Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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.

by Toby Steiner & Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei Preprint; to appear in tendencia editorial UR – Nº 41 Especial · Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 2026

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 Rese...

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...

Sage will become the new publisher of the Lawrence & Wishart journals portfolio, a collection of longstanding journals that have helped shape debate in politics, culture, education and social chan...

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...

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...

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 Rese...

Wolf Feuerhahn: You are part of the founding team of a new publisher of a very particular kind, intercom Verlag. Could you present your project and the reasons that led you to found the publishing ...

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…

What might it mean to do scholarly publishing in a ‘sustainable’ way? In this post, we provide some insights on how Copim is thinking and working through this question.

Ever wanted to work in an institution that is home to one of the world's great collections of cultural treasures and research materials? Spanning thousands of years of human thought and discovery, Cam...

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

Join us to celebrate the launch of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change, an open-access book authored by the Scholars' Lab's Brandon...

DARIAH ERIC is seeking a (Digital) Learning Designer to enhance its expertise in training, digital pedagogy and capacity building.

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...

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