My thoughts on AI in relation to AHSS scholarship? Well, I have a universal answer tattooed on my hand for such folly.

@janeharvell.bsky.social explaining how important having a clear value pitch for the library and open press is in a time of university cuts and contraction. And that an OA press has such clear value. #OIPA2026

The preliminary programme for OASPA Annual Conference is out! We spy @kirahopkins.bsky.social discussing the many faces of sustainability in #OA 🔗 buff.ly/ypTLS0X #OASPA2026 #CopimCommunity oaspa.bsky.social

A total abuse of the concept of "academic freedom" and the right to expression. It's supposed, in my view, to be the freedom to express controversial or radical ideas without threat to your employment. Scholarly kitchen troll bait, I know. But hey.

And if you're interested in exploring this topic more, check out our plenary session at #UKSG2026 Recording now available to registered participants via underline.io/events/529/r... 📽️ @uksg.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social

From mission to market: a case study & analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing ✍️ Hot off the press from SJOR @kjsanders.eurosky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/XpAknij #CopimCommunity

Really pleased this has now come out! It's almost a year to the day since the announcement by T&F/AUP sparked this piece. The recent Emerald acquisition by Wiley, and the shareholder-centering language used by their CEO around it, add yet another context to the paper and the points we've made.

The latest from #UKSGInsights: Interdisciplinary collaboration for open research: reflections by Graduate Engagement Leads by Katie Vernon, Yorgos Paschos and Luqman Muraina from @uoylibrary.bsky.social dub.sh/UFKM2yf

I nearly lost it tbh - this panel did not deserve a slightly farcical soundtrack (provided, ironically enough, by a student event)

www.researchinformation.info/news/wiley-a... 'Emerald materially strengthens both [AI and research]...adding a high-margin, recurring revenue stream that we expect to drive meaningful shareholder value.' This attitude should have no place in research dissemination. Instead, it largely drives it 🫠

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Thanks for sharing @uolpress.bsky.social 😀 I've compiled Diamond OA book publishing options for authors who want to publish OA, but aren't in a position to pay a BPC. Please share with any interested authors you know - and please tell me if I'm missing any, I'm sure I am! zenodo.org/records/2028...

Happy to report that @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, and I returned the proofs for our forthcoming article in the Scottish Journal of Open Research today! (Big thanks to @kk-irsty.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social etc.)

Developed as part of the @copim.bsky.social Open Book Futures, #CopimCompass is now a community resource - please do contribute and help it grow 🌱 @kirahopkins.bsky.social

The #OxFOS recordings are now available, so you can go and watch @danrdmnn.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social talk around open access :) ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Disappointingly this whole session appears to be about complaining about shadow libraries rather than discussing how we actually protect against cyberattacks: investing in in-house IT, building robust infrastructures, using more secure open source software rather than proprietary software. #UKSG2026

It is a little surprising that the vast majority of this session so far - which is listed as broadly on cyber security in the context of the British library incident - is on how dangerous and nefarious SciHub is.

Can't imagine what may have caused this very worrying increase in the last few years

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 😀

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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 😎

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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...

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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

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