Library Resource Spotlight: New Open Access ebooks
Do you want to access some free-to-read Open Access ebooks that have no cost, no access limits and are a great way to support open scholarship? If so, let us introduce this month’s new Open Access ebooks that are now available in Library Search!
These Open Access ebooks cover a range of topics and subjects and bring together the latest research and knowledge in their areas.
Some of the titles that you can freely read include:
'The sociology of cybersecurity: an ethnography of a science and the profession’ by Marcin Zarod, which explores the sociological processes related to digital infrastructures, nation-states, military organisations, companies and hackers,
‘Doing Ethnography: Institutional Surveillance and the Struggle for Epistemic Diversity’ by Annelies Moors, which traces the rise of ethical review procedures, open science mandates and integrity protocols, examining how these developments shape ethnographic practice,
‘Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods’ by Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnear, Veronique Servais, Catrien Notermans and Natasha Fijn, which explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research,
‘Sleep and Its Meanings: Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies’ by Anastasia Klimchynskaya, which features essays by leading international scholars that probe the social, cultural, political, historical, philosophical and aesthetic meanings of sleep, and
‘Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives’ by Jenia Gorbanenko, David Jeevendrampillai and Adryon Kozel, which explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space.
For a list of ebook and print books that have recently been made available on Library Search to support your studies and research, check out our items recently added to Library Search sub-collection, and there’s also our open access and open educational resources sub-collection, which contains the learning, teaching, and research materials that are publicly available or released under an open license.
Deep dive into a vast range of topical subjects and help to support open scholarship at the same time, with no cost, no access limits and free-to-read ebooks!
