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Join @oipassoc.bsky.social either online or in person for their 2026 Symposium! 📆 Thursday 18 June Programme features panels, lightning talks, workshops & more! PS. Lots of #CopimCommunity will be there too! @scholtom.bsky.social @simonxix.com Reserve your spot now!

How can we shape equitable #OA for longform?! A panel featuring @scholtom.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social will try to unpack this thorny question as part of @knowledgeen.bsky.social Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026! More info, and registration details 👉

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thothally-...

[ONLINE CONFERENCE] Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN): Creative Collaborations, Collective Momentum 📆 Tuesday, 12 May to Thursday, 14 May 📍 Online 🔗 buff.ly/mU0yl6L @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social 1/2

Looking forward to being on this panel alongside @dombroadhurst.bsky.social @wisealic.bsky.social & others

🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: Sidestone Press We recently caught up with @karstenwentink.bsky.social co-founder of Sidestone Press to find out how they realised the benefits of working towards #Accessibility standards Read more 👉 buff.ly/z3aORb8 @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @jofitz.bsky.social

And shortly before #operas2026sciros we're gonna be participating in @pkp.sfu.ca 's wonderful PKP Sprint #pkpwaw2026 - we'll be the ones lokking to make a case for #OAbooks, and #openmetadata for OMP #MetadataMatters 🤗📚 #openinfrastructures pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-waw-spri...

How can we shape equitable #OA for longform scholarship? Join @scholtom.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social for Session 6 (21 May) of @knowledgeen.bsky.social Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026 to find out! More info, and registration details 👉 buff.ly/ww1hpr1 1/2

Are you a library looking to download rich, quality MARC records for #OpenAccess books? Then come straight to Thoth! Skip the stripped down, low quality ingest into your LMS via proprietary vendors. This blog post by @uolpress.bsky.social explains how easy it is to make the change! #OpenMetadata

At #CALC2026 today, WRUP is attending a really important talk from the Open Book Futures project on accessibility in diamond open access monograph publishing. 📚 #OpenAccess

Members of #CopimCommunity are heading to @operaseu.bsky.social conference later this month! 📆 18-21 May 2026 📍 Warsaw, Poland @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social #operas2026sciros Full programme 👉

👏 That's also why contributor affiliation metadata and PIDs play a key role in our proposed two-tiered metadata framework for books and chapters - which also provides publishers with clear pathways to adopting good #metadata practice in their day-to-day workflows doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Visit academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/conference/a... and apply by 18th May to see what doors a sponsored place at our conference will open for you! #ALN26

The Call for Speakers and Topics for #UKSG2027 is out now! dub.sh/nWpdE5R

Big news - the wonderful Andrew Barker has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience and Colleges)!! Congratulations dear UKSG friend! www.lancaster.ac.uk/leadership/

You may have heard Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social at #UKSG2026 = 🔓📚 Check out her podcast episode for a good dose of #OA publishing/career inspiration goodness 👉 soundcloud.com/uksg-podcast...

🎫 Have you got tickets for #CALC26 (a conference discussing critical practice in libraries) 📆 Join @jofitz.bsky.social online TOMORROW 🤝 Open Book Accessibility Model: libraries and small presses partnering for sustainable accessibility practices 🔗 buff.ly/cQY6drZ Photo by CURVD® on Unsplash

From Copim to WACREN: a librarian’s journey through global Open Access conversations - Open Book Collective obc.copim.pub/from-copim-t...

Any #librarians who would like to access MARC records for our books - please use Thoth! uolpress.co.uk/2026/05/supp... Including the #metadata for Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage, published yesterday: admin.thoth.pub/admin/works/... #Publishing #SkyBrarians #AcademicLibrary

You can read a two-part discussion of peer review surrounding the creation of Deep Maps: Blue Humanities here: Peer Review Under Review: https://copim.pub/peer-review-under-review/ Peer Review as Party: It’s Done in the Doing: https://copim.pub/peer-review-as-party-its-done-in-the-doing/ […]

Friday reading from the @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social 🛋️ Make yourself a cuppa and read both blogs in the series so far 🫖

[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia Funded by @openbookcollective.bsky.social the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs 🔗 buff.ly/R4rP9di #CDF

The Open Library of Humanities now has a merchandise store! Posters, tote bags, hoodies, mugs, t-shirts, and more featuring OLH and Janeway designs are now available via our new Teemill store: www.openlibhums.org/news/939/

REGISTER: for "A sustainable future for diamond open access: The Open Journals Collective" with Tom Shaw, Library Engagement Lead, @ojcollective.bsky.social organised by @oaaustralasia.bsky.social 10 June 4pm AEST, 6pm NZST oaaustralasia.org/a-sustainabl...

Keep up to date with @openbookcollective.bsky.social post Open Book Futures project Sign up to their newsletter now ✉️

Our new quarterly newsletter is out today! Get a more detailed insight into 'behind the scenes' at the OBC - where we've been, what we've been doing, and what is still to look forward to! obc.copim.pub/wp-content/u...

We're so pleased to publish Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social today🥳 Download an #OpenAccess copy, read it online via @manifoldscholar.bsky.social or buy it in print! uolpress.co.uk/book/explori... #DigitalHumanities

PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership experience and business savvy to our team. Help advance the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

🪴 PKP is hiring! Associate Director of Publishing Services Bring your leadership and budgeting experience to our team. Help advance benefits of the world's most widely used scholarly publishing platform! If you don't fit the job description 100% you should apply anyway! pkp.sfu.ca/2026/05/07/p...

To keep up to date on where we'll be and what we're doing, why not join our mailing list? We send out brief monthly updates and a more detailed newsletter every quarter - click the link below to sign up. 👇 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

Celebrations & reflections! 🎉 @kjsanders.eurosky.social discusses the 3 experimental book pilot projects & what they have made possible 🔗 buff.ly/ZbPXGvI @openreflections.bsky.social @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @simonxix.com @chromatinfuel.bsky.social

How can we shape equitable #OA for longform?! A panel featuring @scholtom.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social will try to unpack this thorny question as part of @knowledgeen.bsky.social Knowledge Equity & Open Scholarship Week 2026! More info, and registration details 👉

[KEYNOTE] Join @joedeville.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social at CIVICA Open Science Conference! 📆 Wednesday 20 May 📍 LSE and online ▶️ Register via Eventbrite now

Happy to report that @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, and I returned the proofs for our forthcoming article in the Scottish Journal of Open Research today! (Big thanks to @kk-irsty.bsky.social and @beckywojturska.bsky.social etc.)

How can a small, scholar-led press publish experimentally? Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds) reflects on the ‘Database as Book’ pilot ☑️ Collaboration ☑️ Peer review ☑️ Rethinking publishing workflows 🔗

If anyone from the #UK community is interested in this opportunity please get in touch 📞 You don't have to be an expert in all the services, full training will be provided!

📣We're looking for people to join our committee 💻Web Officer: Supporting the existing online & social media team 📑Development Officer: NLISN is now a CIC,which means more flexibility for us to raise money to support our core work. More info here: nlisn.org/2026/05/05/n...

Any subject librarians interested in peer reviewed humanities books which are also #OpenAccess? We just sent this email out to you and thought we'd share it here too! It also contains info about @oipassoc.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🙏 email.eurolibraries.com/q/1muJHqMvM0...

🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: Mattering Press We recently caught up with @joedeville.bsky.social @matteringpress.bsky.social to find out how, as a small scholar-led press, they are approaching #Accessibility Read more 👉 buff.ly/D7SVkk4 @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @jofitz.bsky.social 1/2

... with which we present a comparative analysis of five widely used preservation services through the lens of Copim’s Open Archiving Criteria. #OAbooks #openinfrastructure copim.pub/copim-open-a...

The @copim.bsky.social Archiving and Preservation Group is happy to announce the publication of a new report, "Applying Open Access and Open Data to the Archiving of Long-Form Scholarship", ... copim.pub/preserving-o...

📢 Make sure you don't miss out on #CALC26 tickets! 📆 Tues 12 - Thurs 14 May 📍 Online Featuring @jofitz.bsky.social on Day 1 👉 The Open Book Accessibility Model: libraries and small presses partnering for sustainable accessibility practices 🔗 buff.ly/cQY6drZ Photo by CURVD® on Unsplash

A successful #OA book mandate requires #Infrastructure not compliance ⚒️ @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social shares her thoughts on #REF via the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Developed as part of the @copim.bsky.social Open Book Futures, #CopimCompass is now a community resource - please do contribute and help it grow 🌱 @kirahopkins.bsky.social

📢 Tool spotlight: Copim Compass An online information hub developed by @copim.bsky.social for navigating #OpenAccess book publishing, #DiamondOA funding models, accessibility, archiving, and preservation. 🔷Read more: bit.ly/4epx9Cf 🔷Join the Forum: forum.edch.eu

Are any #UK members of @operaseu.bsky.social interested in this opportunity? @openbookcollective.bsky.social @abertayuni.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @uclpress.bsky.social Ping me for more info! ☎️

😓 Overwhelmed by the sheer number of #OAbook resources out there? ✅ Let’s make #OpenAccess #Monographs manageable! 🧭 Explore #DiamondOA in more depth via #CopimCompass buff.ly/JoZiV7f Photo: Jordan Madrid, Unsplash

The @openbookcollective.bsky.social Stakeholder & Sustainability Evaluation Report - a 🧵

The first CoP meeting will Wed 10 June at 4pm ⏰ All details 👇 @scholtom.bsky.social