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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

Many thanks to all our participants, and for the support in recruitment we received from organisations including @operaseu.bsky.social, @openedition.bsky.social, @copim.bsky.social and @researchconsulting.bsky.social

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

The report also includes concrete recommendations for initiatives working to overcome barriers to the collective, Diamond funding of #OpenAccess

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

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- Usage data from OA initiatives helps justify investment decisions, but doesn’t resolve tensions
- Formal policies influence librarians’ OA decisions less than expected; informal decision-making, faculty opinion and networking were seen as stronger factors

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

Some key findings include:
- There is a strong commitment to the idea of an OA knowledge commons from librarians and researchers in many contexts across Europe
- Trust in OA initiatives has been eroded by corporate buyouts
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

It provides insight into how librarians understand collective funding models and their ability to become involved in them, alongside an analysis of existing research on collective funding models and a profile of each country’s current open access publishing context

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

For this major work, co-authored by @judithfathallah.bsky.social, @joedeville.bsky.social, Izabella Penier, and Francesca Corazza, we interviewed librarians and other stakeholders in a range of institutional contexts in Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 21h

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books

Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

@whitehorsepress.bsky.social @archumanities.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @leuvenup.bsky.social -- and of course @copim.bsky.social & @operaseu.bsky.social

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

And follow our members: @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @uniwestpress.bsky.social @matteringpress.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social @sidestone.bsky.social

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

Join us in building more open, sustainable future for #OABooks-- learn more and get involved here: openbookcollective.org/cms/fixed_pa...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative.
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU

Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community

YouTube video by Open Book Collective

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Image showing logos of Leuven University Press, Sidestone Press, African Minds, University of Westminster Press, meson press, White Horse Press, mediastudies.press, University of London Press, Arc Humanities Press, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, Verlag Barbara Budrich, LSE Press, Thoth Open Metadata, OAPEN/DOAB, Mattering Press, PKP/OMP

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

Through our Collective Development Fund, we awarded grants to new + emerging open access initiatives in Canada, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, helping to strengthen publishing capacity locally, nationally + globally & published our second call openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-coll...

OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2025 Call & Guidance

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

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.bsky.social.

Around 16 books on a shelf of different heights, with multicoloured spines facing outwards

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

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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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

We shared our work at major conferences included the Charleston Conference, LIBER, and UKSG, helping grow awareness and collaboration around #OABooks.

A collage showing the OBC team at events and conferences

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

The OBC made major progress toward financial independence this year. An independent review by @researchconsulting.bsky.social confirmed we’re on track for full sustainability by 2027.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress

The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 7d

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 7d

Hearing now (also streaming live) from our FUT Minna colleagues, talking about their @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project #OAbooks

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 8d

The 2025 National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria, starting today, will have plenary sessions live streamed and is open to all. Titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty', the event starts at 9am BST/10am CEST. Programme: oa-summit.bookhub.ng. Streaming at wacren.zoom.us/j/67762421550

Flyer, with a monochrome collage showing colleagues at events and speaking, alongside text reading From Pilots to Policy: Advancing a National Framework for Open Access Books in Nigeria. National Stakeholder Summit on Community-led Academic Publishing

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 8d

The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...

Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process

In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 12d

4/4 Our #CollectiveDevelopmentFund grants programme is funded in part through the support we receive from libraries and contributions from our publisher and service provider members. Supporting the @openbookcollective.bsky.social helps not only our members but the wider #OAbooks ecosystem

Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 12d

3/ The #OAbookshub platform is designed to empower Nigerian scholars & educators to produce and disseminate high-quality #OAbooks, as well as to foster new collaborations across Academic Publishing Centres in Nigeria's six geopolitical zones

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 12d

2/ The event is connected to a #CollectiveDevelopmentFund grant we awarded last year to the #OAbookshub project, led by Prof. Abdulsalami Kovo from the Federal University of Technology, Minna. Read the latest project update: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/update-o...

Update on OBC's First Collective Development Fund award: Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books

An update from Federal University of Technology, Minna

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 12d

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues
oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty — OAConference 2025

Nigeria’s National Open Access Stakeholders Conference — Oct 6–7, 2025 at NOUN, Abuja.

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