UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book.
Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice edited by Cara Krmpotich and Alice Stevenson.
Download it free: https://ow.ly/6jYc50SGW25 #UCLPress #Collections #museums
Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies #OpenAccess #Book #UCLPress Edited by Rachel King and Trinidad Rico
"Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies offers succinct, easily accessible analyses of the disciplinary debates, intellectual legacies, and practical innovations that have led to understandings of heritage value today.
Oriented specifically towards learning and teaching heritage across archaeology, anthropology, history, and geography, this textbook is designed to support critical, ethical heritage students, researchers, and practitioners."
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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book: Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship, 1630–1760, edited by Andrew Tierney and Melanie Haye.
Free Download Here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/238837?utm_source=globalmuseum
More on #parliament #buildings and the #architecture of power in this book edited by Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg
Available for free to download from #UCL #UCLPress #OpenAccess
IMPERMANENCE. Exploring continuous change across cultures. Edited by Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto, and Cameron David Warner #UCLPress (2022) #OpenAccess #Books
"Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this into a dialogue with other traditions of thought and practice, notably Buddhism that has sustained a long-lasting and sophisticated meditation on impermanence."
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UCL Press is delighted to announce an open access book that may be of interest to Global Museum followers: Interpreting Art, by Sam Rose.
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way?
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3JjHkbZ #books #UCLPress #globalmuseum #museums #art
New open access book: Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760 (UCL Press).
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3XDeUxW #books #UCLPress #architecture
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to Global Museum followers: Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760, edited by Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes.
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3XDeUxW
Re #monographs and scholarly comms: #openaccess clearly speeds up the dissemination, but (cf new models for scientific article publishing), I don't think we yet have a way to speed up the commenting, reviewing and response to books.
Our 'History of Scientific Journals' was published in October. #UCLPress now reports almost 3,000 downloads so far, and 45 sales of other editions. But, no reviews yet, and little sense of whether more than 2 people have read beyond the Intro... #histodons
Only just discovered the breadth of #UCLPress #OpenAccess. Added half a dozen in my digital #tsundoku already: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access
En anbefaling på #fotohistorie-feltet, #ElisabethEdwards og #EllaRavilious har redigert "What Photographs Do. The making and remaking of #museum cultures". En strålende bok om et strålende tema: fotografier "utenfor samlingen". #Gratis å laste ned som pdf fra #UCLpress https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/192312
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That shouldn't stop them promoting the OA download figures, though.
I can maybe see why there might be some ambivalence about releasing download figures for individual books (though #UCLpress are happy to do this, and maybe other born-OA publishers), but no reason not to release an 'average' per OA book, surely?
But we will still all need to re-adjust our expectations of what ordinary vs impressive numbers would look like.
Wow! As an #openaccess monograph, our "A #History of Scientific #Journals, 1665-2015" has reached 80 different countries already. Just 15 print sales so far - but over 1,800 downloads in the first month!! #UCLpress
Spread the word: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082328
