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A Director Writes: The First Ten Years of OBP

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A Director Writes: The First Ten Years of OBP

When Alessandra and Rupert invited me to join them in establishing Open Publishers as a Community Interest Company, I was delighted to accept. Having been a senior manager in the British Treasury I had experience of economic and financial matters, and that experience had first been brought to bear in

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part Two)

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Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part Two)

The next ten years: “We need to show this can be different.” While Gatti and Tosi are fiercely proud of what they have built, they believe the future of OBP lies in enabling the growth of other Open Access publishers. Gatti sees this as the way to achieve significant and

Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

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Ten Years of OBP: An Interview with Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti (Part One)

Ten years ago today Open Book Publishers [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/14/1] was born. Non-profit, scholar-led and now the leading UK Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences, OBP began as a small-scale experiment, a passion project for co-directors Alessandra Tosi and Rupert Gatti. They were

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Three)

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Three)

Open Technology: The Future of Open Access This is the third and final part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/611]. To read the first part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-one/] To read the second

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two)

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two)

This is part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/611]. To read the first part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-one/] To read the final part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-three/] A Global Outlook:

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One)

One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One)

Open Book Publishers was born in 2008, sparked into life by co-founder and managing editor Alessandra Tosi’s first-hand experience of the frustrations of academic publishing. The thrill of seeing her book in print was dampened by the realisation that, thanks to its exorbitant price and small print run, very

Knowledge is for sharing

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Knowledge is for sharing

Open Access: the future of academic publishing Researchers, authors and funding bodies are realising that the high price of access to academic books and journals means that only a select few can read their work. Open Access (that is, making texts free to read and reuse) helps spread research results