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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All Stories Created Equal: Inequity and Inequality in Autobiography and Storytelling
All people are not valued equally, so there is societal inequity and inequality in how their stories are valued as well. Collection Editor Chris McAuley explores the mission of Lived Places Black Studies Collection to help rectify this imbalance.
Equity in Royalty and Sustainable Open Access Funding
Challenging the predominant publishing paradigm is never easy, but David Parker pulls back the curtain on a new model in open access publishing, centered around equity and open access for course materials.
Lived Places Publishing: Our Founding Mission
An overview of our Founding Mission: Affordable Course Readings, Library-Friendly Access, and Giving Voice to Social Identity in Context and Place
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Author Identity Metadata: Establishing Top-Level Categories [SURVEY]
by David Parker
We invite you to participate in our brief survey to help establishing an author-led set standards for identity metadata. Please feel free to share this survey with authors, librarians, and publishing professionals – we will be publishing the results of our research.
Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach
by David Parker
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.
Losing My Religion: How Organized Religion Continues to Control and Shape Black Women’s Identity
In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Dr. Kadian Pow, author of Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness, they discuss how religious institutions have maintained their power to shape and control Black women's identities, despite a statistical decline in church attendance.
How a Book is Made
by Rebecca
How does a book go from a bunch of Word documents to a printed and bound volume? The LPP team outline the stages of the book production process.
The Lens of Lived Experience: Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina
In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Gregory Freeland, author of Music and Black Community in Segregated North Carolina, they discussed the pivotal role that music played in keeping a community together during one of the most legally segregated times in U.S. history.
Ending Educational Inequities
by Rebecca
The COVID-19 pandemic reproduced forms of educational exclusions by reiterating a “grammar of schooling”, yet it also offered an opportunity for teaching professionals to use their creativity and brilliance to rewrite it. Pushing back on educational inequities, these stories offer hope of more just and inclusive classrooms now and in the future.