Join @jofitz.bsky.social and delve into the essential but often challenging topic of accessibility!

[WEBINAR] How to make your #OA books more accessible (and why it matters!)

How can smaller publishers can make their #OA books more accessible to users of assistive tech?

.@jofitz.bsky.social joins @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social next week to discuss #Accessibility for #EBooks

🔗 buff.ly/GVQ2CCD

Attending #LDNOpentFest26's session on 'Open Access Books: Rights, Ownership, and Control.

You know it is going to be good when @alittleroad.bsky.social is on the panel :)

Save the date – London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 20-24 April 2026 | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

There's a great programme scheduled for the next few days (20-24 April 2026) 🎉

Head over to the @uclopenscience.bsky.social blog to find out more!

🔗 buff.ly/AtzOBKJ

#LDNOpenFest26

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London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 – open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

We're at London Open Science and Scholarship Festival later today!

Join @alittleroad.bsky.social @eve.gd @aileenfyfe.bsky.social online to hear their thoughts on #OA Books: Rights, Ownership and Control

⏰️ 1-2pm [UK time]
🔗 buff.ly/OeSV9q0

#LDNOpenFest26

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Lots of the #CopimCommunity are members of @operaseu.bsky.social 🤝

🩷 @openbookcollective.bsky.social
💙 @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social
🤍 @openbookpublish.bsky.social
🧡 @openlibhums.org

📢 Tool spotlight: @openbookcollective.bsky.social Toolkit

A practical resource for small & scholar-led #OpenAccess publishers, bringing together guidance, reports & case studies to support publishing workflows.

🔷Read more: bit.ly/4tSZvJh
🔷Join the EDCH Forum: forum.diamas.org

@copim.bsky.social

Apply to become a publishing partner with the Open Journals Collective The Open Journal Collective (OJC) works with mission-aligned nonprofit publishing organisations and platforms that support high-quality, community-led open access journals. Publishing partners play a...

Calling all nonprofit publishing organisations that want to help build a better future for academic journal publishing! @ojcollective.bsky.social is open for applications for new publishers to join us - see: forms.gle/GeACG7YQo5re...

RLUK Conference – Research Libraries UK Conference RLUK Conference - Research Libraries UK Conference

Recordings from #RLUK26 conference are now available! 📹️

Catch up with the keynotes, roundtables, provocations & solution rooms, featuring lots of the team @rupertgatti.bsky.social @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social
@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & the wider #CopimCommunity

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The EDCH Community A forum where people involved in Diamond Open Access connect, collaborate, and innovate.

💡Tools spotlight on @eudch.bsky.social

🛠️ Great to see both #CopimCompass and @openbookcollective.bsky.social toolkit for small & scholar-led #OA publishers featured as useful resources

Check them out now 👉 forum.edch.eu

#Toolkits #OABooks #Monographs

Featuring articles from @judithfathallah.bsky.social and other members of the team! 👏

“Scaling Small” and Governing Together: Towards a National Diamond Open Access Consortium in Switzerland

Lovely to see @copim.bsky.social mentioned in this report on Switzerland's efforts to establish a national diamond open access consortium as "a paradigmatic example of scaling small": 0277.pubpub.org/pub/v2nne6u6...

#OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure

Tagging @openbookcollective.bsky.social @amandasramalho.bsky.social @arturo-gama.bsky.social properly!!

Overhead view of several people’s hands collaborating at a desk, sketching website wireframes on paper with markers and sticky notes, next to an open laptop and colorful notes labeled with ideas and arrows.

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭

Kathy Chandler, lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning at @lancasteruni.bsky.social shares insights on her participation in the Trailblazers scheme

#AuthorSuccessStory

👉 compass.copim.pub/books/03-aut...

👉 portal.lancaster.ac.uk/ask/study/li...

#ECRs #Monographs

❓️ What does it take for a Latin American academic book to actually be found?

This was the question discussed at the recent @openbookcollective.bsky.social #Metadata workshop with @amandasramalho.bsky.social @arturo-gama.bsky.social

🔗 buff.ly/DsADhVG

NEW preprint from the MORPHSS team (@jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social, @samuelmoore.org & @stephenpinfield.bsky.social):

Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences:
Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science

Developing Governance, Building Community. Implementing a Governance Model for the Experimental Publishing Compendium - Copim At the end of 2024 we formally launched the Experimental Publishing Compendium, a valuable guide, catalogue, and toolkit for scholars, publishers, developers, librarians and designers who want to…

Interested in experimental book publishing and its future?

The new blog from our Experimental Publishing Group discusses the Experimental Publishing Compendium

✅️ Developing governance
✅️ Building a community
✅️ Implementing a governance model

Read more 👉

A promotional image for the OABN webinar 'OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors'.

📆 One week to go until the free webinar 'OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors' w. @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social incl. Dr Imre Keserü (@vubrussel.bsky.social) Dr Jochen Hung (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & @cern.bsky.social's Zenodo team.

Full agenda & register 👉 tinyurl.com/yapwnd5s

Designing and Preserving 'Database as Book and Lively Community Archive' - Copim This is the seventh blogpost documenting the ‘Database as Book and Lively Community Archive’ experimental book pilot project.

[BLOG] Designing and Preserving ‘Database as Book and Lively Community Archive’

Read & listen to, a conversation about the ‘Database as Book and Lively Community Archive’ experimental book pilot project 📚

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Ep 18. What the REF is happening with books?! This week on What the Ref, the team heads to Plymouth for a lively workshop on non-traditional outputs before diving into a fascinating interview with Gareth Cole on the future of open access books.…

What the REF is happening with books?!

We join the @hiddenref.bsky.social team to unpack the challenges of

🔓️ defining openness
💰️ funding models beyond BPCs
🪢 the tension between flexibility and REF policy!

Listen to Ep 18. now! 🎧️

A post in the style of The Clash's "London Calling" album artwork. Text: "Manchester", in pink runs down the left of the image, "Calling" in green along the bottom. "ALN 26" in white at the top. The background is a black and white image of the Rochdale canal in Castlefield, looking towards the town centre, showing a lock, the tramline and the Beetham Tower.

Manchester Calling! #ALN26 is being hosted at @manmetuni.bsky.social
To register (and take advantage of Early Bird prices) go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-l...

Save the date – London Open Science & Scholarship Festival! 20-24 April 2026 | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

Full #LDNOpenFest26 programme, list of partners and more over on the @uclopenscience.bsky.social blog 🎉

🔗 buff.ly/AtzOBKJ

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Ever wondered how @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social became Community Engagement Lead @openbookcollective.bsky.social

They're part of the #LDNOpenFest26 Careers in Open Science panel sharing community insights

📆 Weds 22 April
⏰️ 1-2pm (UK time)
📍 Online

Register now! buff.ly/9DrdDLr

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London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 – open for booking! | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

Join us at London Open Science and Scholarship Festival (20-24 April 2026)

@alittleroad.bsky.social + @eve.gd @aileenfyfe.bsky.social will discuss #OA Books: Rights, Ownership and Control

📆 Mon 20 April
⏰️ 1-2pm [UK time]
📍 Online

Reserve a spot now 👉 buff.ly/OeSV9q0

#LDNOpenFest26

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Join @alittleroad.bsky.social @eve.gd @aileenfyfe.bsky.social at #LDNOpenFest26 to discuss rights, ownership and control in relation to #OABooks 📚

Details 👇

Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social at #LDNOpenFest26 to find out about their career in #OpenScience

Details 👇

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.

And the beginning of a new one! #CopimCommunityForever 🧡

A line of leafcutter ants walking across a tree trunk, each carrying a piece of bright green leaf above their heads.

📣 Are you a small publisher who needs to discuss accessibility challenges and good practice with other small publishers?

Search OPENBOOK-ACCESSIBILITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 👉 buff.ly/b1eJBdE

Help grow the community! 🌱

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📆 SAVE THE DATE 📆

The 2026 OIPA symposium will take place on Thursday 18th June at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Programme details to follow, but please mark it in your calendars and start making arrangements.

We look forward to seeing you there!