Watch last week's #OAweek panel on 'Mainstreaming Diamond', hosted by Open Library of Humanities. Featuring OBC's Joe Deville, alongside Kira Hopkins from Opening the Future, Rupert Gatti from Open Book Publishers, Caroline Edwards from OLH & Open Journals Collective, and Joanna Ball from DOAJ.

It's really great to see @uoyopenres.bsky.social highlighting their principled support for community-led and non-profit open research infrastructure, including us here at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social! blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2025...

And no, I'm not suggesting a completely different utilisation of budgets (although that is an option). I'm talking about restructuring budgets and planning for a future. As @joedeville.bsky.social and I have said before: *austerity is not a strategy*. Library directors/deans/etc.: please take heed.

Reminder about next week's online panel. www.psu.edu/news/univers...

So glad to see this out! This was a big undertaking and I'm very happy with the end result. Thanks in particular to @judithfathallah.bsky.social for the work on this

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

Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books

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...

Hearing now (also streaming live) from our FUT Minna colleagues, talking about their @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project #OAbooks

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

It's just started if you want to join the live stream!!

The 2025 National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria, starting today, will have plenary sessions live streamed and is open to all. Titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty', the event starts at 9am BST/10am CEST. Programme: oa-summit.bookhub.ng. Streaming at wacren.zoom.us/j/67762421550

Explore @openbookcollective.bsky.social origins, purpose, and relationships, as well as OMP and the open book publishing landscape with @joedeville.bsky.social 💗

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Den einen ist der Verfassungsblog nicht wissenschaftlich genug, den anderen zu kostenfrei, um von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken finanziert zu werden. Wieso an beidem nichts dran ist, erklärt EVIN DALKILIC im Editorial. verfassungsblog.de/diese-wissen...

Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us speculativemachines.co.uk/news-item/19...

Our Diamond OA publisher, TU Delft Open, published 45 books in 2024 20 textbooks, 18 edited volumes, 4 conference books, 3 monographs One significant growth area: interactive textbooks (25% of the textbooks) openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl/tu-delft-ope...

TY Joe, for comments on how what our communities have been doing (some for 25+ years), works. Lots of folks in #OpenAccess, #OpenInfrastructure spaces have been quite successful at community-driven, non-traditional approaches, as your interview with us shows (just out!): pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/23/o...

Today is OBP's 17 year anniversary! We have... published 434 books; received 24 awards; surpassed 250 book reviews & 380 endorsements; worked on software development projects; and amassed 273 member libraries. The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG

📢Employment opportunity at PKP! PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact. If you are interested, learn more at: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

Have a read of Sam's excellent new book, which is of course published #OpenAccess 🎉 🔗 press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...

1/ With speakers now addressing the central question of "why do you care about open access"? I'm not sure actually what my own answer would be. But I think part of it would borrow from what @rupertgatti.bsky.social said yesterday, which is that open access is for many of us not a sufficient goal

Congratulations @carolynpedwell.bsky.social! Such a fantastic project & site

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...

There has been a lot of chat at #OASPA2025 about how, if we were starting the scholarly publishing system from scratch, we would build it differently. And that we have to work with the system as is, with all its flaws (my gloss). I agree to some extent - but I'm not sure this framing is helpful

Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative

Firenze University Press opening the #OAbooks panel at #OASPA2025. Interested to hear more about the new OA Publishing Hub cooperative infrastructure being built in an Italian context

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?

Happy to be here at the #OASPA2025 conference at the University of Leuven, to see Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social from the university (and also an @openbookcollective.bsky.social Steward/Trustee) open proceedings in the beautiful Irish College

We have written up some rapid reflections on our & @copim.bsky.social's contributions to the OA Tage event and why it stands as an encouraging example of how to do #OpenAccess from the bottom up. Thanks to the organisers for a wonderful 3 days #OAT25 openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-acc...

A busy @copim.bsky.social day at OA Tage #OAT25 ends with @kjsanders.bsky.social presenting a paper co-authored with @kirahopkins.bsky.social outlining the problematic outcomes for the scholarly system resulting from entanglements between large commercial publishers, acquisition practices & funders

I decided to experiment with giving this talk in German. I think it worked ok! Those few years in Germany as a kid came in handy..

Day 2 at University of Konstanz for OA Tage #OAT25, the most important annual event for German language #OpenAccess practitioners. A busy day for @copim.bsky.social, starting with a workshop on Scaling Small with AG Universitätsverlage, inc @kjsanders.bsky.social on @openbookcollective.bsky.social

The deadline for applications for this key position at @openbookcollective.bsky.social is now a little under a week away (end of Sunday August 17th). Looking for someone to really lead our work with a range of #OpenAccess books stakeholders bsky.app/profile/open... @copim.bsky.social

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

It's been a difficult week. Still in denial about the loss of our @lancasteruninews.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social friend and colleague Elaine Sykes

In case you missed it or weren't there, check out the poster on Zenodo via the link below 👇

Heading up to Edinburgh this evening for #EORC to present with @kjsanders.bsky.social on Author Agency and the Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social - see the full programme here openresearch.ed.ac.uk/conference/

Joe also mentioned the following 👇 The Copim perspective on Community-Led 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-pe... Our Experimental Publishing Group 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/experimental...

What do you know! After 6 years we’ve managed to have an in-person authors reunion at the DIAMAS final conference of this @libereurope.bsky.social paper: Rebels with a Cause. liberquarterly.eu/article/view... Older, but not letting go on institutional diamond openaccess publishing!

Just finished discussing #Diamond diversity across Europe 💎 (yes, we got 📚 into it) @joedeville.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social #DIAMASFinalConference #Diversity #Visibility #Funding #Sustainability #Governance

In the discussion about funding options for #DiamondOpenAccess, both Daniela Hahn from University of Zürich and @ivamz.bsky.social note the real lack of options for journals, specifically. Here's looking, hopefully, at you @ojcollective.bsky.social 👀

A manic two days so far: Manchester => Edinburgh => London => Brussels 🚂. Happy to be here to join the conversation about the future of #DiamondOpenAccess at the @diamas.bsky.social final conference

So happy to see this video out. Shot at the Charleston conference late last year, with compelling testimonials on why @openbookcollective.bsky.social's work is so vital to the future of OA publishers, infrastructure providers, authors and the wider scholarly system. Thanks to all who took part

🧵 My views after #UKSG2025, regurgitated from linkedin. Themes of lack of money, wider turmoil, malevolent tech but with opportunities everywhere to do things differently now

Loved this analogy "“No one cares about the longevity of a mayfly, but it’s the population that’s important… these programs are supporting an ecosystem”

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

Another chance at #UKSG2025 to talk about how our initiatives are doing not just bare bones sustainability but as per @theblochian.bsky.social long term viability @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social

The sheer scale of the community-led Diamond OA presence at UKSG is phenomenal. We just need a little bit more divestment from legacy expenditure, and we have the prospect of an exciting scholarly comms. future.

Wow. @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social not holding back in sharing the "transformative difference" @openbookcollective.bsky.social is having on their work, inc funding several new #OAbooks, a partnership w/ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, a new editorial assistant & a new EDI internship