Excellent post detailing the rationale that lay behind the creation of Open Book Collective and other similar collective funding initiatives.
We have to stop thinking of open access in terms of 'free' content & instead start viewing it as infrastructure and labour that needs systematic funding.
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Today's guest blogger asks: What would it mean to support community-led publishing as infrastructure, rather than as a collection of heroic individual efforts?