Open Book Collective1/9 We are very pleased and excited to announce our first Call for Applications to our #CollectiveDevelopmentFund. The call and guidance is available in English, Spanish, & Portuguese, all via this link: https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-collective-development-fund-grant-programme-2024-call--guidance
2/9 In this round, the OBC #CollectiveDevelopmentFund will fund up to five projects, for budgets of between £7,500 and £15,000. Applications are open until May 31, and we are offering an optional scope check for outline ideas until May 10.
3/9 This fund is to support work towards the publication of #OABooks; the creation and support of infrastructures for their distribution, cataloguing and preservation; building and sustaining networks and advocacy for the support of OA scholarly books and infrastructure; and other projects building capacity for OA book publishing
4/9 Part of the aim of the Fund is to build capacity and bibliodiversity in #OpenAccess book publishing. We particularly encourage applications from small and medium publishers/infrastructure providers. We also are keen to fund projects working beyond the Global North and/or working to support non-Anglophone publishing.
5/9 Designing this call has been a collaborative process with our stakeholder communities. We are particularly grateful to @sparc Europe for their input into the design of the call and @investinopen for sharing their experience as well as a range of relevant resources
6/9 We would also like to thank participants at our scoping workshops, including African Minds; Digital Preservation Coalition, Directory of Open Access Books, OAPENBooks, Knowledge Futures, meson press, @langscipress, OA Books Network
7/9 As well as OpenEdition, OPERAS, Opening the Future, @OpenBookPublish , Public Knowledge Project, punctum books, University of Cape Town Press, University of London Press, University of Westminster Press, White Horse Press, along with the respondents of our survey. Read our report on this scoping work https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collective-development-fund-grant-programme-scoping-update/
8/9 The first two #CollectiveDevelopmentFund calls are being funded by Arcadia Fund & Research England, via the @copim Community and Open Book Futures project. Future calls are already being funded by a portion of the revenue we receive from our Supporter Programmes https://openbookcollective.org/cms/fixed_page/funding_model/
9/9 We are excited to receive your applications and ideas, and to continue to work together towards an equitable, sustainable and diverse future for scholarly OA books. Please do get in touch if you have any questions