Open Book Collective: Our Organisational Model | Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

Joy, E., Adema, J., & COPIM. (2022). Open Book Collective: Our Organisational Model. Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM). https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.13890eb3 "The Open Book Collective (OBC) brings together publishers and publisher collectives, publishing service providers and publishing service provider consortia, libraries and library consortia, and other knowledge institutions committed to working together across the landscape of the open knowledge commons to enable a more sustainable future for open-access (OA) book-length and long-form scholarship. What members of the OBC do varies, but what we share is a commitment to building an open knowledge- and resource-sharing ecosystem that will exemplify care for and curation of high-quality open access (OA) academic books; a commitment to bibliodiversity; collaboration and resource-sharing over competition; networked community-building over profit-driven centralization; horizontal working relationships over exclusive hierarchization; ‘scaling small’ and ‘smaller’ over ‘scaling up’; and growing and safeguarding access to academic books for global readers without barriers...."