The Open Book Collective (OBC) is a UK-registered charity that brings together open access book publishers, publishing service providers, libraries and other knowledge institutions to fund and sustain a range of small to medium sized open access book publishers and open book publishing service providers. We have developed a service that lets institutions discover, compare and support these initiatives directly, helping small and medium-sized presses move away from book processing charges and towards Diamond OA.

The OBC Supporter Programme enables institutions to support the OBC in its own right, as a developer of new, open source infrastructures and services for the benefit of the open book publishing community. This value-added work is over and above the OBC’s role as an intermediary between supporting libraries and our publisher and service provider members. Contributions will underpin open infrastructure development projects, such as the library-focused impact dashboard we are developing with the Open Journals Collective, as well as enabling us to provide additional capacity building support for our members, for example in relation to enhancing metadata and accessibility practices. 

As with many other initiatives that are part of the OBC, we allocate 5% of the funding received via our Supporter Programme to the Collective Development Fund.