The whole OtF team will be around at the @independentpublishersguild.com conference all day. Come find us if you want a chat about OA book funding and business models!

Come and join us (in person or remotely) for what we hope will be a very interesting set of sessions!

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

Really looking forward to this opportunity to give researchers the necessary information to take ownership of their work, and to exert their rights!

Congratulations to @unioflimerick.bsky.social who has just subscribed to Central European University Press' Opening the Future programme via IReL! Our members have access to a range of opt-in Diamond OA offers: ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/ @weareceu.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social

Thanks for letting us at OtF scrape, we had a lovely time 😎

Who is going to #UKSGForum2025 tomorrow? Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social at 15.05 to find out more about #CopimCompass 🧭 The comprehensive #OA monograph and scholarly communication resource developed by Copim ⚒️ Get ahead of the game with some pre-reading 👉 buff.ly/AmjdgZ2 @uksg.bsky.social

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

[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

This great article is - rightly - garnering a lot of responses from academics. Many voice outrage, a call for regulation of the market etc. But this is somewhat of an abrogation of duty! Both 'Strain' and 'Drain' cover the Big 5 - there is a wide, rich publishing ecosystem outside of them. 1/2

In my defence, it's what the voters want...

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

5 years of @clppng.bsky.social's Visions of Bodies Being Burned! “Like the films of Jordan Peele or Bong Joon Ho, Clipping uses speculative fiction to reflect the cruelty of contemporary reality.” - NYT

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

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

INCENTIVE @kirahopkins.bsky.social will be sharing more about #CopimCompass 🧭 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/introduc...

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...)

Looking forward to participating, and to the two other papers during this panel!

1/ We are extremely happy to announce that Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (ECF), or Venice University Press, has joined the Open Book Collective, taking the total number of publisher members to 15. ECF is a fully #OpenAccess publisher openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/edizioni...

Not a good look from the publisher here - yes the book is still freely accessible on JSTOR and OAPEN, but on the publisher site the only option is to buy an ebook - or even better to rent it....

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

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.

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!

Super awesome job working in Diamond OA. #OpenAccess #jobs

JOB OPPORTUNITY! 📢 Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as Community Engagement Lead More info online ▶️

Really glad that my colleagues at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social are finalists for the ALPSP innovation award - it's well deserved! Thoth's infrastructure is foundational. After all, increasing the amount of scholarship published openly is only useful if they are findable!

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!

📢One week to go! Don't forget to register for the workshop led by @kjsanders.bsky.social & @kirahopkins.bsky.social as they explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess books in #OpenScience 📖 🔗Register here: shorturl.at/exbqY

Save the date: "We Are Enough: Practical Open Access for Everyone" panel session as part of #OAweek 2025 at @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Libraries with @samuelmoore.org @sarahlamdan.bsky.social and @petersuber.bsky.social Oct 23rd 2025 4PM in the UK psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Open%2...

The @copim.bsky.social team are at stand D07 for all discussions on and around community-led open access books :) #bibliocon25

Join us! #bid25 #bibliothekskongress

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

Joining @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social for this webinar "Beyond Buying Books: Rethinking Content Acquisitions in Unstable Times" Does #openaccess offer an alternative to closed content, and can we sustain and develop equitable models to achieve it? 📚🔓🧵

Our @thoth-metadata.bsky.social colleague Toby is enthralling the booth visitors about open metadata 😁

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 !

[NEW BLOG] Copim, intellectual privacy, and open access @kjsanders.bsky.social @simonxix.com‬ investigate the links between #OpenAccess #Publishing and digital privacy through integrating the Tor infrastructure into open publishing infrastructures 👉 buff.ly/v64WtNF

Really excited about this one! Both @scholtom.bsky.social and myself are really looking forward to working with MSU Press on this. We're happy to facilitate them to publish more of their African Studies titles open access 😀

It was a pleasure to go to the @courtauld.bsky.social to speak to authors & librarians about open access, licencing and third party copyright!

Really pleased to see this new free training course on #OpenAccess launched, developed by @uolpress.bsky.social for the new RESHAPED platform 🎉 🙌 For humanities students, researchers, research office staff and anyone who wants to find out more about OA - please share and find out more below ⬇️

@openbookcollective.bsky.social do great work (and are a nice bunch of people!)

You, the beautiful walk, and the interesting OA discussions were *entirely* superceded by all the animals I can't lie 😹

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

This is great to see - D2O is a solid model and its good to see MIT collaborating with other university presses - particularly in these times, working together (and with libraries who fund these books) is wise. We at @openingthefuture.bsky.social look forward to seeing more details!

NEW POST: by Wendy Taylor at @salforduni.bsky.social on the Trailblazers #OpenAccess books programme for ECRs Find out how Trailblazers fits into Salford's open content strategy, how it supports authors, & how authors have responded: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/05/08/t... #OAbooks

This sobering interview is on a similar theme to our recent post about the importance of #OpenAccess for academic freedom and resistance to censorship: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

Great to see our colleagues @wrunipress.bsky.social included alongside many other fantastic Library Success Stories in the #CopimCompass 📖 🧭

I've enjoyed working on Copim Compass over the past few months. It's been a good opportunity to take stock of OA book resources and read through a few reports that have been on my TBR list for a bit. We're always on the lookout for more resources - drop me a line if you think something's missing!

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📢 New post tracing our joint efforts to foster collaboration between like-minded open not-for-profit infrastructurs for #OAbooks (incl. @pkp.sfu.ca, @oapenbooks.bsky.social, @doabooks.bsky.social, @operaseu.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social) copim.pubpub.org/pub/seeding-...