November 2022

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‘Lessons from Project Gutenberg: OG OA’

On: November 9, 2022

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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 […]
Coming in January: Public Domain Day 2026 – HathiTrust Digital Library December 15, 2025
"In January, HathiTrust will celebrate Public Domain Day, with titles published in 1930 entering the public domain in the U.S., including more than 78,000 items in the collection. Some will be viewable globally, and there will be additional global access to 57,000 titles published in Canada or Australia in 1899 and 1900. Here is a […]