MLA Commons | Sebastian Nordhoff | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/snordhoff/activity/ Activity feed for Sebastian Nordhoff. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0fe999ad9427d0bacae99387b6ecf5df Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/business-models-for-open-access-books/#post-60831 Fri, 12 Aug 2022 08:39:57 -0400 I read the report. The Association of University Presses finds that University Presses are providing great value and that their average cost per book is 20,000$. Of these, 15,000$ are covered by subsidies and the rest via prints sales etc.

They report 50% of book costs are overhead and acquisition. Work directly related to the creation of a book…[Read more]

]]> 0 073c3f2745cee654d908b0304918b881 Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Accessibility of OA books in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/accessibility-of-oa-books/#post-57257 Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:11:09 -0400 We have recently discovered that pdfs produced with LaTeX have a certain treatment that does not interface well with common screenreaders for visually impaired people. Fixing this is actually a major project and will get pretty gory. We will not have the funds available at LangSci to do this on our own, but we might apply for some funding. If you…[Read more]

]]> 0 277914e9fa2505d7e0a68ca5e8729eff Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic New editions of OA books in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/new-editions-of-oa-books/#post-52832 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 11:49:08 -0500 Hi Emma,

see here:

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/25

https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/144

Former versions are available for reference. We provide back and forward links between the versions. Superseded book have a different cover image. We strive to have backlinks in the DOIs as well. We…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cbba021b843c8d787e4518852478c3f Sebastian Nordhoff posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718417/#acomment-1719234 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:32:43 -0500 Thanks. I found another blog post of ours which also deals with the book downloads vs. chapter downloads problem. You can find it here: https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/08/12/access-stats-for-open-access-books/

In reply to - Lucy Barnes edited the post Financing change: KU Leuven’s Fair OA Fund in the group Open Access Books Network: The author of this post, Demmy Verbeke (Head of KU Leuven Libraries Artes), also spoke with us about […] ]]> 6c08e8679dc107733fedd93b326b8965 Sebastian Nordhoff posted a new activity comment https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718417/#acomment-1719200 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 12:25:19 -0500 Thank you for this much-needed initiative. This blog posts mentions “a list of books which have thus appeared, together with their readershap data, is available https://www.kuleuven.be/open-science/what-is-open-science/scholarly-publishing-and-open-access/open-access-kuleuven/fairoabooks/fair-oa-books”

I was wondering where the readership data…[Read more]

In reply to - Lucy Barnes edited the post Financing change: KU Leuven’s Fair OA Fund in the group Open Access Books Network: The author of this post, Demmy Verbeke (Head of KU Leuven Libraries Artes), also spoke with us about […] ]]> afe5caf56afe3a10ffba20895a0985da Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/business-models-for-open-access-books/#post-40552 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:27:17 -0500 I seem to have trouble with that Zotero group. In any case, here are two references which could be incorporated there:

 

Nordhoff, Sebastian. (2018). Cookbook for Open Access books. Berlin: Language Science Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1286925

Nordhoff, Sebastian. (2018). Language Science Press business model. Berlin: Language Science…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4de107676e29b7d80b33a2223087138 Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/book-usage-and-book-usage-data/#post-37380 Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:47:56 -0400 FWIW, our bookdownload figures are available from here as csv: https://github.com/langsci/opendata/blob/master/bookdownloads/langscidownloads.csv

We made some analyses, but they are not really conclusive:

Downloads over time: https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/08/12/access-stats-for-open-access-books/

Difference between OMP…[Read more]

]]> 0 d17ba5512f02298c1a059179a43695b2 Sebastian Nordhoff replied to the topic Business Models for Open Access Books in the discussion Open Access Books Network https://hcommons.org/groups/open-access-books-network/forum/topic/business-models-for-open-access-books/#post-37378 Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:36:06 -0400 I had a look at @scholtom‘s report. Very nice work. The section on “subscribe-to-open” lists Language Science Press. I am not sure this is 100% correct. LangSci never had closed content, so we could not possibly do a transition, and we can also not threaten to revert back to that. I can see how we ended up there, but the model is slightly…[Read more]

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