Seriously, how many academic libraries have remodeled themselves to be hostile to print? How many staffing shortages have made print processing slower and more difficult? I remain unconvinced print is actually in low demand across academic libraries. What I think is that admin doesn't value it.

Re: print usage - I think it really depends how easy we make getting print. Universities in Ontario created a shared catalogue and a very easy method to request print from anywhere else in the province since then we've seen our print usage go up... and we are not the only ones seeing this trend.

Anne Houston: checking out physical books at Swarthmore College Library has dropped to just a quarter of what it used to be 15 years ago. We’re close to seeing the disappearance of physical print books in academic publishing altogether #OASPA2025

Resharing as Anne Houston (Swarthmore College Libraries & Lever Press) is speaking on the #OASPA2025 panel ✏️ The library at the heart of the open access transition 🔗 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social telling a room full of publishers that the lack of good faith in R&P agreements has to stop. What planet are commercial publishers living on? Constant grind for library staff to deal with what she describes as this “garbage”. #OASPA2025

Q: let's talk OA monographs. Anne - we are seeing a huge decline in the usage of print books, but OA eBooks are *used*, we know they have impact. OA books are able to be more experimental ie, Fulcrum developed tech for Lever to have French book with English translation & commentary. #OASPA2025

Anne- what we need from publishers is transparency, and evidence of impact. Explain to us why you need the money you do. Seems overly difficult to get/ understand usage - need both data and user stories about impact. Helps make case to administration. #OASPA2025

@dannykay68.bsky.social the "negotiations" with publishers are ridiculous and they are coming to us in bad faith - constant grind of dishonest conversation with increases beyond our budget increases, new terms and restrictions, embargoes with no evidence, etc. #OASPA2025

POSITIVE: from @samuelmoore.org - a resurgence in the UK of universities supported to have presses for OA publishing. Return to the 1960s tradition of the university press where there was no expectation that the books make a commercial return. This is a direct outcome of OA work. #OASPA2025

Thanks @samuelmoore.org for the shoutout for @openlibhums.org as an example of how the humanities / HSS had to solve their own publishing & infrastructure problems and, in so doing, provided examples for subjects in STEM. Fascinating panel at #OASPA2025 chaired by @charleswatkinson.bsky.social

Jessica from Érudit as a comment - addition to knowledges that shouldn't be OA - Indigenous knowledges (ownership, access, some may even add the rest of OCAP ;) - Leslie Chan's work: openscholarshippress.pubpub.org/pub/w1ml61jl...

Excited to present the OPERAS Research Infrastructure Special Interest Group on #OpenAccess Books at #OASPA2025. If you want to join the community then have a look at operas-eu.org/special-inte...

For example, earlier this year a piece on Diamond #OpenAccess was published in Katina as the result of a collaboration between the Open Access Business Models WG and the OABN WG: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

This poster shows how the OABN Working Group fits into the broader Open Access Books Special Interest Group of @operaseu.bsky.social. The aim is to foster more effective collaboration on #OAbooks. (1/2)

Coming up now at the #OASPA2025 poster session, @nielsstern.bsky.social will be presenting on behalf of the @operaseu.bsky.social #OABooks SIG. Preview the poster, 'Building a Stronger OA Book Ecosystem' below!

Yes! We've made three awards so far and will shortly be announcing our next four. Updates/more info here: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/collective-d...

🧵👇 #OASPA2025

The academic system needs to take the work of building community-led, open source/access initiatives much more seriously as a valid and vital form of academic labour

One answer from the @openbookcollective.bsky.social is their Collective Development Fund: an optional 5% fee paid by the publishers & services in the collective. This creates a pot of money disbursed via grant payments to publishers & service providers for projects that build OA publishing capacity.

Lauren Kane - we need to be able to experiment and try, and know that some things will fail - and not hold new models to a higher standard than the old ones. Perhaps S2O won't work for everyone/ forever, but traditional model certainly didn't either. #OASPA2025

Love to see academic libraries making this kind of stand, and as important, getting institutional backing to do so. Investing in the future instead of getting further enmeshed in expensive and unequal R&P deals! 👏

Sign up, sign up to this free webinar which takes place in one week's time! Hear from the authors and series editors of #OpenAccess books about their experiences 👇

GRIM.

Although it seems, from what I've heard librarians say, that this is not broadly understood -- communicating this message is a challenge. #OASPA2025

The @wellcometrust.bsky.social block grant can be used to support open scholarly communication infrastructure AND to pay fees, memberships or contributions to publishing models or platforms that support Wellcome-funded and non Wellcome-funded researchers access.

Enabling 100% #OA in times of uncertainty: who has the power and responsibility? Hannah Hope @wellcometrust.bsky.social Uncertainty is nothing new, difference is that volatility is now happening to the dominant #ScholComms system What opportunities does this present? #OASPA2025 👉 wellcome.org

Hannah Hope from Wellcome, and the forever reminder that in many parts of the world, OA isn't something that happens "after" (for a fee), but is the starting point of publishing. #OASPA2025 - paraphrasing, but the convos about a small global minority (US/UK/EU publishing) sucks up all the oxygen.

Adding to the conversation at #OASPA2025 about what we can do to change the current research assessment system. We should collect good examples, like the University of Sorbonne, which is using open data for analysis and invest in open infrastructures, see www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

Also cheers to #OASPA2025 for putting all their talks online for those that can't attend. They're really walking the Open Access walk

Thanks to those posting from #OASPA2025 -- great to get an glimpse into the conversations!

Well that’s the first time I’ve heard a big 5 commercial publisher describe APCs as “accessible.” Remarkable doublethink going on here.

Librarians *should* be exercising more judgement and objective expertise, looking at the whole picture, thinking about long term & bibliodiversity. Libraries do not receive budget to "buy content" they receive budget to "disseminate knowledge".

Ulrich Herb at #OASPA2025 - following Bourdieu, not really who owns knowledge. Who has the social, political capital to *use* knowledge, who has the capital to *produce* knowledge? Who *verifies/ certifies* knowledge?

Demmy name-checked @openlibhums.org and @openbookcollective.bsky.social as reasons to be hopeful in scholarly publishing. He finished by arguing that the future belongs to those who can discover new ways of publishing research outside of commercial models (I paraphrase). #OASPA25

Prof. Demmy. Verbeke explaining that KU Leuven Library has made a stand & spends zero budget on APCs or TAs. Instead, the library invests in nonprofit #openaccess publishing & infrastructure #OASPA2025

Interesting times have happened over the last twenty years while we have wasted millions of pounds in public resources pursuing commercialised forms of open access publishing.

A busy @copim.bsky.social day at OA Tage #OAT25 ends with @kjsanders.bsky.social presenting a paper co-authored with @kirahopkins.bsky.social outlining the problematic outcomes for the scholarly system resulting from entanglements between large commercial publishers, acquisition practices & funders

🧵 (3/5) Yes, you read that correctly. We don't profit off of your data or your uploads to our repository. And there are no hidden fees either. We're a nonprofit, sustained by member contributions and grant funding, so you don't have to worry about us selling any information you've shared with us! 🎉

🧵 (1/5) We have a bunch of new followers today so we thought it was a good time for an introduction! 👋 ✅ We're a nonprofit network that allows users to build profiles, websites, and discussion groups. Our repository, KCWorks, is fully open access and anyone can upload items & receive DOIs!

Excited to carry on the conversation after presenting to @forumforopen.bsky.social earlier this year! 👉 copim.pubpub.org/pub/k34uh3g7...

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!

Now! Our own @joedeville.bsky.social on "Barriers to collective funding of Diamond Open Access in six European Countries". #oat25

🚨 Job opportunity at @lborouniversity.bsky.social Join the wonderful Open Book Futures project team as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books 🔸 1 FTE, Fixed Term appointment for six months 🔸 Anticipated start date of 1st November 2025 🔗 buff.ly/jbJ3yrQ

This is incredibly bleak, and incredibly sad. How is it possible to do responsible research assessment when research is produced and assessed in inherently exploitative and inequitable contexts? Is it possible?

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

So @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social have made it! Come and speak with us about all things open access around books, including infrastructures. @copim.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Just signed up as a regular monthly supporter to @kcommons.bsky.social -- very straightforward to do and a very good place to send any cash you can spare ✅

Just signed up as a regular monthly supporter to @kcommons.bsky.social -- very straightforward to do and a very good place to send any cash you can spare ✅

CALL TO ACTION: How you can support @kcommons.bsky.social Because we support Knowledge Common's mission, have high regard for their services & benefit from their work, we encourage you to consider financially supporting Knowledge Commons: ➡️ openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/16/a...

Are you an @erc.europa.eu grantee or team member and planning to publish a book on the outcomes of your project? Then this webinar should be of interest to you!