Morning #UKSG2026 plenary about the Big 5 negotiations. I would love to see Jisc’s energies going into supporting collective funding and community-based publishing alternatives, alongside (preferably instead of!) inequitable negotiations with commercial behemoths. But that’s just me. 🤷‍♀️

It was such a pleasure to take part in this plenary at #UKSG2026 to talk about university presses, and the permeable boundaries between them and other publisher types. It was great to hear not just from my fellow panelists but the many commenters from the audience!

'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference' In this post, @alittleroad.bsky.social summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here! 👉 copim.pub/exploring-th... #OAbooks #OpenAccess

What a fantastic event to have been involved with! Catch up with the session we curated - Where is collective funding for open access monographs going? - with @scholtom.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @tweeterbarr.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social

It was fantastic to participate in this event in January hosted by @uclpress.bsky.social - I hope it was a productive session for attendees, and look forward to seeing how any future collaborations and discussions play out.

Come find us at the coffee break if you want to chat collective funding and diamond OA 😀

Accessibility Conversations: White Horse Press | Copim https://copim.pub/accessibility-conversations-white-horse-press/

I hope you will lob this into the discussion at the @uksg.bsky.social conference session on university presses that I'm participating in - definitely relevant to that discussion too!

Always nice when librarians thank you for saying what they feel they cannot through institutional pressure.

Thank you for your kind words! We loved hearing about the work you're doing at Utrecht to reframe and push back at some of the more troubling paradigms of schol Comms/publishing. Exciting times there 😄 #OXFOS26

We'll be at #UKSG2026 later this month! 📆 30 Mar - 1 Apr Join us for Plenary 1 to discuss 'A fox in the henhouse? University presses, corporate takeovers, and implications for the future of scholarly books' 🦊 @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social

We're back on the road (or rails) again! 🚆 Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS ✍️ Helping researchers navigate ‘open’: communities and reforms 📆 Weds 4 March 🕰️ 15.30–17.00 🔗 buff.ly/wKNtmqL

We now have more open infrastructures and open access publishers (born diamond OA) but we have a funding crisis in libraries (due to broader HE funding crisis) #CopimConference

Lots of team Copim are heading down to London today to set up for the #CopimConference tomorrow! We're excited for brilliant panels & insightful discussions as we think together about what's next for community-led #OAbooks. More info 👉️ buff.ly/Rrn1uhN Follow the conversation with #CopimConference

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

As a reminder RELX have financial, operational, and strategic ties to Palantir: theintercept.com/2019/11/14/i... Libraries continue to fund & service the global surveillance apparatus. This is probably not what Illich had in mind when he described the library as "the prototype of a convivial tool.

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 😁