WEBINAR | How to make your open access books more accessible (and why it matters) 📍Online & free 🗓️ Monday 27 April, 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST 🔗https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/qpnL-2wxTbuB9abb8-qmww#/registration

Open Journals Collective is here! 🎉🎉🎉

[NEW REPORT] International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters Read more on our website 👉 buff.ly/6Ab7hhf @cilipmdg.bsky.social @uksg.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @operaseu.bsky.social Photo: Jon Snobri via Unsplash

If you care about sustainable Diamond Open Access, 287 journals that don't charge fees to authors or readers are seeking your support. Browse the inaugural collection online (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/).

Tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, our Executive Director, Prof. Caroline Edwards, will speak at Open Access and the Commons, organised by the LSE Open Research Community

NEW POST: 'Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Event' Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:

Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities. VIVE la Diamond OA!

Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷 November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET) unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books Get your ticket now! 🎟️ 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London and online 🔗 buff.ly/sv3I13M #CopimConference

RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share: 📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?... #OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

SALON: At the next ScholarLed Salon we will discuss marketing and outreach. Anyone interested in scholar-led publishing is welcome to join us! 📆 Wednesday 8 October ⏰ 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT The details will be sent via our mailing list -- sign up here: scholarled.org/salon.html

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Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an #OA book? Join this FREE online event which brings together researchers funded by @erc.europa.eu to talk about their experiences #OpenAccess #Monographs #Publishing

GLUE Artist Book Fair & Creative Programme – New at the ICA! 13–14 September 2025 | 12–7 pm (exhibitions until 9 pm) A weekend-long celebration of independent and DIY publishing with over 70 publishers showcasing emergent artist books, zines, and hybrid editions. ica.art/talks/glue-i...

Join us for pt. 3 of a seminar series on Experimental Publishing in Practice: Collaborative & Digital Tools. Organised by @copim.bsky.social's Experimental Publishing Group, the Post-Publishing research strand, HD LAB @ IIBICRIT-CONICET, Paideia Editorial & Thoth. Sept 10, 2pm BST 👉 smplu.link/j0soK

The best of art manifests an ordinary devotion to experiences that become extraordinary given enough care & attention. ~Paul Chan OUT NOW #OpenAccess: Lizzie Olesker & @lynnesachs.bsky.social's HAND BOOK: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry tinyurl.com/um49y59n #laundry

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

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...

"... a timely and powerful collection of Jewish dissent against Zionism and the impact of Israeli statehood on the indigenous Palestinian population ... traces a moral and intellectual tradition of resistance from within the global Jewish community."

The recording of the @copim.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social webinar 'Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' is now available: nag.org.uk/materials/re...

our little book is officially launched, freely downloadable in glorious open access at meson press: meson.press/books/childr...

Choosing open access for books: An author journey 25th June 2025 13:00-14:00 online. Dr. Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University) is the Research Lead for the Open Book Collective. From traditional publishing to choosing a scholar-led OA press. talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ad8...

We're delighted that our author, Michael Hughes, is shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography prize for his book, 'Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life' Huge congratulations to Michael & to the other nominees! Read Michael's book #OpenAccess: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess! @michaelbeltran.bsky.social's THE SINGING DETAINEE shares lesser-known tales about two of the most well-known revolutionary exiles, Jose Maria Sison & Julie de Lima & about a community & history behind their ordeal, weaving it into the Filipino diaspora. tinyurl.com/54envkw7

Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals

Join our Experimental Publishing Group online to explore Markdown writing & publishing workflows for experimental digital monographs Hear more about @simonxix.com experience with Markdown publishing using Juncture 📆 23 May ⏰ 15:00-16:30 CEST Find out more & register 👉

🧵 It's #TeacherAppreciationWeek & we're highlighting Radical #Pedagogy titles from our #OpenAccess catalog. J. Cohen & A. Dalke's STEAL THIS CLASSROOM explores classrooms in prisons, college, high schools & playgrounds as places of danger & opportunity. tinyurl.com/yyj59453 pic.x.com/TQXcPFy62P

Any and all interested in book typesetting, please join our ninth ScholarLed Salon (next Thursday), where member presses gather for informal sharing around a rotating cast of topics—this time on typesetting. May 8, 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l50a1

Neither an introduction nor an attempt to popularize the cultural movement, “a #decolonial manual” offers a transoceanic mosaic of thirty-three pieces guiding readers through the key struggles in current decolonial thinking and action. Coming Fall 2025. tinyurl.com/mrnd4t33 #OpenAccess #books

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

We've published two new blog posts today, reflecting on #OpenAccess, academic freedom & censorship -- one from our team, and another from one of our authors, Ash Lierman. Our team: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac... Ash: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac... #DefendResearch

NYC! This event is for you! Join punctum authors Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte for their Book Launch at Performance Space New York on May 3rd!

We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass 🧭 This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks 🛠️ Learn more & get started today! 🚀 🔗 buff.ly/evuQYdn #OA #Monographs #LaunchDay

📢 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-...

New #OpenAccess Book Drop! When @fckyrbookclub.bsky.social's daughter was diagnosed with diabetes & became dependent on technology, he wanted to know: what does it mean to live as a cyborg & how could he render himself inessential? tinyurl.com/yytr6rhz #disability #cyborgs #illness #diabetes

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our 2024 Highlights! It includes our stats, news about projects, partners, finances & technical developments. Read more about it in this post: www.oapen.org/article/oape... Access the full report: www.oapen.org/article/oape...

Much #GRATITUDE to University of Applied Arts Vienna Library, our newest supporter. This is consortial library funding for #OpenAccess #books 📚 in action! It takes a community & every book punctum publishes is a gift made possible by college & university libraries! 🍾🥳🎉 tinyurl.com/yuztc53s

Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM! WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/

Great to see OBP listed here! This library support -- the funding yes, but also the advocacy about it -- is vital to our work 💪 Many thanks to Sarah and York! #OAbooks #UKSG2025

The press is thrilled to welcome @nataschachtena.bsky.social as our inaugural Publishing Project Manager!

Consider joining us tomorrow for our 8th ScholarLed Salon (a check-in with the good people at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social). Details at the link

OUT NOW: Bregt Lameris’s new open access monograph: Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #filmstudies #mediastudies #colourTheory #colourculture OpenBookPublish.bsky.social

We'll be sharing stand 33 with @copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social at @uksg.bsky.social this year - come and say hello!

Webinar announcement: Wayfinders 5: "Working collectively to open up access to books" on 25 March 2025, 4pm GMT with @alittleroad.bsky.social @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social @charleswatkinson.bsky.social, Dr Frances Pinter and Malavika Legge. Full details here: bit.ly/43qF7Fr #OA #openaccess #oabooks

This OA revenue model has consistently been punchng above its weight for 4 years now. It's allocated funding to approx 70 new books, all #openaccess through OtF library members. Just needs some more publishers to take up the model now...

We've reached 40,000 #OAbooks in the OAPEN Library! 🥳 The transition to #openaccess for books is far from complete, but this milestone is proof great things are happening because of passionate people who want to see knowledge open to all 🙌 Browse the collection today: library.oapen.org

Now more than ever it is imperative that funding for #OpenInfrastructures that drive free global knowledge sharing is diversified. PKP is thankful for @scossfunding.bsky.social support helping to sustain our efforts to develop and maintain our #ScholarlyPublishing platforms. #SustainOpen ⤵️

The OABN is also a working group within the @operaseu.bsky.social OA Books Special Interest Group. Sign up if you're interested to find out more, and how you can be involved! #OAbooks #OpenAccess

Want to learn about metadata for #OpenAccess books but not sure where to start? Join us for the Good Metadata Practice for Open Access Books webinar – hosted by OIPA & @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social. 📆 20 March 2025 🕙 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 11:00 EDT Sign up for free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A new article from @scholtom.bsky.social, E Sykes, and me: “How can we achieve sustainable funding for open access books?,” Insights, 2025, 38: 4, 1–9; DOI: doi.org/10.1629/uksg...