Posts Tagged: Open Access

Interview with Paul Ashton, co-founder of re.press

By Silvio Lorusso, September 13, 2011

re.press is a publishing house based in Melbourne primarily devoted to contemporary philosophy. The conscious employment of the new dissemination possibilities offered by the internet is what makes re.press different from other publishing houses in the field. Every academic book published by re.press is available as an open-access file, while the physical version is produced [...]

Michael Hart, inventor of the eBook and founder of Project Gutenberg, died on September 6

By Silvio Lorusso, September 8, 2011

From the obituary for Michael Stern Hart, by Dr. Gregory B. Newby: «Hart was best known for his 1971 invention of electronic books, or eBooks. He founded Project Gutenberg, which is recognized as one of the earliest and longest-lasting online literary projects. He often told this story of how he had the idea for eBooks. [...]

Interview with Amsterdam University Press’s Saskia De Vries

By morgancurrie, July 25, 2011

Saskia De Vries has been a publisher for over 30 years, watching the editing process go from slow-mailed handwritten notes to be typeset on paper to today’s rapid fire access to click-and-download files. To keep up in an innovate-or-perish field, AUP has become proactive about the publishing process, leading the way in open access monographs [...]

Gary Hall: Liquid, Living Books

By Silvio Lorusso, May 22, 2011

Gary Hall is a cultural and media theorist who has written many books on these subjects. He is a professor of Media and Performing Arts at Conventry University (UK) and co-founder of Open Humanities Press. Gary Hall @ The Unbound Book Conference photo cc by-sa Sebastiaan ter Burg Gary Hall started his talk which was [...]

In favour of Open Access: A talk with AUP’s Saskia de Vries

By Silvio Lorusso, May 18, 2011

Saskia de Vries will speak tomorrow on the ‘Digital Enclosures’ workshop on the Unbound Book conference. This workshop focuses on open vs. closed. Saskia will contribute to this session with her experience as managing director and senior editor of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) and AUP’s role in Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). I already [...]