Applications Invited for OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme

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About the Organization

The Open Book Collective’s Information Hub is a repository of important documents relating to the OBC such as the OBC Membership Application, Governance Documents, Code of Conduct, OBC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Statement, etc. The Information Hub also hosts toolkits for OA publishers in progress.

The Open Book Collective (OBC) is a not-for-profit collective comprised of OA book publishers, scholarly librarians, and OA infrastructure providers. We support sustainable infrastructures that make high-quality OA monographs more widely published; more readily available to libraries and other end users, to and return reliable, demonstrable value to institutions wishing to support OA. We are committed to working together across the landscape of the open knowledge commons to enable a more sustainable future for open-access (OA) book-length and long-form scholarship.

About the Fund

The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the inaugural call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund.

One of the key aims of the Open Book Collective is to support publishers, infrastructure providers and other organizations to build capacity to increase the quantity, quality and diversity of Open Access books. One way it does this is by awarding grants from its Collective Development Fund.

The Collective Development Fund is funded from two sources: directly, from funders, as well as from our publisher and service provider members. The Open Book Collective allocates 5% of the Supporter Programme revenue received from subscribers to the Collective Development Fund.

With this call, we are pleased to announce the official launch of the fund, with applications for projects of no more than 12 months, with grants available of between £7,500 and £15,000. We expect Collective Development Fund calls to be repeated annually.

This fund is to support:

• Work towards the publication of Open Access scholarly books*
• Work on the creation and support of infrastructures for the distribution, cataloguing and preservation of Open Access scholarly books
• Building and sustaining networks and advocacy for the support of OA scholarly books and infrastructure
• Other projects building capacity for scholarly OA book publishing

Eligibility

Applicants should ensure that proposed projects are eligible for funding, as follows:

• This fund is open to applicants anywhere in the world, except for individuals or countries affected by UK sanctions or banking restrictions, including Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Republic, Crimea, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Donetsk Peoples Republic, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Lugansk Peoples Republic, Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Russia, Venezuela, and Yemen
• Both new and established initiatives are welcome to apply
• Applicants must be at least 18 years of age
• Individuals, teams and organizations are all eligible to apply. Teams and organizations must nominate a main contact person on the application form
• Grants may be held alone or in conjunction with other funding. Other sources of funding must be declared as part of the application
• Applicants should submit no more than one application in each Call
• OBC members are permitted to apply
• OBC staff, including employees and current contractors, are not permitted to apply
• For-profit enterprises are not eligible for funding
• Applicants must apply in one of three specified languages: English, Portuguese, or Spanish.

In addition, proposed projects should meet at least some of the following criteria:

• Contributing towards open source outputs / initiatives
• Enabled for maximal re-use
• Community-led
• Supporting non-commercial work / initiatives

How to Apply

Applications should be submitted at this link as a single document, no later than 21:00 UTC (22:00 BST / 23:00 CEST) on Friday May 31.

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