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OAPEN and DOAB: Infrastructures for Open Access Books. 2023 Stakeholder Report

The Hague: OAPEN Foundation (2023), 35 pp.

"Open access to academic books is a fast-developing area. This creates an exciting but also challenging environment in which to operate key infrastructures supporting open book publishing. We need to ensure that we are available across the ecosystem to support the needs of libraries, funders, and pu ... blishers as well as engage and partner with fellow organisations in projects and community-based activities. This is our raison d’etre, but the diversity and sheer volume of tasks and activities requires human capital. Therefore, it’s been such a privilege to welcome four new staff members to OAPEN in 2023. As a team, we turn our mission into action on a daily basis. An expanding staff requires a robust organisation with appropriate administrative and financial systems, archiving and documentation guidelines, policies for human resources and so on. While establishing these is often invisible work to the outside world, it is essential to ensure an efficient and resilient organisation. During 2023 we managed to put into place many of these organisational building blocks that will enable us to expand our organisation, operations, and engagements in the years to come. Moreover, we have shared publicly how we operate by performing a self-audit against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) – discussed later in this report. All of this would not be possible without the financial support we receive from over 225 libraries around the world. We want to thank all our supporting libraries for their continued financial contributions to our operations! We are truly grateful for the trust that you put in our work and for enabling us to perform it well. Likewise, we are sincerely appreciative of our collaboration with funders and publishers, providing them with services including hosting, distribution, and preservation of open access books. We also want to extend our thanks to our private donors and DOAB sponsors. Finally, we would like to emphasise the importance of our engagement with organisations across the globe where we co-create projects to advance and support open access book publishing. These collaborations enable us to design and innovate solutions beyond state-of-the-art. In this report you will learn about our many achievements in 2023. These have led us to enter 2024 more hopeful and excited than we left 2022. Difficult and interesting challenges lie ahead of us, but through steady operation, innovation, and partnerships we will provide solutions in close dialogue with all our relevant stakeholders." (2023 Stakeholder report, page 4) more

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Informe de sistematización de experiencias: Editorial 3600

Pamela Arnez, William Camacho, Micaela Díaz, Mauricio Espinoza, Pablo Mattos, María José Peña

La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana, Master Thesis (2023), 61 pp.

"Este soporte de sistematización revela el conjunto de experiencias a través de las cuales el grupo ha podido construir la estrategia que presenta la Editorial 3600 para cumplir su objetivo de posicionamiento, para ello la narración está redactada en primera persona plural, haciendo referencia a ... more

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El libro de divulgación científica en Chile 2015-2020

Paulo González Ibarra, Ignacio Alfaro Rojas et al.

Santiago de Chile: Ministerio de las Cultura, las Artes y el Patrimonio (2023), 397 pp.

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Über das Verbrennen von Büchern

Erich Kästner

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 51 pp.

"Am 10. Mai 1933 ließen die Nationalsozialisten in rund 20 deutschen Universitätsstädten die Bücher „undeutscher“ Autoren verbrennen. Besonders öffentlichkeitswirksam inszeniert wurde die Büchervernichtung unter tatkräftiger Beteiligung Studierender und in Anwesenheit von Joseph Goebbels ... more

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Nielsen BookScan Internacional - Informe trimestral, T5 2022

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 27 pp.

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Are Books Still 'Different'? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age

Caroline Koegler, Corinna Norrick-Rühl

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023), 106 pp.

"The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the United Kingdom, 'Books are different,' is still the reasoning behind many cultural policies around the world, building on longstanding assumptions surrounding 'the book'. As this suggests, the 'difference' of the book as a unique f ... more

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Buchherstellung: Gestaltung - Technik - Prozesse
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Julia Walch

Frankfurt am Main: Bramann (2022), 155 pp.

"Buchhersteller sind gleich mehrfach gefordert: Neben ihrer gestalterischen Kompetenz müssen sie ein Faible für technische Prozesse haben und die Fähigkeit besitzen, komplexe Prozesse auch kaufmännisch zu beherrschen. Denn die Kosten für die technische Leistung liegen im Geschäft mit Büchern ... more

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Die Klima- und Umweltproblematik als Thema in Politik- und Wirtschaftsschulbüchern: Eine Schulbuchanalyse für die Sekundarstufe II mit Fokus auf umweltökonomischen Erklärungs- und umweltpolitischen Lösungsansätzen

Dirk Loerwald, Katharina Betker, Stephan Friebel-Piechotta

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 29 pp.

"Der Klimawandel ist eine der größten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Schulen tragen eine große Verantwortung, junge Menschen mit dem nötigen Wissen über Ursachen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten auszustatten. Die Studie des Instituts für ökonomische Bildung (IÖB) zeigt allerdings, dass Schülerin ... more

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Uma ilha brasileira no campo literário alemão: Dinâmicas de circulação literária pela editora Suhrkamp e a recepção da literatura do Brasil (1970-1990)

Douglas Pompeu

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 394 pp.

"30 anos de literatura brasileira na RFA: como uma das editoras centrais da Europa do pós-guerra, a editora Suhrkamp, contribuiu e impulsionou a recepção da literatura brasileira no mercado editorial alemão. Através da análise de documentos do arquivo da editora Douglas Pompeu reflete sobre a ... more

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Women in African Publishing and the Book Trade: A Series of Profiles. Series II

Hans M. Zell

African Book Publishing Record, volume 48, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-69

"The gains made by African women publishers need to be safeguarded and consolidated, however it is still not straightforward for women to publish. We shall no doubt see more women publishers establishing and heading publishing houses. …There are issues, relevant across the board in Africa, includi ... more

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Supply Chain Analysis: Nigeria

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance; Education Development Center (EDC); USAID (2022), viii, 217 pp.

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Supply Chain Analysis: Cambodia

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance; Education Development Center (EDC); USAID (2022), vii, 88 pp.

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Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

Weertje Willms (ed.)

Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2022), x, 527 pp.

"Der vorliegende Band stellt erstmals die deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in ihrer diachronen Entwicklung vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart unter Genderaspekten dar. Die Kapitel zu den einzelnen Epochen geben dabei jeweils Überblicke über die relevanten Diskurse der Zeit und stellen e ... more

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Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2022), 58 pp.

"La acción mundial por el clima aparece como una de las prioridades, cuando no como la principal prioridad, de la agenda internacional. […] Los países deberán implementar planes de acción multidimensionales que contendrán regulaciones orientadas a que las distintas industrias minimicen al má ... more

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Evolución del mercado digital (ebooks y audiolibros) en España y América Latina

Bookwire (2022), 60 pp.

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Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Flynn, Patrick O'Hare

Austin: University of Texas Press (2022), xvi, 303 pp.

"A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged ... more

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Supply Chain Analysis: Jordan

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance; Education Development Center (EDC); USAID (2022), viii, 85 pp.

"Jordan has an active and vibrant children’s book publishing sector, enhanced by the many international organizations that are working in education and health to create children’s reading materials. Reports indicate that certain types of books are widely available in Jordanian schools: 99.3% of ... Jordanian students have textbooks, and 67.6% of classrooms have additional reading materials. Although the quantity of books in many classrooms meets international norms, the mix of book types, including decodable and leveled readers for the youngest grades, is often inadequate for teaching beginning students to read. This, combined with some 30%−35% of classrooms functioning only with textbooks, creates inequities that improvements to book supply chains can address. The book issue is part of a larger set of challenges that limit literacy. Until recently, teachers have not been trained in early-grade reading techniques that use explicit phonics instruction. Because of this historical lack of an explicit phonics approach, leveled and decodable readers are still an unfamiliar concept in Jordan, and ERMs are not included in the MoE’s textbook procurement system. Because the MoE doesn't procure these kinds of books, they aren't produced en masse, and because they're not produced en masse, they're not procured, which leads to a vicious cycle and a broken chain of supply and demand. Teaching also has not taken into account the important role of reading aloud to children. This is critical, given the situation of diglossia in Jordan, in which students speak a dialect of Arabic at home but learn to read Modern Standard Arabic when they start school. Exposure to oral Modern Standard Arabic, which could be provided through reading aloud to children, has been proven to lift literacy rates among Arabic speakers. Books are too expensive for many low-income families, and reading for pleasure is not common, which leads to reduced demand for books at home. This means that a child’s only exposure to print is during school hours, which are too short a window of time in which to acquire reading skills. The traditional definition of literacy has rested on recitation of Qur’anic texts; only recently has the emphasis shifted toward a definition based on deriving meaning from text. In addition, the content of children’s books can be poor, with serious spelling and grammatical mistakes that reduce public perception of the quality of these books, and may reduce demand. Libraries, which could fill the gap left by lack of books at home, are not very attractive; while libraries in private schools tend to have books and learning resources for all ages, most libraries are stocked with books that either do not interest or address the needs of students or that have quickly eteriorated. Less educated parents tend to give all importance to the textbook and do not encourage their children to borrow and read books for general reading pleasure." (Executive summary, pages 2-3) more

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Buchmarkt China 2022

Deutsches Buchinformationszentrum Peking (2022), 15, 21 pp.

"Dem im Januar 2023 von OpenBook veröffentlichten 2022 Annual Report of China Book Market ist zu entnehmen, dass der chinesische Bucheinzelhandelsmarkt im Jahr 2022 im Vergleich zu 2021 um 11,77 % zurückging, wobei das Mayang insgesamt ein Volumen von 87,1 Milliarden CNY erreichte. In den fünf Ja ... more

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The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries

Frania Hall

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xi, 260 pp.

"Offering a fundamental overview of the main technological developments that have influenced the growth of digital publishing, the author introduces students to the key terms and concepts that make digital publishing possible. The four key publishing sectors (professional reference, academic, educat ... more

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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis

Isabella Jackson, Siyi Du

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218

"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed ... more

Buchherstellung: Gestaltung - Technik - Prozesse Key Guides

Buchherstellung: Gestaltung - Technik - Prozesse
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