@misc{BuistZhukNieborg2024, author = {Buist-Zhuk, Mira and Nieborg, Margreet}, title = {A New University Press: Connecting the Dots in Open Science Through Open Textbook Publishing at the University of Groningen}, series = {TK 4: Forschungsnahe Dienste und Open Science/ Publikationsdienste f{\"u}r die Wissenschaft (06.06.2024, 14:00 - 16:00, Saal G.1 / 2. OG (Streaming))}, journal = {TK 4: Forschungsnahe Dienste und Open Science/ Publikationsdienste f{\"u}r die Wissenschaft (06.06.2024, 14:00 - 16:00, Saal G.1 / 2. OG (Streaming))}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Discover the transformative potential of new university presses in reshaping scholarly communication through the example of the University of Groningen Press (UGP) in the Netherlands. UGP is a new university press - an open access, digital-first, and library-based publishing service that grew out of dissatisfaction with traditional publishing models. Our session focuses on UGP's open textbook publishing pilot, an initiative informed by lessons from open access journal and monograph publishing services. This dynamic approach positions UGP as a comprehensive diamond open access publisher, embracing various university domains (education, research, public engagement), fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations, and facilitating knowledge exchange within open science. The UGP's open textbook pilot showcases the university press as a hub for connecting open science's diverse elements, facilitating seamless knowledge transfer, and strengthening engagement with the broader "open" agenda. Our goal is to demonstrate that new university presses play a visible role in enhancing synergy across various open science domains. As a diamond open access publisher, UGP provides a platform for faculty and researchers to publish journals, books and series, inaugural lectures, and open textbooks, breaking down barriers to accessibility. Prioritizing scientific relevance over commercial considerations, UGP empowers scholars to contribute high-quality open publications, both faculty- and student-led, fostering wider research dissemination and equitable access to education. This session invites participants to explore the role of new university presses in the broader open science framework, serving as catalysts for connecting its multifaceted components. Through the open textbook publishing case study, we aim to initiate further conversation, generating ideas and collaborative solutions to address challenges in reshaping the future of academic publishing and open knowledge dissemination.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-17806, title = {Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education}, editor = {Karaganis, Joe}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, isbn = {9780262535014}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0290-opus4-178062}, publisher = {Berufsverband Information Bibliothek}, pages = {313}, year = {2018}, abstract = {How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post-World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several "open" publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector.From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era.ContributorsBal{\´a}zs Bod{\´o}, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski}, language = {en} }