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Open access books: If not now, when?

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: A presentation that outlines the troubling contemporary context for scholarly publishing, including open access publishing, before going on to argue that many of the key building blocks for the expansion of non-profit, community-led open access publishing are already in place. The presentation highlights the work of four initiatives in particular: Open Book Collective, PKP and its Open Monograph Press software, Thoth Open Metadata and OAPEN/Directory of Open Access Books. The presentation was delivered as a keynote talk presentation at the National Open Access Stakeholders Conference 2025, titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing'.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17247026

Author: Deville, Joe

Institutions: Open Book Collective, Lancaster University

Language: English

Topic: Publishing and Scholarly Communication

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7084394119

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