Published December 10, 2021 | Version 1.0

Sustainable Infrastructures for OA Books: The Open Book Collective and Platform

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Lancaster University

Description

This talk introduces the work of the COPIM project (Community-Led Infrastructures for Open Access Books), then specifically explains the project of Work Package 2: Building the Open Book Collective and platform. The OBC will host an infrastructure and revenue managemement platform for the support, access, distribution and promotion of OA Books beyond inequitable book processing models.

Notes

Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

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211210-judith-fathallah-sustainable-infrastructures-oabooks-open-book-collective.pdf