Recently published Guide to open access monograph publishing by OAPEN UK discuss very important issue for open access publishing in humanities: In many disciplines images, lyrics and music scores (just a small example of the variety) are critical to and underpin the monograph (in its […]
Thanks to digitalization, open data, open source and citizen science can play a huge role in contemporary archaeology. But researchers should first of all answer the question: “what do we want from open?”. I am pleased to present the interview with Jeremy Huggett, and Davide […]
What role does open access data have to play in the conservation of endangered languages? Why make samples of rare speech freely accessible on-line, and what are the problems associated with making this kind of data open? – Read in a guest post by Katarzyna […]
I am recommending to the governors the very same thing I do myself and that I suggest to my colleagues. It is absolutely necessary to publish all the outputs of publicly funded research in the open access model – says Emanuel Kulczycki, philosopher, communication specialist […]
Results from the survey released by OAPEN-UK have shown that 10% of researchers for whom access to monographs is important, also claim that it is difficult or very difficult to get such access. Among the researchers who stated that access to journal articles is important to […]
Open Linguistics, Open Theology and Open Archaeology are 3 journals launched this year by De Gruyter Open, covering a broad scope of research in humanities. In past weeks they were joined by 8 STM journals converted from the subscription model, also designed to cover their […]
Your Academia.edu profile is really impressive. You uploaded more than 50 articles, which have been visited more than 13 thousands times. It has to be an important source of information for those interested in Assyriology. Why have you decided to make these works freely available? […]
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. You chose an appropriate publisher, your book is accepted, and finally published. But this does not mean that your work is over. Your publisher can handle promotional work, but you […]
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. I have decided to write another post on choosing a publisher because I think it is an important step and I want to discuss a different aspect that was not […]
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. Abstracting and indexing tools make finding scientific content easier and, what is more important for authors, make scientific content more discoverable. Some of these tools are more popular and some […]