International Day of Women & Girls in Science

#February11, 2021United Nations Headquarters, Virtual With great momentum and interest to accelerate progress in achieving the 2030 Development Agenda and its 17 Global Goals, the 6th International Day of Women and Girls in Science Assembly is organized by the Royal…

Open Education Week (OEW) 2021

What is Open Education Week An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide. Started in 2012 by the Open Education Global as a collaborative,…

Introducing Pressbooks Directory

Enabling the 5Rs with a powerful tool for searching and sharing books When Pressbooks educational product manager Steel Wagstaff heard from a long time client, “I wish there was a single place where all Pressbooks content could be found,” a…

Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms

Mind the GapA Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms John W Maxwell, Erik Hanson, Leena Desai, Carmen Tiampo, Kim O’Donnell, Avvai Ketheeswaran, Melody Sun, Emma Walter, Ellen Michelle Simon Fraser University / July 2019 The number of…

Open Access Books Toolkit

The OAPEN Foundation has launched a new open access (OA) books toolkit for researchers and academic book authors. The toolkit is a free-to-access, stakeholder-agnostic resource that aims to help authors better understand OA for books, increase trust in OA book…

Initiative for Open Abstracts

The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, researchers and other interested parties to advocate and promote the unrestricted availability of the abstracts of the world’s scholarly publications, particularly journal articles and book…

A Humanist’s Cookbook for Natural Language Processing in Python

initial release of an open educational resource. – A Humanist’s Cookbook for Natural Language Processing in Python. The project is presented as a series of notebooks, a series of Python 3 recipes for common problems and issues associated with preparing…

Open Publishing Fest

Open Publishing Fest celebrates communities developing open creative, scholarly, technological, and civic publishing projects. Together, we find new ground to share our ideas. This is at once a collaborative and distributed event. Sessions are hosted by individuals and organizations around…

openVirus – Indexing OA for COVID-19

#openVirus is a project to develop knowledge resources and tools to help tackle the COVID19 outbreak. It does by data mining open research paper repositories, aggregates of scholarly publications and extracted knowledge on viruses and epidemics. source: