Join @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social for more #Books chat, but with beers 📚🍻

Excited to carry on the conversation after presenting to @forumforopen.bsky.social earlier this year! 👉 copim.pubpub.org/pub/k34uh3g7...

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

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

‼️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

We're on the programme three times on Thursday 18 September 📆 And if you'd like to continue the conversation, join us at Konzil for #CopimCorner We'll be there from 6pm onwards 🍻 👉 buff.ly/ifPm7lM

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

📣 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!

Fingers (and toes) crossed for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🤞

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors' 📆 Tuesday 30 September ⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p... #OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

OA books in the Middle East and North Africa: Copim and FORM Read all about our recent outreach with @forumforopen.bsky.social (an #OA advocacy group and community of practice) 🔗

I'm going to the #Alpsp25 conference in Manchester tomorrow. Let me know if you're going and would like to find some time to chat about @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, @openbookpublish.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, the Open Journals Collective, or #OABooks generally 😀

We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with @livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉 🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63 🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh

Bookmark this Shelf to see the Opening the Future implementation toolkit 👇📚 compass.copim.ac.uk/shelves/open...

Not long to go until they find out! 🤞

📣 Save the date! Join us 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!

TL:DR ✨Over 100 libraries now subscribe to OtF packages ✨Since its inception, OtF has raised over £500K for its presses = funding for over 70 #OA books (half of which have been published, the other half to be published in the coming years!)

Hot off the press 🔥 New special issue of @jepub.bsky.social on Publishing & Climate Justice, edited by our colleague Janneke Adema! 🔗 buff.ly/hdoMPIN Want to know more? Read this 🧵 buff.ly/FNQEOR7

DON'T FORGET: register for Collective Infrastructures for Publishing, a hybrid event exploring the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book project 📆 Sat 4 Oct, 12:30–18:00 BST 📍 Online & Borough Road Gallery, London Programme: buff.ly/n22lvif Register: buff.ly/2O7aFqE (Click "Register" at top of page)

We really enjoyed presenting at @forumforopen.bsky.social last month Read our blog post about it now! 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/k34uh3g7...

Our @openingthefuture.bsky.social programme is included with several opt-in Diamond offers to IReL members! 🥳 Find out more 👉 buff.ly/849a0BS @ioap.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

See you all at 10am tomorrow for our next panel on building equitable, inclusive and bibliodiverse publishing ecosystems with @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social from @copim.bsky.social, Hannah Hillen from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, and @samuelmoore.org #OpenFest25

Hear from authors who have published #OpenAccess thanks to @openingthefuture.bsky.social 👏 They explain why publishing #OpenAccess was so important, the benefits and demystify the process. 1/4

Any feedback on our books can also be sent directly to [email protected] 📥

We have three books on #CopimCompass 1️⃣ Introduction and Description 2️⃣ Financial modelling 3️⃣ Workflows, partners & marketing

I spy some of our flyers! 👀

Read all our author profiles on copim.pubpub.org 👇

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Great to see real impact from authors who have benefited directly from OA funding via OtF members 😍

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭 The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡 ✅ Accessibility knowledge base ✅ Planning models ✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy 🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope... 1/3

Fantastic news: @lselibrary.bsky.social joins as a subscribing OtF member with perpetual, DRM-free access to 50 books on Political Science in Central & Eastern Europe with CEU Press 🙌 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/152/. Simultaneously boosting their local collection + funding new OA frontlist books

Incredibly frustrating title to this article 'OA economic model branded ‘fundamentally broken’ by Jisc' what they mean (and say in the article) is TA's don't work, not OA "https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-open-access-2025-7-open-access-economic-model-branded-fundamentally-broken/

More good news 😍 We're really excited to be working with the NUPs on this project to establish a consortial catalogue shared by all participating publishers. The catalogue is being built using Thoth's customisable publisher website template (via Strapi) thoth.pub/solutions/ho...

The finalists for @alpsp.bsky.social Impact and Innovation Awards 2025 have been revealed! 🎇 Recognised for their innovation in publishing 👉 @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 👏 Read more (and roll on 11 Sept. when the winners will be revealed!) 🔗

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

Out colleagues over at Thoth are walking the talk on open access. What's the point of OA books if you can't find them because the metadata is not fit for purpose? @thoth-metadata.bsky.social is tackling this & much more on open infra. A truly innovative service that can bring about real change ✊

📢Whoop!📢 Library participation in @livunipress.bsky.social OtF programme has jointly-funded another open access frontlist book! Looking forward to its publication later in the year: Anticolonialism, race and violence in Basque radical nationalism (1892-1936) by Maria Reyes Baztán (1/3)

Thank you @forumforopen.bsky.social it was a pleasure to participate and talk about the history, finance, and infrastructure of OA books! Always happy to do so, and if anyone reading this has any questions from the webinar we didn't get to, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

The @forumforopen.bsky.social workshop that @kirahopkins.bsky.social and OBC's @kjsanders.bsky.social ran earlier was a wonderful opportunity for the @copim.bsky.social community to engage with colleagues across the MENA regions. We look forward to hopefully working together more in the future! :)

This looks like a useful (free) webinar from @jisc.bsky.social www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren... Monday 21 July, 2pm UK time

Drop by booth D07 to chat with Sebastiano Sali, Jordy Findanis & colleagues from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social at the #bibliothekskongress if you're in attendance. @bid25.bsky.social‬ #bid25 #bibliothekenentschlossendemokratisch

This is absolutely tremendous! Great example of collaboration over competition. Working together like this on can support a real alternative schol comm open infrastructure & network. Also props to @kirahopkins.bsky.social for wearing the branded OtF shirt 😻

Anyone at the 9th Bibliokongress in Bremen please go and see our colleagues and say hi!

Plenty of interest in @copim.bsky.social and our various approaches to community-led open access books! (Plus the Thoth tote bags/stickers/lapel badges always catch people's attention!) #biblicon25

Really excited to be attending! Please swing by stand D07 if you have any questions about OA books, OA book funding, and of course @openingthefuture.bsky.social !

Interested in #Publishing #OpenAccess via @openingthefuture.bsky.social‬ Find out more via our author testimonials ‪Daniel Silva 👉 buff.ly/ladsz0B @mgrana.bsky.social‬ 👉 buff.ly/xl6dPvA @drpetewatson.bsky.social ‪ 👉

📢We are so pleased to be able to announce the 3rd Press initiating an OtF programme! Same concept as with the other presses: libraries subscribe to a special package of books (perpetual access after 3 years) & MSUP use those fees to *only* produce new, OA frontlist books! msup.openingthefuture.net

OMG! THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN! @copim.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social we have a code RED repeat CODE RED ❤️😂 Thanks Megan let's do a Glastonbury style ticket selection process?? 😆

Is it possible we crashed the server because it couldn't handle the load of people trying to register?