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
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 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
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
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: