Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! What is the cost of open knowledge? @alittleroad.bsky.social joins Koç University Suna Kıraç Library to discuss global perspectives 🌍️ 📆 22 Oct (11:30am) 🔗 buff.ly/rVA3ZmL

https://kocun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SFfNJf7NTAGBbffo-hHOzA#/registration

Moderation: Çiğdem Yıldırım - 1:30-2:00 PM - Çiğdem Yıldırım (Suna Kıraç Library): Opening remarks & KU Library Publishing - 2:00-2:30 PM - Jane Buggle (Institute of Art, Design, Tech): The Cost of…

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UPDATE: What’s next for Copim? An update on our plans for Copim’s future. buff.ly/cKZeDEd #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess

What’s next for Copim? - Copim

An update on our plans for Copim’s future: what’s next?

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Still time to get tickets for the various #OAWeek events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! KIT Library & @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social will discuss 'Low-cost and no-cost community-developed services: the institutional publishing perspective' 📆 22 October (1030-1200) 🔗 buff.ly/D2hbDxU

KIT-Bibliothek | Über uns - Aktuelles - Veranstaltungskalender

Website der KIT-Bibliothek, Karlsruhe

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Next week is #OAWeek & there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as they share the arguments that will help libraries justify support for #OA 📆 22 October (10am) 🔗 buff.ly/DsOvBW3

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6iBR47JdQGGp_XkcEm9p4w#/registration

Most librarians who champion open access have, at some point, had to justify or defend the spend. Who is this money for? Why this model and not another? What do we stop funding to make room for this?…

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Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social for the 2nd day of @uksg.bsky.social Introduction to #OA seminar series 📆 21 October (10am-1pm) 🔗 buff.ly/IyWvxCj

Introduction to open access – online seminar 2026 - UKSG

This seminar is aimed at those responsible for collecting, analysing and making recommendations based on usage data, whether in a library setting or within a publishing organisation. This online…

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📬 The latest OPERAS Newsletter is out! The 3rd edition of 2026 brings updates from across the OPERAS community, events, projects, services and National Nodes. 👉 Discover what's happening: https://mailchi.mp/operas-eu.org/operas-newsletter-03 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop 📆 Mon 19 October (1-3pm) 🔗 buff.ly/0OxaMdo

Experimental and computational publishing workshop

Join us in this guided workshop to learn about experimental and computational publishing.

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The deadline for applying to host your own regional UKSG50 event is today!

Rob Johnson@rschrobuk.bsky.social · 3w ago

@uksg.bsky.social turns 50 in 2027 and we're taking it on the road with half-day regional events, hosted by members. We still need hosts in Wales, the South West, the North of England and Northern Ireland- express interest here: www.uksg.org/uksg-at-50/u...

For #OAWeek on 22/10 our Executive Director @theblochian.bsky.social joins Thomas Shaw (@ojcollective.bsky.social) and Joe Deville (@openbookcollective.bsky.social) for a webinar hosted by the National Library of Sweden on the costs and funding of #DiamondOA More info: www.kb.se/for-bibliote...

The #OAWeek events are coming thick & fast! Find out where #CopimCommunity will be by keeping an eye out for our comms And don't forget to check out our events page 👉 buff.ly/Ahww0f2

Events - Copim

The Copim Community organised and participated in many events as part of the Open Book Futures project (2023-2026) and continues to do so post-project. This p…

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Can we reimagine scholarly communication? 🤔 That's the question being asked by @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop for #OAWeek 📆 Mon 19 October (1-3pm) 📍 www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Experimental and computational publishing workshop

Join us in this guided workshop to learn about experimental ans computational publishing.

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This accreditation is first and foremost a recognition of work that has been going on for several years 👇👏

Thoth Open Metadata@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · last wk.

We are delighted to share that Thoth is now an accredited @crossref.bsky.social Service Provider at the Advanced tier, recognising years of work to make rich, open book metadata achievable for presses of every size! 🎉 thoth.pub/blog/10.7095... #openinfrastructure #MetadataMatters #OAbooks

A chat about e-thesis preservation at #iPRES2026 Facilitators @jennymitcham.bsky.social @dorothywaugh.bsky.social both worked on Open Book Futures & their session included their thoughts on the findings of, and outputs from, the project 👉 www.dpconline.org/blog/a-chat-...

Lots of #CopimCommunity are also members of OPERAS 👋 @openbookcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org They share the benefits of membership via the blog series 'Voices of OPERAS UK' 👉 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/category/...

Anna Hughes@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'll be at the CLARIN & DARIAH UK Annual Event on Fri 2 Oct 📍University of Brighton A showcase of the activities of the CLARIN UK consortium and wider UK digital humanities community (I'll be presenting a poster on @operaseu.bsky.social) 🔗 universityofbrighton.github.io/2026clariahuk/

How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Workshop materials from #OAT26 are now openly available! The fabulous @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social ( @openbookcollective.bsky.social ) put together a handout and bilingual (EN/DE) discussion cards on sustaining #DiamondOA through collective funding #OER 🎉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Slidedeck of the #oat26 presentation "Collaboration over competition: what does it look like, in practice?", presented by our wonderful colleagues at @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @ojcollective.bsky.social , is openly available to read along ... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Words cannot express our envy of you right now 🥐😋

Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Currently deciding on breakfast. The Austrians definitely know how to do pastries!

At OA Tage? Want to talk community-led #OA publishing? Copim & Scholar-Led Network Corner is TONIGHT 6pm @ Stiegl Klosterhof Meet folks including Toby Steiner (Thoth), @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social (OBC), Elena di Rosa (Verfassungsblog & ScholarLed), @shawthomas.bsky.social (OJC) & more! #OAT26

If you're at Open Access Tage in Linz, do come and join us on Tuesday at #CopimCorner! #OAT26

Caroline Ball@heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Tonight’s dinner locale with Tom from @ojcollective.bsky.social and Toby from @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social - just doing a test-drive before Tuesday’s #CopimCorner!

We're delighted to share that TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek has joined the Open Journals Collective! TIB and OJC are both at Open Access Tage in Linz, Austria 28 - 30th September #OAT26 - if you're here, do come and say hello!

I like to think that initiatives like the @openbookcollective.bsky.social are a really key part of the process of moving from this capitalist model of academia towards something that is more diverse, democratic, participatory, community-led, more about knowledge as a public good for all. #OAT26

v_i_o_l_a@v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

allerdings fließt auch bei responsible research assessment geld zu den "üblichen verdächtigen", weil z.b. verlage tools zur datensammlung besitzen. es gibt über alle vier säulen von #CapitalistAcademia hinweg "capture"-dynamiken. welche änderungen und […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

If you’re attending mine and @shawthomas.bsky.social’s #OAT26 session later on ‘Collaboration over Competition’, we’ve made the slides available on Zenodo for pre- and post-viewing - and for anyone who can’t attend!

Last chance to register for the @openingthefuture.bsky.social #CoP tomorrow 👇

OpeningTheFuture@openingthefuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 Our 2nd #CoP is this Weds! 🔹11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 🔹16:00 UK time 🔹12:00 midday European time Register now! 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

Add to your calendars now! 📆 Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @hannahcrago.bsky.social Louise Otting from TU Delft to celebrate #OAWeek2026 and discuss the Cost of knowledge Find out more about #OAWeek 👉 www.openaccessweek.org

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A very busy month for @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social Enjoy a well-earned beer at #CopimCorner tomorrow night 🍻

Thoth Open Metadata@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Toby will be at this year's Open-Access-Tage in beautiful Linz next week, and would love to connect with anyone interested in all things #OAbooks #openinfrastructure and #metadata ! Feel free to schedule a chat with him during #OAT26 via the below app!

View @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @shawthomas.bsky.social slidedeck on #CopimCommunity Zenodo 👉 zenodo.org/records/2291...

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're in Linz for OA Tage / #OAT26! Today Caroline will be running a workshop, alongside colleagues from Thoth, OJC, Verfassungsblog, on what the ideal OA initiative might look like, and whether such a unicorn does (or even can) exist! What are your thoughts? Drop them below!

Which of your researchers have published with OBC presses – and where are their books being read? We're building an open Impact Dashboard with @ojcollective.bsky.social to provide exactly those answers! The first release is due before the end of 2026. A first look: obc.copim.pub/coming-soon-...

Coming soon! An update on the OBC Impact Dashboard - Open Book Collective

We’re delighted to bring you an update on our Impact Dashboard project. The Impact Dashboard will give access to relevant data about books published by OBC member presses, without the need to consult…

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Join us to celebrate 10 years of WRUP 🎉 and be part of the conversation about what comes next for scholarly book publishing. We’d love to see you there! 📚🥂

White Rose University Press@wrunipress.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉 We’re celebrating 10 years of White Rose University Press! And we’re marking the occasion by looking ahead: What should scholarly book publishing look like in the next 5–10 years? Our anniversary event is now OPEN FOR BOOKING! 🧵👇 Find out more 👇 universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/announcement...

Happy 18th birthday @openbookpublish.bsky.social! 🎂 Below they share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years'. Particular nod to no. 12 'Infrastructure is essential': "One of Copim’s mottoes is ‘no open access without open infrastructure’ and we would agree wholeheartedly..." @copim.bsky.social #OpenInfras

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉 Open Book Publishers is 18 today! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone & reflect on 18 years of publishing Diamond #OpenAccess books, we share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years' on our experience as an independent, scholar-led #OA press Enjoy & raise a glass of your drink of choice with us! buff.ly/jOJAfYR