[GOAL] Radical Open Access Collective

[Samuel Moore]

Dear all,

We’d like to share with you the new Radical Open Access Collective website,
which has just launched:
<http://radicaloa.co.uk>
<http://radicaloa.co.uk>
<http://radicaloa.co.uk> <http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/>
http://radicaloa.co.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.

Sam

(On behalf of The Radical Open Access Collective)

Samuel Moore
PhD Candidate, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
@samoore_ <https://twitter.com/samoore_>
http://scholarlyskywritings.wordpress.com/
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