Interesting point in the Q&A discussion about Open Infrastructures & the Open Ecosystem being complex & 'messy' with many stakeholders & organisations. Toby maintains that this is a feature not a bug - there's no 1 single point of failure and the complexity supports different needs and use-cases.

We build community and collaboration upon shared common goals across this complexity. Janneka Adema explores the value of preserving the messiness, creativity and diversity of the movement: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support. Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.

Join Thoth tomorrow for a free webinar on “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” 🕸️ 📖 📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]

Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...

Excited to be presenting at this webinar with @copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!

HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.

Join @copim.bsky.social, @scossfunding.bsky.social & @sparc-eu.bsky.social at this free webinar to discuss how best to facilitate interoperability between open infrastructures, to ensure a bright future for #OA research and publication 🕸️ 📖

Join the @jisc.bsky.social team for a session exploring the Library Hub services and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), which will shortly be part of Thoth Plus book distribution for publishers! 📚

The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy. Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it! #chsconf2025

Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️‍🔥 @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝 👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/... #chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs

📣 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/DhtaOAJ #CopimConference

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

Looking forward to joining @copim.bsky.social for this upcoming webinar, where we’ll be speaking about how open infrastructures collaborate to strengthen interoperability and sustainability. Join us on 11 Nov, 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8

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

Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price. nag.org.uk/event/mup/ #NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social

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

✈️ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social are a busy lot! They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY! 📌 University of Barcelona, Spain 🔗 buff.ly/BjlTux1 #OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks

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

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...

[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 🔗

Great to see @rupertgatti.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on the programme for Day Two 📝 Panel: Technology, Power, and Equitable Design 📆 Weds 22 Oct. ⏰ 15:15- 16:25 Register now 👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5a6d60...

It's time for @buchmesse.de 📚 You'll find @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social in Hall 4.0 #fbm2025 📅 15-19 October 📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse 🔗 buff.ly/KKVI5ro It's your chance to talk about #OAbook publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!

And the day before, they'll be at the EDItEUR 46th International Supply Chain Seminar (Frankfurt's essential mini-conference for metadata and supply chain specialists) 📅 14 October 🕰️ 13:00 - 17:30 📌 Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main 🔗 buff.ly/PMIUyyf

Next up for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social is #fbm2025 📅 15-19 October 📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse 🔗 buff.ly/wLLMLbN Go and find them to talk all about open access book publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!

For anyone heading to the Frankfurt book fair this year, you can find out details about @oipassoc.bsky.social at the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social stand (Hall 4.0 / E67)! OIPA was founded to connect and encourage #OpenAccess publishing. #InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPress #FBF25 #Academic

JUST RELEASED by @openbookcollective.bsky.social Report on Librarians' Barriers to Participation In Collective #Funding Models For Open Access Books openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o... #libraries #librarians #oa #scholcomm

🧵 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...

Excited to be going to my first Frankfurt Book Fair next week #fbm25 Will be hanging out at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social stand (Hall 4.0 / E67) & discussing digital sovereignty (wed, 1pm, International stage) and the evolution of #OABooks (thurs, 12noon, Innovation Stage) Do make contact to meet up!

Join our celebratory panel at @buchmesse.de on Thursday 16 October from 12:00 to 12:30 CEST at the Innovation Stage (Hall 4.0, H106).  @tandfresearch.bsky.social @barbarabudrich.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @ebsco.bsky.social

The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative. Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU

Join us for #OAWeek! Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social 🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST 🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

Missed Toby's #craft_oa2025 presentation on our collaboration across #DiamondOA #OAbooks publishing infrastructures? 👇Slidedeck on how @pkp.sfu.ca, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doabooks.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social and Thoth Open Metadata work together doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...

Oh, looks like we've made it 😀 First day of #CRAFT-OA conference - organised by the EU-funded @craft-oa.bsky.social project - is about to kick off ... and I for one am very much looking forward to discussing #openinfrastructures for #DiamondOA #OAbooks 📚

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival." Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

A nice quote from L'HarmattanOA @ #OASPA2025 on how we support them: "The international [book] distribution is managed by Thoth. Thanks to their persistent efforts our titles are submitted to several databases such as OAPEN&DOAB, EBSCO, ProQuest collections, Google Books, & Web of Science."

Toby from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social will be at the @craft-oa.bsky.social conference next week #Metadata #MetadataMatters #OpenInfrastructure #OABooks

Might also be of interest to #OASPA25 attendees 👇

Tackling the problems of getting #OA works into the wider book supply chain TOGETHER 🤝 A sneak preview of @openbookcollective.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @thoth-metadata.bsky.social presentation at #Munin2025 🔗 buff.ly/QI8P6C3 #OpenScience #ScalingSmall #Bibliodiversity

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.

This is more than just adapting to an imperfect system. It is a bottom up set of initiatives that are not just working differently, but showing how a different scholarly system can be built, and that crucially this involves working with each other differently and collaboratively/interoperably

New financial models like @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @ojcollective.bsky.social. New cataloguing & metadata management models - e.g. @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social. Often engaging and interoperating in dynamic & highly innovative ways

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...

This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?

Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata | ALPSP Blog https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/alpsp-blog/spotlight-on-thoth-open-metadata/

Slides of our #oat25 workshop together with #AGUniverlage, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social, @doabooks.bsky.social and #BerlinUP now live! 👇