Open Book Collective and Open Monograph Press: An Interview with Joe Deville | Public Knowledge Project

PKP’s Community Engagement and Outreach Associate Director, Urooj Nizami, interviews OBC’s Managing Director, Joe Deville, to explore OBC’s origins, purpose, and relationships, as well as OMP and the open book publishing landscape, among other fascinating stories. 

Over the past year, Open Monograph Press (OMP), PKP’s book publishing software, has found itself riding a fresh wave of momentum. A big part of that energy comes from the Open Book Collective (OBC), whose support has helped spark new possibilities for the platform.

With OBC’s support, our OMP Coordinator, Zoe Wake Hyde, and the team have been able to think bigger and bolder about the future of OMP. On the horizon are improvements that get right to the heart of what makes a book a book: smarter chapter handling for richer metadata, smoother submission processes, and more intuitive workflows.

This collaboration offers more than just technical advancement, it’s about reshaping the open access book publishing landscape. Together with our communities, PKP and OBC are building the infrastructure, tools, and shared vision needed to reimagine what scholarly publishing can be when it’s open and built by the communities it serves.

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