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Open Access Publishing Explained: A Discussion with Ros Pyne

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In this episode you’ll hear about: Ros Pyne’s path through higher education, how she found her way to her current job, her role at Bloomsbury Publishers, what Open Access [OA] is and is not, how OA can democratize knowledge, and what she’s hopeful about.

Our guest is: Ros Pyne, who is the Global Director of Research and Open Access at Bloomsbury Publishers. She has worked in academic publishing since 2007, initially as an editor, and for the last eight years in roles focusing on open access. She has a particular interest in bringing open access to long-form scholarship and to the humanities, and is the co-author of several reports on open access books. She holds a degree in English from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in early modern English literature from King’s College London.

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.

Listeners to this episode might be interested in:

Open access at Bloomsbury
Directory of Open Access Books
OAPEN OA Books Toolkit (for anyone interested in learning more about what open access books are and how they work)
Open Access Books Network (a free online network for people working on open access books or interested in getting involved)
Open Access and the Humanities (a 2014 book by an open access expert Martin Paul Eve that’s still an excellent primer on this topic)

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