Tag Archives: Open Books

TOME at Virginia Tech: A Progress Report

by Peter Potter Posted on February 16, 2021

In 2017 Virginia Tech joined eleven other American universities in the launch of a 5-year pilot project called TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a bold new effort to change the landscape of scholarly book publishing. TOME is sponsored by the As… Continue reading →

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Announcing open textbook Fundamentals of Business, third edition

by Anita Walz Posted on January 6, 2021

Virginia Tech Publishing and the Pamplin College of Business are pleased to announce the publication of Fundamentals of Business, third edition. This peer-reviewed open textbook is free to read and download online. Print editions are also available via… Continue reading →

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Book Review: Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts

by Philip Young Posted on April 22, 2019

Understanding and Negotiating Book Publication Contracts, prepared by Brianna L. Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker, Katherine Bridge, Alfredo Diaz, Karen Graefin vom Hagen, Anna Kuksenkova, Henry Nikogosyan (Berkeley: Authors Alliance, 2018). The latest an… Continue reading →

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Is There a Place for DIY in Scholarly Publishing? Lulu Says Yes (and may not be wrong)

by Peter Potter Posted on December 22, 2016

Lulu has announced the launch of a new online publishing platform that it is calling Glasstree. If you’ve heard of Lulu before you probably know it as one of several heavyweight players in the self-publishing arena, alongside Amazon (Kindle Direct), … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Book Review: Understanding Rights Reversion

by Philip Young Posted on April 26, 2016

Nicole Cabrera, Jordyn Ostroff, Brianna Schofield, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. Understanding Rights Reversion: When, Why & How to Regain Copyright and Make Your Book More Available (Berkeley: Authors Alliance, 2015). Although I am familiar with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Book Review: Open Access and the Humanities

by Philip Young Posted on December 30, 2014

Martin Paul Eve, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Martin Eve’s new book is a welcome examination of the unique challenges that the humanities face in open access publishing. Appropriately enough, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Library Support for New Open Access Business Models

by Philip Young Posted on April 11, 2014

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is now supporting two innovative open access efforts, Knowledge Unlatched and PeerJ. Knowledge Unlatched enables open access for books in the humanities and social sciences, while PeerJ is an open access journal in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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