Just under a week left to apply to the #CollectiveDevelopmentFund 2026. This fund is to support projects building capacity for Open Access Books, including networks and infrastructure. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese.

OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective

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Day 2 of the #CopimConference 2026 opens with a panel on metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books. First, Harrison Inefuku introduces the history and work of the Iowa State University Digital Press.

I appreciate the conference focus on reducing plastic and paper and the fact no meat is served at the #CopimConference 2026. Sustainability is a complex idea- some time ago we drafted a short blog post on what the term means to us at Copim: copim.pubpub.org/pub/the-copi...

The Copim perspective on Sustainability

What might it mean to do scholarly publishing in a ‘sustainable’ way? In this post, we provide some insights on how Copim is thinking and working through this question.

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The next talk is from University Librarian Fatimah Jibril Abduldayan, and covers some of the work she and her colleagues have accomplished with support from the #OpenBookCollective's Collective Development Fund.

'Exploring the future of community-led open access books' (Copim Conference 2026) opens with keynotes from Copim and Open Book Futures PIs, Joe Deville and Janneke. Joe recaps the genealogy of Copim's emerging from the Radical Open Access Conference in 2015. #Copim2026 #DiamondOpenAccess

Read more about the ‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’ project, and the OBC Collective Development Fund, here: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...

Announcing OBC's First Collective Development Fund award for 2025-26: Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing

Tackling barriers to OA in Ethiopia via policy development, establishing an open access institutional repository at Haramaya University, and drafting national OA policy guidelines to institutionalize ...

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🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳 The project is titled: ‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.

Join @judithfathallah.bsky.social later today at a panel discussion hosted by Botswana International University of Science and Technology Library 🕰️ 1:00 PM (UK) | 2:00 PM (Botswana & Germany) 📍 Online 🔗 buff.ly/f49Y5H7 #OAWeek

Looking forward to taking part in this OA week panel on Monday!

🧵 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...

Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books

Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

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The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...

Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process

In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.

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New article in Journal of Popular Communication doi.org/10.1080/1540... #fanstudies

“I guess moral of the story is if you’re going to kill somebody do it in Texas?” ‘Murder, Mystery and Makeup’ as post-true crime

It has become a truism to speak of a resurgence in true crime media. Attention has turned to the various ways that the true crime of “boom” of the late 2010s–present, enmeshed in a new media econom...

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Yesterday I spoke at 'Choosing open access for books: An author journey', an Open Scholarship event hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This was some great discussion and stimulating questions, both on the #OpenBookCollective and #OA generally. Recording here: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/BOSE-OA-For-...

What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc #OABooks #FanStudies

Lyrasis is hiring for 2 new (US-based preferred) remote roles on the CSCI team! Support open access and community-driven publishing. Apply by June 25: Community Engagement Strategist, OACIP: tinyurl.com/2ebm2kse Strategist, Content & Scholarly Communication Initiatives: tinyurl.com/3va9y3bs

Really happy to see the amazing progress on this project #OABooks

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The Open Book Collective is delighted to share an update on our second Collective Development Fund awarded project, Enhancing Open Access Book Publishing at Chinhoyi University Library openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/update-o...

Now begins the panel on Open Systems and Infrastructure, featuring @simonxix.com

Hello new followers, the icon is Zara, she is almost 15 and a queen.

Varina Jones-Reid of Aberdeen University Press is speaking on the need for Diamond OA to support equity for ECRs

Enjoyed @judithfathallah.bsky.social's point that the citation advantage and openess of publishing #OpenAccess is more personally beneficial for researchers, particularly as publishing with "prestige" legacy publishers doesn't result in permanent contracts these days anyway!

#EORC opens with a welcome from Edinburgh Library Director Jeremy Upton. @kjsanders.bsky.social and I will be speaking momentarily. The theme is "Open Access: What's Stopping Us?"

Heading up to Edinburgh this evening for #EORC to present with @kjsanders.bsky.social on Author Agency and the Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social - see the full programme here openresearch.ed.ac.uk/conference/

When it comes to #OpenResearch practices, what's stopping us?! 🤔 @judithfathallah.bsky.social & @kjsanders.bsky.social are at #EORC (4 June) to discuss: ⭐ Author agency & @openbookcollective.bsky.social‬ ⭐ Open source software for OR, including libraries View the programme 👉

EORC: 2025 Programme

On the 4th of June we are coming together to ask the question, "What's stopping us?" We are asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome…

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Full programme for Fan Studies and True Crime in the New Media Environment. This is a free hybrid workshop on 8 May hosted at Coventry University, but please register using the link in the programme tinyurl.com/4c7cw42d

Winnie loves Zara. Zara thinks Winnie is ok. She'll concede that her fur is useful.

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ATTENTION: The @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund is closing soon ⌛ Submit your applications by 17 March in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese Learn more and apply here 👉 buff.ly/ZgQUGvG #FundingOpportunity #ApplyNow

I will be giving a short talk on author choices in OA publishing and the work of the @openbookcollective.bsky.social at the The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship on March 11. Full programme at openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos25

OxFOS 2025 now open for booking

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This is not about publishing, but myself and other #fanstudies scholars with an interest in true crime genres in the new media environment are starting up a network. Inaugural workshop May 8; there is a small amount of funding available to assist w/ travel: www.eventsforce.net/fanstudies

A reflection on the Open Book Collective workshop at the Diamond OA Summit in December 2024 at University of Cape Town openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/reflecti...

Reflections on Open Monograph Publishing: A workshop at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond OA

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