Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (Copim)
Published September 17, 2024 | Version v1
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Choosing Open Access for Books As a Precarious Scholar

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  • 1. ROR icon Lancaster University
  • 2. ROR icon Coventry University
  • 3. ROR icon Open Book Collective

Description

In this presentation, Judith Fathallah begins by discussing job insecurity in UK universities and the impact that casualisation and precarity have on academic publishing. Fathallah shares some of her own experiences as an author, and discusses her decision to publish a monograph with an open access publisher.  Fathallah also briefly introduces the work of the Open Book Collective (a partner on Copim's Open Book Futures research project).

This presentation was delivered at the OASPA 2024 conference on 17 September 2024, as part of the panel: "Open Access and Precarity in the Academic Landscape: Learning from the Experiences of Authors and Scholar-led Publishers".

Notes

The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI). Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world. Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) is a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business.

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