OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit | @Fbm20

Continue to explore Springer Nature Group @ Frankfurt Book Fair 2020!
This live Q&A session discussed the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit, a new, free resource. The toolkit aims to help authors better understand open access (OA) for books, to increase trust in OA book publishing, to provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance in the process of publishing an OA book. The toolkit was developed in a series of workshops for authors, hosted by the universities of Oxford, Glasgow and Utrecht, in collaboration with Springer Nature and OAPEN. The Q&A session starts with a short presentation about the toolkit and a brief demo, before it opened up to a live discussion where panellists took questions from attendees.

-Lucy Barnes, Editor, Open Book Publishers
-Eelco Ferwerda, Director, OAPEN
-Ros Pyne, Director, Open Access Books and Book Policies, Springer Nature
-Graham Stone, Senior Programme Manager – open access monographs, Jisc

From October 14 - 17, 2020, we have had a daily live focus that addressed hot topics and trends of our community. Our content delivered on a wide range of topics: digital transformation, the impact of research and how research can help to address global issues like COVID-19, open access books, novelties for librarians, new formats in medical publishing, as well as an author video gallery where our authors present their books to the general public.

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