One thing I think DORA gets wrong is that in humanities fields the journal is not necessarily a marker of prestige or quality but of where you situate your scholarship, so it's helpful to take the publication into account when trying to understand where someone's work sits.

The OBC, @ojcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social recently delivered a webinar for the German @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social on our collaborative approach for a sustainable Diamond OA future - read their newly published blog at the link below.

Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

Ready to discover your next inspiring read? 📖 Explore our catalogue and access our latest titles all available to download for free. Whether you're deepening your knowledge or simply broadening your horizons, there's something new waiting for you. Browse now: https://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog

New on the Copim blog: a post jointly published by @oapenbooks.bsky.social and us, exploring how open metadata, automated workflows, and community-led platforms can make OA books more discoverable, reusable, and connected across the scholarly communications ecosystem. copim.pub/better-publi...

[CONFERENCE] @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social will be delivering a workshop @libereurope.bsky.social 📆 1 July 2026 🗣️ LIBERating Metadata Flows to Improve Findability of European Open Textbooks and Exploring Tools to Improve Advocacy and Adoption Find out more 👉 buff.ly/Z0Yi98m #LIBER2026

An interview with Scottish Universities Press on joining OASPA - OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/news/an-interview-with-scottish-universities-press-on-joining-oaspa/

Guest post from Rob Johnson at the Scholarly Kitchen: "Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score" @paulakennedy.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social #CopimCommunity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/11/g...

An insightful read and we couldn't agree more: #MetadataMatters! With a plug to Thoth's report on International Metadata Recommendations, and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Following @simonxix.com's #OIPA2026 rally to switch to open source software for publishing practices - consider Thoth for metadata management and distribution of your #OAbooks! Thoth's APIs and metadata are also fully open! Learn more about our commitment to openness: thoth.pub/about#our-co...

@rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on the NDAs in place to protect commercial publishers’ agreements with libraries: ‘How obviously corrupt is that? I feel very aggrieved seeing these large profits going to commercial publishers. It should be reinvested in research and education.’ #OIPA2026

Edinburgh Diamond’s @simonxix.com presenting on the importance of using open source software instead of proprietary systems. #OIPA2026

Ethical, moral and ideological imperative to divest from proprietary platforms 'openness is about a practice and shared values not just a goal for our publications' Paraphrasing - Simon was more eloquent than I could capture! #oipa2026

⚡️ @simonxix.com suggests making small changes to our publishing workflows to use open source software. Shouldn’t we be doing this as #OpenAccess publishers? Simon quotes ‘No open access without open infrastructure’ - @copim.bsky.social

⚡️ @simonxix.com recommends @manifoldscholar.bsky.social as a user-friendly way to publish experimentally. Simon says ‘Get used to open source software and advocate it. We should embed it into our #OpenAccess publishing practices. It’s more cost-effective and ethical!’ #OIPA2026

Drumroll, please! 100 libraries worldwide are now supporting the OBC - that's 100 libraries actively choosing to support collective funding and diamond OA - now that's definitely worth celebrating! Our joint 100th: Zurich University of the Arts and The Open University, who joined on the same day.

📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

The publishing supply chain wasn’t built for #OpenAccess books 📚 Can a nonprofit platform help? Find out more about @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social and how they supports #OA publishing through metadata management and distribution 🔗

'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...

[WEBINAR] Open Book Collective, Open Journals Collective, and Thoth: Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future (in Germany & other German-language contexts) 🔮 📆 11 June 2026 🕔️ 11:00-12:00 CEST 🔗 buff.ly/mE4J35Q #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #OA

Our thanks to our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for taking part in this #accessibility interview with @copim.bsky.social. Well worth a read for anyone working on this (or wondering how to begin) and what resources are available. Since Nov 2024, all of our frontlist books are “born accessible”.

Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Good metadata = discoverable research. On June 17, we're hosting a #webinar on our Participation Reports tool. See how yours is doing. 12:00 PM UTC. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/2617793981171/WN_g9GPBJ3zRX658EE43408NA#webinar #openscience #scholarlypublishing

Of the 30 finalists, 4 come from OBC presses - 3 from @openbookpublish.bsky.social, & 1 from @lsepress.bsky.social. It's a mark of the quality small, not-for-profit, scholar- & institution-led presses can produce, more than holding their own alongside the largest university presses in the US and UK!

If you haven't looked at #CopimCompass for a while, there's a lot of new content there In particular, check out Books 9 & 12 Open Book Accessibility 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/09-ope... Archiving and Preservation 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/12-arc...

Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

This webinar will give more background to why it's critical we embed financial investment for programmes like OtF & @ojcollective.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social @leverpress.bsky.social etc etc

Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney) makes a strong argument that "the true cost of open infrastructure is systematically underestimated across the sector. We can count grants. We can count memberships. We can't easily count the labor that quietly underwrites a lot of what makes these systems functional […]

This edited volume on the politics of open infrastructures look excellent. Edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway. Open access from @openbookpublish.bsky.social www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Kick start your June! Join @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social online & discover how to improve your #OA book metadata and distribution 🤝

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 🎟️

Thanks! Yes, we are proud of our collective catalogue, showcasing around 2,300 books from across our publishers, and developed in partnership with @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social

Funding metadata is still inconsistent, incomplete, and often missing. That affects how we track, evaluate, and understand research. New outputs from @barcelonadori.bsky.social: 👉 Call to Action: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 👉 Detailed recommendations: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 🎟️

@orcid.org is running a webinar to promote ORCID more widely across the UK. Particularly relevant for Thoth publishers looking to learn more about the benefits of using PIDs in #OAbook metadata! 🗓️ Tuesday 30 June 11:00-12:00 (BST/UTC+1) Open to all, register here: www.jisc.ac.uk/events/orcid...

How can a small, scholar-led press publish experimentally? African Mind’s Francois van Schalkwyk reflects on collaboration, peer review, and rethinking publishing workflows through the ‘Database as Book’ pilot Read more 👉

NEW RECORDING: 'How to make your #OpenAccess books more accessible (and why it matters' A recent OABN webinar with @jofitz.bsky.social of @copim.bsky.social, Richard Orme of DAISY & James Rice of @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on the tools & strategies publishers can use: youtu.be/_QPncp6FHPk?...

Shared in the Discord for @janewayolh.bsky.social's The Lower Decks symposium: I've been working on migrating content from OJS 3.4 to Janeway and have developed some open source Python scripts that work against the OJS REST API and export data in the format for Janeway's Import plugin.

We've been busy these past couple of years! This blog post recaps recent platform development, metadata research, engagement with publishers, library collaborations, multiple #OpenInfrastructure partnerships, & collective work with others active in the @copim.bsky.social community & beyond 🚀

[BLOG] Small Press, Shared Success: Librarian Agency over Accessibility in Emerging Publishing Models @jofitz.bsky.social ⭐ Evidence & audit the accessibility features of library content ⭐ Make informed decisions during acquisition ⭐ Provide alternative formats 🔗

What does accessibility look like in practice for a small open access press? Justin Clark, Production Manager at LSE Press, discusses building accessibility into publishing workflows from the start with @copim.bsky.social 🔗 Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4uhe2PQ

Listen (and watch) now 🎧

Are you a library looking to download rich, quality MARC records for #OpenAccess books? Then come straight to Thoth! Skip the stripped down, low quality ingest into your LMS via proprietary vendors. This blog post by @uolpress.bsky.social explains how easy it is to make the change! #OpenMetadata

If you're attending the #operas2026sciros conference, day 1 will open with workshop 'From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books' 📢📚🇸🇮 ⏰ 9:00, Wed 20 May 📍 Staszic Palace – Room 132 @pkp.sfu.ca @doabooks.bsky.social #OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters

If you're attending the #operas2026sciros conference, day 1 will open with workshop 'From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books' 📢📚🇸🇮 ⏰ 9:00, Wed 20 May 📍 Staszic Palace – Room 132 @pkp.sfu.ca @doabooks.bsky.social #OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thothally-...

🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: Sidestone Press We recently caught up with @karstenwentink.bsky.social co-founder of Sidestone Press to find out how they realised the benefits of working towards #Accessibility standards Read more 👉 buff.ly/z3aORb8 @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @jofitz.bsky.social

Check out the panel session on 14 May featuring @joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social alongside @erudit.org @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca ✍️ The Future of Collective Funding Models for Open Access 🔗 buff.ly/NMzyE6m 2/2

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thothally-...

📢 Announcing our new Community of Practice! Whether you're an existing #OtF press, subscribing library, infrastructure partner, or just interetsted in the model, head over to our blog and find out how you can get involved! 👉