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@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!

‘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 infrastructuresA new document management portal for OBC's publisher and service provider members.obc.copim.pub

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 😁

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 publishingProfessor 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…obc.copim.pub

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 CollectiveOne of the UK's largest and most established fully open access university presses becomes the latest member of OBC's University Presses packageobc.copim.pub

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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 policyThe Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishingobc.copim.pub

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!obc.copim.pub

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!obc.copim.pub

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.

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!

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

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 Epiccatalogue.openbookcollective.org

Welcome! Fantastic to have you in the collective

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

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.

Drumroll, please! 100 libraries worldwide are now supporting the OBC - that's 100 libraries actively choosing to support collective funding and diamond OA - now that's definitely worth celebrating! Our joint 100th: Zurich University of the Arts and The Open University, who joined on the same day.

100 libraries are now supporting diamond open access through the Open Book Collective!Today we hit a milestone we've been working towards for a while: 100 libraries around the world are now supporting the Open Book Collective!obc.copim.pub

Of the 30 finalists, 4 come from OBC presses - 3 from @openbookpublish.bsky.social, & 1 from @lsepress.bsky.social. It's a mark of the quality small, not-for-profit, scholar- & institution-led presses can produce, more than holding their own alongside the largest university presses in the US and UK!

Our third Annual General Assembly of Custodians takes place on 23 June, 4–5pm BST. We have 4 candidates standing for election (or re-election) to the Board of Stewards. For details of the candidates, and how to vote, click the link below 👇 obc.copim.pub/annual-gener...