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...

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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

What might stop authors from wanting to publish an experimental book? @emmagallon.bsky.social says often it’s a widespread lack of awareness of what can be done. What are the possibilities for publishing your research in different ways? Publishers need to show ppl what’s possible. #CopimConference

Obviously I’m biased, but that was an excellent panel on experimental publishing chaired by @openreflections.bsky.social and @simonxix.com featuring @pwhstevens.bsky.social from BUP and fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social member John Atkinson from @uniwestpress.bsky.social 📚 #CopimConference

Back at #CopimConference and looking forward to co-chairing the panel on experimental book publishing later this morning. Ready your questions on publishing outwith the traditional monograph form.

I'll be heading down to England for #CopimConference later this week where I'll be co-chairing a panel on experimental books but also having lots of discussions about community-owned open access publishing with people doing the work. Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and meeting new people.

It should have been obvious, but I didn't realise that the best thing about publishing a book would be when someone reads and critically engages with the work and then builds on it. Thanks to the authors!

I will be speaking at this wonderful in person symposium in Berlin @iciberlin.bsky.social on March 16th: A Hundred Years of The Future of the Book. Experimental Publishing Today: www.ici-berlin.org/events/a-hun... Organised by Rachel Robinson and Verónica Stedile Luna. Do join if you are in Berlin.

Very much looking forward to taking part in this @morphss.bsky.social panel in March to launch and discuss the amazing Report doi.org/10.17613/jn1... and Catalogue catalogue.morphss.work of open research practices in AHSS by @jenniad.bsky.social and @mirandab-oa.bsky.social et al. Register below!

We are really looking forward to sharing the outcomes of the pilot projects that we (Copim's Experimental Publishing Group copim.pub/groups/exper...) have supported over the last 2 years during this conference, more information about the program & registration will hopefully be available next week!

It's the week of the #CopimConference! We look forward to welcoming the whopping 567 of you who registered to attend either in person or online! 🙌 And if you missed out on a ticket, we will share the recordings via our website afterwards 💻️ More information on our website 👉

Interdisciplinary research in the arts and humanities is currently at the crux of the wider crisis in UK HE. See also the dearly departed Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry.

Join us on March 3, 7pm GMT for an online discussion of Pirate Care by Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak This event is supported by various collectives & will launch a book review forum published in the Postdigital Science & Education Journal link.springer.com/article/10.1...

[BLOG] Rewriting the Rules: Africa’s Knowledge and Publishing Futures Read Josiline Chigwada's reflections from the 'Extending knowledge and publishing infrastructures in and from Africa', held In Nairobi (Dec. 2025) 🔎 Key takeaways 🧱 Expected challenges 🪜 Next steps 🔗

📣 Happening next week 🗣️ Join the KC team on February 17 from 9am-10am for "The Ethics of Open Scholarship," a webinar taking place as part of MSU's Ethics Week. This event will explore how to create better equity in the open access and open science movements. Register now! tinyurl.com/59ppxbr9

New piece: "ALGO-READ: The creative automation of the reading subject" Open access. Critical study of the production of ‘the reading subject’ as a media trend, unit of value and data point www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... in RELATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (eds A. Lagerkvist, J. Smolicki

BREAKING - WE HAVE WON! Following a successful Judicial Review brought by Huda Ammori, and a sustained campaign of defiance by defend our juries leading to almost 3,000 ‘terror’ arrests, the ban on Palestine Action has been ruled unlawful in the courts.

New Call for Papers alert! 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

In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.

NEW resource for open research in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences: The MORPHSS catalogue documents 30 open research practices in AHSS disciplines, with detailed descriptions, examples, and suggested resources and further reading. catalogue.morphss.work

Gary Hall's book, Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is now out: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu... Published by our friends at mediastudies.press, it's available open access, under the CC4r: Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment, so please feel free to share widely.

📢 PSA: in person ticket sales for #CopimConference close in less than a week! This is your chance to join the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OA book publishing 📚 👉 Full programme, additional information & registration link buff.ly/EjHKpeJ #OpenAccess

Submissions are now open for our “other tongue, mother tongue” issue. We’re looking for poetry by migrants worldwide in any language but English. We pay contributors. Guidelines: othersideofhope.com/submissions-...

Inscription 6 on TEARS & RIPS will be out in early summer. Pre-order now at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy Artists in issue 6: Bas Jan Ader, I'm too sad to tell you, 1970, © MoMA / Scala Dave Beech, When News Hit Shore, 2023 Stephen Emmerson, Holes, 7" vinyl record, 2026...

We @jepub.bsky.social are proud to be part of the Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social inaugural collection of #diamondOA journals. Published by @uofmpress.bsky.social & @michiganpublishing.bsky.social we have been #diamondOA since launching in 1995. Great to be part of this community!

There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.

Manifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship and Research: educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/ Spearheaded by members of the Education for Sustainability and Global Futures Learning Futures Collaborative learningfutures.education.asu.edu/lfc/educatio... at Arizona State University.

Simply put, every university is spending thousands of pounds on individual licenses to Microsoft for Microsoft 365 Copilot when we could instead all chip in towards the servers and staff to run multi-tenant Nextcloud instances.