Open Book Collective

RE: @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social

Congratulations @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social on this newly published Strategic Plan, with values of openness, community and inclusivity at its core. PKP is one of OBC's three current Publishing Service Provider members. They are working with us to generate specific funds for their book-focused publishing solution Open Monograph Press. Come and hear from them at our showcase for new OBC members on Monday November 24th, at 3pm GMT/4pm CET/10am ET. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d7Oy4qMNTn6vdswJ0gyHoA#/registration

Watch the recording of last week's #OAweek panel on 'Mainstreaming Diamond', hosted by Open Library of Humanities. Featuring OBC's Joe Deville @joe_dev@mastodon.social, alongside Kira Hopkins from Opening the Future, Rupert Gatti from Open Book Publishers, Caroline Edwards from OLH & Open Journals Collective, and Joanna Ball from @DOAJ@masto.ai. c chaired by Paula Celente Vega https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4

1/ We are also extremely happy to announce that Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (ECF), or Venice University Press, has joined the Open Book Collective, taking the total number of publisher members to 15. ECF is a fully #OpenAccess publisher https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/edizioni-ca-foscari-joins-the-open-book-collective

We are excited to announce that Caroline Ball has joined as our new Community Engagement Lead. Hooray! 🥳 Caroline is a committed advocate for libraries, #OpenAccess & knowledge equity, a Trustee at @wikimediauk@wikis.world and played a key role in the #EbookSOS campaign

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-book-collective-2024-to-2025-annual-report/

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-community-engagement-lead-full-time-at-open-book-collective/

Just one more week left to apply to this fantastic role, supporting the work on Opening the Future revenue model, as part of the Copim community's ongoing work @copim@hcommons.social @copim@hcommons.social

The OBC is growing! We are so very happy to welcome Kevin Sanders @kjsanders@mastodon.social as our new Open Access Engagement Lead. Working with libraries to build support for our members. Welcome Kevin 🥳. More about the OBC team here: https://openbookcollective.org/who/

Join us in welcoming Bates College Library as the newest supporting library member of the Open Book Collective! We're grateful to have their support in our mission for a more equitable and sustainable future for #OpenAccessBooks

Read the full press release here: https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/the-open-book-collective-welcomes-the-bates-college/release/1

We're thrilled to announce that the Uni. of Liverpool Library has joined the Open Book Collective as our newest supporting library member! Thank you for your commitment to an equitable and sustainable future for #OABooks https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/the-open-book-collective-welcomes-the-university-of-liverpool-library/release/1