The Compass really is an excellent tool; have a look and see what you think, researchers.

For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library abdn.site/vNQ3U

An enjoyable day spent yesterday presenting on @openbookpublish and discussing #OpenAccess at the "Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area" conference. Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.

Looking forward to this event on Thurs!

[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎 The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡ Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem #AHSS #SSH

How to tell the people who work for you, "we don't care about you or what you do" in one easy step #efficiency

"The news comes shortly after OUP acquired Karger Publishers, a medical press based in Basel"

In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books. Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️

WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.

May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social

May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social

This year, the team are focussing on: ✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs ✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories ✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard ✅ Developing Open Archiving principles 2/2

Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

[WEBINAR] Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social 📆 Tue 11 Nov ⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8 #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks

So it's about viewing public libraries not just as community hubs or amenities, but as part of our public knowledge infrastructure - and extending the original public library mission of making printed knowledge and learning available to everyone, to digital knowledge as well.

Basically - there's a policy gap! Research policy embraces open access, via REF, funder mandates etc, but library & cultural policy rarely even mentions it - so publicly funded research is increasingly 'out there', but the public isn't supported to learn about its existence or how to access it.

Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!

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

[BLOG] Continuing last week's #OAWeek theme @alittleroad.bsky.social has written about #OA licences for books 📚 ❓Who owns open knowledge? ❓What are the implications of different types of open licence? ❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences? 🔗

I wrote a post about open access licences for books, and who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences (e.g. CC BY-NC-ND) 👇 #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OAWeek

Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books. www.openaccessweek.org

Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award. Here's a blog post for the Open Library of Humanities website outlining how we used the funding granted by the award to support our research culture activity relating to Open Access Books.

Great post from Tom Morley at Lancaster Uni Lib re. using an @openlibhums.org Open Access Award grant 'to facilitate a research culture in which #OAbooks publishing is part of normal, everyday practice' Really practical, achievable steps to shift publication culture: www.openlibhums.org/news/861/

This is a great resource for researchers! #AcademicPublishing #Author #OABooks #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

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

I wrote a post about open access licences for books, and who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences (e.g. CC BY-NC-ND) 👇 #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OAWeek

New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence. buff.ly/7radka2

TOMORROW! 📆 Join @theblochian.bsky.social for Open Access Australasia’s #OAWeek 2025 celebrations! 👉 buff.ly/B40j30m And then @rupertgatti.bsky.social will be part of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #OpenEngaged conference! 👉 buff.ly/DAiC0dn 4/4

Later on today, join members of the #CopinCommuity online! 👩‍💻 ✨ @alittleroad.bsky.social at the San José State University Biennial Open Access Conference buff.ly/4ws8EKG ✨ @oipassoc.bsky.social are holding their annual symposium buff.ly/v7zM1z4 3/4

Since 2022, we have released #OAWeek interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to #OpenAccess books The second interview this year is with @kirahopkins.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/sepEmsF 2/4

Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍 Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team 🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD #OAWeek 1/4

It's #OAWeek! Why not sign up to some of the free online events listed in this post, focusing on #OAbooks and open infrastructures ⬇️

Since 2022, we have released #OAWeek interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to #OpenAccess books The first interview this year is with @jofitz.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/1WmCrK9 2/6

Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍 Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team 🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD #OAWeek 1/6

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...

Next week is Open Access Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Plan your #OAWeek events with this #OAbooks summary! 👇

@manchester.ac.uk's new strategy: From Manchester to the World. Becoming a great civic university for the 21st century, creating knowledge for the public good, locally and globally. Committed to research and teaching excellence, social responsibility, collaboration, and open, accessible knowledge.

[EVENT] SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference for #OAWeek Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing' 📆 21 October ⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT 📍 Online 🔗

OA WEEK: Next week (20-26 October) is #OAWeek! At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post: 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

I'm two weeks late reposting this but it's still quite the landmark for us. The press is old enough to drive now! 🚗 #OAbooks

And it's also available open access, so public spirited enlightenment is free to download: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

According to this author (and another who quotes this post) their open access books acquired as part of the T&F deal with AUP are no longer listed as OA on the publisher's website. Both books were openly licensed for non-commercial use, so this move breaches that licence, it seems to me.

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

Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

“Ephemera and the Construction of First World War Life Writing” by Ann‑Marie Foster / @amfoster.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Part of the #OLHJournal special collection Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production

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