In this webinar representatives from the Open Book Futures project on work package 7 Archiving and Preservation will discuss issues faced in digitally preserving Open Access Monographs and Theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors. They will also discuss the work that Open Book Futures is doing in these areas, and the implications this will have for the audience, including the support, tools and policy recommendations being developed.

Speakers:

Rupert Gatti is a co-founder and director of Open Book Publishers and Thoth Open Metadata – both established as non-profit community interest companies. He has been co-lead (with Gareth Cole) of the Archiving and Preservation work packages within the COPIM and Open Book Futures projects, and is actively involved in several other non-profit open access publishing initiatives, including the Open Book Collective, the Open Journals Collective and the OPERAS metrics service.

Gareth Cole is the Open Research Manager at the University of Exeter. Until recently he was the Open Research Lead at Loughborough University. With Rupert Gatti he has been co-lead of the Archiving and Preservation work packages within the COPIM and Open Book Futures projects.

Holly Turpin is a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books at Loughborough University and is part of the Archiving and Preservation work package within the Open Book Futures project. Before joining the project, she completed her PhD at Loughborough University on using immersive digital storytelling in homelessness contexts.