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DARIAHOpen OA Week Special Edition: Interview Questions for the ScholarLed Team

DARIAHOpen asked to interview us about the formation, ethos and ambitions of ScholarLed. We were delighted to accept!

The Bonds that Fail to Tie Us Together: The Search for Sustainable Open Infrastructure in the UK and Beyond

How can the open community put in place a sustainable infrastructure that helps to support Open Access to scholarship and retain some ownership of the research ecosystem?

Safekeeping Diversity in Scholarly Communication: How ‘Transformative’ Are Recent Agreements?

The humanities should refrain from implementing a bad solution to a problem that they can avoid. Rather than spending time, energy and budget on transformative agreements with commercial publishers, they should set an example by making sure that alternatives flourish.

Open *By* Whom? On the Meaning of ‘Scholar-Led’

Scholar-led forms of open access can help influence the future of all forms of publishing, through its focus on non-commercial, experimental and collaborative practices. It represents new practices that other publishers could adopt.

Building a Course Library with OER

The advent of open access to scholarly work online offers all teachers a great opportunity to re-think course content: the time has come to start thinking about course libraries instead of course textbooks.

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