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February 2021

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A Plan S for books: Voices from the Community

2021-02-25
On: February 25, 2021
In: Voices from the Community

UPDATE AUGUST 2021: a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. What should a Plan S for books lookRead More →

A platform for inclusivity

2021-02-23
On: February 23, 2021
In: boOkmArks, funding OA books, Libraries, OA press, Uncategorized

An conversation with Dr. Reggie Raju (Director of Research and Learning Services) & Jill Claassen (Scholarly Communications & Research), both from the University of Cape Town Libraries, took place in March 2021 to discuss this post about a continental platform for open research in Africa. The recording of the eventRead More →

Open Access books and [in]discoverability: a library perspective

2021-02-11
On: February 11, 2021
In: Discovery, Libraries, Metadata

By Jayne Kelly (Ebooks Administrator, Collections and Academic Liaison Department, Cambridge University Library) and Clara Panozzo (Latin American & Iberian Collections, Collections and Academic Liaison Department, Cambridge University Library) During the COVID-19 pandemic, two colleagues from different areas within the Collections and Academic Liaison department at Cambridge University Library haveRead More →

RSS Open Access Tracking Project – oa.books news

  • Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project - Office of Scholarly Communication January 12, 2026
    "Starting in 2025, UC Libraries are supporting several projects intended to broaden access to University of California research and scholarship by making UC-authored books open access.  Following on successful efforts to open UC-authored journal articles, these projects will enable UC authors publishing books with select university presses to choose open access at no cost to them, […]
  • OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective January 7, 2026
    "One of the key aims of the Open Book Collective is to support publishers, infrastructure providers and other organizations to build capacity to increase the quantity, quality and diversity of Open Access books. One way it does this is by awarding grants from its Collective Development Fund.... With this call, we are pleased to announce […]
  • The Dream of the Universal Library—Asterisk January 5, 2026
    "At the turn of the millennium, Google Books and similar mass digitization projects for the world’s print books were widely seen to promise a universal digital library for reading access on the web. Instead, the future we thought we’d get for human readers has arrived only for machines.... The vast majority of Google’s digitized books […]
  • The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation - Martin Paul Eve January 3, 2026
    "Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet. In recent days, one of the most prominent shadow libraries, Library Genesis (libgen), was taken down and its archive removed from public consumption. This is a post about pirate libraries […]
  • SNSF to adapt its open access funding December 17, 2025
    "Open access to scientific publications has become the norm. Starting in 2027, the SNSF will limit its funding for open access (OA). It will be offering researchers new options for publishing articles free of charge.... Following these successful first years, the SNSF will update its OA funding as of 1 January 2027 to reflect the […]

RSS OA Books News – via Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)

  • Open Access for UC-Authored Monographs – A UC Libraries Pilot Project - Office of Scholarly Communication
  • OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective
  • The Dream of the Universal Library—Asterisk
  • The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation - Martin Paul Eve
  • SNSF to adapt its open access funding

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