Hi everyone. To add to the OER Funding conversations -- and this is really just brainstorming -- but what about a campaign to flood / pitch to bolster federal programs that provide��publishing��support? For example:��
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/book-fund/publishing-support.html��Note that eligible publishers, in this program anyway, include university presses. Is it too far of a leap to make the case for library publishers��to be included as well? As we all know, many libraries are now acting as OA publishers (for stats on that, see��
Sonya��Betz��and Doris Wagner. Exploring the Value of Canada���s Library Publishers. Building Community, Building Open. PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference. November 22, 2019.https://conference.pkp.sfu.ca/index.php/pkp2019/pkp2019/paper/viewFile/717/443).
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