Really wonderful to have @erratumpress.bsky.social join as the newest member of the Open Book Collective. A genuinely innovative press, publishing experimental, conceptual open access books.

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · last mo.

We'd like to bid a warm OBC welcome to our latest member - independent, scholar-led, Sheffield's very own Erratum Press! Its Academic Division publishes open access scholarship with no author fees, alongside an experimental poetry and fiction list.

Triple digits! A century! 1,100,100! (in binary). Symbolically really important for us -- half of the way to our first big target, of 200 supporting institutions by 2029 (which we really need to sustain ourselves, and our members, into the long term)

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

Drumroll, please! 100 libraries worldwide are now supporting the OBC - that's 100 libraries actively choosing to support collective funding and diamond OA - now that's definitely worth celebrating! Our joint 100th: Zurich University of the Arts and The Open University, who joined on the same day.

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...

Copim@copim.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

“The question is not whether a new open access mandate is coming (it is), but if the sector is remotely prepared for it (it is not).”

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💥New | A successful open access book mandate requires infrastructure not compliance ✍️ @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social #OpenAccess #REF2029 #OABooks #DiamondOA

One door closes, another opens: the @openbookcollective.bsky.social team got together in Manchester on the second to last day of the @copim.bsky.social OBF project to plan our collective work together for the coming years. Have come out feeling really excited & hopeful about what we can do together

Check out the panel session on 14 May featuring @joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social alongside @erudit.org @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca ✍️ The Future of Collective Funding Models for Open Access 🔗 buff.ly/NMzyE6m 2/2

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(This post brought to you by drafting the alt text for the OA ebook images.)

🍽️ What happens when parenting becomes an economic project? @joedeville.bsky.social @ninabandelj.bsky.social talk to @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social about how parenting is shaped by markets, metrics, and digital platforms. youtu.be/otObwf4tStY?...

The calculated child: The emotional-economic logics of parenting

YouTube video by Cultural Economy in the Kitchen

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Journal of Cultural Economy@jcultecon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

👻 What do ghosts, empires, and financial capital have in common? @cleabourne.bsky.social Paul Gilbert & Eleanor Newbigin chat to @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & @philiproscoe.bsky.social about how colonial legacies haunt contemporary financial systems and cultural policy. youtu.be/FsYwpQhMNtE?...

🎉 Aand, it's done! Thoth 1.0 is live! 🎉 🎉 And with it, our new website 🎉 (below a comparison of the old style (yellow) vs. the new look - head over to thoth.pub to see for yourself)

Thoth Open Metadata@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 4mo ago

Alright, today is the day ... in a bit more than 2 hours, at noon (GMT) today, we will be pushing the button to initiate that long-awaited release of Thoth 1.0! *giddy* #OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters Ahead of the launch, a summary on what we've been working on ... doi.org/10.70950/gfs...

Felt fitting to me that one of the last @copim.bsky.social plenary interventions at #UKSG2026 came via @simonxix.com's clear and direct call to remember that, as we have always argued, open access without open infrastructures -- e.g. in libraries, in research -- means little. Such a great talk.

Our Managing Director, @joedeville.bsky.social, and Community Engagement Lead, @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social, will both be at #UKSG2026 tomorrow! Find them at the COPIM stand (#66) or roaming around talking about all things OA books, OBC, and collective funding!

The UKSG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Glasgow - UKSG

The UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants a...

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V. pleased to announce this. We have been working together for some time, but the MoU helps formalise things. The divisions between books & journals in the scholarly system are ultimately arbitrary, so this kind of collaboration is vital to collectively argue for better ways of doing open publishing

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are very pleased to be able to announce that OBC and @ojcollective.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to work together to achieve a sustainable, open access future, for both books and journals obc.copim.pub/collaboratin...

1/ This feels like a watershed moment to me. @rluk.ac.uk's Collections Strategy Network has posted new guidance on the criteria Research Libraries should use when making their investment decisions on #OpenAccess monographs, inc. recommending @openbookcollective.bsky.social as one model to consider

Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · 5mo ago

RLUK's just-published principles for evaluating OA monograph models call for: collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, transparency & equity. Sounds familiar! So if you're an RLUK library wondering where to start - look no further!

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages

Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're co...

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For those that missed it - videos of all sessions at the @copim.bsky.social conference last week are now available on the Internet Archive. Lots of enthusiasm and stimulating discussion around community-led publishing of #openaccessbooks .... archive.org/details/copi...

Copim Conference 2026 : Copim Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

On Feb 26 and 27, 2026, the two-day conference brought together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book...

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Annual reminder to tag us if you or your child dress up as an AUP book character for World Book Day tomorrow. I would suggest going as a Scottish Benedictine monk in 17th century Germany, but Patrick Gordon or Sorely Maclean are always great option. Explore more here: www.fulcrum.org/aberdeenunip...

The @copim.bsky.social conference last week was such an excellent conference. Copim and #OpenBookFutures have been such important projects for moving discussions and practices for #OpenAccess books forward 🙌

Joe Deville@joedeville.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...

To paraphrase @rupertgatti.bsky.social: ‘We have the important principle of ‘scaling small’. But to get to that point, you have to start. Start small. But have your ambitions to the roof.’ #CopimConference

Heading home after a really energising and thought-provoking couple of days at the @copim.bsky.social conference. Huge thanks to everyone involved for organising such an inspiring programme celebrating the valuable work done by both Copim and #OpenBookFutures 👏 #CopimConference

A rare chance for a mini-mattering-meeting at the #CopimConference, where @joedeville.bsky.social opened the event talking about his work with @copim.bsky.social & Julien McHardy is speaking about the possible futures of #ScholarLed publishing. Joined by Mattering co-editor @annadowrick.bsky.social

Final #CopimConference panel!! Led by @rupertgatti.bsky.social. How can we protect the ability of communities to communicate? In the face of extractive publishing, AI and all the pressures of 2020s HE. One answer: join the new @copim.bsky.social mailing list! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.e...

We’re at the #CopimConference in London this week! 🔓 Great discussions about accessibility, metadata, open infrastructure and the future of community-led #OpenAccess book publishing! Looking forward to the upcoming sessions! 📚 Many thanks to @copim.bsky.social for organising this event! 🫶

Time for Thoth 1.0! thoth.pub #CopimConference

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Thoth is a non-profit, open metadata management and dissemination platform. Thoth offers comprehensive solutions for metadata management, distribution, archiving, and DOI registration, empowering publ...

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With Open Book Collective funding there was the potential for a coordinated intervention to build more integrated diamond OA infrastructure @openbookcollective.bsky.social #copimconference

Fatimah J. Abduldayan from Nigeria Maritime University describes the structural constraints of a print-first publishing strategy across Nigerian institutions. Lack of metadata sharing really restricts the global visibility & discoverability of their authors’ research. #CopimConference #OpenAccess

N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing is an important milestone in bringing different universities together to agree that scholarly publishing models must deliver value for money & to encourage publishers to move towards fairly priced, open access & value-added publishing #copimconference

N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing - N8 Research Partnership

The N8 is calling for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models and our members commit to collaborating to drive efficiency and deliver value for money

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If you’re at #CopimConference, don’t forget to pick up one of our new stickers! 💎💎💎

It's here! #CopimConference is underway at Loughborough University London Campus. Looking forward to the programme and to many conversations about the future of #openaccess and #openinfrastructure @copim.bsky.social

Great start to the #CopimConference with @openreflections.bsky.social and @joedeville.bsky.social reflecting on the original aims of @copim.bsky.social and Open Book Futures including the impact of @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the importance of scholar-led publishing.