17T20:24:09-05:00DOAB officially launches its new service to further build trust in peer review and open access academic book publishing | Directory of Open Access BooksThe Hague, 16 November 2022. The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a community-driven discovery service for open access books, is launching its Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM). PRISM is a service provided by DOAB as part of the OPERAS service portfolio.
PRISM is a standardised way for academic publishers to display information about their peer review processes across their entire catalogue. On the DOAB site, you can see a PRISM logo next to a publisher and next to the individual book. PRISM peer review information is also included at the metadata level, making it available through the DOAB API which is freely distributed and incorporated into library search tools worldwide. Learn more about PRISM, including how to participate as a publisher here.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/55748952022-10-12T06:48:31-04:002022-10-12T06:48:31-04:00Erasmus Open Access Fund | Erasmus University Library | Erasmus University Rotterdam<p>With the Erasmus Open Access Fund 2022, we aim to stimulate the open access publication of scientific monographs.</p>
<p>For the open access publication of scientific monographs, the publisher charges publication costs, the Book Processing Charges (BPCs). If the BPCs are not covered by the grant provider or another funding source, you can apply to the Erasmus Open Access Fund 2022 for partial reimbursement of these costs.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/56329662022-10-18T03:34:40-04:002022-10-18T03:34:40-04:00Characteristics and rankings of European universities that support the library crowdfunding model for open access monographs | PUBMET<p><strong>Introduction</strong><span>. Several business models have emerged for open access (OA) monographs, and one of them is library crowdfunding (Collins, 2015; Speicher, 2018). Considering the importance of collaboration in OA (Deegan, 2017), it is no surprise that this model—which is based on libraries collaborating to fund the publishing of OA monographs—is considered innovative and possibly sustainable long-term (Leach-Murray, 2017). It encourages academic libraries to share the cost of publishing peer-reviewed OA monographs in various fields and take the burden of the author-pay model away from researchers (Reinsfelder, 2018). Well-known initiatives of this kind include Knowledge Unlatched (KU), Reveal Digital, and UnGlue.It (Bulock, 2018).</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/51198592022-09-07T06:47:29-04:002022-09-16T21:55:02-04:00The OAPEN Dashboard – a new partner service – OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic booksDuring the UKSG 2022 Annual Conference held from May 30th to June 2nd in Telford UK we officially launched the OAPEN Dashboard1 – a new analytics service for our library members, publishers and funder partners to help them gain a deeper understanding of the usage of open access books. Over 179 publishers, libraries and funders are using the dashboard today and we expect to welcome more users over the coming months. The dashboard service includes data for the entire OAPEN Library which is home to over 24,000 open access books that see over 1 million COUNTER-conformant downloads per month.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/46865672022-08-03T07:43:07-04:002022-08-03T08:44:23-04:00Open access books: A global preference for regional subjects | Impact of Social Sciences<p><em>For many research disciplines English functions as the global language for research. But, how far does this align with patterns of research use globally? Drawing on download evidence from the OAPEN library of open access books, </em>Ronald Snijder <em>explores this global demand for open research and finds significant demand for regional research and research published in languages other than English.</em></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/39089372022-04-21T07:47:07-04:002022-06-23T07:25:13-04:00We are hiring - join the OAPEN Team! | OAPENThe OAPEN Foundation is looking for a project manager to help us with promoting and supporting the transition to open access for academic books.
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The project manager will be involved in the various international projects OAPEN participates in to advance open access for books, delivering on the project activities of the foundation. Next to this, the project manager will perform tasks related to the technical operation of its three platforms and services. Finally, the project manager will assist with the financial administration of the foundation.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/37655182022-03-25T15:17:35-04:002022-04-06T03:45:54-04:00SciELO Books 10 Years: Interview with OAPEN Foundation director and DOAB Foundation co-director Niels SternSciELO Books is celebrating ten years of operation focused on the development of infrastructure and the capabilities of scholarly book publishing in a digital format following the state of the art.
As part of the event celebrating the ten-year anniversary, intended as a forum to recognize the advances and challenges, and, mainly, to debate on the future of digital books in the light of open access and open science, we’ve interviewed speakers and officials from institutions directly linked to the development of SciELO.
We continue the series of interviews with Niels Stern, director of the OAPEN Foundation and co-director of the DOAB Foundation.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/36600642022-03-02T05:09:45-05:002022-06-23T06:33:42-04:00Welcoming DOAB as an OASPA member - OASPAWe recently welcomed DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) as an OASPA member in the Supporting Services and Infrastructure (Non-Commercial) category. DOAB joins 190 OASPA members and more than 30 others in the supporting services and infrastructure category that provide significant services and/or support to open access publishing.
We asked Tom Mosterd, Community Manager, a few questions so we could learn more about the organisation and its connection to open scholarship and decision to become an OASPA member.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/36050312022-02-23T08:05:59-05:002022-02-23T08:05:59-05:00OA Books Workouts, episode 3. Interview with Miklos Kiss | Zenodo<p>This interview is one of the outputs of the online series OA Books Workouts: Scholars at Work, a project of the Open Access Books Network. The aim of the series is to share good practices regarding the writing, production, and technicalities of publishing an open access book.</p>
<p>Miklóss Kiss is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on contemporary audiovisual media, intersecting the fields of narrative and cognitive film theories.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/35573292022-02-16T04:46:22-05:002022-02-16T04:46:22-05:00Library of Congress expanded online content in response to the pandemic | Federal News Network<p><span>The Library of Congress has been busy building an online collection of what are known as open access e-books. The </span><a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/12/open-access-books-collection/">effort accelerated</a><span> when the pandemic hit and people had more access to online books than to physical libraries. For more on this effort, the Digital Collections Development Coordinator Rashi Joshi, and Digital Collections Specialist Kristy Darby spoke to the </span><a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/category/temin/tom-temin-federal-drive/"><em><strong>Federal Drive with Tom Temin.</strong></em></a></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34691622022-02-03T05:43:00-05:002022-06-23T06:33:43-04:00DOAB, OAPEN and open access books in Germany: a country report | Directory of Open Access BooksDOAB, OAPEN and open access books in Germany: a country report
In 2021, for the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and the OAPEN Library we have seen growing interest and uptake amongst the German scholarly community. In no small part, thanks to growing support of the German library community and the addition of new German titles and publishers, a report of which we include below.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34390662022-01-27T07:32:54-05:002022-01-27T07:32:54-05:00Guest Post - Does Open Access Cannibalize Print Sales for Monographs? - The Scholarly Kitchen<p><em>Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by </em><em>John Sherer. John is the Spangler Family Director of the University of North Carolina Press. He is the chair of the Association of University Presses Open Access Committee and is the Primary Investigator in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded, <a href="https://longleafservices.org/the-sustainable-history-monograph-pilot/">Sustainable History Monograph Pilot</a></em><em>.</em></p>
<p>Within the scholarly book publishing community, it’s not particularly controversial to claim that free digital editions of monographs will erode print sales. After all, who would pay for something they can get for free? These books already sell so few copies, and the economics are so unfavorable, that further revenue erosion could easily shatter an already precarious ecosystem. That said, there’s a growing body of research indicating that readers strongly prefer print formats for these publications (for example see the <a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/2018-us-faculty-survey/">2018 Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey</a> and Naomi Baron’s <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/words-onscreen-9780199315765?cc=us&lang=en&"><em>Words on Screen</em></a>). And there’s anecdotal reporting that in open access (OA) experiments at university presses, print sales have been stable. Can we review sales data for OA titles to find out if the claim of print cannibalization is true?</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34293872022-01-19T07:45:27-05:002022-01-19T07:45:27-05:00Open Access Books-Making it Work - Library Events Calendar - LJMU Library<h1>Open Access Books-Making it Work</h1>
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<p><span>This roundtable discussion, chaired by the <a href="https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/">Open Access Books Network</a> (OABN), will highlight three different experiences of how to make Open Access book publishing work in an equitable and sustainable way:</span></p>
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<span><a href="https://www.lib.umich.edu/users/watkinc">Charles Watkinson</a> (University of Michigan Press) will share his experience from a more 'traditional' university publisher that is now developing a consortial library publishing programme, called <a href="https://www.publishing.umich.edu/features/fund-to-mission">Fund to Mission</a>, to significantly step up their OA book publishing and to move away from a Book Processing Charge (BPC) model as they do so.</span></p>
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<span><a href="https://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00039402">Demmy Verbeke</a> (KU Leuven Libraries Artes) will discuss how KU Leuven Libraries have developed a fund called <a href="http://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2020/12/01/financing-change-ku-leuvens-fair-oa-fund/">Fair OA Fund</a>, which has been designed to make sure there is institutional money available to support innovative and non-profit OA initiatives, including books, journals, and infrastructure, alongside APCs/BPCs and TAs.</span></p>
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<span><a href="https://copim.pubpub.org/user/lucy-barnes/authored">Lucy Barnes</a> (<a href="https://www.copim.ac.uk/">COPIM</a> and <a href="https://www.openbookpublishers.com/">Open Book Publishers</a>) will talk about building community-owned and governed infrastructure to support and expand the publication of OA books, and the importance of international partnerships in funding, sharing and publishing OA.</span></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34293842022-01-19T07:11:53-05:002022-01-19T07:11:53-05:00OA Books workouts episode 5 - YouTube<p><span>This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way!</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34293852022-01-19T07:27:20-05:002022-02-09T07:14:20-05:00OA Mythbusters, episode 5 - "If I publish Open Access, I won't be able to include any third-party material (e.g. copyrighted images)".<p>Jan M. Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and author of the open access book series, The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk0xMVRXTXJJZWF3d1hDdHNkUzZmVHJ0Mm0zd3xBQ3Jtc0trMDNQZW1pdGEwZEt1a2dpYXJuQlZtUmZ5M1M4bmVpREUzd3ZlTWpnWkJEUmpZdXJIMFJaZzc2RXVzS05nM2xnSGgwRFlLQjYzTzJQWjg3X2dEZXVOVnQ1d3lZQ2tQNFIzMGdJbHJ5TzJ2Z05HZzBiaw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openbookpublishers.com%2Fproduct%2F964">https://www.openbookpublishers.com/pr...</a>), busts a widespread myth about OA books: "If I publish Open Access, I won't be able to include any third-party material (e.g. copyrighted images)".</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34161882022-01-06T09:22:37-05:002022-01-07T08:57:33-05:00100,000 Open Access Ebooks | unglue.it<p>Six years ago, in response to a Knight Foundation challenge program, we put in a proposal entitled “10,000 Creative Commons Ebooks”. We had compiled a list of 2,300 Creative Commons Licensed ebooks, and we thought that with some more resources we could identify as many as eight thousand more. We didn’t get the grant, but we kept on adding free ebooks to the Unglue.it catalog using automated processes and by individual discernment. We added Public Domain ebooks from Project Gutenberg, over 60,000 of them. We added over 30,000 Creative Commons licensed books from the Directory of Open Access books. We added computer books and textbooks, about 5,000 total. By the end of 2021, we had 102,692 open access books in our catalog and had distributed 6.45 million ebooks.</p>
<p>Along the way, we’ve been able to help our not-for-profit peers (Project Gutenberg, DOAB, etc.) improve their software, processes and metadata in small ways and big ways. There’s still a lot of work to be done. Our search facility could be 10x faster and smarter. We need to figure out how to make the collection more useful, by curation, by cataloguing, and by distribution ( by “we” I mean our community as a whole!).</p>
<p>2022 could be exciting in so many ways.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33933132021-12-20T05:05:30-05:002021-12-20T08:30:45-05:00The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections | The Signal<p>The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections</p>
<p>December 16, 2021 by <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/author/cosb/">Carlyn Osborn</a></p>
<p><em>This is a guest post by <strong>Kristy Darby</strong>, a Digital Collections Specialist in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress.</em></p>
<p>In March 2020, we first shared about the<a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2020/03/more-open-ebooks-routinizing-open-access-ebook-workflows/?loclr=blogsig"> growing collection of open access e-books available on loc.gov</a>. A lot has changed since then but, in particular, the<a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/open-access-books/about-this-collection/?loclr=blogsig"> Open Access Books Collection</a> was created. This newly created collection brings together all known open access e-books available on <a href="https://loc.gov/?loclr=blogsig">loc.gov</a>, the number of which has grown significantly from about 300 titles to over 3,200.</p>
<p>s a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Library of Congress staff <a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2020/04/keeping-the-lights-on-at-the-library-of-congress/">quickly transitioned to telework</a> in March 2020, including staff primarily focused on print materials. Staff from the Digital Content Management Section (DCM) and the Collection Development Office (CDO) organized a project for recommending officers (ROs) – subject area experts who select new content for the Library’s collection – to identify open access e-book titles from the <a href="https://www.doabooks.org/">Directory of Open Access Books</a>, an international digital directory providing access to academic peer-reviewed books with open access licenses, for addition to the Library’s permanent collection. This telework project was specifically created to serve and support Library staff who were newly remote and it successfully resulted in the selection of thousands of titles to be added to the Library’s permanent collection.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33839102021-12-13T06:30:14-05:002021-12-13T06:30:14-05:00IReL support for open scholarship infrastructure – IReL<p>IReL, the Irish e-resources licensing consortium, is very pleased to announce that it is supporting the following SCOSS-endorsed initiatives:</p>
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<li>Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) </li>
<li>Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) & OAPEN </li>
<li>Sherpa Romeo</li>
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<p>Much of the infrastructure needed to make open research possible must be openly available without user-facing or institution-facing charges. This presents a challenge in sustainably funding it. One way of making this work is for libraries, library consortia and other stakeholders to commit ongoing funding on a voluntary basis. </p>
<p><a href="https://irel.ie/">IReL</a> and <a href="https://irel.ie/about-irel/">its member libraries</a> recognise that these infrastructures are of long standing benefit to libraries and their users and are crucial to open research globally. Therefore we agree that it is in our interests to help sustain them.</p>
<p>IReL is committed to supporting these initiatives for three years, from 2022 to 2024.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33013062021-10-25T06:07:13-04:002021-10-25T06:07:13-04:00Who you gonna call? OA Mythbusters – Open Access Books Network<p><span>For this year’s open access week, the Open Access Books Network (OABN) is pleased to introduce its latest video series: ‘The OA Mythbusters’.</span></p>
<p>Through this video series the OABN community seeks to dispel a number of key myths around OA books. In these short videos, common statements will be addressed by fellow community members, informally known as ‘the OA Mythbusters’</p>
<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
<p><span>Since its introduction, the OABN has steadily developed as a space for passionate conversations about OA books. Its community is open to all, composed of researchers, librarians, publishers, infrastructure service providers and other stakeholders interested in discussing OA books.</span></p>
<p><span>It’s an exciting time for OA books, with a plethora of new initiatives, </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/accelerating-open-access-to-academic-books/"><span>policy developments</span></a><span> and </span><span>business models (<span><a href="https://news.mit.edu/2021/mit-press-launches-direct-open-open-access-monographs-0310">1</a></span>, <span><a href="https://blog.press.umich.edu/2021/05/u-m-press-fund-to-mission-model-aims-to-expand-open-access-monograph-publishing/#:~:text=U%2DM%20Press%20%E2%80%9CFund%20to%20Mission,expand%20open%20access%20monograph%20publishing&text=Working%20with%20the%20non%2Dprofit,justice%2C%20inclusion%2C%20and%20accessibility.">2</a></span>, <span><a href="https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/lup-join-opening-the-future/release/1?readingCollection=1bb570ed">3</a></span>)</span><span> emerging to support their publication, but this can make it difficult to understand what’s out there and closed access publishing remains the predominant model. There is still a long way to go! To help us get there faster, this video series aims to address some of the common misconceptions, myths and questions around OA books. It is designed to be short, snappy and shareable–so please do share it!</span></p>
<p><span>We are excited to launch the first two videos during Open Access Week 2021, taking inspiration from this year’s theme ‘’</span><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><span>It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity</span></a><span>’’:</span></p>
<p><span><strong>Myth 1:</strong> If I want to publish Open Access I have to pay the publisher</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Mythbuster:</strong> Dr. Sebastian Nordhoff, Managing Director, Language Science Press</em></p>
<p><strong>Watch: </strong><a href="https://youtu.be/Bpe8myCzcJQ"><span>https://youtu.be/Bpe8myCzcJQ</span></a></p>
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<p><span><strong>Myth 2:</strong> People who are interested in academic books can easily access them, Open Access or not.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Mythbuster:</strong> Caroline Ball, Academic Librarian, University of Derby, UK</em></p>
<p><strong>Watch: </strong><a href="https://youtu.be/3cGQ4pLQgDU"><span>https://youtu.be/3cGQ4pLQgDU</span></a></p>
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<p><span>These are the first of ten mythbusting videos which will be released on a weekly basis until the end of the calendar year. In early 2022 we’ll be sharing the complete OA book mythbuster series as one video alongside other shareable materials, and we hope that these resources will be distributed widely across the OA book community and well beyond.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32921362021-10-19T12:58:15-04:002021-10-19T12:58:15-04:00OA BOOKS WORKOUTS with Janneke Adema. Living Books. - YouTube<p><span>This series, hosted by Jeroen Sondervan, features different scholars talking about publishing Open Access books. Hear more about their projects, why they chose Open Access, and the challenges and triumphs they experienced along the way!</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32833912021-10-11T09:36:02-04:002021-10-11T09:36:02-04:00The OAPEN Library and the origin of downloads – libraries & academic institutions<p>On a regular basis, we look at the download data of the OAPEN Library and where it comes from. While examining the data from January to August 2021, we focused on the usage originating from libraries and academic institutions. Happily, we found that more than 1,100 academic institutions and libraries have used the OAPEN Library.</p>
<p>Of course, we do not actively track individual users. Instead we use a more general approach: we look at the website from which the download from the OAPEN Library originated. How does that work? For instance, when someone in the library of the University of Leipzig clicks on the download link of a book in the OAPEN library, two things happen: first, the book is directly available on the computer that person is working on, and second, the OAPEN server notes the ‘return address’: <a href="https://katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/">https://katalog.ub.uni-leipzig.de/</a>. We have no way of knowing who the person is that started the download, we just know the request originated from the Leipzig University Library. Furthermore, some organisations choose to suppress sending their ‘return address’, making them anonymous.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32570602021-09-24T04:32:47-04:002021-09-24T08:25:39-04:00The proliferation of business models for open-access books | Martin Paul Eve | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing<h1><a href="https://eve.gd/2021/09/23/the-proliferation-of-business-models-for-open-access-books/">The proliferation of business models for open-access books</a></h1>
<p>We are at an exciting moment for open-access books. UKRI has announced a forthcoming funding mandate, kicking off in 2024. Plan S funders are deciding what to do about books. And much (if not all) of the dissent around the idea of OA monographs has gone quieter. It seems, at least to me, that more and more people are persuaded that OA books are a good concept… so long as the route by which we get there is equitable.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32424192021-09-16T05:32:55-04:002021-09-24T16:33:33-04:00Guest post: Overcoming the challenges of open access books – part 2/2<p><em>We are pleased to share the second part of this guest blogpost by one of our <a href="https://doabooks.org/en/supporters/doab-sponsors"><strong>DOAB Gold Sponsors</strong></a>, written by Leila Moore, Taylor and Francis. </em></p>
<p><strong>Leila Moore</strong> is Open Access Books Lead at Taylor & Francis. After graduating from the University of Reading with a BA honours in English Leila went on to a career in publishing, working across a variety of disciplines and publishing formats. A keen interest in the emergence of the open access model encouraged Leila to take the leap into open access publishing. Leila now specialises in open access books.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32423302021-09-16T04:08:44-04:002021-09-16T04:08:44-04:00Guest post: Overcoming the challenges of open access books – part 1/2 – OAPEN – supporting the transition to open access for academic books<p> </p>
<p><em>We are pleased to share this guest post (published in two parts) by our latest <a href="https://doabooks.org/en/supporters/doab-sponsors"><strong>DOAB Gold Sponsor</strong></a>, written by Leila Moore Open Access Book Lead at Taylor & Francis.</em></p>
<p><span><strong>Overcoming the challenges of open access books – part 1/2</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Leila Moore</strong> is Open Access Books Lead at Taylor & Francis. After graduating from the University of Reading with a BA honours in English Leila went on to a career in publishing, working across a variety of disciplines and publishing formats. A keen interest in the emergence of the open access model encouraged Leila to take the leap into open access publishing. Leila now specialises in open access books.</p>