To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day.  The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections.   If you have collections to suggest, please let me know. I first learned about SciELO Books (Scientific Electronic Library Online) when I traveled to Brazil last month [...]

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To honor open access week, I’ll be highlighting a different open access eBook platform each day.  The purpose is to create awareness of various open access ebook collections.   If you have collections to suggest, please let me know.   The OAPEN OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a collaborative initiative to develop [...]

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I’m happy to see that Unglue.it is back in business with a new payment provider, Stripe.  Eric Hellman announced five new title campaigns as well, including one by fellow librarian, Lauren Pressley.  More information is below in the press release. October 15, 2012 – Two months after being forced to shut down by Amazon Payments, [...]

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The following is a press release received from De Gruyter: Integrated Publishing at the De Gruyter Group: All Digital Content at One Platform De Gruyter Online now features all content from Birkhäuser and the open-access publisher Versita Berlin, 2 October 2012 – Over 450,000 e-books and e-journal contributions, over 15 million database entries, and some [...]

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Last week, I posted a press release from Third Iron, a company founded by a librarian, John Seguin.  Third Iron released an iPad app called BrowZine.  This app allows patrons the ability to browse open access journals and library subscription journals (library subscription required) and keep track of articles on individual devices.  As was stated [...]

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From an email message sent by the Unglue.it team:  Thanks to your support, the unglued edition of Oral Literature in Africa is now available for download. You can get your copy from the same place you supported its creation, the Unglue.it book page. It’s available in pdf, epub (iBooks, Nook, Kobo), and mobi (Kindle) formats. [...]

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From an Unglue.it press release, very disappointing news. I have no doubt that Eric and his team will find an alternative solution very soon. “Amazon Payments has informed us that they will no longer process pledge payments for Unglue.it, forcing us to suspend all active ungluing campaigns.” announced Eric Hellman, President of Gluejar, Inc., the [...]

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Congrats to Project Gutenberg on adding it’s 40,000th title.  Hat tip to @paulkbiba for the news. From the PG site: With little fanfare, Project Gutenberg reached #40000 in its eBook series; Extinct Birds: an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times: that is, [...]

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Congrats to everyone at Unglue.it for the first successful campaign.  Here is the official press release: Two hundred and fifty-nine supporters pledged a total of $7,578 to a campaign to “unglue” Ruth Finnegan’s 1970 classic, “Oral Literature in Africa”. The campaign, which lasted 33 days, topped the campaign’s target at 12:30AM EDT on June 20 [...]

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It’s interesting to see more academic libraries using funds to subsidize author fees for open access journals. I expect this trend to continue.  Below is another example between SAGE and the University of North Carolina Greensboro, from the press release: Los Angeles, CA (June 20, 2012) SAGE and the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNC [...]

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