Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers

Judith Fathallah (2023). Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers: Values, Practices, Barriers. Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs. COPIM. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.e6fcb523

• Short title: Governing Scholar-Led OA Book Publishers

This report, created for Work Package 4 of the COPIM project, explores the processes by which six small scholar-led publishers (members of the ScholarLed Consortium) govern their initiatives. It includes an exploration of the theoretical and practical issues involved in governing a small OA press and six interviews with publishers. Its particular usefulness for small and scholar-led presses is how it documents some of the real practical struggles experienced by smaller Open Access publishers and how these were addressed, as well as the resources, links to templates and guidance specific to governance it provides.