Partners

Since 2018, Punctum has been engaged in a partnership with UCSB Library(opens in new tab), in order to develop a non-author-facing fees OA book publishing model that privileges cooperative expertise and knowledge sharing between librarians, knowledge managers, publishers, and scholar-researchers. This partnership has enabled punctum to significantly extend its partner network.

punctum is a member of the Radical OA Collective(opens in new tab). Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective is a community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of over twenty members, ROAC promotes a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

Out of ROAC developed ScholarLed(opens in new tab), a consortium of Open Access Presses bringing together a group of scholar-led academic book publishers, each of which makes its books available to read online for free, on an Open Access basis. punctum co-director Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei was founding chairperson of ScholarLed.

As part of ScholarLed, punctum is also one of the main partners in the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)(opens in new tab) and Open Books Futures projects, which in turn has given rise to the Open Book Collective(opens in new tab), which brings together OA publishers, OA publishing infrastructure providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive ecosystem for the thriving of OA book publishing, and Thoth Open Metadata(opens in new tab), and open-source metadata manager and distribution platform tailored specifically to OA books.