📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme! 🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🔹 Full time, open ended contract 🔹 London 🔹 £54,931 Closes 8 September. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck.

A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀

This is the no-fee open-access model for books I designed and worked on with @scholtom.bsky.social -- real-world impact from authors who benefited from it.

Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.

I can't repost this enough times ❤️

It will be great when we finally democratise higher education governance and we'll look back on this strange period where people from business were given control of our universities and then ran them into the ground.

Date for your diaries! Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!) Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement

Joining forces with @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social to present 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿 FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍 📆 Wed 25th June 🕰️ 2pm 🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu

Find out more about the other presses in the @openingthefuture.bsky.social family ⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net ⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net

Really excited about this one! Both @scholtom.bsky.social and myself are really looking forward to working with MSU Press on this. We're happy to facilitate them to publish more of their African Studies titles open access 😀

This one has been in the works a while so I'm super pleased it's finally ready to go! Opening the Future is expanding with a 3rd publisher, Michigan State University Press 🥳🎉 with books on African & Diaspora studies. Any library interested in enhancing their coll in this field, pls do get in touch!

"Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities" — a blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern at OLH: www.openlibhums.org/news/822/

Chris Pressler (Library Director at U of Manchester) really pulling no punches in his intro at this event "we need to walk away from exploitative publishing practices" @copim.bsky.social

📣 We are delighted that ‪@lancasteruni.bsky.social‬ are now supporter members of @openingthefuture.bsky.social! Find out more about the sustainable #OA book initiative at: lup.openingthefuture.net @tmorley24.bsky.social‬ @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬ @jofitz.bsky.social‬‬ @copim.bsky.social

Registration has closed but we can still provide the link if anyone missed out 😎

We're hearing rumours that popular demand for tickets to this incendiary session featuring @scholtom.bsky.social & @kjsanders.bsky.social is so high that a petition has been set up to re-open registration 🔥 Watch this space 👀

This is particularly good news considering Cardiff (sadly in common with many UK HEIs) are going through a tough time financially & experiencing layoffs. I am really impressed they are still sticking their neck out to support programmes like this. Good for you Cardiff and thanks! ☺

+1 on this! This would be a great job for the right candidate 🥳

Featuring our very own @scholtom.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social 👉sign up now!

Who says there are no good news stories any more?? It's not *all* doom and gloom, there are still some rays of light in the dark clouds if you look for them: "Springer Nature profits up 7 per cent to €512 million" www.researchinformation.info/news/springe... 🥳🎉👯‍♂️😍

Fame (of a sort) at last!

Hot off the press 🔥 Great to see this new paper from colleagues @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social has just been published ⏰ #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #Funding Download now ⏬ www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article...

Is it time to tap the sign?

📣Happy to announce that the University of Minnesota has decided to support @livunipress.bsky.social with OtF. We're grateful for their support! For more details, please see here 👉https://lup.openingthefuture.net/news/146/

What can open institutional publishing offer? How is it making a difference, and why does it matter? 📖 💬 From bibliodiversity to author care; LSE Press's @philippagrand.bsky.social & @suzannetatham.bsky.social explore the overdue comeback of institutional publishing for @timeshighered.bsky.social.

Brilliant news, well done both 💪

Thanks Pete, in many ways it's a written version of our @uksg.bsky.social talk from last year, and it's interesting/scary to think how quickly the landscape has changed since then, particularly around Elsevier divestments like Sheffield's + ProQuest announcement + HE financial crisis

oh my pleasure Mish, although I did have an hilarious panicky moment this morning when I realised I didn't have a Zoom link to join the call myself 😆 (got one now phew 😅)

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...

It's true, I do like to filter the complexities of economics thru the lens of Drake shaking his hand at something, and then nodding in the affirmative at something else. I only got a C at GCSE maths tho so no shade pls.

Excited to be speaking about #oabooks & @copim.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social & @thoth-metadata.bsky.social at a webinar for the Library Association of Ireland Open Scholarship Group on Fri 7th. Free to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/unlocking-... Come for the memes if nothing else!

You can catch our very own @kirahopkins.bsky.social & Dr Rose Harris-Birtill from @openlibhums.bsky.social at 4pm tomorrow: 'Avoiding the Seventy Year Itch: ‘Transformative’ Open Access via Diamond Funding Models' #R2RConf

This is a really good thing. Making sense of current upheavals will come from AHSS scholars, whose depts are disproportionately affected by the binfire that is UK HE. Good for you @uolpress.bsky.social we need more of this to increase impact and reach of humanities 💪

Join the discussion - How can we achieve sustainable funding for open access books? @scholtom.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social

Useful update from @ithakasr.bsky.social on this forthcoming report. Really pleased we were able to contribute some thoughts and pov to the discussion. Looking forward to reading the library perspective and the finished report soon. sr.ithaka.org/blog/update-...

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...

Goodness me, this #REF2029 OA Town Hall is unbelievably poor. It's not giving me any feeling that this is all in hand. Completely garbled info, hesitant and unsure answering *pre-submitted* questions, never mind qs on the spot 😲 2029.ref.ac.uk/about/how-to...

Sirens going off at the @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social offices! This is so great to see: real results from a funding model that helps scholars get their work read globally and seeks to help Presses do that in a low-risk manner. Feel very proud to be part of this 😻

We're also speaking at #ChsConf2024, including: WED: Sharla Lair @ Lyrasis (twice!), DOAJ, Silke Davison @ OAPEN & Hannah Hillen @ Thoth are presenting talks/posters THUR: Tom Grady @ Opening the Future & Niels Stern @ OAPEN are presenting AND join the team at 'Copim Corner' for informal catchups!

Also if you're Charleston, @scholtom.bsky.social is speaking alongside @jstor.bsky.social , @mitpress.bsky.social & Lancaster Library on all things OA for books on the Thursday at 4pm, Gold Ballroom, Frances Marion Hotel #chsconf2024

Timeline cleanse.

Always check the label!

Thanks @alittleroad.bsky.social for doing such a sterling job with live posting! This is a great summary for anyone who joined the @uksg.bsky.social call just now on #oabooks Get in touch if anyone has questions or wants us to elaborate on any points - can Zoom with you and colleagues or whatever 💪

Come along and listen to me and Elaine tomorrow! Hoping for some good Q&A: we don't have all the answers, but we do hope to provide some background and provoke some discussion and ideas on how to fund OA for books.

*always check the label* #oabooks #oaweek if an OA revenue model says it's 'community-led' ask them what that really means!

NEW POST: 'The Copim Perspective on Community-Led' For #OAWeek, we've released this post on what community-led means to us in theory & practice, how it can be identified, & concerns about the co-option of the term -- particularly 'community-washing': https://buff.ly/4femmbe

21-27 October is International Open Access Week! The theme is 'Community over Commercialization' and we at OtF & @copim.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social & Thoth are all taking part in various presentations. Join us at @uksg.bsky.social on Thursday 11am and at IOAP+OIPA at 2pm ...

For #OAWeek, come and join Copim's Judith Fathallah at this webinar in the Coventry Open Press Conversations series: 'Everything you ever wanted to know about OA publishing, but were afraid to ask (in 90 minutes)' 📆 22nd October, 13:00-14:30 Online and in person 🔗