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  • Wolfgang LuchtW_Lucht@mstdn.social
    Apr 30, 2025, 3:37 PM

    Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.

    Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.

    They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.

    It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.

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  • Wolfgang LuchtW_Lucht@mstdn.social
    Apr 30, 2025, 4:42 PM

    In June, a beautifully made book will come out at "Berlin Universities Publishing", with contributions on: Alexander von Humboldt, perspectives for the Anthropocene - with a longish contribution from me about a certain moment in Humboldt's life, architectural theory and the history of Earth system science. The book's pdf will be free - but if you wish, you can also buy a softcover or hardcover version for the bookshelf. I just went through the proofs. It'll be an interesting read!

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  • the roamerthe_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
    May 4, 2025, 9:43 PM

    @W_Lucht

    What a wonderful initiative.

    I grew up in Berlin and took my undergraduate degree at the FU, in the 1980s. Berlin was the place to which free-thinking students from all over West Germany came, I was one of the few Berlin "natives". (I've been in England since.)

    Officially my studies were in the technical subject that I currently teach, but in reality I pursued my own self-designed studies across all disciplines: philosophy, politics, mathematics. That was possible then, those days are long gone of course. These were the years that formed me, I am forever grateful.

    I still have a soft spot for the FU and I can see myself publishing a monograph at BUP. A very impressive initiative. My congrats to you on being part of the inaugural catalogue!

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