Congratulations to Professor Julie Sheldon, author of The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, who has been randomly selected from the first benchmarking survey participants to win a £100 voucher.
Julie is a Professor in Art History at the Liverpool School of Art & Design at Liverpool John Moores University and is one of the authors, taking part in the OAPEN-UK project. Her book, The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake, published by Liverpool University Press, is in the experimental group which means that it has been made open available under a creative commons licence. You can download a PDF of her book on the OAPEN Library alongside many other scholarly monographs that have been made openly available to support scholarship.
Julie was one of many authors that completed our first benchmarking survey which we will repeat annually as we progress through the research plan. The survey asks authors about their familiarity with open access, how they read scholarly books and what motives are important to them in authoring and publishing a book.
The results of the annual benchmarking survey will be made available in the research findings section of the website.