So proud that @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and I were able to publish this special issue of @jepub.bsky.social, which is very close to our heart. Huge congratulations to the co-editors @jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org!
New from me: Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing
www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...
Thanks Kevin, will check it out!
"Taken together, these initiatives illustrate that “scaling small” does not imply a single organisational form. Rather, it describes a shared orientation towards collaboration and institutional care."
Nice exploration of scaling small for a Swiss national Diamond OA consortium.
This was also my final Open Book Futures and @copim.bsky.social event too. It's been a privilege to work with the Experimental Publishing Group for the last five years, pushing the boundaries of publishing and encouraging new ways of thinking in open publishing. Truly the passing of an era.
Spending a few days with the Experimental Publishing Group and the pilot projects has been a blast. My final Open Book Futures event, too. What a way to send it off!
Various of the MORPHSS team are attending this event today and tomorrow - looking forward to a fantastic programme of sessions
Interesting points made in the @copim.bsky.social Experimental Publishing conference about finding ways to make visible the collective nature of research & book production. A lot of the relationships that go into creating a book are often only briefly mentioned in an acknowledgements section.
⏰ Not long to go now until our #ExperimentalPublishing group’s online conference!
🗓️ 8-9 April 2026
Register now 👉 buff.ly/Ca1Q6dj
Full programme 👉 buff.ly/4GI05kP
#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing
⏰ Not long to go now until our #ExperimentalPublishing group’s online conference!
🗓️ 8-9 April 2026
🔗 buff.ly/3RVC2Lc
Full programme 👉 Online Conference: Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots
#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing
Next week! Come and learn more about what these experimental book pilots have been up to and discuss experimental publishing with us, our speakers, and panellists!
🎉 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)
All finished! The full text of my presentation is available at opensauce.simonxix.com/eor2025/ #UKSG2026
really looking forward to this!
At @limnpress.bsky.social, we are currently looking for libraries trying to align collections strategies w/ their support for a healthier schol comm system, one where scholars have more influence than stockholders. We are asking them to put funding behind this purpose. Readers of Limn can help out.
I'm giving a keynote 4/9 on speculative+experimental kinds of peer review, built on my "Organized Futures: Speculative Design for More Just+Joyful Scholarly Infrastructure" article journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... For Experimental Publishing Practices conf: copim.pub/online-confe...
...and last but not least Mike Fortun (PECE/University of California, Irvine) @chromatinfuel.bsky.social and Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania) @whitneytrettien.bsky.social (Binding panel).
Wambui Wamunyu (Research Data Share Collective), Geoff Cox (London South Bank University), James Louis Smith (KB National Library of the Netherlands) @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy, and Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds) (Open Peer Reviewing panel)
Panelists include Angela Okune (Research Data Share Collective), Winnie Soon (University College London), Simon Bowie (Edinburgh Diamond) @simonxix.com, Simon Worthington (Open Science Lab, TIB) (Infrastructuring panel)
These sessions will include keynotes by Simon Dumas Primbault (CNRS/ OpenEdition Lab), Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Scholars’ Lab UVA @literaturegeek.bsky.social), and Bob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book).
This is going to be a wonderful online conference (8-9 April) showcasing the @copim.bsky.social experimental book pilots we supported & featuring discussions with speakers & panelists as part of 3 themed sessions on Infrastructuring, Open Peer Reviewing, and Binding. Register here 👉 buff.ly/zX0kSlC
The programme is organised around themed sessions:
1️⃣ Infrastructuring
2️⃣ Open Peer Reviewing
3️⃣ Binding
Kenotes: Simon Dumas Primbault (CNRS), Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Scholars’ Lab UVA Library), & Bob Stein (Founder of Tapestry)
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[CONFERENCE] Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots
Get your ticket now!
One ticket covers both days 🎫
More info 👉 buff.ly/zX0kSlC
#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing
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Tomorrow!👀
Join us for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences.
We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social
—on publishing,
3 events 👀
15 march, ICI Berlin www.ici-berlin.org/events/a-hun...
21 april, Reform oder Revolution? www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/all...
23 april, Gespräch mit Andreas Rötzer (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) über Verlegen als Humanities in Action: lfbrecht.de/events/2026-...
Join us next week for this launch event and panel discussion on open research in the arts, humanities & qualitative social sciences.
We're looking forward to sharing recent outputs from MORPHSS & hearing from a range of experts including @openreflections.bsky.social and @henrygonnet.bsky.social
Join @morphss.bsky.social for their catalogue launch event and panel discussion next week!
The panel of experts features @openreflections.bsky.social from our Experimental Publishing Group!
📆 Thurs, 19 March
⏲️ 3-4:30 pm GMT
📍 Online
Register now! buff.ly/q3tc1UH
#OpenResearch #AHSS
We invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future? #DiamondOA
Reminder: Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/
Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA
