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Lived Places Publishing at the 2024 Charleston Conference

David Parker will be presenting at The Charleston Library Conference in Charleston, SC on a panel of three publishers (non-profit and commercial) about how to use data & analytics to advance more equitable and inclusive publishing models. 

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Michael Boezi
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Author Identity Metadata: Why a Small Publisher Can Address a Major Challenge

David Parker leads a discussion about the potential for developing more robust catalog records and searchable fields in publishers' online catalogs – with author-generated and author-approved identity metadata.

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Michael Boezi
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A Different Approach to Funding Open Access eBooks

David Parker (LPP) and Bill Maltarich (NYU) talk about new models that are sustainable, equitable, and most importanly – do not rely on book processing charges (BPC). 

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Michael Boezi
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Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach

New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.

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David Parker
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Learning Belongs in the Library — On Critical Race Theory and Book Banning, Publishers Speak Up!

What is Critical Race Theory – and does it belong in libraries? LPP co-founder David Parker weighs in from the publisher’s perspective. 

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David
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Meet the Advisory Board #2: Q&A on Libraries and Academic Publishing with Dominic Broadhurst

This Q&A with LPP Advisory Board member Dominic Broadhurst explores the relationship between libraries and publishers, and how that impacts the decisions that Lived Places Publishing makes.

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David
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The Lived Places Publishing Library Collection Model

Publisher and co-founder David Parker explores how Lived Places Publishing aims to work with and support libraries in the most fair and effective way possible.

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David
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Meet the Advisory Board #1: Q&A on DEIB in Publishing with Sanjyot P. Dunung

This Q&A with LPP Advisory Board member Sanjyot P. Dunung explores some of the questions of diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion that Lived Places Publishing are actively considering.

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David
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Podcast Listen: Lived Places Publishing on the Newgen Pubcast

Lived Places founders David Parker and Chris McAuley were guests on this month’s episode of the Newgen Pubcast, the monthly podcast by our publishing partner Newgen Publishing UK.

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Rebecca
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Interdisciplinary Study, Teaching, and Publishing: Taking a Broad Approach

The LPP Collections are very broad categories, with a lot of overlap between them, and topics that fall between and across different disciplines. Founder and Publisher David Parker explains why.

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Recent Posts

A University for the Many, Not the Few

by Kaelie Giffel

Are we willing to fight for educational spaces that protect women and marginalized people? Organizing for a better university requires all of us. Author Kaelie Giffel offers strategies to move beyond the narrow roles prescribed to us by culture to reimagine educational spaces that work for all participants.  

Lived Places Publishing Announces the Launch of Intersections: Identity and Place

by Michael Boezi

Faculty are increasingly asking campus libraries to provide materials from a broader, more diverse range of authors and subject areas. LPP exists to support librarians and faculty in this goal with a new Collection of 105 ebooks designed as course readings called Intersections: Identity & Place.

Lived Places Publishing at the 2024 Charleston Conference

by Michael Boezi

David Parker will be presenting at The Charleston Library Conference in Charleston, SC on a panel of three publishers (non-profit and commercial) about how to use data & analytics to advance more equitable and inclusive publishing models. 

Healthy Creative Outlets for Anger, Anxiety, and Frustration

by Anne Cecil

The power of creative expression is a tool for young people to process and reflect on their realities. Whether through art, writing, or music, fostering these outlets can empower them to confront complex issues and find their voice amid the noise.

How to Inspire and Sustain Creative Resistance

by Cindy Horst

How do we remain hopeful to maintain ‘the energy to act’ when confronted with a daily onslaught of visual evidence of the worst in mankind? This requires a shift from an individual to a relational ethics that strengthens our response-ability.

Why Female Entrepreneurs Get Significantly Less Startup Funding than Men

by Jennifer Brogee

While women own more than 40% of all businesses in the US, female founders receive significantly less in funding. There are steps we can take to close this funding gap for women in business.

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