Our 2025–26 Annual Report: 98 supporting libraries, 326 open access books from our members, new Diamond OA funding, and the OBC's move to independence.

This participatory workshop explores how Diamond Open Access can be supported through open, community-governed infrastructures that are equitable, durable, and responsive to the needs of those who use...

Slides and speaker notes from a joint presentation by the Open Book Collective (OBC) and the Open Journals Collective (OJC) at the Open-Access-Tage 2026 in Linz. 'Delivered version' is the presentatio...

UMass Boston faculty will soon have new opportunities to publish their books as open access through innovative agreements led by Healey Library, making scholarship freely available to readers around…

We’re delighted to bring you an update on our Impact Dashboard project. The Impact Dashboard will give access to relevant data about books published by OBC member presses, without the need to consult…

For researchers interested in publishing their work with no fees for authors or readers, diamond open access publishing could be the answer. Here is a guide to the basics

About this survey This survey is run by the Open Book Collective - a charity registered in England and Wales (charity no. 1206287). For the purposes of data protection law, the Open Book Collective is...

YouTube video by Andy Tattersall

There's still time to get an application in for our new Head of Operations role - the deadline is the end of 9 September (any timezone). Part-time (2.5 days a week), fully remote, £40-48k pro rata -…

Voices of OPERAS UK is a blog series spotlighting the members of OPERAS based in the UK. Each feature introduces a member organisation through the same five quick questions.  OPERAS is a European…

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

with an introduction by Steven Shaviro

We sat down with Erratum Press founder, Ansgar Allen, to talk about defiant publishing, the state of the university, and why open access is anything but the easy option.

Today we hit a milestone we've been working towards for a while: 100 libraries around the world are now supporting the Open Book Collective!

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

A new document management portal for OBC's publisher and service provider members.

Professor Tilahun Shiferaw provides an update to the CDF project 'Update on CDF award: Empowering Ethiopian research universities: a multifaceted approach to overcome OA barriers in scholarly…

One of the UK's largest and most established fully open access university presses becomes the latest member of OBC's University Presses package

I am delighted to say that Erratum Press, which hosts the International Theory-Fiction Consortium, has been successful in its application to join the Open Book Collective (see this press release).

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

Wir freuen uns sehr, bekannt geben zu können, dass unsere Website nun in der ersten von hoffentlich vielen übersetzten Versionen verfügbar ist: auf Deutsch!

We are very pleased to announce that our website is now available in the first of hopefully many translated versions: German!