Introducing the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – A community call co-hosted by LPC and LPCET
Date: March 9, 2026
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET
The Open Journals Collective (OJC) is an international collective of libraries, scholarly societies, and small non-profit publishers working to advance support for diamond open access publishing at no cost to authors or readers. In January 2026, the OJC officially launched its first call for investment offering libraries and funders the opportunity to join in directly supporting diamond scholarly journals. The mission of OJC is to build a sustainable future for scholarly journals by challenging the profit-making models of global corporate publishing and data systems.
Join us on March 9 at 12:00 pm ET to hear from Caroline Edwards, Executive Director of the Open Library of Humanities and Open Journals Collective and (Full) Professor of Contemporary Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, about this exciting new initiative.
This community call is co-hosted by the Library Publishing Coalition and the CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team.
About the CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team
The CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team (LPCET), established in 2024, seeks to support Canadian library publishing practitioners in their functional roles and to grow Canadian expertise and capacity in this area.
About the Library Publishing Coalition
The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) is an independent, community-led membership association of academic and research libraries and library consortia engaged in scholarly publishing. LPC facilitates collaboration across the library publishing community and actively engages with aligned organizations, publishers, and service providers to strengthen and expand library-based publishing.