OPERAS welcomes Open Book Collective

We are glad to welcome Open Book Collective as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community in 2024.

The Open Book Collective is a UK-registered charity that brings together publishers, publishing service providers, and scholarly libraries to secure the diversity and financial futures of open access book production and dissemination.

The Open Book Collective has previously worked with OPERAS by facilitating workshops with colleagues from the wider Copim community, and we are looking forward to working in greater proximity with OPERAS to galvanise the community’s endeavour to support Diamond open access for books. 

Kevin Sanders, their Open Access Engagement Lead, attended the 2024 OPERAS conference in Zadar, and was welcomed by the community and has started to develop relationships from connections made there. Kevin is keen to work with librarian colleagues across OPERAS, and to work together as a community to support the sustainability of Diamond open access books that enhance equity and increase bibliodiversity.

Open Book Collective will contribute to the OA Business Models, Advocacy, and OABN Special Interest Groups.

OPERAS 

OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH. OPERAS’ aim is to make Open Science a reality for research in the SSH and achieve a scholarly communication system where knowledge produced in the SSH benefits researchers, academics, students and more generally the whole society across Europe and worldwide, without barriers.

If you want to know more, contact us and find more information on joining OPERAS here: https://operas-eu.org/about/want-to-know-more/want-to-join-operas/

OPERAS Coordinator Community: Pierre Mounier pierre.mounier[at]operas-eu.org