28. September 2023
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In der Ausgabe 6/2023 (September 2023) lesen Sie u.a.:

  • Mittendrin in der Transformation
  • Gamification besitzt erhebliches Anwen­dungs­potenzial für Bibliotheken
  • Bibliotheksmagazine: bloße Lager oder auch eine wichtige Dienstleistung?
  • Viele Wissenschaftsverlage haben bislang keine oder unpräzise Richtlinien
    für den Umgang mit generativer KI
  • Klassische Videospiele drohen
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  • Wie sieht die Zukunft der
    wissenschaftlichen Tagungen aus?
  • Studie: Hohe Impact-Werte
    ziehen hohe APCs nach sich
  • KI ändert derzeit nichts
    an Googles Vormachtstellung
  • Open Source ist nicht unsicherer
    als proprietäre Software
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Ausgabe 5 / 2023

BUCHWISSEN­SCHAFTEN
Illustrierte Bücher. Grassi Museum

LANDESKUNDE
Pakistan | Indien | China

BETRIEBS­WIRTSCHAFT
Führung

BIOGRAFIEN
Starke Frauen

RELIGION | PHILOSOPHIE
Konfuzius, Sokrates, Epiktet, Montaigne, Pascal

RECHT
Insolvenzrecht | Steuerrecht | Immissionsschutzrecht | Erbrecht

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Knowledge Unlatched enables a further 78 books to be Open Access

Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is delighted to announce the ‘unlatching’* of 78 new titles. These titles have been made Open Access through the support of both individual libraries and library consortia from across the globe.

This brings the total to over 100 titles now available as Open Access since 2014, when KU celebrated the success of its Pilot Collection with 28 Humanities and Social Sciences monographs from 13 publishers being unlatched by nearly 300 libraries worldwide.

Now these 78 new books from 26 publishers (including the original 13 participants) have been successfully unlatched by a similar number of libraries in 21 countries along with support from a number of library consortia, who together raised over $1 million. The books are being loaded onto the OAPEN and HathiTrust platforms, where they will be available for free as fully downloadable PDFs.

The Humanities and Social Sciences titles cover five subject areas (Anthropology, History, Literature, Media and Communications, and Politics):
http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/packages/.

The second round of KU allowed libraries to choose from subject packages as well as publisher packages. It also introduced consortium participation into the programme. Further plans for scaling up and expanding KU will be announced soon.

KU Founder Frances Pinter said, ‘I’d like to thank the library community that have yet again demonstrated their tremendous support for KU. Libraries are demonstrating that they can lower the cost of books by converting their acquisitions budget into a shared cost of publishing model. Libraries are now helping to move KU from a proofof- concept project to a fully sustainable operation by which libraries and publishers can work together to achieve Open Access for books.’

KU would like to thank its partners for their support in making the Round 2 collection possible: CLOCKSS, HathiTrust, Jisc Collections, LYRASIS, OAPEN and Portico. Key support from Curtin University, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Melbourne and The University of Western Australia, as well as The Big Innovation Centre, British Library Trust and Open Society Foundation also proved invaluable.

Libraries can register their interest in receiving information for the next rounds of Knowledge Unlatched at http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/pre-register/.
Publishers wishing to know more about offering books to libraries via Knowledge Unlatched should contact info@knowledgeunlatched.org.