Initiatives

At the core of the Open Book Collective are our initiatives. These range from open-access book publishers to indexing services and directories. You can find out more about these initiatives here.

Collections and Collectives

Publishers and Service Providers

African Minds

African Minds is a not-for-profit, open access publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We publish predominantly in the social sciences and our authors are typically African academics and thinkers, as well as international academics who have a cl…

DOAB & OAPEN

DOAB is a community-driven index of scholarly peer-reviewed open access books increasing their discoverability and helping users find trusted open access book publishers. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for peer-reviewed bo…

Leuven University Press

Leuven University Press is a mission-driven, not-for-profit academic press of international repute, committed to sustainable and future-proof publishing. Our publishing policy aims to combine high-quality and high-impact content with low-threshold…

Mattering Press
Mattering Press is an academic-led Diamond Open Access publisher and UK registered charity, that publishes high quality, peer reviewed books within relational research on science, technology and society. We work with a production model that is based…
mediastudies.press

mediastudies.press is a nonprofit, scholar-led, open access publisher committed to a vision of OA that does not impose author paywalls in place of reader paywalls. We are committed to bibliodiversity, scaling small, mutual aid, and the campaign to r…

meson press

meson press publishes experimental, innovative, multi-format open access books on digital cultures and networked media. Its publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities today.

Open Book Publishers

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an award-winning, scholar-led, non-profit press that publishes widely across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and has a growing number of titles in STEM subjects. OBP's book series have fostered strong collec…

punctum books

punctum books is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed Sparkly Diamond publisher of open access books in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, and Architecture & Design. Three primary concentrations f…

Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather…

University of London Press

Our mission at the University of London Press (UoL Press) is to ‘open up humanities research’, built on a long publishing history and a commitment to supporting researchers. We are an award-winning, non-profit, predominantly open access university p…

University of Westminster Press

Launched in 2015, and based in the heart of Central London, the University of Westminster Press (UWP) is a digital-first open access publisher of peer reviewed academic books, policy briefs and journals. UWP exists to provide global public access to…

White Horse Press

The White Horse Press is a small independent family-run press specialising in environment and society from a humanities and social sciences perspective. We have published books and journals on a traditional basis for over 30 years and are now commit…

Publishers and Service Providers

African Minds

African Minds is a not-for-profit, open access publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We publish predominantly in the social sciences and our authors are typically African academics and thinkers, as well as international academics who have a cl…

DOAB & OAPEN

DOAB is a community-driven index of scholarly peer-reviewed open access books increasing their discoverability and helping users find trusted open access book publishers. OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for peer-reviewed bo…

Leuven University Press

Leuven University Press is a mission-driven, not-for-profit academic press of international repute, committed to sustainable and future-proof publishing. Our publishing policy aims to combine high-quality and high-impact content with low-threshold…

Mattering Press
Mattering Press is an academic-led Diamond Open Access publisher and UK registered charity, that publishes high quality, peer reviewed books within relational research on science, technology and society. We work with a production model that is based…
mediastudies.press

mediastudies.press is a nonprofit, scholar-led, open access publisher committed to a vision of OA that does not impose author paywalls in place of reader paywalls. We are committed to bibliodiversity, scaling small, mutual aid, and the campaign to r…

meson press

meson press publishes experimental, innovative, multi-format open access books on digital cultures and networked media. Its publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities today.

Open Book Publishers

Open Book Publishers (OBP) is an award-winning, scholar-led, non-profit press that publishes widely across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and has a growing number of titles in STEM subjects. OBP's book series have fostered strong collec…

punctum books

punctum books is an independent queer- and scholar-led, community-formed, and peer-reviewed Sparkly Diamond publisher of open access books in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Fine Arts, and Architecture & Design. Three primary concentrations f…

Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather…

University of London Press

Our mission at the University of London Press (UoL Press) is to ‘open up humanities research’, built on a long publishing history and a commitment to supporting researchers. We are an award-winning, non-profit, predominantly open access university p…

University of Westminster Press

Launched in 2015, and based in the heart of Central London, the University of Westminster Press (UWP) is a digital-first open access publisher of peer reviewed academic books, policy briefs and journals. UWP exists to provide global public access to…

White Horse Press

The White Horse Press is a small independent family-run press specialising in environment and society from a humanities and social sciences perspective. We have published books and journals on a traditional basis for over 30 years and are now commit…