The Open Book Collective brings together libraries and small-to-medium OA scholarly books publishers from across the world via a unique consortial funding model to enable the publication of OA books with no fee. As an author, I decided in 2023 to publish my third monograph open access. This paper explores and explains how I came to this decision, and why I would urge other academics to do the same. Academics cannot be asked to bear all of the risk of transition to a sustainable open access landscape for scholarly books – but, as we stand to benefit from this transition as educators, readers, authors and human beings , I contend that we must bear some. I briefly introduce the range of small-to-medium scholarly publishers who are currently members of the OBC, and encourage authors, librarians educators to explore these high quality publishers as options to work with and support.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Select a suitable OA scholarly publisher for future work, without the necessity of a fee.
- Explore the range of OA books and publishers currently supported by the OBC.
