Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 4 – 5pm GMT
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As well as the recording above, please find panelists slides and responses to unanswered questions & links to resources.
Following our deep-dive into Subscribe to Open, Wayfinders #5 is an exploration of collective action models enabling open access for books and monographs without the need for Book Processing Charges (BPCs).
Whether named as members, supporters, partners, investors or others, collective library action is funding open content across many book publishers. This session gathers publisher perspectives from Europe, UK and USA on how they open, and why they open, as well as what’s at stake if we can’t open books in ways that include all scholars.
Join us for a conversation where ‘mixed model’ enables full open access; where human stories of transformation are evident, where R&D is a part of the open publishing story, and where huge and tiny organisations are finding inclusive ways to deliver open access for books, chapters and monographs. We will discuss:
Please visit the links above to read about these four models.
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Lucy Barnes is Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers, a leading non-profit, scholar-led Open Access book publisher based in Cambridge, UK. She also works on outreach for the Copim Open Book Futures project and is on the board of the ScholarLed collective. She coordinates the Open Access Books Network (oabooksnetwork.org) in collaboration with OAPEN, OPERAS, and SPARC Europe, and she is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit.
Bluesky: @alittleroad.bsky.social
Dr Frances Pinter is Director of Academic Relations for the Central European University Press and Amsterdam University Press. She was formerly CEO of Manchester University Press. She was the founding Publisher of Bloomsbury Academic and the founder of Knowledge Unlatched, with a particular interest in developing sustainable OA business models. Previously she was Publishing Director at the Open Society Institute where she established EIFL. Before that she ran her own publishing company, Pinter Publishers. She is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics.
Emily Farrellis Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis. She works with institutions around the work to develop partnerships that support open access and open research practices. She previously worked in sales and editorial roles for the MIT Press and De Gruyter. Her interest in open research comes from a background in applied linguistics research. In 2024 she co-authored a book, Life in a New Language, that used data sharing to examine the lived experiences of migration and language learning.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyjfarrell
Bluesky: @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social
Charles Watkinson is Director of University of Michigan Press, a medium-sized scholarly publisher that publishes 100 books a year – mostly humanities monographs. Charles is also Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan Library, where he has administrative responsibility for institutional repositories, publishing services, research data services, special collections, and preservation. He is a recent past president of the Association of University Presses, was an initiator of the Library Publishing Coalition, has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and is on the Board of the OAPEN Foundation. All these honorifics mean that Charles has been around a while. He participates in a program called “Fossil Fitness” at the gym.
Bluesky: @charleswatkinson.bsky.social
LinkedIn: @charles-watkinson-7553a257
X: @charleswatkinso
Malavika Legge is OASPA’s Program Manager, leading a range of activities that support OASPA’s mission. With roots in commissioning and editorial development, and extensive STM publishing experience, Malavika has a love for harnessing workflows and technology on the one hand, and galvanising people and communities on the other, to help deliver open access to scholarly content. Malavika dreams of a world where scholarly publishing means open access publishing – by default, for everyone. She is creator of the Wayfinders sessions, and author of OASPA’s series on Equity in Open Access.
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