Find out more about our Experimental Publishing Group on #CopimCompass 🧭 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/13-exp...

Resharing as Anne Houston (Swarthmore College Libraries & Lever Press) is speaking on the #OASPA2025 panel ✏️ The library at the heart of the open access transition 🔗 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITY 🚨 Only 2 days left to get your application in join us as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books! 📆 Closing date 26 Sept 📍 Based @lborouniversity.bsky.social 🗣️ 1 FTE, Fixed Term appointment for 6 months Find out more 👉

The poster session on day 3 of #OASPA2025 featured 2 members of the #CopimCommunity 🧡 @nielsstern.bsky.social talking about @operaseu.bsky.social Special Interest Groups 🧡 @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social sharing the @eudch.bsky.social sustainability toolsuite 🔗 www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...

The next #OASPA2025 panel should be good! Open Access: of what, for what, and why? 🔶Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press 🔶Antia Wiersma, Royal Netherlands Historical Society 🔶John Wilkin, Lyrasis 🔶Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 🔶Sam Moore, Radical Open Access

Lots of the #CopimCommunity are part of the @operaseu.bsky.social SIGS @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social #TeamEffort

NOTES on LinkedIn from Day 2 of #OASPA2025 are * www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk... * www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk... * www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk... * www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

Last day of #OASPA2025 There's still a full programme today including keynote talks, panel discussions & poster lightning talks! Check out the full conference programme 🔗

Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative

The next #OASPA2025 panel is talking our language 👉 Scaling inclusive #OpenAccess models Featuring Juan Pablo Alperin @pkp.sfu.ca @theblochian.bsky.social @openlibhums.org Lauren Kane (BioOne), Kate McCready (Big Ten Academic Alliance & JSTOR Path to Open) #ScalingSmall #Bibliodiversity

LAST CHANCE: The Experimental Publishing Group & ‘ServPub’ team look forward to welcoming you at ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Sat 4 Oct, 12:30–18:00 BST Online & Borough Road Gallery, London Programme: buff.ly/n22lvif Register: buff.ly/2O7aFqE (Go to top of page & click "Register")

Following on nicely from Hannah Hope @wellcometrust.bsky.social is the next panel #OASPA2025 👉 Policy in progress around the world: the role of funder mandates on a 100% OA future

📢JOB KLAXON @pkp.sfu.ca are advertising for a Managing Director 🔗 pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

Hannah Hope from @wellcometrust.bsky.social stressing the importance of #Governance and #Community led / owned scholarly publishing and infrastructures ⚒️

Save the date! Join our friends at @copim.bsky.social in 2026 for their Conference focusing on the future of community-led open access books. 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughbourough University, London campus ⏳ Registration opens soon! Give them a follow and find out more! copim.pub/join-us-for-...

Tackling the problems of getting #OA works into the wider book supply chain TOGETHER 🤝 A sneak preview of @openbookcollective.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @thoth-metadata.bsky.social presentation at #Munin2025 🔗 buff.ly/QI8P6C3 #OpenScience #ScalingSmall #Bibliodiversity

SUMMARY of day 1 #OASPA2025 at www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk... and www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

We're at the beautiful Irish College Leuven, Belgium for #OASPA2025 Programme includes keynote talks, panel discussions, poster lightning talks, and much more! Full conference programme 👉 buff.ly/GaXJyNs And don't forget to follow @oaspa.bsky.social too

But it's not sustainable.... .... is a claim often thrown at #OABooks publishing The panel dispelling this myth and explaining their costs and revenue streams #OASPA25

The parallel panel discussions are up next #OASPA2025 It's time to choose! 📚 What’s the story from fully open access book publishers? 📝 Views from fully open access journals using APCs Find list of speakers & moderators on the @oaspa.bsky.social website 👇

Poster Lightning Talks #OASPA2025 Great to hear @thoth-metadata.bsky.social name checked (and thanked!) by Szilvia Maróthy (L’Harmattan Open Access)

The future of open access is in our hands 🤝 Join us in London (or online) as we explore what is next for community-led open access books 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughbourough University | London campus ⏳ Registration opens soon!

Read all about it 🗞️ Lafayette College becomes first @openingthefuture.bsky.social member with MSU Press 🥳 👉 buff.ly/L7CVkS6 #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OA

On my way to join the @copim.bsky.social team there!

We're at the beautiful Irish College Leuven, Belgium for #OASPA2025 📆 22 – 24 September Programme includes keynote talks, panel discussions, poster lightning talks, and much more! Full conference programme 👉 buff.ly/4cjqhjm And don't forget to follow @oaspa.bsky.social too

Great to hear it was such a wonderful experience See you for #OAT26 ?

We're delighted by Lafayette's decision to support Michigan State University Press' goals around OA book publishing. Their investment in MSUP's Opening the Future programme will enable the Press to publish more of its African & Diaspora Studies frontlist openly, without charging authors fees.

UK > GER > BEL > UK ✈️ Now #OAT25 has finished, it's time to (re)pack our bags for #OASPA25 Full programme 👉

Continue the #OAbooks discussion 🗣️ 📚 The team will be at Konzil for #CopimCorner 🍻 All welcome! ⏰ 6pm onwards 📍 Konzil 🔗

A busy @copim.bsky.social day at OA Tage #OAT25 ends with @kjsanders.bsky.social presenting a paper co-authored with @kirahopkins.bsky.social outlining the problematic outcomes for the scholarly system resulting from entanglements between large commercial publishers, acquisition practices & funders

I'll be speaking online at the #FORM4Open conference on Monday 20 October, on 'Advancing Open Access Books through Community-Driven Collaboration' with my @copim.bsky.social colleague @kirahopkins.bsky.social. Looking forward to kicking off #OAWeek with an excellent conversation!

Like what you've heard so far? Join us this evening for #CopimCorner to continue the #OAbooks discussion 🗣️ 📚 All welcome! 🍻 ⏰ 6pm onwards 📍 Konzil 🔗

Now! Our own @joedeville.bsky.social on "Barriers to collective funding of Diamond Open Access in six European Countries". #oat25

We are also there and happy to join OBC and THOTH at #OATAGE.

Day 2 at University of Konstanz for OA Tage #OAT25, the most important annual event for German language #OpenAccess practitioners. A busy day for @copim.bsky.social, starting with a workshop on Scaling Small with AG Universitätsverlage, inc @kjsanders.bsky.social on @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Lafayette College becomes first @openingthefuture.bsky.social member with MSU Press 🥳🎉 Read more about the announcement on the OtF website 👉 buff.ly/L7CVkS6 #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OA

Join us at #OAT25 TODAY! 👋 We're on the programme 3 times! ⭐ Session 6: Diamond Open Access: Financing ⭐ Session 9: Open Access books ⭐ Workshop 12: Scaling Small in practice Full programme 👉 buff.ly/8j0k8m6

🚨 Job opportunity at @lborouniversity.bsky.social Join the wonderful Open Book Futures project team as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books 🔸 1 FTE, Fixed Term appointment for six months 🔸 Anticipated start date of 1st November 2025 🔗 buff.ly/jbJ3yrQ

So @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social have made it! Come and speak with us about all things open access around books, including infrastructures. @copim.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Any of our followers at #OAT25 🔍 We're on the programme 3 times tomorrow! buff.ly/8j0k8m6 ⭐ Session 6: Diamond OA Financing ⭐ Session 9: OA Books ⭐ Workshop 12: Scaling Small in Practice @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Well, we may not have bagged an #ALPSP25 award but the opportunity to present as a finalist, talk all things #OABookPublishing and meet our @oipassoc.bsky.social colleagues made up for it! Thanks to everyone who dropped by & expressed interest in our commitment to #OpenMetadata🔓

Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an #OA book? Join this FREE online event which brings together researchers funded by @erc.europa.eu to talk about their experiences #OpenAccess #Monographs #Publishing

Travelling to #OAT25 in style! @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🛶

Embracing the Complexity – how do we get to 100% OA? Join us at @oaspa.bsky.social conference next week! 📆 22 – 24 September 🔗 buff.ly/uSqHBj7 Find us to chat about our fave topic - community-led, #OA book publishing! 📚 #OASPA25 #OASPA2025 #OpenAccess

📣 Exciting news! Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers at #CopimConference2026 to explore the future of community-led #OpenAccess books 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University London (plus online) 📲 Registration details will be released soon

‼️Reminder: our next Community Development Activity is coming up: Infrastructures to Support Open Access Books and Journals: @doabooks.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doaj.bsky.social 16 September | 13:00 GST 🔗Register now: shorturl.at/GgpLB #OpenScience

Check out this nice map from @scossfunding.bsky.social visualising their endorsed infrastructures 🗺️ ✅ Smart investments ✅ Shared impact ✅ Strengthening the open infrastructure ecosystem 🔎 I spy @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social on there! 🔗

📣 Save the date! Join @copim.bsky.social to explore the future of community-led #OA books at #CopimConference2026 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University, London (plus online) 📲 More info, including registration details, to follow next month!

We're heading to Germany for #OAT25 ✈️ 📍 University of Konstanz 📆 17-19 September 2025 Registration is now closed but if you're lucky enough to have a ticket, view the full programme 👉 buff.ly/8j0k8m6

At this #ALPSP2025 session on community engagement in academic publishing, @samuelmoore.org & @copim.bsky.social's work on 'scaling small' raised by @kaythaney.bsky.social in response to a question about how to 'scale' community engagement 👏 Find out more: www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/9...