![]() ![]() Central to the functioning of the Open Book Collective is an online platform that will make it far quicker and easier for libraries and other potential subscribers to compare, evaluate, and subscribe to different OA publishers and open service providers via membership packages. ![]() The OBC is founded upon equitable, community-led governance and helping publishers move beyond Book Processing Charges (BPCs). ![]() The collective will bring together diverse small-to-medium open access (OA) publishers, open publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive, and interdependent community space and platform designed to sustain the future of OA book publishing. The OBC is a major output of the COPIM project (Community-Led Infrastructures for Open Access Monographs). This article describes and explains the need for the work of the Open Book Collective (OBC). ![]()
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