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Archives: OA books

Guest Post — Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics

Today’s guest author offers a progress report on recent efforts to build open-source technology for open access book metrics.

  • By Peter Potter
  • Sep 22, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Open Access and Sales Revenue Can Co-Exist

A new research study finds that open access monographs can generate significant revenue — both on the print side and digitally. 

  • By Laura Brown, Erich van Rijn, Roger C. Schonfeld, John Sherer
  • Sep 21, 2023
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post – Open Access to University Press Frontlists: A Call to Action

Now, two decades into the OA movement, it is high time for university libraries and presses to finally create a future for OA monographs.

  • By Curtis Brundy, Laura Hanscom, Barbara Kern, Brigitte Weinsteiger
  • Sep 20, 2023
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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