Judith Fathallah

Marking the start of our outreach work

The Open Book Collective meets UK librarians

The OBC Governance model has been designed to put members in charge of the organisation and its operations.

Spotlight interview with Joe Deville

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

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

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

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.

Establishing a new sustainable infrastructure for open access book publishing at the Chinhoyi University of Technology, building open access publishing capacity, and publishing a series of new high-quality open access books

Establishing a sustainable platform to empower Nigerian scholars and educators to create, produce, and disseminate high-quality open access books, as well as fostering new collaborations across Academic Publishing Centres in Nigeria's six geopolitical zones

Creating a model of participatory exchange for publishing practitioners and community members to better serve the forms of knowledge emerging from grassroots communities

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 invitation to collaborate in identifying and mapping OA book stakeholders in an African context, including connections between stakeholders.