From: Sigi Jöttkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>
To: "ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [OA-monographs] March update
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:48:29 +0100
Hi all,
Welcoming Raym Crow to this list, this seems a good opportunity to give
you an update on the OHP/SPO OA monographs collaboration.
We'll be making a public announcement about our pilot project soon, but
I'm happy to report that OHP has secured commitments for 5 open access
series which will be edited by senior members of OHP's editorial
advisory board and produced and distributed by SPO. We hope to publish
around 5 monographs this year, and are working on an ambitious plan to
rapidly scale OHP's editorial operations over the next couple of years.
Last month we also wrote a draft for an NEH Institutes for Advanced
Topics in the Digital Humanities grant to fund a series of workshops
around the future of the monograph/new forms of scholarly communications
and the role libraries might play in this future. On the advice of the
NEH officer, we've now decided to apply for funding the OHP/SPO
collaboration through a different grant program, but if anyone here is
interested in having a look at our workshops grant draft with a view to
possibly spearheading the workshops series, please feel free to email.
We were envisaging them as an opportunity to bring different entities
together (scholar publishers, librarians, forward-looking university
presses, developers of open source publishing software) to explore in a
hands-on way scholars’ needs for the next generation of scholarly
communications, with a focus on the long argument or book form.
Best,
Sigi
[OA-monographs] March update,
Sigi Jöttkandt, 03/11/2009