So proud that @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and I were able to publish this special issue of @jepub.bsky.social, which is very close to our heart. Huge congratulations to the co-editors @jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org!

New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

"Taken together, these initiatives illustrate that “scaling small” does not imply a single organisational form. Rather, it describes a shared orientation towards collaboration and institutional care." Nice exploration of scaling small for a Swiss national Diamond OA consortium.

This was also my final Open Book Futures and @copim.bsky.social event too. It's been a privilege to work with the Experimental Publishing Group for the last five years, pushing the boundaries of publishing and encouraging new ways of thinking in open publishing. Truly the passing of an era.

Spending a few days with the Experimental Publishing Group and the pilot projects has been a blast. My final Open Book Futures event, too. What a way to send it off!

Various of the MORPHSS team are attending this event today and tomorrow - looking forward to a fantastic programme of sessions

Interesting points made in the @copim.bsky.social Experimental Publishing conference about finding ways to make visible the collective nature of research & book production. A lot of the relationships that go into creating a book are often only briefly mentioned in an acknowledgements section.

⏰ Not long to go now until our #ExperimentalPublishing group’s online conference! 🗓️ 8-9 April 2026 Register now 👉 buff.ly/Ca1Q6dj Full programme 👉 buff.ly/4GI05kP #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing

⏰ Not long to go now until our #ExperimentalPublishing group’s online conference! 🗓️ 8-9 April 2026 🔗 buff.ly/3RVC2Lc Full programme 👉 Online Conference: Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing

Next week! Come and learn more about what these experimental book pilots have been up to and discuss experimental publishing with us, our speakers, and panellists!

🎉 Aand, it's done! Thoth 1.0 is live! 🎉 🎉 And with it, our new website 🎉 (below a comparison of the old style (yellow) vs. the new look - head over to thoth.pub to see for yourself)

All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ #UKSG2026

really looking forward to this!

At @limnpress.bsky.social, we are currently looking for libraries trying to align collections strategies w/ their support for a healthier schol comm system, one where scholars have more influence than stockholders. We are asking them to put funding behind this purpose. Readers of Limn can help out.

I'm giving a keynote 4/9 on speculative+experimental kinds of peer review, built on my "Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just+Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure" article journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... For Experimental Publishing Practices conf: copim.pub/online-confe...

This is going to be a wonderful online conference (8-9 April) showcasing the @copim.bsky.social experimental book pilots we supported & featuring discussions with speakers & panelists as part of 3 themed sessions on Infrastructuring, Open Peer Reviewing, and Binding. Register here 👉 buff.ly/zX0kSlC

The programme is organised around themed sessions: 1️⃣ Infrastructuring 2️⃣ Open Peer Reviewing 3️⃣ Binding Kenotes: Simon Dumas Primbault (CNRS), Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Scholars’ Lab UVA Library), & Bob Stein (Founder of Tapestry) 2/2

[CONFERENCE] Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots Get your ticket now! One ticket covers both days 🎫 More info 👉 buff.ly/zX0kSlC #OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing 1/2

Tomorrow!👀 Join us for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

—on publishing, 3 events 👀 15 march, ICI Berlin www.ici-berlin.org/events/a-hun... 21 april, Reform oder Revolution? www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/all... 23 april, Gespräch mit Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) über Verlegen als Humanities in Action: lfbrecht.de/events/2026-...

Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences. We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social

Join @morphss.bsky.social for their catalogue launch event and panel discussion next week! The panel of experts features @openreflections.bsky.social from our Experimental Publishing Group! 📆 Thurs, 19 March ⏲️ 3-4:30 pm GMT 📍 Online Register now! buff.ly/q3tc1UH #OpenResearch #AHSS

We invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future? #DiamondOA

Reminder: Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA

Looking forward to joining @oipassoc.bsky.social tomorrow! Janneke Adema @openreflections.bsky.social & Rebekka Kiesewetter join Terence Smyre to discuss the theoretical & practical aspects of experimental & enhanced publishing Find out about our Experimental Publishing Group 👉

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce a two-day online conference on Experimental Publishing Practices Join us next month to celebrate 3 fantastic experimental book pilot projects! 📆 8–9 April 2026 👉 buff.ly/5J80AJO

This panel on experimental publishing futures which I co-chaired with @openreflections.bsky.social is now available to view in its entirety on the Internet Archive. #CopimConference archive.org/details/copi...

Very exciting to see the full rogramme of the London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026! #LDNOpenFest26 Led by fantastic team of @uclopenscience.bsky.social Booking is now open. Check the sessions out and note that Tue. 21 April is in-person at the @fci-library.bsky.social 🎊

Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26

1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...

And if you're interested in following the work of Copim post project end, join our new JiscMail list 👉 buff.ly/SxZEPm7 Photo by Philip Oroni on Unsplash

That's a wrap! Thanks so much to all who came to the #CopimConference, to our fantastic speakers & our wonderful hosts at Loughborough University London campus. We'll release recordings soon & we look forward to taking the energy & ideas from conference into the coming months! 🔜

Thinking some more about the long history of scholar-led presses, I was reminded of an H5P timeline, which was looking into the emergence of scholar-led initiatives particularly in the field of #MediaStudies ... might be of interest to #CopimConference participants? doi.org/10.59350/bwq...

I owe a huge amount to @copim.bsky.social and the many people connected to it. The #CopimConference was a really nice way to celebrate the project's amazing community-led activity in open access books. Looking forward to seeing what you all do next...

Siddarth Soni starting his keynote with a Jesse Shera quote contextualising his idea of activist librarians and radical librarianship. #CopimConference

Call for applications! We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL! £5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

"Every time I hear it I want to say love, love is our business model: Precarious, productive, scary, unpredictable, high stake." - McHardy, 2017 #CopimConference

Save the date! Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots @openreflections.bsky.social 👉 copim.pub/save-the-dat... #CopimConference

Next up "Experimental publishing futures" with Janneke Adema @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Bowie @simonxix.com chairing, and John Atkinson, Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social & Paul Stevens on the panel #CopimConference

Example book projects that used experimental publishing: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship doi.org/10.63674/yra... Living with Machines: Computational Histories of the Age of Industry uolpress.co.uk/book/living-... #CopimConference

Our colleague @emmagallon.bsky.social is now presenting on our experimental and multimodal book publishing. #OpenAccess gives us room to rethink what a scholarly book can be. Excited to publish two enhanced OA editions this year using our instance of @manifoldscholar.bsky.social. #CopimConference

Our member @uolpress.bsky.social’s Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social presenting at the #CopimConference on experimental publishing, with a number of enhanced projects available and forthcoming.

The final note from our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social is for publishers to be collaborators. #OpenAccess and experimental publishing can make a really positive contribution to (open) research cultures. #CopimConference

1/ OBC publishers are innovating when it comes not only to #OpenAccess, but also to form & process. Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social from @uolpress.bsky.social talking at the #CopimConference about how the press is engaging in a range of #ExperimentalPublishing practices

Explore our blog series which documents the making of the Deep Maps: Blue Humanities pilot project Deep Maps: Monographs ‘n’ Markdown 👉 copim.pubpub.org/pub/deep-map... Deep Maps: experimenting with peer review 👉 copim.pubpub.org/pub/deep-map... #CopimConference

A shout out to Michigan University Press @uofmpress.bsky.social on their innovative experiment representing work in a way traditional publishing can’t do. I think that MUP’s director @charleswatkinson.bsky.social is watching this event online… #CopimConference

Excellent overview of some of our work in experimental publishing @uolpress.bsky.social by our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social at #copimconference ‘Publishers as collaborators’ and experimental publishing as part of positive research culture 👏 @oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

3/ Or there's @uniwestpress.bsky.social's forthcoming Deep Maps: Blue Humanities text, involving a collaboration with @jstor.bsky.social Labs and @copim.bsky.social, as presented by John Atkinson at #CopimConference

Another great member press presentation from John Atkinson at @uniwestpress.bsky.social on how experimental publishing is changing scholarly publishing, raising important qs around peer review for new formats. Also referencing @livunipress.bsky.social & @manifoldscholar.bsky.social #CopimConference

Our very own @simonxix.com now co-chairing a panel about experimental publishing at the @copim.bsky.social conference, something we’re very keen to do more of at Edinburgh Diamond! Great to hear what other publishers are doing in this area. #CopimConference