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Our project was shortlisted for the 2017 WISE Awards. The WISE Awards program recognizes education projects from around the globe for their innovative approach to solve the real-world obstacles to education.
Open Book sits on the advisory board of a range of Open Access initiatives and members of our team are frequently invited speakers on the OA movement. Watch co-Founder and co-Director, Rupert Gatti, talk about our project:
Open Book Publishers has received a great deal of general media interest:
- Our Co-Director Rupert Gatti worked with OPERAS to develop OPERAS Platforms and Services White Paper.
- Rupert Gatti contributed to the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group's July 2018 report Open Access Monographs about the transition to OA for academic books.
- Rupert Gatti and former Editor Mike Mierowsky wrote for the Association of College and Research Libraries on funding Open Access monographs.
- Our Managing Director Alessandra Tosi wrote an article for The Telegraph on the revolution in online learning and the urgent need for Open Access.
- David Matthews' piece on OBP in Times Higher Education discussed our initiatives to provide Open Access monographs to readers in the developing world.
- Robert Darnton mentions us in his article for the New York Review of Books.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about OBP as an example of OA publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
- We are featured in Times Higher Education in an article by Paul Jump entitled: Research Intelligence - Unbound Possibilities.
- Our Co-director Rupert Gatti had an article published in The Guardian Higher Education Network Blog: Open Access: 'We no longer need expensive publishing networks'.
- Our successful funding campaign to "unglue" Oral Literature in Africa was covered in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Start-up Hopes to Create Free Digital Version of Published Books and Poets & Writers: Digital Digest: Crowdfunding for the Literary Set.
- Author Ruth Finnegan writes about her experience of publishing with us in The Independent: Open Access: Taking Academic Publishing Out of its Ivory Tower.
- One of our directors, Rupert Gatti, discusses Open Access, copyright law and OBP in CAM, the Cambridge University Alumni Magazine: Access All Areas.
- We have been featured on the website Open Access Success Stories, which chronicles successful OA ventures across Europe: Open Book Publishers.
Members of our team regularly present our work at UK, EU and US universities and at international conferences, among them:
- European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, Hamburg (2018)
- International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Toronto (2018)
- OER 18: Open to All, 9th Annual Conference for Open Education Research, Practice and Policy, Bristol (2018)
- Digital Infrastructures for Research conference, Brussels (2017)
- Cambridge Open Access Week 2017: Helping Researchers Publish in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (2017)
- HIRMEOS Project Meeting, Berlin (2017)
- Academic Book Week Panel Discussion, University of Derby (2017)
- Universities UK, Wellcome Trust Conference (2017)
- Charleston Library Conference (2016)
- AHRC Commons Conference, York (2016)
- SPARC Annual Conference, San Antonio TX (2016)
- Coordinating Open Access Publishing in the UK, London (2016)
- Voltaire Foundation, Oxford (2016)
- Research and Publishing in the Digital Age, Cambridge (2016)
- Academic Book of the Future Conference, Cambridge (2015)
- HEFCE/JISC Future of Open Access Monographs, London (2015)
- EUI Open Access Scholarly Publications Conference, Florence (2015)
- Open Access Scholarly Dissemination, Barcelona (2015)
- OASPA Conference, Paris (2015)
- OA19 Conference, CERN (2015)
- OA Academic Publishing, Helsinki (2015)
- HEFCE Consultation on OA Monographs, London (2015)
- JISC/Oapen Consultation, London (2015)
- Wellcome Trust Workshop, London (2015)
- Radical Open Access, Coventry (2015)
We have also been featured on many blogs, including:
- University of Kent, Office for Scholarly Communication "‘Do you come here often?’ Starting the conversation on DOI’s for Book Chapters"
- 2017 WISE Awards: Finalist profile
- Unglue.it: "Meet Open Book Publishers"
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Open Knowledge Foundation: "Open Book Publishers Releases The Digital Public Domain"
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Society Matters: "Is Open Access the Future of Academic Publishing?"
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The Enlightened Economist: "Copyright and Academics"
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Suite 101: "Open Book Publishers' Online and Printed Academic Monographs"
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The Stoa Consortium: "Open Book Publishers: Cicero"