Happy Christmas to the #CopimCommunity 🎄 Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎉

It's been a super busy year for you all - enjoy the break guys! 😴

NEW: Support us by joining our individual membership programme! This year, we’ve published 60+ #OA books without mandatory fees. Support us by joining one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊ Join us:

We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄

Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄 We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share! 👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀 #OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture

Are you a @buffer.com user? What plant are you? And how do you intend to grow in 2026? 🌱 #FridayFun #GiantSequoia

#OPERASServices | We are thrilled to announce that the OPERAS Services Catalogue has two new additions to end 2025 on a very high note: the Mondaecus platform and the OPERAS Innovation Lab. Discover more about OPERAS services: https://operas-eu.org/services/#OPERASServices and stay tuned for updates!

It's going to be an exciting 2026 for the Thoth team - can't wait to see what they have in store 👀

We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

[CATCH UP] @amandasramalho.bsky.social at #FILGuadalajara2025 📚 Listen to insights on @scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers! @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🎥 Watch now buff.ly/XCQwcz0 #FIL2025 #MetadataMatters

MARK YOUR 2026 CALENDAR! Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS26 📝 Who owns our knowledge? 📆 Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026 🔗 openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos

Find out more about @operaseu.bsky.social Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social are all members?!

[READ] Affordances, Resilience, and Precarity: Reflections on the 2025 Charleston Conference 📚 Members of team @openbookcollective.bsky.social share their reflections from #chsconf2025 🔗

Lots of the Copim team will be there - find us at stand no. 66!

Library support means that @ceu-press.bsky.social has already been able to publish many new #OA books (with more funded and planned) ▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!

Join us in 2026 for more outreach & engagement 📆 If you want any of our groups to speak at your event, get in touch via email [mailto: [email protected]] Catch up with past events 👉

Our outreach & engagement diary is now closed for 2025! It's been a super busy year! See where we've been 👇 *Other more sustainable forms of transport were also used #PlanesTrainsAutomobiles

#FRIDAYFUN Let's play 'Who is coming to #CopimConference?' Is your country represented? It's not too late to join in 👉 register now! 🔗 buff.ly/oTQZ7R6

A busy day for the Copim team today! 🐝 First up is a presentation to the @rluk.ac.uk Collection Strategy Network 🔗 buff.ly/ZnaLa1s We're also heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social London campus to visit the venue for #CopimConference2026 🔗 buff.ly/Es3JPkb

NEW POST: 'Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Event' Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:

Thanks guys! Lots more to come from #CopimCompass in 2026 so watch this space 👀

BLOG POST: Simon Bowie writes for LSE Impact blog on the lessons from the British Library hack: buff.ly/nAPvMCZ 'Commercial software providers have failed us. The Government continues to offer little support. [We must] invest in people & build our own community-led systems & infrastructures'

Our Experimental Publishing Group are in Nairobi for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa 📆 8–9 December 2025 Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions More information, plus online registration 👉

🚨 WARNING: one day left to get your application in! We're looking for a Project Manager (0.60FTE), fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1 Feb 2026) 📆 Closing date is 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟎𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY

NEW POST: Discussions with the 'Database as Book & Lively Community Archive' experimental book project team on how the different institutional backgrounds of the collaborators (or their lack) shape the pilot project. Audio recordings of the discussion are included in the post:

Join our Experimental Publishing Group for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa 📆 8–9 December 2025 📍 Nairobi, Kenya Event includes 3 panels that are open to remote participants More information, plus online registration 👉

Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social later today at #UKSGForum2025 to learn about #CopimCompass 🧭 The Compass is a comprehensive toolkit about #OA monograph publishing developed by Copim ⚒️ Find out more in advance 👉 buff.ly/AmjdgZ2 @uksg.bsky.social

[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎 The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡ Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem #AHSS #SSH

Who is going to #UKSGForum2025 tomorrow? Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social at 15.05 to find out more about #CopimCompass 🧭 The comprehensive #OA monograph and scholarly communication resource developed by Copim ⚒️ Get ahead of the game with some pre-reading 👉 buff.ly/AmjdgZ2 @uksg.bsky.social

For the last time this year ... our monthly outreach and engagement update about where to find us ...and where we've been in 2025* 🔎 buff.ly/GT5k6zE *other more sustainable forms of transport were also used #TrainsPlanesAutomobiles

📣 JOB KLAXON Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026) All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY Don't delay, get your application in today!

Join our Experimental Publishing Group for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa 📆 8–9 December 2025 📍 Nairobi, Kenya Event includes 3 panels that are open to remote participants More information, plus online registration 👉

[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎 The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡ Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem #AHSS #SSH

Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇 Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback Sobering but inspiring!

The 9am session is just starting, but there's still time to sign up for second session 1-2pm (GMT) 👇

What's new on #CopimCompass 🧭 This month we're focusing on Book 09. Open Book Accessibility There's so much new content thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/naVbu2T Photo: @felirbe on Unsplash #Accessibility #eBooks 1/6

Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀 Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London [or online] 🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Two opportunities to join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social TOMORROW 🥳 📝 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 📅 26 November 📌 Online 🔗 buff.ly/pExK5d3 (9-10 AM GMT), buff.ly/0FWhoz5 (1-2PM GMT)

The team are back from #Munin2025 Their presentations are available to view /download via our Zenodo Community 🖥️ @openbookcollective.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/83LSXMu @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca 👉 buff.ly/6IKKASS

🚨LATER TODAY! Hear more updates from @openbookcollective.bsky.social as well as introductions to their newest members 👋 Sign up now! 📝

Join @samuelmoore.org this Weds. (5pm) to hear his discuss discuss key ideas from his fantastic new book ⏰ And download the book for FREE (if you haven't already!) via @uofmpress.bsky.social ebook collection website 🔗 www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Join @openingthefuture.bsky.social on Weds 26 November for a joint webinar with @ceu-press.bsky.social exploring how mission-driven publishing can endure under political pressure The event is running twice 💙 ➡️ 10:00–11:00 CET: buff.ly/pExK5d3 ➡️ 14:00–15:00 CET: buff.ly/0FWhoz5

Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.

JOB KLAXON: Who wants to come work with us?! 📣 Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026) All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY Don't delay, get your application in today!

@jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social

Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️ ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs 🔗

Thanks Emma, we're looking forward to seeing you!

Join joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social at #Munin2025 TODAY 🖊️ Opening books collectively: working together for a fairer future for books ⏰ 10:30-10:55 🔗 buff.ly/OqUVImX #OpenAccess #Monographs #OpenData #OpenScience

The @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social Research Support Group are discussing #OpenAccess and #Accessibility at their next reading group session 📆 20 November 2025 🕰️ 1030-1130 📍 Online 🔗 buff.ly/E1tpX6r (please note, this link starts the meeting!)

It's in LONDON folks! More specifically, in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 🌳 www.lborolondon.ac.uk