Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the Open Access books space a restful winter break and a very happy new year. We'll still be here if you need us, while we continue work behind-the-scenes on some exciting developments and releases for Thoth in 2026 🎆 #OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters

We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄

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Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the Open Access books space a restful winter break and a very happy new year. We'll still be here if you need us, while we continue work behind-the-scenes on some exciting developments and releases for Thoth in 2026 🎆 #OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters

Feeling discontent with civilization? Fear not, it's just about time to celebrate more work ascending into the public domain! We'll see you on the sunny side of the street in January! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

We have been following recent developments on EU Deforestation Regulations (EUDR) to learn about metadata needs in this context - but it turns out, print books (incl. the #DiamondOA #OAbooks published by the many publishers using Thoth) are now being exempt www.thebookseller.com/news/eu-parl...

🎉 Congratulations to Netherlands University Presses (nups.nl) who will be receiving funding by NWO - and we're honoured to be supporting them together with @oapenbooks.bsky.social to improve discoverability of their #DiamondOA books #openinfrastructures www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

Lots of the Copim team will be there - find us at stand no. 66!

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

We're recruiting. Join our team as the Research Metrics and Open Infrastructure Lead. More information here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

so it begins

Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social later today at #UKSGForum2025 to learn about #CopimCompass 🧭 The Compass is a comprehensive toolkit about #OA monograph publishing developed by Copim ⚒️ Find out more in advance 👉 buff.ly/AmjdgZ2 @uksg.bsky.social

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library ✍️ @simonxix.com #BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!

Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0c0...

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖 Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing. 📆 Thurs Dec 4th 🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951... @SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

Haikus ftw ... Revenge of the Humanities

Digital content is never neutral with respect to different bodies & modes of reading, & attending to its form is essential to making scholarship genuinely open. READ more about punctum's new Accessibility Roadmap for making our books & website more accessible for all readers: tinyurl.com/yapbh9ej

First up is @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca 🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters 📆 19 November ⏰ 12:00-12:10 🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl 2/3

The volume of university libraries using proprietary software that *limits* their ability to import high quality CC0 bibliographic metadata records articulates some of the problems in libraries, their relationships with technology, an overreliance on vendors, and the challenges they create for open.

🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books 👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7 1/6

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