Dear all,
I hope you are well.
Writing with happy news of the publication of a new open access book. I was part of the committee who conducted open peer review (open as in "non-blind") of the open access book 'Open Data in Open Educational Resources: Case Studies of Emerging Practice' (Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann, eds, Open Knowledge, 2015). The book's publication was announced officially today.
I have archived my contribution to the prefaces from the committee here:
https://thewinnower.com/papers/2910-reflection-on-open-data-as-open-educatio...
You will be able to donwload the book directly from the document above too.
I don't think the book is 'perfect' (what book ever is?) and I personall wish we had been able to publish the book with a better scholarly digital infrastructure (XML, CrossRef, independent identifiers for each chapter, a github repository for the book and datasets etc.). However as I say in my preface the final document is the result of a gigantic collective effort to do the walk of open scholarship, in theory and practice, and its publication is an achievement against all odds and lack of resources. It is a happy occasion to see it available online, for free and under CC-BY.
I hope this resource it is of interest to members of this list.
Best regards,
Ernesto
*Dr Ernesto Priego*Lecturer in Library Science, #citylis https://www.city.ac.uk/department-library-information-science/information-studies-scheme City University London Editor-in-Chief, *The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship * http://www.comicsgrid.com/ https://epriego.wordpress.com/ Subscribe to the Comics Grid Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/iOYAj