Tag Archives: Open Access Publishing

Escape Room Archaeology

Next project: edited collected chapters (free online): DIY archaeology (history, architectural/art history and heritage) escape rooms children/students can create at home or in class (written and illustrated like cookbook recipes). Now, just how to write up the proposal & find the right designers, writers, & experts! 

Open Access Publishing Costs-Books

PUBLISHERPOUNDSUSDEUROAUD
Punctum£2,490USD 3,0002,789 €AUD 4,681
Ubiquity Press£3,650USD 4,4174,088 €AUD 6,862
White Rose£6,000USD 7,2606,720 €AUD 11,280
Bloomsbury£6,500USD 7,8657,280 €AUD 12,220
Amsterdam£6,950USD 8,4107,784 €AUD 13,066
Routledge£10,000USD 13,000?AUD 18,800
Springer£11,000USD 15,00011,000 €AUD 20,680

NB Ubiquity Press lists some handy links for funds for open access book publishing.

Debates on Open Access Publishing

Well this is food for thought and fuel for fires http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral

Open Access Publishing does seem to be spreading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2012/oct/22/inexorable-rise-open-access-scientific-publishing

Major players
The Open Library of the Humanities (a new project)
http://www.openlibhums.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org

Directory of Open Access Books
http://www.doabooks.org

SAGE OPEN
http://sgo.sagepub.com

A blog on Open Science
http://openingscience.org/
NB it seems to be linked to the PLOS blogs, which by the way also blog on Culture and seems to be improving its data access

DARIAH.eu´s current Open Access Partners
There is a little intro at http://hypotheses.org/about/hypotheses-org-en or at DARIAH.eu

But there are dangers
Predatory Open Access Journals
http://metadata.posterous.com/tag/predatoryopenaccessjournals