Open Book Collective Development Fund to support Open Access scholarly books

The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the second call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This fund is to support:

1. Creating and supporting infrastructures and/or workflows for the distribution, cataloguing and/or preservation of Open Access scholarly books
2. Building and sustaining networks and advocacy for the support of OA scholarly books and infrastructure
3. Projects building capacity for scholarly OA book publishing

In this 2025 round, the Fund intends to award at least one grant of up to £15,000 and 2–5 grants of up to £7,500 for projects with a duration of up to 1 year. Applications are accepted in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. The deadline for applications is 17 March 2025.

For more information and application forms click here.