INVITATION

SPARC Europe Open Access in the Humanities UK Roadshow

 

You are warmly invited to an event especially for humanities researchers to learn more about Open Access publishing options. The session will be held in Founder’s Lecture Theater, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham.

 

A number of Open Access publishers will be exhibiting information about their publishing programmes in a ‘tradeshow’ area and making short presentations about their activities. This is an opportunity to meet these publishers, most of whom are themselves researchers who have established Open Access presses, and to discuss the practicalities of publishing your work openly in both Open Access monographs and journals.

                             

The Royal Holloway policy on Open Access will also be discussed.

 

Refreshments will be provided.

                              

The event will be informal and informative. Please do spare the time to come along.

 

Event details:

Title: Open Access publishing roadshow for the humanities 

 

Date:  Tuesday 4th November

 

Time: 12.00 - 2.00 pm. 

 

Venue: Founders' Lecture Theatre - Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham

 

Speakers:         Gary Hall of the Open Humanities Press

Rupert Gatti of Open Book Publishers

A representative from Ubiquity Press

An academic from the Humanities

 

Books and other information from these OA publishers - and organisations facilitating the publishing of books in open access - will also available to view:

 

Manchester University Press

Knowledge Unlatched

Ubiquity Press

Open Book Publishers

Oapen

The Open Library of Humanities

Open Humanities Press

 

Below please find mini-biographies for Gary Hall and Rupert Gatti and some information about Ubiquity Press.

 

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Gary Hall

 

Gary Hall is a media theorist, writer, editor and independent publisher working on politics, philosophy and technology. He is Professor of Media in the School of Art and Design, and Director of the Centre for Disruptive Media, at Coventry University, UK, as well as visiting professor at the Hybrid Publishing Lab – Leuphana Inkubator, Leuphana University, Germany. He is author of Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002), Digitize This Book! (Minnesota UP, 2008) and Pirate Philosophy (currently under review), co-author of Open Education: A Study in Disruption (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, in press), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and Experimenting  (Fordham UP, 2007). 

 

Gary has over thirty peer-reviewed publications in edited books and academic journals including American Literature, Angelaki, Cultural Studies, New Formations, The Oxford Literary Review and Radical Philosophy.  In 1999 with Dave Boothroyd he co-founded the open access journal Culture Machine, a pioneer of OA in the humanities. In 2006 with Sigi Jottkandt and David Ottina he established Open Humanities Press, the first open access publisher dedicated to critical and cultural theory.  More details are available on his website http://www.garyhall.info.

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Dr. Rupert Gatti 

 

Rupert Gatti is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is a Director of Studies in Economics. His academic work includes microeconomic analysis of competition in online markets, game theory and search theory. He has held visiting positions at MIT and the University of Florence and has acted as an Economic Advisor on several EU competition studies. Rupert is a co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers (OBP), a non-profit social enterprise publishing rigorously peer-reviewed Open Access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. In December OBP will be celebrating the publication of its 50th Open Access title, with works ranging from some of the world's best known scholars such as Amartya Sen and Noam Chomsky to first publications by scholars just starting their academic careers.

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Ubiquity Press

 

Ubiquity Press is 

a researcher-focused publishing company which specialises in open access academic journals and open data. Ubiquity Press works on different ways to break down barriers to publishing, and to this end the company publishes research journals ranging from the humanities and social sciences through to sciences, technology and medicine. It also publishes journals on research data, software and bioresources.

 

At the same time, Ubiquity Press is currently investigating and developing additional projects with the potential to make a big difference in the field, and welcomes collaboration with information scientists and developers with an interest in research ontologies and classfications, social behaviour of academic networks and distribution and access models for research information.

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