Open Book Collective
@openbookcollective.bsky.social
A charity bringing together libraries, publishers, and publishing service providers to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.
https://openbookcollective.org/
https://openbookcollective.org/
There's still time to register for our New Member Showcase this afternoon, where we'll be introducing our newest members to the community - @archumanities.bsky.social, @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, @sidestone.bsky.social, and Edizioni Ca' Foscari (Venice University Press)!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: OBC New Members Showcase. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Open Book Collective (OBC) invites colleagues from across the library and open access community to join our upcoming New Member Showcase - an open session for libraries, consortia, and others inte...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
There's still time to register for our New Member Showcase this afternoon, where we'll be introducing our newest members to the community - @archumanities.bsky.social, @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, @sidestone.bsky.social, and Edizioni Ca' Foscari (Venice University Press)!
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Now a more in-depth look at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the amazing things they are making possible, including the OBC's Collective Development Fund, which is providing support to build capacity for #DiamondOA publishing activities of #OAbooks
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Now a more in-depth look at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the amazing things they are making possible, including the OBC's Collective Development Fund, which is providing support to build capacity for #DiamondOA publishing activities of #OAbooks
We’ve been reading the new 'Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers report' - and despite its focus on journals, there’s a fair amount here that is equally applicable to small and medium OA *book* publishers too.
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2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers
Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We’ve been reading the new 'Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers report' - and despite its focus on journals, there’s a fair amount here that is equally applicable to small and medium OA *book* publishers too.
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Our Director @joedeville.bsky.social will be streaming live from #Munin2025 in around 30 mins (9.30GMT/10.30CET), introducing the OBC's work & some examples from our report into barriers to supporting collective #DiamondOpenAccess publishing. Streaming link: uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Our Director @joedeville.bsky.social will be streaming live from #Munin2025 in around 30 mins (9.30GMT/10.30CET), introducing the OBC's work & some examples from our report into barriers to supporting collective #DiamondOpenAccess publishing. Streaming link: uit.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
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Join @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca at #Munin2025 TODAY!
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
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#OpenMetadata #OA
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
#OpenMetadata #OA
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Join @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca at #Munin2025 TODAY!
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
#OpenMetadata #OA
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
#OpenMetadata #OA
The Open Book Collective is pleased to introduce the third awardee of our Collective Development Fund for 2025-26:
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openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...
Announcing OBC's Third Collective Development Fund award for 2025-26: Capacity building strategy for access and publication of Open Access academic books for small and medium-sized Higher Education In...
Strengthening capacity for access to and publication of high quality academic OA books produced by researchers from seven Colombian universities
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The Open Book Collective is pleased to introduce the third awardee of our Collective Development Fund for 2025-26:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...
If you're attending #Munin2025, look out for our director @joedeville.bsky.social - always happy to talk all things open access and books!
Next is @joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social
🖊️ Opening books collectively: working together for a fairer future for books
📆 20 November
⏰ 10:30-10:55
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🖊️ Opening books collectively: working together for a fairer future for books
📆 20 November
⏰ 10:30-10:55
🔗 buff.ly/OqUVImX
Photo by Gulfer Ergin on Unsplash
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Opening books collectively: Working together for a fairer future for books | Septentrio Conference Series
This presentation introduces how a relatively new, non-profit initiative – the Open Book Collective (OBC) – is furthering open science in a closing world via its diamond approach to funding open…
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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If you're attending #Munin2025, look out for our director @joedeville.bsky.social - always happy to talk all things open access and books!
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🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social
An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
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An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
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Collections and Collectives
Subscribe to collective Packages or individual Supporter Programmes made available by open access book publishers and service providers
openbookcollective.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social
An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
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An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
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Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a new update from our Collective Development Fund awardees at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/second-u...
Update on OBC's Second Collective Development Fund Award: Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.
VIVE la Diamond OA!
VIVE la Diamond OA!
The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a new update from our Collective Development Fund awardees at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/second-u...
Update on OBC's Second Collective Development Fund Award: Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The Open Book Collective is delighted to share a new update from our Collective Development Fund awardees at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/second-u...
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Did you know that @ukri.org block grant can also be used to support other #OA costs eg #OA infrastructure, memberships & other more equitable #publishing models
@openbookcollective.bsky.social is just one of the #infrastructures supported by @ualro.bsky.social
Thanks guys 👍
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@openbookcollective.bsky.social is just one of the #infrastructures supported by @ualro.bsky.social
Thanks guys 👍
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UALRO Blog - Scholarly Communications - LibGuides at UAL Library Services
UKRI Open Access Grant 2024/2025
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Did you know that @ukri.org block grant can also be used to support other #OA costs eg #OA infrastructure, memberships & other more equitable #publishing models
@openbookcollective.bsky.social is just one of the #infrastructures supported by @ualro.bsky.social
Thanks guys 👍
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@openbookcollective.bsky.social is just one of the #infrastructures supported by @ualro.bsky.social
Thanks guys 👍
🔗
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Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷
November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
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November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷
November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
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November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
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Great thread on this afternoon's webinar, with talks from our colleagues at @scossfunding.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social 👇
Time to talk #OpenInfrastructure and what we need beyond technical interoperability to ensure a bright future for #openaccess research and publication with @scossfunding.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🧵
Webinar on #OpenInfrastructure: "Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access"
Join us with @copim.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social next week:
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
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Join us with @copim.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social next week:
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Great thread on this afternoon's webinar, with talks from our colleagues at @scossfunding.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social 👇
Congratulations @pkp.sfu.ca on this newly published Strategic Plan, with values of openness, community and inclusivity at its core. Come and hear from them at our showcase for new OBC members on Monday November 24th, at 3pm GMT/4pm CET/10am ET. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Congratulations @pkp.sfu.ca on this newly published Strategic Plan, with values of openness, community and inclusivity at its core. Come and hear from them at our showcase for new OBC members on Monday November 24th, at 3pm GMT/4pm CET/10am ET. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We are delighted to announce the 2nd recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–26 - 'Knowledge Accessible to the Community: CLACSO as a Platform to Democratize Scholarly Publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean', led by @clacso.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We are delighted to announce the 2nd recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–26 - 'Knowledge Accessible to the Community: CLACSO as a Platform to Democratize Scholarly Publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean', led by @clacso.bsky.social.
Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: OBC New Members Showcase. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Open Book Collective (OBC) invites colleagues from across the library and open access community to join our upcoming New Member Showcase - an open session for libraries, consortia, and others inte...
us06web.zoom.us
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
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HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
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Starting now: It’s Time to Rally: Stakeholder Engagement in the U.S. Diamond Open Access Landscape
“Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social
#chsconf2025 #charleston2025
“Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social
#chsconf2025 #charleston2025
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Starting now: It’s Time to Rally: Stakeholder Engagement in the U.S. Diamond Open Access Landscape
“Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social
#chsconf2025 #charleston2025
“Diamond open access did not grow in spite of decentralization -- it grew because of it.” @lalair.bsky.social
#chsconf2025 #charleston2025
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And here is a template and resources to help small publishers ... compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
09. Open Book Accessib... | Compass
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November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And here is a template and resources to help small publishers ... compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...
“Be proactive. Consider positioning yourself as a leader in this space. You’re not small. You can be a leader and be mighty. And don’t wait for libraries to come to you to update accessibility standards.”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Be proactive. Consider positioning yourself as a leader in this space. You’re not small. You can be a leader and be mighty. And don’t wait for libraries to come to you to update accessibility standards.”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
“Why should publishers & librarians be thinking about accessibility in late 2025?”
“At its core it’s about equity not charity. It’s also deeply tied to academic freedom”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
“At its core it’s about equity not charity. It’s also deeply tied to academic freedom”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Why should publishers & librarians be thinking about accessibility in late 2025?”
“At its core it’s about equity not charity. It’s also deeply tied to academic freedom”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
“At its core it’s about equity not charity. It’s also deeply tied to academic freedom”
Attending #chsconf2025 session with @lalair.bsky.social speaking about accessibility.
Today is #WorldDigitalPreservationDay!
The OBC is proud to be part of a community ensuring that #OpenAccess books don’t just go open, they *stay* open! Through projects like Thoth Archiving Network and Open Book Futures, we’re helping safeguard the digital scholarly record for generations to come.
The OBC is proud to be part of a community ensuring that #OpenAccess books don’t just go open, they *stay* open! Through projects like Thoth Archiving Network and Open Book Futures, we’re helping safeguard the digital scholarly record for generations to come.
World Digital Preservation Day - Digital Preservation Coalition
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November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today is #WorldDigitalPreservationDay!
The OBC is proud to be part of a community ensuring that #OpenAccess books don’t just go open, they *stay* open! Through projects like Thoth Archiving Network and Open Book Futures, we’re helping safeguard the digital scholarly record for generations to come.
The OBC is proud to be part of a community ensuring that #OpenAccess books don’t just go open, they *stay* open! Through projects like Thoth Archiving Network and Open Book Futures, we’re helping safeguard the digital scholarly record for generations to come.
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
Attending OBC member @oapenbooks.bsky.social’s #chsconf2025 presentation with oapen managing director Niel’s Stern joined by Eric Hellman, Tim Loyd, and Tim McGeary about AI-scraping bots and the impact on usage statistics.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Attending OBC member @oapenbooks.bsky.social’s #chsconf2025 presentation with oapen managing director Niel’s Stern joined by Eric Hellman, Tim Loyd, and Tim McGeary about AI-scraping bots and the impact on usage statistics.
Lovely to see our own @heroicendeavour.bsky.social's work discussed in this piece from @glynmoody.bsky.social - OA isn’t just about free PDFs, it's about reclaiming the systems of knowledge from commercial lock-in & strengthening the community-led infrastructures that make genuine openness possible.
Breaking digital chains: @glynmoody.bsky.social explores how #S2O & #ArchiveOfOurOwn promote #OpenAccess. But ultimately, we must reinvent scholarly publishing to achieve universal & unconstrained access to knowledge, as @heroicendeavour.bsky.social advocates. walledculture.org/fans-of-open...
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lovely to see our own @heroicendeavour.bsky.social's work discussed in this piece from @glynmoody.bsky.social - OA isn’t just about free PDFs, it's about reclaiming the systems of knowledge from commercial lock-in & strengthening the community-led infrastructures that make genuine openness possible.