Open Infrastructure

Open Book Publishers takes leading role in £5.8 million project to significantly expand open access book infrastructures

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is delighted to announce that we are part of a diverse international team leading a new open infrastructure initiative, Open Book Futures (OBF), to significantly advance the systems that support community-owned Open Access (OA) book publishing.

UKRI

OBP's draft response to the UKRI Open Access consultation

Open Book Publishers' draft response to the UKRI Open Access consultation.

Academic Publishing

Why is open education resource creation, management and publishing important? Reflections for Open Book Publishers on Open Education Week 2020

Read this post to find out more about the take our authors and contributors have on OER creation, management and publishing.

Metrics

What We Talk About When We Talk About… Book Usage Data

An easy-to-understand explanation of how we collect our book usage data, and why we have started to present it differently.

Open Infrastructure

OBP to Take a Leading Role in £2.2 Million Project to Develop Open Access Book Publishing

On 14th June, Research England announced [https://re.ukri.org/news-events-publications/news/re-awards-2-2m-to-project-to-improve-open-access-publishing/] the award of a £2.2 million grant to the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) [https://www.copim.

bad actors

Open Book Publishers’ statement on Knowledge Unlatched and the Open Research Library

We have grave concerns about the approach and business model of the Open Research Library, and those of its creator Knowledge Unlatched, which we will set out in this post.

November 2024 Newsletter

Experimenting with Audio: Announcing Our First OA Audiobooks

Navigating AI in Academic Publishing: Balancing Efficiency, Expertise and Ethics

October 2024 Newsletter