📢ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢A fifth publisher launches an OtF programme today! Step forward Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) Publishing House! Founded in 1971 as the publishing arm of a Swiss research library, they publish scholarly works on, and from, Southern Africa and Namibia. (1/2)

Preparing, Reviewing & Fixing Versions: Editorial Work in ‘Database as Book’ Our new blog details reflections on editing & peer review - sparked by conversation ahead of the workshop "Extending Knowledge & Publishing Infrastructures in & from Africa" (8-9 Dec , 2025) Read more ▶️ buff.ly/AUCbzjy

Join us @independentpublishersguild.com Spring Conference next week! @kirahopkins.bsky.social @bethanylogan.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social will discuss the future of #OA funding in academic #Publishing 🔮 📆 11 Feb. 📍 The Shaw Theatre, London (+ online) 🔗 tinyurl.com/2wyyywyk #IPGSC

Thanks to @irelibrary.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social is supporting @ceu-press.bsky.social participation in #OtF the for 3 years (2026-2028)! ➡️ Funding #OA book publication AND allowing UL access to selected CEU closed content #WinWin #OpenAccess #Monographs #DiamondOA

💡 Got an idea that can make a difference? This is YOUR chance to secure funding and help shape the future of #OA books! Full details & guidance on @openbookcollective.bsky.social website 🔗 buff.ly/N8dqhJE #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #FundingOpportunity #OBC #CDF26 1/5

‼️Reminder: Our CDA is happening tomorrow! Building Open Science Communities in the Arabic-speaking World (Arabic) 4 Feb 2026 | 13:00 GST | Online 🔗Register now and don't miss it: shorturl.at/rbuDf See you tomorrow! #OpenScience #ArabRegion

The deadline to register for an in person ticket to #CopimConference is 8 February 2026 ⏳

⏰ The deadline to apply is Sunday 1 February

Want to know more about the #CopimConference programme? Details of Day One are over on our LinkedIn page Check it out now 👀 buff.ly/pe3QHsc Photo: Jon Schnobri via Unsplash

📢 New subscribing member to @ceu-press.bsky.social Opening the Future programme! Thanks for the library’s investment! @bulac.bsky.social (BULAC) 🤝 ▶️ Staff & students now have unlimited AND concurrent access to nearly 250 different eBooks Full announcement 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/167/

New #OpenScience resource! #CreativeCommons licenses answer a simple but crucial question: what am I allowed to do with this work? Learn how they support sharing, reuse, & collaboration in Open Science without losing control👇 🔗: shorturl.at/jKlZw

Looking back on 2025 with @openingthefuture.bsky.social annual report Our participating publishers doubled, creating more #OA routes for authors and richer backlist content for libraries ✨ @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social Read on 👉

[CATCH UP] @kirahopkins.bsky.social shares her experiences of presenting to @forumforopen.bsky.social last year during #OAWeek Just one thread in a growing relationship between ourselves and #OpenAccess #Publishing in the Middle East & North Africa 🌱 Find out more 👉

📣 New JiscMail list for small publishers! Help grow the community! 🌱 Join us for open, supportive discussions on accessibility challenges and good practice Search [email protected] 👉 buff.ly/b1eJBdE Photo: Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash

One week to go until #CharlestonAsia! @chashub.bsky.social If you're there, join @nielsstern.bsky.social on the panel 'Open Access Books in Aisa - What's the Status?' with pannelists from Nepal and India 🌏 Full conference agenda 👉 buff.ly/j5VuHAw

Did you know you can apply for an expenses paid trip to #UKSG2026? UKSG is sponsoring a number of places, and Jove is sponsoring an additional place for an early career library professional. Check it out here: dub.sh/zXgew9r and please share far and wide!

A reminder about the @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund which is open to new applications until 7 March 2026 👇 #CDF #OBC #OABooks

📢 Announcing a Major Update to the Thoth Platform 📢 We are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Thoth 1.0, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of its open metadata infrastructure for #OA book publishing 🎆🎆🎆 Read more in our latest blog post: thoth.pub/blog/10.7095...

🆕The #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast's back in 2026! @nickshepp.bsky.social talks to @jsendall.bsky.social about his career in academic libraries culminating in his recent appointment as Acting Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social.

Amazing 🤩 We're leading a session on 'Where is collective funding for open access monographs going?' 💸 #OpenAccess #OA #Funding #Books

🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again. Meet our team:

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...)