2021/11/09 by Mark Turin · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Translation Studies and Practices #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Diverse Musicological Studies
paper · doi:10.54590/pop.2021.005
openalex publication_date 2021/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This article shares the story of the purpose and methods of the World Oral Literature series, an open access monograph series supported, hosted, and published by Open Book Publishers. The publication series emerged as a response to the increasingly problematic nature of certain sectors of academic monograph publishing in which production costs are kept low by exploiting free or subsidized labour by scholars, while profits are kept high and public access heavily restricted. In a move to counter this process, the fully open access World Oral Literature series was established to preserve and promote the dissemination of endangered oral literatures in innovative, ethical, and culturally-appropriate ways.