News - Launching the OLH Advocacy Network

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-27

Summary:

"In 2018 the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Visitors to the website can now make use of a collection of advocacy resources and read our new Open Insights series featuring interviews and opinion pieces from a rich variety of scholars and librarians within the humanities OA communities. As part of this initiative we have also been arranging a series of Twitter chats to explore the topics of the blog posts. Many of you have been part of the initiative already!

We are in the process of translating some of these resources and have recently added a Spanish version of the poster, infographics, OLH conference presentation and Glossary of OA terms to the website. We are also planning to add multilingual content to our bibliography.

The OLH advocacy network is another step in building a community around OA and the scholarly commons. It is a new space where OA ECRs, scholars, editors, librarians, or information specialists can have a conversation, share information, propose new initiatives and provide feedback. ..."

Link:

https://www.openlibhums.org/news/320/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.advocacy oa.humanities oa.ecr oa.open_library_humanities oa.ssh

Date tagged:

01/27/2019, 15:48

Date published:

01/27/2019, 10:48