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!

ENCOURAGEMENT to see the @operaseu.bsky.social poster given Niels nearly lost it a couple of times en route! www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u... #OASPA2025

WITH PHOTO - #OASPA2025

REFERENCE to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) by @oapenbooks.bsky.social Niels Stern at #OASPA2025 open book panel - using as a mechanism for structuring the panel discussion around Introductions, Governance, Impact & Quality and Sustainability openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

#OSFair2025 Rethinking Research Assessment @hldejonge.bsky.social shares how Open Science NL has provided funding for Dutch institutions to include open science in their career assessment policies. Currently, 25 institutions in the Netherlands are exploring this. We look forward to the results!

Free upcoming webinar: 'Who Owns Our Knowledge? The Future of Equitable Open Access', Monday 20 October at 15:00 CEST. With our very own @nielsstern.bsky.social. Hosted by @igiglobal.bsky.social, eContent Pro International Press, and OAPA. For more information & to register: buff.ly/l55ScKT #OAWeek

Zoé Ancion shares how the French national science funder @agencerecherche.bsky.social promotes full and immediate open access to publications and supports multilingualism and bibliodiversity at #OSFair2025 @cern.bsky.social

Pierre Mounier sets the scene for discussing equitable publishing and the Open Research Europe platform initiated by @ec.europa.eu at #OSFair2025

@bsaenen.bsky.social kicking off the first plenary panel at #OSFair2025 with important discussions on open science policies. Looking forward to the next couple of days at @cern.bsky.social with an exciting programme www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/programme

What a great session on 'Trust and Transparency in Scholarly Book Publishing' yesterday at the #UNGA80 #ScienceSummit. Here's a screenshot of @nielsstern.bsky.social in action! #OAbooks

#OpenAccess needs strong infrastructures to thrive🔓 This webinar will unpack how @doabooks.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doaj.bsky.social are shaping the future of discoverability & accessibility for books & journals 16 Sept | 13:00 GST 🔗Register: shorturl.at/GgpLB #OpenScience

Next week @nielsstern.bsky.social will be participating in the panel 'Trust in the Balance: Securing Open Science in an Age of Misinformation' which will look at how infrastructures are tackling disinformation, promoting quality & safeguarding public trust in research @osfair.bsky.social #OSFair2025

We are looking for a Head of Technology, responsible for the development and maintenance of the technical environments and other ICT-related tasks at OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social and DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social Vacancy note: oapen.org/article/vaca...

Our CTO, Ronald Snijder, has decided to take the next step in his career and will therefore be leaving OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social end of this month. I have published a short farewell blog post: oapen.hypotheses.org/1543 Wishing you all the best in your new role, @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social

Call for libraries to engage with the European Diamond OA movement from @sofiewennstrom.bsky.social to finish our #LIBER2025 session with @nielsstern.bsky.social

Looking forward to meeting with our library community at the #LIBER2025 Networking Power Session today at 1700. Please come by to give your input on @doaj.bsky.social’s plans for the future.

Este póster muestra cómo #InfraestructurasAbiertas como @oapenbooks.bsky.social, @doabooks.bsky.social y @pkp.sfu.ca interoperan para facilitar la edición de #libros en #AccesoAbierto diamante #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess #OpenScience 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Next up at the #DIAMAS conf is the poster session. I will present how open infrastructures interoperate to support Diamond OA books. @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, @doabooks.bsky.social and @oapenbooks.bsky.social Get poster doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Part 1 of two articles on how we curate academic publishers for the Directory of Open Access Books based on our requirements doabooks.org/en/publisher... scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/03/g...

We're delighted to introduce Graham Stone as our new Head of International Projects. Graham will have strategic oversight of our international project engagements & represent us in partnerships with other open infrastructures & relevant stakeholders. Welcome to the team @graham-stone.bsky.social!

Such a great pleasure to have you on the team, Graham!

We've started using PRISM (Peer Review Information Service for Monographs). It describes the peer review process that has been applied to a given work in @doabooks.bsky.social database. What's great about it is that it allows publishers to register more than one type of #peerreview for #OAbooks.

We’re delighted to announce the publication of our 2024 Highlights! It includes our stats, news about projects, partners, finances & technical developments. Read more about it in this post: www.oapen.org/article/oape... Access the full report: www.oapen.org/article/oape...

The recent executive orders from the Trump Administration represent an unprecedented attack on American democracy by targeting the institutions that safeguard public knowledge, history, and civic participation. bit.ly/4jl5n9C via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Aggressive AI scraping bots have been periodically making it very difficult to access Unglue.it. The image shows the traffic pattern we've been dealing with. We will outlast this evil scourge.

Last year was a remarkable year for growth of OAPEN and DOAB as you can read in our joint 2024 Highlights report, www.oapen.org/article/oape... and doabooks.org/en/article/o...

@nielsstern.bsky.social talking about some of the key results from the #PALOMERA project, including the #OAbookstoolkit and the Knowledge Base which you can access here: knowledgebase.oabooks-toolkit.org/home

Fantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social

At #UKSG2025 @nielsstern.bsky.social mentioning the POSI Principles which guide the infrastructure on which the scholarly and research communities rely to be openly governed, sustainable & replicable openscholarlyinfrastructure.org. Crossref's 2024 self audit here: www.crossref.org/blog/2024-po...

@paulakennedy.bsky.social from uolpress.bsky.social explains how @openbookcollective.bsky.social has helped their #openaccess books programme grow at #UKSG2025

Niels Stern from @doabooks.bsky.social highlighting PALOMERA's recommendation that national funders should consider funding mechanisms for #OAbooks that *don't* involve publication level charges (BPCs) #UKSG2025 (👀 @openbookcollective.bsky.social). Report at zenodo.org/records/1404...

University of York supporting principled initiatives at #uksg2025 - including a range of @copim.bsky.social members

Time for Group B at #UKSG2025 🕰️ Open Access for Books: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Policy Landscape @nielsstern.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Great to hear about how various collective funding #OpenAccess models and schemes like @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @openlibhums.bsky.social are working and proving to be financially sustainable - but need continued support… #UKSG2025 @uksg.bsky.social

Two posts this week on the *technical* issues for OA scholarly publishers having their websites absolutely HAMMERED by AI harvesting bots for training: Eric Hellman (@gluejar.com): go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b... Ian Mulvany (@ianmulvany.bsky.social): world.hey.com/ian.mulvany/...

Next Monday and Tuesday already at #UKSG2025 together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (DCU), and Nienke Schaverbeke (TU Delft)

Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder A grant proposal that we have submitted at Knowledge Commons to build an independent and dedicated, not-for-profit, politically and geographically distributed, digital preservation system @kfitz.info about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/d...

Our first newsletter of 2025 is out! 📰 Read what we've been up to since the start of the year and where to find us later this month: mailchi.mp/oapen.org/do... Subscribe if you haven't already to keep up to date: tinyurl.com/5yhe5mna #OAbooks #ALMASI @operaseu.bsky.social

I look very much forward to be presenting at this panel session at #UKSG2025: " #OpenAccess for Books: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Policy Landscape" together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (Dublin City University), and Nienke van Schaverbeke (TU Delft). www.uksg.org/events/confe...

'Libraries play a pivotal role in this ecosystem through their investments, but also by leveraging the tools and services offered by OAPEN and DOAB to enhance their collections, support researchers, and engage with the broader OA community.' #OAbooks @nielsstern.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social

We've reached 40,000 #OAbooks in the OAPEN Library! 🥳 The transition to #openaccess for books is far from complete, but this milestone is proof great things are happening because of passionate people who want to see knowledge open to all 🙌 Browse the collection today: library.oapen.org

Thankful and happy to see our great partnership with CERN come to fruition in this way. Powered by CERN’s Data Centre the future for our open infrastructures for scholarly books looks exciting and promising. Yeah!

The sun was shining bright over Madrid as a new initiative to support #DiamondOpenAccess scholarly publications - the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) - was launched. Congratulations to all involved! diamasproject.eu/public-launc...

For two years I have been contributing as Scientific Coordinator to the excellent EU-funded #PALOMERA project on policies for #openaccess #books. The project has now ended but its results will remain. In this policy brief lnkd.in/dh3r_FBz we've summarised the main outcomes and a path forward.

Dr. Alwaleed Aklhaja, Qatar National Library: A world without open infrastructure is just the world of commercial solutions. We need to support open infrastructures! #DiamondOpenAccess #DOASummit2024 #GlobalSummit #InnovationInPublishing #CapeTown2024 #OpenAccess #DKIS

Four more open infrastructures join the #SCOSS family in its 6th round! Welcome to @ajol.info @episciences.bsky.social Make Data Count, and SciPost. t.co/TYXJKRADU1