Joe Deville

Having now completed 3 stakeholder workshops, an update on the latest thinking within Work Package 2, and what this implies for the development of a model or platform able to address the question 'how can open access book publishers better collaborate with scholarly libraries'

New opportunity to join the COPIM project and to help build on our Revenue Infrastructures and Management Platform for Open Access books

Joe Deville, a lecturer at Lancaster University and co-founder of ScholarLed and Mattering Press, introduces a new report exploring the potential for collaboration in open access publishing. He also looks at the role of other more troubling forms of collaboration in the academy

An overview of Mattering Press' approach to publishing. Last updated February 2022.

A Spotlight on COPIM, the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs, on organizational adaptation in an ever-shifting publication ecosystem. (One hour with transcript)

Joe Deville explores the rationale underpinning Open Book Collective's approach to generating funds for publishing and supporting Open Access books, counterposing it to the dominant funding mechanism: Book Processing Charges, or 'BPCs'.

Welcoming the launch of new Supporter Programmes from Leuven University Press, University of London Press, and University of Westminster Press

A three day workshop hosted by the University of Cape Town exploring how to build a more sustainable future for Open Access book publishing in the African continent

On the anniversary of OBC receiving its first subscription, the team reflect on their work to generate new forms of support for open access book publishing

A workshop taking place on the afternoon of June 11th at the University of Sheffield, hosted by iHuman and the Science, Technology and Medicine in Society (STeMiS) group

An update on the scoping work the OBC team has been doing, to feed into the final assessment criteria and management procedures for the soon to be launched Collective Development Fund grant programme

A collectively authored response by the Copim community, in which we welcome the principle of open access by default in the REF 2029 open access policy for longform publications, but argue that it could provide clearer mechanisms for supporting Diamond open access publishing

Some thoughts from the Copim Open Book Futures team on Research England's decision not to include an OA mandate for monographs submitted to the next REF

In this post, we outline what community-led means to us in theory and in practice, how it can be identified in organisations, and some of our concerns about the co-option of the term.

Open Monograph Publishing: Towards Sustainable Open Access Book Publishing in the Global South Context, a workshop on the 9th and 10th December 2024 at the University of Cape Town. Part of the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access.

Announcing the newest member of the Open Book Collective: LSE Press. It will become the fourth university press to join the collective

The OBC reflects on our panel and the key themes of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Conference, 2024

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.

In this post, we reflect on what bibliodiversity should encompass, how we think it should be achieved, and what we are doing at Copim to support it

An update on the Open Book Collective's approach to reporting, including highlighting both our new Reporting Policy for Publisher and Service Provider Members and the resulting changes in OBC's reporting period, as well as providing an interim report on the OBC's progress