Infrastructure series: Open Access Books | FORCE11

This seventh entry into the year-long FORCE11 Blogs series on scholarly infrastructure is an interview with Lucy Barnes and colleagues.

Open Access Books

Scholarly publishing is probably still most often thought of in terms of journals, which means that books are too often overlooked. So, this month, we hear from Lucy Barnes and a whole team of people collaborating on infrastructures for the open access scholarly monograph. Writing them may often be a solitary pursuit but the resilient infrastructures to support them require the efforts of many. Here, some of the team from COPIM explain their approach of ’scaling small.’