Recording of Jisc webinar "Support community led open access publishing: Help shape the future of scholarly communications"

Dr Caroline Edwards, OLH Executive Director, participated in this webinar organised by JISC as part of OA week on libraries supporting community-led open access publishing. We were delighted to be invited to share the work we are doing at the Open Library of Humanities to extend rights retention to our journals. The event was chaired by Suzanne Tatham, the other participants included Phil Jones (Licensing Manager, Jisc), Sharla Lair (Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives, Lyrasis), Philippa Grand (Press Manager, University of Westminster Press) and Bethany Logan (Research & Open Scholarship Senior Manager, University of Sussex). You can watch the recording of the event and access all presentations here.

About OLH:  

The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open-access publisher of 28 journals based at Birkbeck, University of London. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors. 

If you like the work that the Open Library of Humanities is doing, please consider asking your institution to support us financially. We cannot operate without our library members. More details for libraries can be found at: https://www.openlibhums.org/plugins/supporters/signup/. 

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