MLA Commons | Meir Edrey | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/meiredrey/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Meir Edrey is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:23:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 65679eb091b8e5cc03d7f14473d3ff64 Silke Davison edited the blog post OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/01/23/oapen-eu-project-insights-from-eu-funded-authors/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:03:56 -0500 Tuesday 21 April 2026, 14:00 – 15:15 CEST

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]]> d6d2d10d6e9cb31a294679df9ba08622 Silke Davison edited the blog post Blog: International Open Access Week 2025: Event recordings in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/12/04/blog-international-open-access-week-2025-event-recordings/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:31:05 -0500 October 20 – 26 was International Open Access Week 2025, organized by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. This year, the theme was ‘Who Owns Our Knowledge?’ 

Following our origin […]

]]> 371cad8d76593d8988b641dd832a2cca Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/frequently-asked-questions-on-third-party-materials-in-open-access-books/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:59:30 -0400 By Ciara Aaron, Editorial Assistant and Early Career Researcher, University of London Press and University of East Anglia

Disclaimer: The answers provided here do not constitute professional legal advice, and […]

]]> 279ecb869edf0c38cfcbb43641aa4d4d Lucy Barnes edited the blog post International Open Access Week 2025: Events in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/international-open-access-week-2025-events/ Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:44:27 -0400 Open Access Week 2025 is next week (20-26 October), and the theme is Who Owns Our Knowledge? At the OABN, and in collaboration with Copim, we have gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA […]

]]> 7aa75daed643dac92e01760593fd9445 Andrea Davidson edited the blog post ERC Grantees share their experiences with Open Access book publishing in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/09/erc-grantees-share-their-experiences-with-open-access-book-publishing/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:03:48 -0400 On 30 September 2023, three European Research Council (ERC) grantees spoke with OABN co-coordinator Lucy Barnes about their experiences of publishing Open Access books, at an event that the OABN hosted with the […]

]]> 0ccea9cc994bee62c855da1a575790d8 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post A call to action: How you can help Knowledge Commons in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/16/a-call-to-action-how-you-can-help-knowledge-commons/ Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:18:19 -0400 The Open Access Books Network (OABN) has been part of the Knowledge Commons community since our inception in 2020 (when Knowledge Commons was called Humanities Commons). Knowledge Commons is an open community […]

]]> 1f7497487e7db930ceb095c3d3c8e417 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/publishing-open-access-books-insights-from-erc-funded-authors/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:34:05 -0400 Tuesday 30 September, 11am BST / 12pm CEST75 minutesRegister for this free online event

Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an open access (OA) book? Join this free online event which b […]

]]> bb3e1851f93094d8c29857d6fe066b88 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post OA Book Policy-a-thon: Taking Action to Expand the Knowledge Base in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/24/oa-book-policy-a-thon-taking-action-to-expand-the-knowledge-base/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:14:23 -0400 On 24 June 2025, the OABN hosted a practical event to equip members of the community with the skills needed to upload new or updated policies to the Knowledge Base, a database that contains hundreds of funder and […]

]]> 2ab048e264673bb2679d5d8a596ac523 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/how-should-diamond-open-access-work-for-books/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:35:38 -0400 Published today in Katina Magazine, Lucy Barnes, Iva Melinščak Zlodi, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and Niels Stern have written an article on ‘How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?’ You can read it he […]

]]> 2c1f5f479153acbc2e167753bca76b1a Silke Davison edited the blog post Services for OA book policy making in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/06/19/services-for-oa-book-policy-making/ Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:19:09 -0400 Essential tools and resources to help you navigate the OA book policy landscape

Open access (OA) publishing is rapidly evolving, with policymakers at institutional, national, and organisational levels […]

]]> 01d987dd3dedebbe49f61378a593de8f Lucy Barnes edited the blog post From Permission to Publication: Managing Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/05/27/from-permission-to-publication-managing-third-party-materials-in-open-access-books/ Tue, 27 May 2025 17:11:13 -0400 By Silke Davison, Andrea Davidson and Lucy Barnes (OABN coordinators)

In November 2024, the Open Access Books Network (OABN) and the University of London Press co-organised the webinar ‘From Permission to P […]

]]> 29c76b59aebb1e919f23ebd3475dc8ba Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Trailblazers: the UK open access initiative for ECRs in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/05/08/trailblazers-the-uk-open-access-initiative-for-ecrs/ Thu, 08 May 2025 12:02:19 -0400 By Wendy Taylor, Open Research Coordinator (Publishing) at the University of Salford

Trailblazers was established in 2024 by the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, and Salford, with Liverpool University […]

]]> a1a1979088509ac61de7b5aa6e5a9648 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Around the World with the OABN: Mexico in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/04/23/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-mexico/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:30:00 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is written in a language the contributor uses at work. This post is written in Spanish, with an English translation from the author pub […]

]]> e9902fb94a8a679c1a8038040e82f26c Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Beyond PALOMERA: What will the future of OA book policymaking look like? in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/01/21/beyond-palomera-what-will-the-future-of-oa-book-policymaking-look-like/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:11:32 -0500 Now that the PALOMERA project has ended after two years of in-depth work on OA book policy, the OABN is sharing this final blog post to describe the project’s outputs, reflect on its impact and report on the O […]

]]> 2f5a4b53a088b34e337b2422a71d060c Silke Davison edited the blog post Who Cares About Equity? The OABN does! in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/10/09/who-cares-about-equity-the-oabn-does/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 08:39:33 -0400 The Open Access Books Network (OABN) is making a more concerted effort to incorporate equitable practices into our activities. We got the chance to talk about this at the 2024 OASPA Conference which took place at […]

]]> d7eff8ceceb5ce98d636b6a42c57200f Lucy Barnes edited the blog post The PALOMERA project: Four months to go! in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/13/the-palomera-project-six-months-to-go/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:57:54 -0400 PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) is nearing its final leg: twenty months down, and four months left to go! This post summarises the achievements of the project […]

]]> e4ce34230daa27fcb384ab0d0cb04332 Lucy Barnes commented on the post, Greetings, wanderer!, on the groupblog Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/open-access-book-policies-the-authors-experience/#comment-1815 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:27:25 -0400 Hi Anna, thanks for this. To register, please fill in this short form (unfortunately I can’t register you because I don’t know your email address): […]

]]> b2d5bcf47dad622ad7ff176f4dcbc9cb Silke Davison edited the blog post Around the World with the OABN: Zimbabwe in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/12/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-zimbabwe/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:20:51 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is written in a language the contributor uses at work. This post is written in the Shona language, with an English translation from the […]

]]> d0dc79854a689679dcbd8347feb632c5 Lucy Barnes edited the blog post Open access book policies: The author’s experience in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/open-access-book-policies-the-authors-experience/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:25:39 -0400 Wednesday 2 October, 14:00-15:00 BST / 15:00-16:00 CEST

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At this free online event, we will hear from four authors about their experiences of publishing an open access (OA) book, and […]

]]> d5c1b4dbe673c0fc0d4487d7af46c941 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895893/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:20 -0400 This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi’s icons have been sep…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895886/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e44d51780b62d0af606152f25f6eb38 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895880/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 b746141f4e6f3388f4d326d75b917a38 Lucy Barnes edited the post Around the World with the OABN: Colombia in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/06/26/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-colombia/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:56:54 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is written in a language the contributor uses at work. This post is written in Spanish, with an English translation published ben […]

]]> 051f6a5f48dfdee7015e3e1a3fb13d23 Lloyd Graham deposited From Egyptian barque oracles to Artificial Swarm Intelligence via the Ouija (or wDA?) board in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889910/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed4f16743bd7fb46df8bcbb96e65a138 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Bang or whimper? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889850/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:31 -0400 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 ba1ff800d008d5bcdf581f2f13f88270 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited Reading the thirteenth century BC in Greece: Crisis, decline, or business as usual? in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889847/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde97abcd3e43ed2170a418e7b07a482 Dr Guy D. Middleton deposited I Will Follow You into the Dark: Death and Emotion in a Mycenaean Royal Funeral in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889844/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:23 -0400 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 526a250f41595ec5fc070c55d2eed777 Christian Reinboth deposited Tagungsband zur 23. Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innenkonferenz in the group Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889578/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:45 -0400 Am 31.05. und 01.06.2023 fand die 23. Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innenkonferenz (NWK 2023) an der Hochschule Harz in Wernigerode statt. Das Organisationsteam dankt den gut 200 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern für die zahlreichen Vorträge und Posterpräsentationen. Der vorliegende Tagungsband enthält 79 Beiträge von 212 Autorinnen und Autoren aus 36 H…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab32a12f573ce619ee13a7f731a36467 Lucy Barnes edited the post Open Access Book Publishing in India: Challenges and Opportunities for HSS and STEM in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/06/14/open-access-book-publishing-in-india-challenges-and-opportunities-for-hss-and-stem/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:39:54 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is usually written in a language the contributor uses at work. The contributors chose to write this post in English.

Shoma C […]

]]> e1d43ba11b3c3a13e000a2261f6c5a32 Dr. Vasileios Paliktzoglou deposited ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΣΜΟ ΜΕ RUBY in the group Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888053/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:00:22 -0400 Το εγχειρίδιο που έχετε στα χέρια ή στις οθόνες σας γράφτηκε ειδικά για όσους θέλουν να ασχοληθούν με τον προγραμματισμό και κατ’ επέκταση με την επιστήμη των Ηλεκτρονικών Υπολογιστών.

Απευθύνεται σε όλους εκείνους που δεν έχουν καμία σχέση με την επιστήμη της Πληροφορικής και τον προγραμματισμό. Το συγκεκριμέ…[Read more]

]]> 0 449ed99340e2afee209c207539af4615 Samuel Syddall edited the blog post Open EBA: Open for feedback in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/05/30/open-eba-open-for-feedback/ Thu, 30 May 2024 12:44:18 -0400 The author of this post, Samuel Syddall, Digital Sales Manager from Peter Lang Group, is seeking feedback on the Open EBA model presented in the post. Please add your thoughts, comments or questions using the […]

]]> 9bea75e4f0eb4ce5b05609700fbaaaa0 David Watson replied to the topic List of Chapter processing charges (CPCs)? in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/list-of-chapter-processing-charges-cpcs/#post-84403 Thu, 09 May 2024 14:01:19 -0400 Hi Lucy – yes, that’s a good idea. This link should work for editing: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wha3E7sCdJ_KhdQkM3O1_avIBshE6arJqd_TPQAR81c/edit?usp=sharing

 

It is also a good idea to add presses that don’t chage CPCs, I’ll continue to add to and update this spreadhseet (and welcome others who wish to do so).

]]> 0 ac50be2b004e6b0026767bd6ed101a70 Jonathan Valk deposited Who are the Arameans? A Selective Re-examination of the Cuneiform Evidence for the Earliest Arameans in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885670/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:47 -0400 This study challenges the 19th-century nationalist assumptions that have informed modern views of Aramean peoplehood in the first half of the first millennium BCE. I revisit the cuneiform sources, which offer the bulk of the existing evidence on the earliest Arameans, and demonstrate that they conceive of Arameans not as a single coherent people,…[Read more]

]]> 0 510c2adc6a4aa36f74ee0c1786ab2804 Jonathan Valk deposited Reflections on the Dynamics of Cuneiform Knowledge Production in the Ancient Near East in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885668/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:09 -0400 Very brief overview of the parameters of demand and supply for cuneiform knowledge production.

]]> 0 0792725f5d50edd4e4d695ada749b03d Lucy Barnes replied to the topic List of Chapter processing charges (CPCs)? in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/list-of-chapter-processing-charges-cpcs/?view=all#post-84361 Tue, 07 May 2024 10:30:12 -0400 Thanks for sharing this, David, very useful. Is there any way people can contribute to it or send updates? Also, would it be useful to add presses that don’t charge CPCs, for awareness-raising?

]]> 0 17314f4841c12ebf3be7b3def7832002 David Watson replied to the topic List of Chapter processing charges (CPCs)? in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/list-of-chapter-processing-charges-cpcs/#post-84150 Fri, 03 May 2024 14:01:54 -0400 Many thanks, both those links were very useful.

I have added a rough spreadsheet at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wha3E7sCdJ_KhdQkM3O1_avIBshE6arJqd_TPQAR81c/edit?usp=sharing

]]> 0 da2b43ae5ff6af1315226a732a70912a Tom Grady replied to the topic List of Chapter processing charges (CPCs)? in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/list-of-chapter-processing-charges-cpcs/#post-84116 Thu, 02 May 2024 11:15:43 -0400 I guess Sherpa for Books will eventually have this info? It’s in beta right now and with only a few publishers on, but I believe the idea is for Jisc to expand it as soon as they can: https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/oa-books

Worth also checking Holly Limbert & Dan De Santo’s dashboard which is also collating this kind of info (along with a lot more…[Read more]

]]> 0 8251c70bd2db78c1dfd8408b37699174 David Watson started the topic List of Chapter processing charges (CPCs)? in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/list-of-chapter-processing-charges-cpcs/ Thu, 02 May 2024 10:47:08 -0400 I’ve started putting together a list of chapter processing charges – and I’d be happy to share this once I’ve got a reasonable number. However, I suspect I’m reinventing the wheel here, does anyone know of any public lists of CPC charges?

]]> 0 468db524a1e7334755b49f2a5ae64aa3 Lucy Barnes edited the post PALOMERA Feedback Survey - Help Shape the Future of OA Books in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/05/01/palomera-feedback-survey-help-shape-the-future-of-oa-books/ Wed, 01 May 2024 11:26:48 -0400 The OABN is running a PALOMERA Series to enable OABN members to keep up to date with the project’s activities and to engage with the project. This post belongs to the PALOMERA series.

The PALOMERA pro […]

]]> 6baa4e0eb5d95acc8ac582a576a16953 Lucy Barnes edited the post ‘Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Where Are We Now?’ in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/05/01/creating-community-driven-pathways-to-equitable-open-scholarly-publishing-where-are-we-now/ Wed, 01 May 2024 10:57:40 -0400 The OABN is running a PALOMERA Series to enable OABN members to keep up to date with the project’s activities and to engage with the project. This post belongs to the PALOMERA series.

By Lucy Barnes […]

]]> 1a310e7e67c22eab6b0bc0923f0f8d3b Nicola Cavalli commented on the post, Greetings, wanderer!, on the groupblog Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/23/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-italy/#comment-1341 Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:18:11 -0400 Thanks for the comment!
It is rather the opposite, the italian law states that research results that are at least 50 per cent financed by public funds must be made publicly accessible possibly through deposit in […]

]]> feb6be590af6a35264cd06fa93e34ec2 Nicola Cavalli edited the post Around the World with the OABN: Italy in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/23/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-italy/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:25:58 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is written in a language the contributor uses at work. This post is written in Italian, with an English translation published be […]

]]> ba7f620ad4df4e5b788cd1b78965a995 Lucy Barnes edited the post Around the World with the OABN: Switzerland in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/10/around-the-world-with-the-oabn-switzerland/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:09:39 -0400 Every post in this series focuses on OA books in a different country, and is written in a language the contributor uses at work. This post is written in French, with an English translation published […]

]]> 2df3dded593ac319aa7a6a6942b12716 Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Near Eastern Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881300/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 32abf9fc3265ecb163eb5c27664acc55 Tatjana P. Beuthe deposited Making a Good Impression: A Typology of Mounted Seal Impressions in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881297/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:14 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b45b6554f30cf1acdc4ccb8abf948ac Lucy Barnes edited the post Introducing our new blog series: Around the World with the OABN in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/03/27/introducing-our-new-blog-series-around-the-world-with-the-oabn/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:51:17 -0400 Hello! Hola! Salut! Hoi! Ciao! Guten Tag! Zdravo! Namaste! Konnichi Wa! G’Day! Kalimera!

In our 2023 survey, we learned that you, the OABN community, has a strong desire to learn more about OA books in d […]

]]> 3f88af09737228f0a212485a7c0a01e0 Lucy Barnes edited the post PALOMERA conversations: a deep dive in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/03/26/palomera-conversations-a-deep-dive/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:47:57 -0400 Over the last year, PALOMERA has been engaging widely with different groups of stakeholders across the ERA, including policymakers and funders, universities, authors, librarians, publishers and infrastructure […]

]]> 40086f8b15c60bd35cc197b4b09e1f7d Gary Hall deposited ‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’ in the group Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879773/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:01:36 -0400 From the opening: ‘When Michael, Markus, and I first discussed the idea for publishing
this book, it was very clear to us that we did not want to write yet
another theoretical book on Internet piracy; practitioners from the
field should also have a voice. After all, it is they who created this
phenomenon in the first place and it is clearly…[Read more]

]]> 0 d289b89183c8f8fc7503b45dd2fd401f Lucy Barnes edited the post Open access book publishing: a series editor writes in the group Open Access Books Network https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/02/20/open-access-book-publishing-a-series-editor-writes/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:43:52 -0500 by Geoffrey Khan

Geoffrey Khan, Regius Professor of Hebrew at University of Cambridge, is the series editor of Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures, an open access book series published by Open Book […]

]]> a70c037e5c25197332e53b7f20b0d958 Julia Cook started the topic Adventures in Digital Publishing, Episode 5: 2020 Dreams in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/adventures-in-digital-publishing-episode-5-2020-dreams/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:07:06 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We’re very pleased to invite you to the fifth episode of Adventures in Digital Publishing, a webinar series exploring new kinds of digital publications. Join us February 28, 2024, at 12pm EST for a conversation with the team behind 2020 Dreams, an innovative, peer-reviewed digital book published by Stanford University Press in 20…[Read more]

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