Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the third call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This document outlines the det…

Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

The Research Data Share (RDS) Collective, Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), and African Minds invite you to join us for a workshop and…

Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…

Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

Open access group sceptical that solutions will come from companies rather than community-led initiatives

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

I’m in Dublin this week doing a bit of training, and my eye has been caught by actual policy on student accommodation.

Copim catch up with author Peter Watson (Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds) about his book

The decade since the “Bottlenecks in the Open Access System” special issue of JLSC in 2014 has been an expansive one for open access (OA) and OA books in particular. The creation of a scholarly publis...

The Open Access movement has always focused on the important work of removing paywall barriers to accessing publicly funded academic work, and while this work is still ongoing, are...

In this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Claire McGann to discuss the Open Book Futures project, which aims to initiate a step-change in the ambition...

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to publish its 2023-2024 annual report. This covers the financial year from August 2023 to July 2024, a transitional period in our …