Within Open Access publishing, processing is usually used to refer to the transformation of scholarly work into a product, as for example in the Book or Article Processing Charge. However, inspired by an attention to diverse forms of relationality in various traditions in the social sciences and humanities, including (but not limited) to process philosophy, this presentation explores the more varied potential of processing in open access publishing. Its particular focus is OA books, examining the way in which the soon to be launched Open Book Collective is an OA infrastructure that puts relations into play that extend far beyond the often increasingly tenuous relations that can connect a scholar to their academic products.

Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.