Come and support the wonderful Copim gang whilst I’m on maternity leave! Happy to answer any q’s about the role ☺️

NEW WEBINAR: “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” hosted by Copim, @sparc-eu.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social 📆 Tue 11 Nov ⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT/4pm-5.15pm CET 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8 #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

🚨 Job opportunity at @lborouniversity.bsky.social Join the wonderful Open Book Futures project team as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books 🔸 1 FTE, Fixed Term appointment for six months 🔸 Anticipated start date of 1st November 2025 🔗 buff.ly/jbJ3yrQ

Pushback over moves by major publishers to ‘fix open access’. Open access group sceptical that solutions will come from companies rather than community-led initiatives. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

🚨 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...

When did game studies start? & what & WHO is at the core of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces. Download for FREE this #OpenAccess 780-page BRICK of a book & press PLAY. tinyurl.com/2ucxjy8a

Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.

Today I got to eat pizza with some of my @copim.bsky.social colleagues! A pleasure to be together and to discuss plans for Year 3 of our project and beyond…! 🍕💫

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭 The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡 ✅ Accessibility knowledge base ✅ Planning models ✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy 🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope... 1/3

So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!) If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC... #Shakespeare #skystorians

'In the UK we’ve somehow convinced ourselves that the only viable model for student housing involves luxury studio flats with ensuite bathrooms, designer kitchens and increasingly impossible rents.' Interesting, esp. in light of HEI multi-crises (maintenance costs, cold spots etc). 1/2

Does a backwards imprint spotted at the end of a digitised 17thC book indicate a bibliographic mishap (a page’s acidic ink creating an imprint on the preceding leaf); or a digital one? As DeLuca expertly discusses, “technical imperfections can mimic historical artifacts”

Paid a visit to Anne Clifford’s “Great Painting” today. Found it quite moving that my 3-year old is the same height as Anne’s brothers, depicted in life-size. Toddlers, separated by 350+ years, meeting eye-to-eye.

It's that Friday feeling.

It’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share! #Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus

Why publish your book Open Access? @drpetewatson.bsky.social shares that his "readership has increased" and his book "has been included on a number of university reading lists across the globe (in the UK, the USA, Australia and in some South American countries)".

We're really grateful to @drpetewatson.bsky.social for sharing his experiences of publishing Football and National Building in Colombia (2010-2018) with @livunipress.bsky.social, enabled by Opening the Future funding. For the full interview, please see here! ⚽ copim.pubpub.org/pub/football...

An important survey of a still deeply intractable problem, which shows little sign of resolution at scale (underlined) across all of AHSS any time soon, despite pockets of progress. And the current transatlantic financial crisis for HEIs are only compounding the challenges. Sadly.

How should we fund Open Access book publishing? And why does how we do it matter? My colleagues @kjsanders.bsky.social and @kirahopkins.bsky.social discuss the politics of past, present & future OA publishing with such eloquence in this new article. What a treat! 👏👏 doi.org/10.31274/jls...

After a fab webinar on Unlocking ebooks from @cilip.bsky.social & @knowledgerights21.org I'm joining Joanne Fitzpatrick @lancasteruni.bsky.social & @copim.bsky.social for Beyond Paywalls: Librarians Re-imagining Open Access Maybe the 2 themes are linked? 🤔 #ebooksos #openaccess #accessibility

There are two weeks left to apply to the Collective Development Fund's 2025 round. We fund projects building capacity for OA books and the infrastructure to support them. To see what we funded last time, follow the links at the top of the call: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-coll...

Beyond Paywalls: Librarians Re-imagining Open Access Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:30 lancaster-uk.libcal.com/calendar/lib...

Join @clairemcgann.bsky.social and @tmorley24.bsky.social for the latest episode of Lancaster University Library's 'Talking around the library tree' podcast 🎙️ They discuss Lancaster's involvement in the Open Book Futures and celebrate what the project has achieved 🎉 🔗

1/4 📣 OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2025 Call & Guidance! We are delighted to launch the second call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-coll...

More "Knowing Me, Knowing UKSG" @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social interviews Lucy Barnes, Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator at Open Book Publishers. linktr.ee/uksgpodcast

Today we’re celebrating 3 years of joy, and love, and sleep deprivation. With a chocolate caterpillar. As tradition dictates.

Time (overdue) to question who our HE libraries are paying for their systems, and to consider better, safer solutions. Thanks for this paper @simonxix.com

Love discovering what books can reveal about the people, materials and processes that made them. (And always love to see the word “frisket”.) Thanks for sharing @svanimpe.bsky.social

Oh OK, thanks Dottie, I guess we have to get some more flyers now for Frankfurt Book Fair and the Charleston Conference 😆 #fmm24 #chsconf24

A reminder of this upcoming NLISN event! Are you a neurodivergent library, information, or archive worker? You might be interested in NLISN's upcoming event, Leading the Library's Neurotypicals: Neurodivergent viewpoints. www.eventbrite.com/e/leading-th...

That feeling when your online banking asks "Is this a scam?" and you're paying image permissions costs so the answer is... kind of yes?

For anyone following @openlibhums.bsky.social we’ve just published our first comprehensive annual report. Please do take a moment to look over all the things we’ve achieved in 2023-24 & our plans for the coming year! www.openlibhums.org/news/757/ #OpenAccess

Very timely FREE @uksg.bsky.social webinar... 👩‍💻 Getting out from the back of the sofa: or how can we achieve sustainable funding for #OpenAccess books? Join @scholtom.bsky.social and Elaine Sykes as they explore how non BPC models can achieve sustainability www.uksg.org/event/Webina...

Here's the collective @copim.bsky.social poster I presented yesterday at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference in Lisbon. We've done so much! But much still to do. Also archived on Zenodo zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... Hat tip to Silke Davidson from DOAB/OAPEN for a design I adapted..

100%. I recently discovered a conviction that “only boys with clean teeth can listen to Tina Turner”.

Going through some old photos and I found this one of the Ramones admiring a Gutenberg Bible, which I thought bluesky might enjoy

"clue" originally meant "a ball of string" (spelt clew) since Theseus used a ball of string to find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth, "clue/clew" became a metaphor for "thing that helps you solve a puzzle" or "thing that points you in the right direction"

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're Copim, an international community of people building non-profit, community-owned & community-governed infrastructure to support equitable open access book publishing: 🌐 www.copim.ac.uk 📝 copim.pubpub.org Follow us for all things #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure

New post in my newsletter about open source software. This post discusses what to use instead of Microsoft Office and how you're using Microsoft Word for things it shouldn't be used for. opensauce.simonxix.com/microsoft-of...

Today I gave blood for the first time. I went a bit dizzy, so got to sit and eat Club biscuits watching Antiques road show for 30 mins. Honestly, the most relaxed afternoon I’ve had in ages.

Hosting *quite* the party over here

Good morning! I'm going to post through my first look at the CMOS 18 change log. 🫨 www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/help-tools/w...

This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...

*A question for 17th century book historians.* I feel I should know this, but I just don’t & cannot find the answer anywhere. Were books exported wholesale to colonial America, or would, say, a master copy be sent to an American printing house & then printed en masse locally?

Fascinated by how obsessed Nabokov was with pinning down exact time and place here. He drew a little map of where Northampton is!

Excited about this! @simonxix.com writes about tech in such a clear and engaging way. It’s rare, I think, for someone to be so generous and patient when sharing their expertise.