We’ve been dropping hints for a few months now and Open Access Week seems like the perfect time to make our announcement official: we are launching a new reading platform!…
Welcome to Open Access Week 2019! This internationally celebrated week was established in order to raise aware about open access publishing and encourage discussion. Last year we conducted a survey…
AU Press is thrilled to be celebrating Open Access Week once again this year. We have a few things in store for you, but to get the ball rolling, we’re…
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Open Access Week Survey. We thoroughly enjoyed watching the responses accumulate and start to lean in one direction or the other. You…
Earlier this week, we at AU Press were holed up in a room with Tim Horton’s doughnuts and the University of Minnesota Press’s Digital Projects Editor, Terence Smyre, for a…
Here at Athabasca University Press, we will be celebrating Open Access Week by publishing our 138th open access book since our founding ten years ago. For the past few years,…
In a recent blog post, we discussed the changing landscape of scholarly publishing and how our open access mandate motivates us to consider the endless possibilities for sharing knowledge communicating…
How Academia Could Benefit from Reading Technology I’d pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I follow. If…
Athabasca University Press has been giving books away for free for over ten years. In 2007, we took advantage of the internet to disrupt traditional publishing systems and break down…
Since Athabasca University Press was founded ten years ago as Canada’s first open access press, interest in open access publishing has increased significantly. In fact, several university presses in Canada…