<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">Dear all,<br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">We’d like to share with you the new Radical Open Access Collective website, which has just launched:</span></font></div>
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<div><span id="gmail-x_gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="gmail-x_gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt"></span></span><a href="http://radicaloa.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal"></span></font></a><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="http://radicaloa.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal"></span></font></a><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><font color="black"><a href="http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk373945"><span id="gmail-x_m_9066249202452831665gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt"><span id="gmail-x_m_9066249202452831665gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></a><a href="http://radicaloa.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">http://radicaloa.co.uk</span></font></a></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">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<font color="#1155CC">: <a href="http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/philosophy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk897418">http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/philosophy/</a></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">As
a collective, we offer mutual reliance and support for each other’s
projects by sharing the knowledge and resources we have acquired. </span></font><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">Through our </span></font><a href="http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/current-projects/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">projects</span></font></a><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#333333"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">
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</span></font><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">. The current website contains a </span></font><a href="http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/directory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">Directory</span></font></a><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">
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 </span></font><a href="http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">Information Portal</span></font></a><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">
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. <br>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">If you run a scholar-led OA publishing initiative or are interested in starting your own, we encourage you to join the </span></font><a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RADICALOPENACCESS" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none"><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="#1155CC"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal">Radical OA mailing list</span></font></a><font style="font-family:Arial,serif,"EmojiFont"" size="2" face="Arial" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal"> and get involved with the discussion!</span></font></div>
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do get in touch if you would like further information on the project or
would like your scholar-led publishing project to be involved.</span></font></div>
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<div>Samuel Moore<br>
PhD Candidate, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London<br>
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