The Open Book Collective (OBC) is a charity that enables libraries and other institutions to financially support open access book publishers and publishing service providers by subscribing to Supporter Programmes that it hosts. Find out more at: https://openbookcollective.org/ and follow the OpenBookCollective on X (@OpenBookCollect) and Mastodon (mastodon.social/@openbookcollect).
The Open Book Collective is expanding and enhancing its offering, while promoting and modelling the benefits of BPC-free, open access book publishing to the scholarly community and wider public. Updates on the Collective’s activities are posted to the OBC Information Hub (link below).
Joe Deville explores the rationale underpinning Open Book Collective's approach to generating funds for publishing and supporting Open Access books, counterposing it to the dominant funding mechanism: Book Processing Charges, or 'BPCs'.
The second part of a two-part blog post. Part One explores why your institution should support collective funding for OA books, while this post highlights practical steps you can take to build a case to management for supporting collective OA book funding.
The first of a two-part blog post in which we lay out the problems with BPCs (Book Processing Charges) and disentangle the various alternatives; in Part Two we’ll give practical steps to convince budget holders to invest in collective models instead.
Joe Deville, a lecturer at Lancaster University and co-founder of ScholarLed and Mattering Press, introduces a new report exploring the potential for collaboration in open access publishing. He also looks at the role of other more troubling forms of collaboration in the academy
Having now completed 3 stakeholder workshops, an update on the latest thinking within Work Package 2, and what this implies for the development of a model or platform able to address the question 'how can open access book publishers better collaborate with scholarly libraries'
