Open Book Publishers (OBP) turns eighteen today! As we reach our maturity as official publishing ‘adults’, we have dipped into our story so far and pulled out eighteen pieces of advice for anyone…

A scholar led open access publishing collective

Thoth is an open-source metadata management and dissemination platform focused on open access books. Here’s what libraries should know about it.

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Looking back on the ‘ServPub’ pilot and the resulting book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, this post reflects on their becoming and on what they make…

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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This is the fourth blogpost in the series documenting the work on the ‘ServPub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ experimental book pilot project.

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ScholarLed is a consortium of scholar-led, not-for-profit, open access book publishers that was formed in 2018. We are seeking to develop powerful, practical ways for small-scale, scholar-led Open Acc...

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

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

This event describes the author’s journey from traditional academic publishing to choosing a new, scholar-led OA press for books. It addresses some of the common questions, roadblocks and concerns aca...

23 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 CEST: A hybrid online session exploring Markdown writing & publishing for deep mapping

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We believe OA publishing is crucial, because it is an act of resistance against censorship and control. When knowledge is published OA, it can be accessed in many places with no restriction. When know...

This blog post traces the efforts undertaken during the past 24-36 months to foster collaboration between like-minded open not-for-profit infrastructures active in OA book publishing, leading to the i...