Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄 We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share! 👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀 #OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture

Reflections from 2025 💭 This year (you saved me from tears) #OtF has gone from strength to strength 💪 We welcomed two new presses to the programme 🤝 @michiganstateu.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social With another being announced in the New Year 🤫 👉 www.openingthefuture.net

🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/

The University of Limerick subscribes to Opening the Future at CEU Press via IReL https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/

Happy to announce @unioflimerick.bsky.social has supported @ceu-press.bsky.social's OtF programme, after it was hosted by @irelibrary.bsky.social. We and the Press are really grateful to both the library at Limerick, and to IReL for facilitating this! ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library ✍️ @simonxix.com #BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇 Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback Sobering but inspiring!

We'll be back this afternoon at 1-2PM GMT ⏰ Please do register and attend 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ac7b1...

Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️ ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs 🔗

We're all super lovely we promise 😇

Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.

TODAY 👇

The team are back from #Munin2025 Their presentations are available to view /download via our Zenodo Community 🖥️ @openbookcollective.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/83LSXMu @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca 👉 buff.ly/6IKKASS

Lots of tickets left, both online and in person (London, UK) 🎫

What's new on #CopimCompass 🧭 This month we're focusing on Book 09. Open Book Accessibility There's so much new content thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/naVbu2T Photo: @felirbe on Unsplash #Accessibility #eBooks 1/6

The 9am session is just starting, but there's still time to sign up for second session 1-2pm (GMT) 👇

You lucky people - not one but TWO opportunities to hear us speak on the same day! 🗣️

The last of our spotlights on Opening the Future authors - we hope you've enjoyed them! 🗣️ Dr. Tess C. Rankin tessrankin.com 📚 Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction (2024) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔆 🗣️ Prof. @deanallbritton.bsky.social (Colby College) 📚 Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (2023) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

We'll be there talking about #CopimCompass 🧭

Next we have @kirahopkins.bsky.social | Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer for @openingthefuture.bsky.social | Birkbeck, University of London 👉 copim.pub/open-access-...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 📸 🗣️ Daniel Ferreira da Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) 📚 Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures (2022) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/empire-f...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔦 🗣️ Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social (Visiting Fellow, UCL) 📚 Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/jurisdic...

All this week we're shining a spotlight on authors who have published #OpenAccess thanks to Opening the Future 🔦 Five authors tell us ❓more about their books ❓why they published #OA and what the experience was like ❓whether they'd recommend the process to others and/or pursue it again 1/2

[BLOG] @scholtom.bsky.social shares his thoughts in a 2-part guest post on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social 1️⃣ Bonfire of the Humanities: Publishing Challenges, Opportunities, and Open Access buff.ly/ofK2Zl0 2️⃣ Viable Alternatives to Book Processing Charges (BPCs) buff.ly/HwLMXkS #FeedingTheElephant

Finally we have Michigan University Press, the scholarly publishing arm of @michiganstateu.bsky.social Their African and Diaspora Studies Package contains 65 titles from across MSUP’s well-regarded lists on African and Diaspora studies Find out more 💡https://msup.openingthefuture.net/ 4/4

Next up is @ceu-press.bsky.social They publish English language books from & about Central / Eastern Europe Subjects include: 🔹Politics, History, Economics 🔹Gender studies 🔹Jewish studies 🔹Cultural Studies 🔹Medieval studies 🔹Post-communism Find out more 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net 3/4

Fresh preprint from @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I: From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing zenodo.org/records/1754... (We have some ideas of where to submit...)

Shining a light on the presses who publish via OtF 🔆 @livunipress.bsky.social offers subscription/membership access to 2 Hispanic Studies backlist series of monographs, using the subs to produce new #OA monographs, freely accessible to all! Visit their site 👉 lup.openingthefuture.net 2/4

Have you heard about our new Opening the Future program? We're proud to be expanding open access publishing in a sustainable way, ensuring that more high-quality content can be made accessible globally. buff.ly/0G8gi5k #OpenAccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social

Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...

Lots of interesting stuff in here and can't help but notice that it's a bit of a @copim.bsky.social Community Takeover! 🔥Loads of topical blogs from colleagues & partners incl: @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @openlibhums.org

Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️‍🔥 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝 👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/... #chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs

Today we launch our new Opening the Future (OtF) program: a partnership model funding equitable and sustainable open access. Learn more: buff.ly/vYJO8QN #chsconf2025 #library #openaccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @chashub.bsky.social

So pleased to see this go live! When we first launched OtF with two pilot presses in 2021 (shoutout to @ceu-press.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social for being early adopters!) we hoped other scholarly publishers would take up the model to fund more OA books. That is now happening... (1/2)

[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔 @kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians 👉 buff.ly/2iEJ3YZ @uksg.bsky.social

Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀 Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London [or online] 🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Panel discussion chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social and featuring 🔸@kirahopkins.bsky.social 🔸@rupertgatti.bsky.social 🔸@joedeville.bsky.social 🔸@joannaball.bsky.social 🔸@theblochian.bsky.social #CopimCommunity 🤝

We're nearing the end of International #OAWeek 2025! But there's still lots in the diary 📆 Check out our curated list of events we think will be of interest to #CopimCommunity 👉 buff.ly/g7YE1jM 1/5

For a small press publishing in a specialist area, the OtF model works really well to help CEU Press move towards being fully #openaccess on their frontlist. Contact us if you want to know more!

Hi 👋 Did you know that members pay a small annual fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a closed selection of the @ceu-press.bsky.social backlist, with perpetual access after three years 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ Find out more 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net

Lots going on this #OAweek with @copim.bsky.social and elsewhere - see below for a comprehensive list of events, including this afternoon's @oipassoc.bsky.social symposium!

If you're in #Barcelona for #DCMI2025 go and find @thoth-metadata.bsky.social

Lots going on this OA week with Copim and elsewhere - see below for a comprehensive list of events, including this afternoon's @oipassoc.bsky.social symposium! Also nested is my OA week interview (mostly in the form of a rant on collective funding and the issues it faces...)

Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍 Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team 🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD #OAWeek 1/4

Absolutely great news, congratulations all! OBC is helping presses fund new OA books through an equitable model - well worth supporting.

[EVENT] SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference for #OAWeek Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing' 📆 21 October ⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT 📍 Online 🔗

Hot off the press 🔥 Major new report from @openbookcollective.bsky.social exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for #OpenAccess books 📚 Based on interviews with participants from Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland & Sweden 🗣️

Great news 🎉 And you find out who else is part of the Opening the Future programme at CEU Press on their website 🔗 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/