I'm very excited and honored to be part of this seminar series! I'll be talking about the vulnerability of social infrastructure within the knowledge ecosystem. Please consider registering!

Trust, Open Knowledge & Infrastructure Research Network@toki-crassh.bsky.social · last wk.

We are very happy to share with you our schedule of events for the Michaelmas term! Find out more by clicking on the 'Programme' tab at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/future-of-open-knowledge/ Our first event with @lschiff.bsky.social at @defendresearch.bsky.social is coming up 15th October

💡 Open peer review in OJS 3.6: call for editors to express interest in taking part in a study PKP and #ScholCommLab are working together on a study and we want to know if you are interested in taking part. No need to commit just yet but you can express your interest at pkp.sfu.ca/2026/10/05/c...

Call for participants: a study on Open Peer Review in OJS 3.6 - Public Knowledge Project

Open Peer Review is coming to OJS 3.6. PKP and the ScholComm Lab are studying editors' expectations, and we would like to hear from you!

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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

Good Metadata Practice, Recognised: Thoth Joins Crossref's Advanced Service Providers

We are delighted to share that Thoth Open Metadata has been accredited as a Crossref Service Provider, at the Advanced tier, with effect from 1 October 2026.

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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!

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

🚆 Thoth is on the road this autumn! 🍂 📍 ALPSP, Manchester | 9–10 Sept 📍 OASPA, Zagreb | 21–23 Sept 📍 Open-Access-Tage, Linz | 28–30 Sept Attending too? We’d love to catch up with publishers, libraries & fellow open infrastructures! 💬 Booking page links in the post replies 👇

Does this make us "grown-up" then?🤔 🤪

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

🎉 We are 18 today! 🎉 If you'd like to get us a birthday gift, we'd be thrilled if you'd join our Patreon. Tiers range from £1-50 a month w/various benefits, and you're directly supporting our #OA book publishing, making research free for everyone w/ no author fees. Thank you! 🎁 buff.ly/SE4UdBt

Open Book Publishers | Membership | Patreon

Become a member of Open Book Publishers on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just £6/month. We're Open Book Publishers, a not-for-profit open…

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Does this make us "grown-up" then?🤔 🤪

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

What does it mean to preserve an #openaccess book, and how can we make sure that what is preserved remains open? As part of our work in the @copim.bsky.social Open Book Futures project, we’ve been looking closely at platforms available for archiving #OAbooks 1/8 copim.pub/preserving-o...

Preserving Openness: A Comparative Review of Archiving Solutions for Open Access Books - Copim

Copim’s 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, with which we present a…

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📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

Today at Copim we're reflecting on 'community' & 'collectivity' in #OpenAccess - & #OA marketing - & revisiting this post from 2024 when the #OAWeek theme was 'Community over commercialisation' How can we tell when these terms are buzzwords or meaningful principles? buff.ly/eAmRGen #OASPA2026

Got an EU-funded #OABook or chapter? Our short video explains how to deposit it in the OAPEN Library to support compliance, discoverability & preservation. Watch it now: youtu.be/g2UhKB0NdMQ?....

How to deposit your EU-funded publication in the OAPEN Library

This short video explains how authors can deposit their open access (OA) books and chapters funded by the European Union (EU) into the OAPEN Library. The OAPEN Library is a platform which hosts a…

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I hope these new criteria for the "open archiving" of open access publications will be widely circulated and discussed now - recognising the important characteristics and requirements for the effective archiving of open access publications copim.pub/copim-open-a...

Copim Open Archiving Criteria for Open Access Publications - Copim

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

What should “open” archiving look like for open access publications? The @copim.bsky.social Open Archiving Criteria offer a framework for thinking about preservation not only as keeping publications safe, but as ensuring that their openness can be sustained over time. #OABooks #archiving 1/6

What should “open” archiving look like for open access publications? The @copim.bsky.social Open Archiving Criteria offer a framework for thinking about preservation not only as keeping publications safe, but as ensuring that their openness can be sustained over time. #OABooks #archiving 1/6

Are you a publisher or infrastructure attending OASPA Conference #OASPA2026 from 21-23 September, or Open-Access-Tage 2026 #OAT26 from 28-30 September, and are interested in learning more about what we do? #MetadataMatters #OAbooks Feel free to book a meeting with Toby via the links below! 👇

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

🚆 Thoth is on the road this autumn! 🍂 📍 ALPSP, Manchester | 9–10 Sept 📍 OASPA, Zagreb | 21–23 Sept 📍 Open-Access-Tage, Linz | 28–30 Sept Attending too? We’d love to catch up with publishers, libraries & fellow open infrastructures! 💬 Booking page links in the post replies 👇

Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative - Research Professional News

Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing

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SPARC has a variety of resources to support libraries in negotiations with vendors. As you evaluate & exit big deal packages, plan & communicate your collection decisions, we have tools to help. Together, let's advance a values-aligned research communication ecosystem. sparcopen.org/what-we-do/n...

SPARC Negotiation Resources Archives - SPARC

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#BLOG | Building open infrastructure for books: from ALPSP Innovation in Publishing 2026 Award Finalist Thoth Open Metadata Read this latest blog written by Hannah Hillen at 👉 buff.ly/sAbmseR

🚆 Thoth is on the road this autumn! 🍂 📍 ALPSP, Manchester | 9–10 Sept 📍 OASPA, Zagreb | 21–23 Sept 📍 Open-Access-Tage, Linz | 28–30 Sept Attending too? We’d love to catch up with publishers, libraries & fellow open infrastructures! 💬 Booking page links in the post replies 👇

There's still time to get an application in for our new Head of Operations role - the deadline is the end of 9 September (any timezone). Part-time (2.5 days a week), fully remote, £40-48k pro rata - click the link below for further details: obc.copim.pub/obc-is-hirin...

Open Position: Head of Operations

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

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Should be really interesting webinar - discussing openness and equity in the distribution of knowledge, by contributors to two different #openaccess publications on those themes

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · last mo.

WEBINAR | Distributing knowledge for equity: two new books and an evolving concept for Open Science WHEN: Monday 14 September, 2pm UTC (8am Mexico City, 3pm London and Abuja, 4pm Berlin, 5pm Kyiv) REGISTER (FREE): buff.ly/0LDJaey FIND OUT MORE: buff.ly/siHgezR

✨ Thoth Oasis in the spotlight! The European Diamond Capacity Hub (@eudch.bsky.social) has featured Oasis in its latest Tool Spotlight, exploring how open metadata can support better discoverability, interoperability & reuse for OA books and chapters 💎 forum.edch.eu/t/tool-spotl...

Tool Spotlight: Thoth Oasis

What is it? Thoth Oasis is a free, self-service open-source platform for managing and sharing open metadata for books and chapters. It enables open access book publishers to create structured, standar...

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Really proud of what we've collectively achieved together with @openbookcollective.bsky.social: The OBC's joint catalogue now hosts more than 2,300 fully #OAbooks - and many of them by presses that don't rely on BPCs! 🎉 That's community-led OA in action - we 💖 #DiamondOA! openbookcollective.org

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Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo ago

An interesting phenomenon. This book, from 1990 (I was 4 years old), lists a "Martin Eve" as a co-author. OK. Someone else shares my name. ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA12931... This OpenAlex record, though, has attributed it to me, as "Martin Paul Eve", and added my ORCID openalex.org/works?page=1...

This is a big problem — and an unnecessary one. Funders should not just allow for but insist upon grantees writing support for research infrastructure into grant proposals. Sustainability of research demands sustainability of infrastructure. E.g., about.hcommons.org/contribute...

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 2mo ago

"Researchers may cite an infrastructure as a necessary part of their work in a grant proposal, but funding flows only to the researcher and research project, not the repository." issues.org/open-data-re...

1/ In 2024, I filed a false claims act lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer, Wiley & Informa alleging they systematically overcharged US federal grants for article processing. The gov declined to intervene and now it's public. Some thoughts on what this is, and what it isn't:

We’re hiring! Come and work with us to make the open access book landscape successful, sustainable and scalable. The role is part-time and fully remote.

Open Position: Head of Operations

The Open Book Collective is seeking a highly organised, proactive Head of Operations to help lead the day-to-day running of our growing organisation.

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Amazing resource- do consider a monthly contribution if you can afford it.

Internet Archive@archive.org · 2mo ago

🌐 On World Wide Web Day, we’re celebrating the Wayback Machine’s milestone of archiving more than 1 trillion web pages, preserving decades of the web we’ve built. Explore decades of web history with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org #Wayback1T #WorldWideWebDay @mark.bsky.social

‘No open access without open infrastructures.’ Our new document management portal gives OBC publisher and service provider members one place for all their library support, with notifications, multiple users per organisation, and openly licensed code. #OpenInfrastructure #OpenBookCollective

Expanding OBC's open infrastructures

A new document management portal for OBC's publisher and service provider members.

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A little treat created by @scholtom.bsky.social and inspired by the Copim report (coming soon!...ish) -- the Copim crew and friends! Tag yourself! (If you're not there though please don't tag Tom as this has already gone through multiple redrafts and it'll make him cry) #OAbooks #OpenAccess

🗞️ Great news @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social have been nominated for the @alpsp.bsky.social Award for Innovation in Publishing 2026! Find out who else has been nominated 👉 buff.ly/7H9dgrc Can't wait until 9 Sept to find out who has won 🤞 Photo: Jason Leung, Unsplash #ALPSP2026 #MetadataMatters

ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2026: Finalists Revealed

ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, is delighted to reveal the finalists shortlisted for: The ALPSP Impact Award, which re...

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