punctum books, an independent scholar- and queer-led open access publisher, and JSTOR recently released punctum’s entire backlist of 250 open access academic books on JSTOR. punctum books is dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry, publishing works that take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
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The full Code of Practice is available online at cop5.projectcounter.org/en/5.1
Oberon Books Collection 2 launched, with 199 new titles now live on Bloomsbury's Drama Online
The public will now be able to re-use all new ILO knowledge products without seeking permission, if they cite the ILO.
Bloomsbury Digital Resources has launched Bloomsbury Visual Arts, a digital hub which brings its leading online visual arts collections together onto one cross-searchable platform, to support an interdisciplinary approach to study, teaching, and research.
The Publishers Learning And Community Exchange (PLACE) at theplace.discourse.group is a new online public forum created for organisations who wish to adopt best practices in scholarly publishing.
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) - part of Wiley - has shared the results of its 2022 pledging round, which ended in December 2022 and once again saw hundreds of libraries worldwide pledge support for OA book and journal collections offered by KU and its partners.
The OA Journals Toolkit is being built as a community-led initiative funded by OASPA and DOAJ, aiming to support new and established OA journals in navigating the rapidly changing landscape of OA publishing. The Toolkit will be a free-to-access website that provides useful articles and further reading materials on topics across the journal development lifecycle, from journal creation and funding, staffing, and policy development, through to indexing and key technical aspects.
Five new films are now available in the RSC Live collection on Bloomsbury’s Drama Online: Henry VI: Part 1; Henry VI: Part 2; Henry VI: Part 3; The Comedy of Errors; and The Winter's Tale.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released its new Video and Audio Metadata Recommended Practice (NISO RP-41-2023), which establishes metadata guidelines for video and audio assets.