We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

Open Position: Head of Operations

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

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Great day yesterday kicking off our joint @ojcollective.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social Impact Dashboard project to share insight into the impact of the diamond OA publications we support. True collaboration and partnership in action!

We're 61% of the way there! But we need the support of more libraries to get to 100% - please come and join the @ojcollective.bsky.social community! Have questions or want to arrange a video call? DM us, email info@openjournalscollective.org or visit openjournalscollective.org.

@lsepress.bsky.social is one of our publisher members and @lselibrary.bsky.social one of our library supporters, so we can personally attest to their firm and deep commitment to championing open access!

LSE Press@lsepress.bsky.social · last wk.

What makes collective funding such a powerful mechanism for open access publishing? ✍️ LSE Press Head of Publishing @philippagrand.bsky.social considers this question and the power of OA funding for our blog @jisc.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social Read here blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

‘No open access without open infrastructures.’ Our new document management portal gives OBC publisher and service provider members one place for all their library support, with notifications, multiple users per organisation, and openly licensed code. #OpenInfrastructure #OpenBookCollective

Expanding OBC's open infrastructures

A new document management portal for OBC's publisher and service provider members.

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Congratulations to all at @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social on this nomination 🎉 We've long argued that community-led open infrastructures have the potential to exceed the standards of commercial, closed alternatives. It's great to see one of our members demonstrating this so impressively 😁

Copim@copim.bsky.social · 4w ago

🗞️ Great news @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social have been nominated for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing 2026! Find out who else has been nominated 👉 buff.ly/7H9dgrc Can't wait until 9 Sept to find out who has won 🤞 Photo: Jason Leung, Unsplash #ALPSP2026 #MetadataMatters

New on the blog: Professor Tilahun Shiferaw of Haramaya University writes up his #CDF project - a draft National Open Book Access Policy for Ethiopia, written with librarians and Ministry of Education colleagues, plus a pilot translating open access book content into Amharic and Afan Oromo.

Empowering Ethiopian research universities: a multifaceted approach to overcome OA barriers in scholarly publishing

Professor Tilahun Shiferaw provides an update to the CDF project 'Update on CDF award: Empowering Ethiopian research universities: a multifaceted approach to overcome OA barriers in scholarly…

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We're delighted to welcome @uclpress.bsky.social to the Open Book Collective! One of the UK's largest fully OA university presses, publishing 400+ books, 60+ titles a year, free to read worldwide. Libraries can now support their work through our University Presses package. #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

UCL Press joins the Open Book Collective

One of the UK's largest and most established fully open access university presses becomes the latest member of OBC's University Presses package

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Great blog from @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social on the new Netherlands #OpenAccess strategy. It would be fantastic to see something like this developed in the UK in support of presses like @lsepress.bsky.social and members of @oipassoc.bsky.social.

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The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

Erratum joins the OBC theoryfictionconsortium.substack.com/p/erratum-jo... @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Erratum joins the OBC

I am delighted to say that Erratum Press, which hosts the International Theory-Fiction Consortium, has been successful in its application to join the Open Book Collective (see this press release).

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The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Gemeinschaft ist ein Motor für Open Access – und ein solcher Motor ist das Open Book Collective (OBC). Wir stolz, seit 2025 Teil dieser wegweisenden Initiative zu sein! Mehr über Budrich bei @openbookcollective.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mr23cs26 @ OBC-Logo: Open Book Collective

Die Website des Open Book Collective ist jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar – die erste von hoffentlich vielen Übersetzungen! Ein kleiner Schritt, um deutschsprachige Verlage, Bibliotheken und Leser*innen in ihrer eigenen Sprache anzusprechen. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Das Open Book Collective: Jetzt auf Deutsch!

Wir freuen uns sehr, bekannt geben zu können, dass unsere Website nun in der ersten von hoffentlich vielen übersetzten Versionen verfügbar ist: auf Deutsch!

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The OBC website now speaks German - the first of hopefully many translations! A small step towards meeting German-speaking publishers, libraries and readers in their own language rather than ours. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA Read more: obc.copim.pub/the-open-boo...

The Open Book Collective: Now in German!

We are very pleased to announce that our website is now available in the first of hopefully many translated versions: German!

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Neu im oa_blog: Kollektiv und wissenschaftsgeleitet - Neue Angebote für Damond #OpenAccess. U. a. mit Einblicken in konsortiale Finanzierungsmodelle und internationale Community-Initiativen wie @openbookcollective.bsky.social und @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social. open-access.network/blog/kollekt...

The OBC, @ojcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social recently delivered a webinar for the German @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social on our collaborative approach for a sustainable Diamond OA future - read their newly published blog at the link below.

Die OBC, @ojcollective.bsky.social und @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social haben kürzlich ein Webinar für @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social zu unserem kollaborativen Ansatz für eine nachhaltige Diamond OA-Zukunft geliefert - lesen Sie ihren neu veröffentlichten Blog unter dem folgenden Link.

The proven benefits of #OpenAccess (OA) publishing in making important ideas available to a more diverse and global readership are particularly critical for humanities research. Read our full OA policy for detail on our funding and OA publishing options: uolpress.co.uk/publish-with...

📢 Published today! Organised Crime and Migration: Criminal Groups, Corruption and the Displacement Crisis in Central America and Mexico by Victorie Knox. uolpress.co.uk/book/organis... @icws-sas.bsky.social @hrc-sas.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social #OpenAccess funded by @acls1919.bsky.social 🙏

Organised Crime and Migration - University of London Press

Human mobility, organised crime and corruption remain critical issues in Mexico and Central America. This book is the first to consider together three major, interconnected ways in which organised cri...

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We've added a new post to our blog, in which Isis Brook reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world‘, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16th August). Here: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/06/24/a... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #envhist #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social

Exhibition review: ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’

In this blog Isis Brook, deputy editor of Plant Perspectives, reports on the exhibition ‘In Bloom: how plants changed our world’, at Oxford’s Ashmolean museum (until 16 August). I…

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I’m at the Business Council for Africa’s Business Book of the Year Awards w author Prof David Luke from @africaatlse.bsky.social. Delighted David has been shortlisted for a second time after his book How Africa Trades won in 2024. @lsepress.bsky.social

After the recent meeting of our General Assembly of Custodians, we're pleased to announce the election to our Board of Stewards of: Teresa Lee, Managing Director of @pkp.sfu.ca Gareth Cole, Open Research Manager at @exeter.ac.uk Congratulations to both, and welcome to the Open Book Collective!

Just having a look at some recent updates from @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and it really shows how collective work offers a viable future for AHSS OA publishing. Fantastic to see, and a counter-narrative to the general woes ✊

We're proud to welcome UCT Press, one of the publishing arms of the University of Cape Town, as our newest Publisher Member. UCT is committed to championing scholarship from and on Africa, and OBC membership will support its transition to a fully Diamond OA model #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #GlobalSouth

GRATEFUL to the University of Stavanger Library for supporting us via the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! This is #library funding for #OpenAccess #Books in action. It takes a community & every book we publish is a gift from libraries! 🥳 tinyurl.com/39y9wh8e

Punctum Books Library Program Welcomes the University of Stavanger Library

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In today's 'Things You May Not Have Realised', the OBC and its publisher members are so committed to bibliodiversity, we even have a text in Klingon in our catalogue! May we present @punctumbooks.bsky.social's 'paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic'!

paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic

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Erratum Press@erratumpress.bsky.social · last mo.

a big milestone for Erratum: "The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce that Erratum Press has joined as its latest Publisher Member, bringing a distinctive new voice to its growing network of open access scholarly publishers." obc.copim.pub/erratum-pres... @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Yet another award nomination for a book made by one of our publisher members. Congratulations @punctumbooks.bsky.social and all the editors and authors! 🎉

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Big news: Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is a 2026 IPPY Awards Finalist! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to see this work in game studies receive national recognition. Read the book here: tinyurl.com/98t48we9

We'd like to bid a warm OBC welcome to our latest member - independent, scholar-led, Sheffield's very own Erratum Press! Its Academic Division publishes open access scholarship with no author fees, alongside an experimental poetry and fiction list.