Kevin Sanders

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 new option for Higher Education Institutions in the UK interested in subscribing to Supporter Programmes offered by our members

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

Announcing the results of elections to four open positions on the Open Book Collective board

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.

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