Starting now at the Charleston Conference @nielsstern.bsky.social participating in the ‘Bot war’ panel #Chs2025 #Charleston2025 @gluejar.com

Thrilled to share this blog post oapen.hypotheses.org/1733 introducing our new Head of Technology at @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social, Anna Wałek - a warm welcome, Anna.

⚠️Technical work in progress You may have recently experienced some instability on our platform. This was caused by exceptionally high levels of automated traffic. Our team has implemented solutions that are gradually restoring stability. We apologise for any inconvenience & thanks for your patience.

⚠️Technical work in progress You may have recently experienced some instability on our platform. This was caused by exceptionally high levels of automated traffic. Our team has implemented solutions that are gradually restoring stability. We apologise for any inconvenience & thanks for your patience.

Truly thankful to @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, Nicola Parkin (@tandfresearch.bsky.social), @rupertgatti.bsky.social and Jon Elwell (@ebsco.bsky.social) for making the @oapenbooks.bsky.social 15-year anniversary event at Frankfurter @buchmesse.de so festive and insightful. Congratulations to all 🥳

Next week we'll be at @buchmesse.de where the OAPEN Library was first launched 15 years ago. Our Managing Director, @nielsstern.bsky.social reflects on the past, present, and future of OAPEN in this jubilee blog post to mark the occasion.

We’re thrilled to unveil OAPEN’s refreshed visual identity – including a new logo – that better reflects who we’ve become, what we stand for, and where we’re headed. Read more about it in the announcement: oapen.org/article/intr...

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The @operaseu.bsky.social community is vibrant & doing important work to push #DiamondOA forward, inc. the OA Books Special Interest Group that we are part of. It's free to become an Ordinary Member, with a lightweight application process. Thanks @nielsstern.bsky.social for presenting our work!

@dannykay68.bsky.social sharing the #openaccess situation in Australia. It used to be better than it is today she shows. In this landscape, Danny promotes preprints among other things. #OASPA2025

Excited to present the OPERAS Research Infrastructure Special Interest Group on #OpenAccess Books at #OASPA2025. If you want to join the community then have a look at operas-eu.org/special-inte...

Wonderful to see among others two @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social board members - @charleswatkinson.bsky.social and Antia Wiersma - and @doabooks.bsky.social Scientific Committee member @c-bz.bsky.social on #oaspa2025 stage discussing WHY #openaccess matters and HOW to make it work

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/...