We are excited to announce that Caroline Ball has joined as our new Community Engagement Lead. Hooray! 🥳 Caroline is a committed advocate for libraries, #OpenAccess & knowledge equity, a Trustee at @wikimediauk@wikis.world and played a key role in the #EbookSOS campaign
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Open Book Collective
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06The Open Book Collective (OBC) brings together #OpenAccess publishers, service providers, and libraries, working towards a sustainable and equitable future for #OAbooks #OpenAccessBooks and #OpenInfrastruture
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🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-community-engagement-lead-full-time-at-open-book-collective/
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And also consider following our members -- including here on Mastodon @PublicKnowledgeProject @Thoth_metadata @Meson press @mediadotpress -- and of course @copim
RE: @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social
Congratulations @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social on this newly published Strategic Plan, with values of openness, community and inclusivity at its core. PKP is one of OBC's three current Publishing Service Provider members. They are working with us to generate specific funds for their book-focused publishing solution Open Monograph Press. 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: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d7Oy4qMNTn6vdswJ0gyHoA#/registration
Watch the recording of last week's #OAweek panel on 'Mainstreaming Diamond', hosted by Open Library of Humanities. Featuring OBC's Joe Deville @joe_dev@mastodon.social, alongside Kira Hopkins from Opening the Future, Rupert Gatti from Open Book Publishers, Caroline Edwards from OLH & Open Journals Collective, and Joanna Ball from @DOAJ@masto.ai. c chaired by Paula Celente Vega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures
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3/ The press has also built its own digital infrastructure, to help ensure its independence and flexibility. This includes a page highlighting the global dispersion of its contributing communities, including authors and peer reviewers: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/geographical_stats/withFrame
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Our Members published over 300 new books, reaching new audiences through expanded metadata, accessibility, and distribution partnerships and supported by a deeper collaboration with @Thoth_metadata
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The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative. Together, our Members, libraries, and supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained https://youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU?si=vTWEr4axiSqlzCPb
Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community
The OBC is growing! We are so very happy to welcome Kevin Sanders @kjsanders@mastodon.social as our new Open Access Engagement Lead. Working with libraries to build support for our members. Welcome Kevin 🥳. More about the OBC team here: https://openbookcollective.org/who/
We're thrilled to announce that the Uni. of Liverpool Library has joined the Open Book Collective as our newest supporting library member! Thank you for your commitment to an equitable and sustainable future for #OABooks https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/the-open-book-collective-welcomes-the-university-of-liverpool-library/release/1
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2/ ECF has published over 500 books to date, including in both English and Italian, and particularly in the humanities and social sciences. For example, this recent edited volume on 'Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe' https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/
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The OBC made major progress toward financial independence this year. An independent review by
Research Consulting confirmed we’re on track for full sustainability by 2027. We also shared our work at major conferences included the Charleston Conference, LIBER, and UKSG, helping grow awareness and collaboration around #OAbooks.
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4/4 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari will join both our University Press package, as well as the full Open Book Collective package. A very warm welcome! https://www.openbookcollective.org/packages/
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By the end of April 2025, we achieved milestone of 83 supporting libraries across 12 countries—reflecting over 50% growth since last year. That number continues to rise + we now have close to 90 supporters worldwide.
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Through our Collective Development Fund, we awarded grants to new and emerging open access initiatives in Canada, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, helping to strengthen publishing capacity locally, nationally and globally, as well as publishing our second call https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-collective-development-fund-grant-programme-2025-call--guidance/
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We also welcomed five new Members—Arc Humanities Press, LSE Press, Sidestone Press, Verlag Barbara Budrich, and PKP. This brings to 17 the total number of OBC Publisher + Service Provider Members. We expect to continue to grow steadily in the next period.
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Join us in building more open, sustainable future for #OABooks-- learn more and get involved here: https://openbookcollective.org/cms/fixed_page/values/
Just one more week left to apply to this fantastic role, supporting the work on Opening the Future revenue model, as part of the Copim community's ongoing work @copim@hcommons.social @copim@hcommons.social
Join us in welcoming Bates College Library as the newest supporting library member of the Open Book Collective! We're grateful to have their support in our mission for a more equitable and sustainable future for #OpenAccessBooks
Read the full press release here: https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/the-open-book-collective-welcomes-the-bates-college/release/1