📣 Register for the virtual roundtable “Toward Partnerships for #OpenAccess ” organized by #CoalitionPublica (Public Knowledge Project (PKP) +Érudit)

📆 Tuesday April 23, 2024, 11 a.m. (EDT)
🌐 Virtually
🎟️ Free, upon registration

Full details: coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvelles…

#ScholComm #AcademicChatter

📣 Inscrivez-vous à la table ronde virtuelle «Ensemble vers des partenariats pour le #libreaccès » organisée par #CoalitionPublica (Public Knowledge Project (PKP) + Érudit).

📆 Mardi 23 avril 2024, 11 h (HAE)
🌐 En virtuel
🎟️ Gratuit, sur inscription

Tous les détails : coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvelles…

🇨🇭Le PREMIER POST de notre série 'Autour du monde avec l'OABN' est sorti & se concentre sur la Suisse!🇨🇭

Jan Sandink écrit 'Livres en Open Access en Suisse & à la Bibliothèque cantonale & universitaire – Lausanne'

A lire en français et anglais :

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/10/aro…

#OAbooks

🇨🇭The FIRST POST in our 'Around the World with the OABN' series is out & focuses on Switzerland!🇨🇭

✍️Jan Sandink writes 'Open Access Books in Switzerland & at the Cantonal & University Library – Lausanne'

The post is written in French & English:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/04/10/aro…

#OAbooks

Do you want to learn more about DOAB and DOAJ? Join Niels Stern and Joanna Ball for the second installment of Lyrasis LyrOpen Fair April 11. There is still time to register. lyrasisnow.org/lyropen-fair/

🌟 Save the Date! 🌟

We're thrilled to announce the upcoming 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, taking place from December 8-14, 2024, in the vibrant city of Cape Town, South Africa. #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing

In today's #OpenAccess Book Prize newsletter, finalist A.D. Carson shares why he published 'i used to love to dream' (@UofMPress 2020) open access: bit.ly/3JcVz0T

Arcadia Fund Fulcrum

Our third annual LyrOpen Fair begins tomorrow, 4/9! This virtual fair will include 5 webinars exploring the open research and scholarship ecosystem. Registration is free.
Details about each session & registration lyrasisnow.org/lyropen-fair/.

Bristol University Press Journals Global Social Challenges is seeking diamond OA funding via LYRASIS’s #OA community investment program Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program #uksg2024

Thank you to UD Library, Museums and Press for their support of Diamond Open Access by contributing to Observational Studies through Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program. For more about OACIP: ow.ly/rZPr50RaKU2

What's that? Two incredible new covers for two incredible new books forthcoming this fall from Lever Press? Be still my beating heart!

Thank you to the organizations that have contributed to Lyrasis Open Access Community Investment Program this round! Learn how you can support #diamondOA here lyrasisnow.org/oacip2024/

Check out our Spring Newsletter and don't miss our latest updates >  New OLH website, new journals, latest supporters, OLH #OA Award, blog post by Dr Steph Driver our accessibility specialist developer, new Janeway' partnerships and more: 
mailchi.mp/openlibhums/ne…

Have you checked out the Open Access Journals Toolkit?

Launched in 2023 by DOAJ and OASPA, this is a free online resource for anyone supporting or managing OA journals who want to follow best practice⭐️

oajournals-toolkit.org

'Around the World with the OABN'

A new blog series starting soon, focusing on OA books in different countries around the world!

Read more about it 👇⬇️

DOAB has hit 80,000 #oabooks 🎉Discover our diverse collection today: doabooks.org

DID YOU KNOW the OAPEN OA Books Toolkit has a wealth of information for authors about how to publish an #OpenAccess book?

It includes a set of case studies w/ authors explaining in their own words how #OA publication benefited their work:

oabooks-toolkit.org/the-oabooks-la…

#OA books

Not an April fool! #openaccess book users do more than just 'read' books on Fulcrum. They share, reformat, & discuss. Some create beautiful bound editions to give to friends. Read more about how Lever Press and Big Ten Academic collections are used: blogs.lib.umich.edu/tiny-studies/i…

Thrilled to see the Gates Foundation news. SPARC's Heather Joseph is quoted in the announcement noting that the extraordinarily fast development of COVID vaccines and therapeutics “is one of the single most visible and visceral expressions of how openness works.”