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Copim’s Archiving and Preservation Group is happy to announce the publication of a new report, Applying Open Access and Open Data to the Archiving of Long-Form Scholarship, with which we present a…

This short video explains how authors can deposit their open access (OA) books and chapters funded by the European Union (EU) into the OAPEN Library. The OAPEN Library is a platform which hosts a…

Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing

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.

What is it? Thoth Oasis is a free, self-service open-source platform for managing and sharing open metadata for books and chapters. It enables open access book publishers to create structured, standar...

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.

ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, is delighted to reveal the finalists shortlisted for: The ALPSP Impact Award, which re...

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

Many publishers utilise various business models that enable them to publish some (or all) of their books open access without charging authors a fee, often called a Book Processing Charge (BPC).     Wh...

The Open Journal Collective (OJC) works with mission-aligned nonprofit publishing organisations and platforms that support high-quality, community-led open access journals. Publishing partners play a...

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UNESCO is launching a consultation to explore fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems.

RLUK, a consortium of UK and Irish research libraries, recently released their Collections Strategy Network’s Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models: a ne...