Luminos is an open access book publishing program run by The University of California Press. At the time of writing there are 6 open access books available, with more on the way. We mentioned the announcement of the…
Today (24th September) is the seventh anniversary of the founding of Open Book Publishers. CC-0. Portrait of an old man thought to be Comenius (c. 1661) by Rembrandt. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. Wikimedia Commons,…
CC BY Catherine Markham https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-015-0053-9 Each year BMC Ecology runs an image competition designed to allow ecologists to capture in a single frame their personal perspective on the 'beauty…
Outernet is a company that is organising a so-called ‘library in space’ designed to untether information from the restrictions imposed by the Internet. The Internet as a medium for transmitting information is of course…
Copyright Roberto Salazar & Sebastian Pizarro Above is a visualisation of Quantum Earth, a continent consisting of research articles in the field of quantum mechanics. The idea was originally conceived by Roberto…
Copyright Wellcome Trust CC BY 2.0 Copyright Research Information Network A Wellcome Trust commissioned report centred around the issue of peer review was published last month. The report, conducted by the Research…
We’ve reached another milestone! We now have over 5000 items in the repository, with a variety of research outputs including theses, reports, books, chapters, journal articles completely free and available for anyone…
Copyright © The British Library Board The British Library EThOS service has started a Share My Thesis competition (in collaboration with Vitae and Research Councils UK). How to enter: Entry for the competition is…
The results for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) are due in this week, but work is already well under way to prepare for the next one! What is the REF? The REF is a system for assessing the quality and…
"Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where, you've never been." David T. W. McCord With this post we want to highlight the importance of open access books. When people think of open access, their minds might…