How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books?

This two-part blog series has been written by our good friends and COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) members Lucy Barnes and Tom Grady

In Part One they explore why your institution should support collective funding for OA books. They lay out the problems with Book Processing Charges, and disentangle the various alternatives.

In Part Two they give practical steps on how to convince budget holders to invest in collective models by building a case to management for supporting collective OA book funding.

Last year Lucy & Tom were on the Q & A panel for our webinar about the challenges facing libraries seeking to support Open Access (OA) for books with speakers Professor Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, a COPIM project co-lead and co-founder of the Open Library of the Humanities; and Dr Joe Deville, Lancaster University, a COPIM project co-lead and co-founder of Mattering Press.

If you missed that webinar you can watch the recording here:

How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books?

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