OPEN ACCESS BOOK COLLECTIVE — grant history
Latest income
£375k
Grants listed (FY2025)
5
Listed grants total
£57k
Accounts grants total
£46k
listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts
Application guidance — from the funder’s own website
- How to apply: The Open Book Collective does not accept unsolicited applications. Details of funding calls and eligibility criteria for the Collective Development Fund will be published in due course.
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal University of Technology, Minna | FY2025 | £15k | Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books: Establishing Bookhub, a sustainable platform to empower Nigerian scholars and educators to create, produce, and disseminate high-quality open access books, as well as fostering new collaborations across Academic Publishing Centres in Nigeria's six geopolitical zones. |
| Chinhoyi University of Technology | FY2025 | £15k | Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University of Technology Library: Establishing Zimbabwe's first open access university press at Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe. Building open access publishing capacity, and publishing a series of new high-quality open access books. |
| CLACSO | FY2025 | £12k | Knowledge Accessible to the Community: CLACSO as a Platform to Democratize Scholarly Publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Providing structured training opportunities in the fundamentals of Diamond OA, and creating working spaces that allow knowledge dissemination through an easily accessible and sustainable virtual platform. |
| Radish Press | FY2025 | £8k | The Community Publishing Garden: Creating a model of participatory exchange for publishing practitioners and community members to better serve the forms of knowledge emerging from grassroots communities. |
| Haramaya University | FY2025 | £8k | Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing: Tackling barriers to OA in Ethiopia via policy development, establishing an open access institutional repository at Haramaya University, and drafting national OA policy guidelines to institutionalize best practices. |