[ecrea] Radical Open Access Collective

We’d like to share with you the new Radical Open Access Collective 
website, which has just launched:

<http://radicaloa.co.uk>
<http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/>

Formed in 2015, the Radical OA Collective is a community of scholar-led, 
not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects in the 
humanities and social sciences. We represent an alternative open access 
ecosystem and seek to create a different future for open access, one 
based on experimenting with not-for-profit and scholar-led approaches to 
publishing. You can read more about the philosophy behind the collective 
here: http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/philosophy/
As a collective, we offer mutual reliance and support for each other’s 
projects by sharing the knowledge and resources we have acquired. 
Through our projects 
<http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/current-projects/>we also aim 
to provide advice, support and encouragement to academics and other 
not-for-profit entities interested in setting up their own publishing 
initiatives. The current website contains a Directory 
<http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/directory/>of academic-led 
presses, which showcases the breadth and rich diversity in scholar-led 
presses currently operating in an international context and across 
numerous fields, and an Information Portal 
<http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resources/>with links to 
resources on funding opportunities for open access books, open source 
publishing tools, guidelines on editing standards, ethical publishing 
and diversity in publishing, and OA literature useful to not-for-profit 
publishing endeavours. We will be further developing this into a toolkit 
for open access publishing in order to encourage and support others to 
start their own publishing projects.

If you run a scholar-led OA publishing initiative or are interested in 
starting your own, we encourage you to join the Radical OA mailing list 
<https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RADICALOPENACCESS>and 
get involved with the discussion!

Please do get in touch if you would like further information on the 
project or would like your scholar-led publishing project to be involved.

Gary

(On behalf of The Radical Open Access Collective)


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