Share this with #humanities colleagues who need to hear the message from humanities colleagues. "How #OpenAccess Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship." www.acls.org/news/how-ope... #ScholComm

How Open Access Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship

The 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize finalists share how their open access books have reached new audiences.

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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:

Why would the ancient Egyptians represent Thoth, their god of the moon, with two animals as different as the sacred ibis and the hamadryas baboon? A new study co-authored by professor Nathaniel Dominy points to a trait the two share: both reflect light the way the moon does.

Moon baboon: New insight into the mind of ancient Egyptians

New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on baboons, moonlight and their link to an ancient Egyptian deity.

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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

Let's play a Where's Wally style game of find the Thoth team... 🔍

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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

What makes collective funding such a powerful mechanism for open access publishing? ✍️ LSE Press Head of Publishing @philippagrand.bsky.social considers this question and the power of OA funding for our blog @jisc.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social Read here blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

How collective funding supports sustainable publishing

Diamond open access publishing brings benefits for social science scholarship through increased usage, higher citations and global reach. How does funding help?

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NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': copim.pub/wileys-acqui... The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI. #Scale #AcademicPublishing

Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim - Copim

Copim reflects on Wiley’s acquisition of Emerald and the issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing.

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Today I left some copies of the recent Radical Open Access Collective pamphlet 'Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University' in various Cambridge humanities spaces. Also can be accessed here: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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🗞️ 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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From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth! ↔️ Read reflections from the workshop held at #OPERAS2026SCIROS Open, community-led infrastructures working together 🟰 improved dissemination, discoverability, interoperability & long-term sustainability of #OABooks 🔗 buff.ly/6sOkRsN

Die OBC, @ojcollective.bsky.social und @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social haben kürzlich ein Webinar für @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social zu unserem kollaborativen Ansatz für eine nachhaltige Diamond OA-Zukunft geliefert - lesen Sie ihren neu veröffentlichten Blog unter dem folgenden Link.

One thing I think DORA gets wrong is that in humanities fields the journal is not necessarily a marker of prestige or quality but of where you situate your scholarship, so it's helpful to take the publication into account when trying to understand where someone's work sits.

The OBC, @ojcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social recently delivered a webinar for the German @openaccessnetwork.bsky.social on our collaborative approach for a sustainable Diamond OA future - read their newly published blog at the link below.

Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

Ready to discover your next inspiring read? 📖 Explore our catalogue and access our latest titles all available to download for free. Whether you're deepening your knowledge or simply broadening your horizons, there's something new waiting for you. Browse now: https://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog

New on the Copim blog: a post jointly published by @oapenbooks.bsky.social and us, exploring how open metadata, automated workflows, and community-led platforms can make OA books more discoverable, reusable, and connected across the scholarly communications ecosystem. copim.pub/better-publi...

Better Publishing Through Open Metadata: Strengthening Open Infrastructure for Open Access Books through the Thoth–OAPEN SWORD Workflow - Copim

This blog post is being published jointly by the OAPEN Foundation and Thoth Open Metadata on July 1, 2026. Versions are available from OAPEN’s blog as well as…

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[CONFERENCE] @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social will be delivering a workshop @libereurope.bsky.social 📆 1 July 2026 🗣️ LIBERating Metadata Flows to Improve Findability of European Open Textbooks and Exploring Tools to Improve Advocacy and Adoption Find out more 👉 buff.ly/Z0Yi98m #LIBER2026

An interview with Scottish Universities Press on joining OASPA - OASPA https://www.oaspa.org/news/an-interview-with-scottish-universities-press-on-joining-oaspa/

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Guest post from Rob Johnson at the Scholarly Kitchen: "Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score" @paulakennedy.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social #CopimCommunity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/11/g...

Guest Post — Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, guest blogger Rob Johnson speaks with the creator of Research Nexus Score, and observes that metadata quality has gone from a niche concern to a sector-wide anxiety.

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An insightful read and we couldn't agree more: #MetadataMatters! With a plug to Thoth's report on International Metadata Recommendations, and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Guest post from Rob Johnson at the Scholarly Kitchen: "Fixing the Leaky Metadata Pipeline: A Conversation with the Creator of Research Nexus Score" @paulakennedy.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social #CopimCommunity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/11/g...

Following @simonxix.com's #OIPA2026 rally to switch to open source software for publishing practices - consider Thoth for metadata management and distribution of your #OAbooks! Thoth's APIs and metadata are also fully open! Learn more about our commitment to openness: thoth.pub/about#our-co...

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⚡️ @simonxix.com suggests making small changes to our publishing workflows to use open source software. Shouldn’t we be doing this as #OpenAccess publishers? Simon quotes ‘No open access without open infrastructure’ - @copim.bsky.social

@rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy on the NDAs in place to protect commercial publishers’ agreements with libraries: ‘How obviously corrupt is that? I feel very aggrieved seeing these large profits going to commercial publishers. It should be reinvested in research and education.’ #OIPA2026

Edinburgh Diamond’s @simonxix.com presenting on the importance of using open source software instead of proprietary systems. #OIPA2026

Ethical, moral and ideological imperative to divest from proprietary platforms 'openness is about a practice and shared values not just a goal for our publications' Paraphrasing - Simon was more eloquent than I could capture! #oipa2026

⚡️ @simonxix.com suggests making small changes to our publishing workflows to use open source software. Shouldn’t we be doing this as #OpenAccess publishers? Simon quotes ‘No open access without open infrastructure’ - @copim.bsky.social

⚡️ @simonxix.com recommends @manifoldscholar.bsky.social as a user-friendly way to publish experimentally. Simon says ‘Get used to open source software and advocate it. We should embed it into our #OpenAccess publishing practices. It’s more cost-effective and ethical!’ #OIPA2026

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.

100 libraries are now supporting diamond open access through the Open Book Collective!

Today we hit a milestone we've been working towards for a while: 100 libraries around the world are now supporting the Open Book Collective!

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📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

The publishing supply chain wasn’t built for #OpenAccess books 📚 Can a nonprofit platform help? Find out more about @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social and how they supports #OA publishing through metadata management and distribution 🔗

Thoth Open Metadata@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...