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We bring together publishers, publishing service providers, and scholarly libraries to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.

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Prosperous OA Communities

Sustainable Funding

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Diversity in OA

Creating a space for publishers, service providers, libraries and others to learn, network and support each another.

Delivering new, more reliable revenue streams to small to medium-sized publishers, helping them move away from relying on book processing charges.

Delivering new financial resources to the vital infrastructures of OA book publishing and making it easier to integrate OA books into library catalogues.

Supporting a variety of approaches to OA publishing, while making OA for books more accessible to a wider range of authors and institutions.

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Working Together

“If we’re committed to restoring custody over scholarly publishing—and to furnishing open access for readers and authors alike—we need to push for what is the only fair way forward: collective funding. That’s why we’re so excited to be there at launch.”

Jeff Pooley, Director of mediastudies.press

“In a world in which open access infrastructure is being bought out by commercial players, the Open Book Collective is a shining light: a charity-owned and community-run Collective that has the interests of the scholarly community at its heart.”

Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers

“We believe in a community-led, non-competitive open agora for supporting the flourishing of open access books and we want to be part of a collective that models mutual aid and resource sharing in the service of public knowledge.”

Eileen Joy, Founding Director of punctum books

“For a small press like ours, the Open Book Collective is potentially transformative. By being part of the ScholarLed collective membership package we can, for the first time, see a future far less reliant on charging processing fees to institutions.”

Joe Deville, Co-founder and editor of Mattering Press

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Collective, Connected, Sustainable

We bring together publishers, publishing service providers, and scholarly libraries to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.

Stronger OA communities

Prosperous OA Communities

Creating a space for publishers, service providers, libraries and others to learn, network and support each another.

Sustainable funding model

Sustainable Funding

Delivering new, more reliable revenue streams to small to medium-sized publishers, helping them move away from relying on book processing charges.

Robust infrastructure

Robust Infrastructures

Delivering new financial resources to the vital infrastructures of OA book publishing and making it easier to integrate OA books into library catalogues.

Diversity in OA

Diversity in OA

Diversity in OA

Take Action

Libraries

Discover and support initiatives relevant to your interests.

Libraries

Choose or build your subscription package
Get a price
Subscribe

Readers & Authors

Search and access open access content from OBC publishers.

Authors and readers

Search the catalogue
Find new OA books
Filter by initiative

Publishers & Providers

Find out more about our funding members and how to join as a publisher or initiative.

Publishers

Search the catalogue
Find new OA books
Filter by initiative

Working Together

“If we’re committed to restoring custody over scholarly publishing—and to furnishing open access for readers and authors alike—we need to push for what is the only fair way forward: collective funding. That’s why we’re so excited to be there at launch.”

Jeff Pooley, Director of mediastudies.press

“In a world in which open access infrastructure is being bought out by commercial players, the Open Book Collective is a shining light: a charity-owned and community-run Collective that has the interests of the scholarly community at its heart.”

Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers

“We believe in a community-led, non-competitive open agora for supporting the flourishing of open access books and we want to be part of a collective that models mutual aid and resource sharing in the service of public knowledge.”

Eileen Joy, Founding Director of punctum books

“For a small press like ours, the Open Book Collective is potentially transformative. By being part of the ScholarLed collective membership package we can, for the first time, see a future far less reliant on charging processing fees to institutions.”

Joe Deville, Co-founder and editor of Mattering Press

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