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This should be a really interesting session 👇
We're registered, are you?!
A really fantastic line-up of great contributions, with some excellent thoughts on open infrastructuring, among other things!
Have a peek 👇 journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45...
Get to know Lancaster University Open Journals! Our latest OIPA Symposium Spotlight explores the background, development, and implementation of their publishing platform, and the collaborative approach taken to support and meet the needs of the academic community.
oipauk.org/2026/04/16/o...
"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.
Absolutely this. Some smaller programmes have already been dropped by Jisc (e.g. Lever Press) and we'd hate to see small, growing initiatives like ours be dropped from Jisc's LSM. This would cut off UK library participation in one go 🙃
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 👉
[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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This is helpful advice, except I'd add: they can easily now add "details" from your book by running it through AI or just asking a model that has been trained on it. It's very easy for them to sound knowledgeable.
Stephen Henighan’s English translation of 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙨 was reviewed by Thomas de Waal for Strategic Europe. Read the full review of the book, part of the CEU Press Classics series, here: carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...
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! 🎧️
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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Many new publishing initiatives are in this chicken and egg situation:
"Are you financially viable?"
"We are not, right now, but we will be, if you all fund us."
So the viability is conditional on the payment that can only be given to "financially viable" orgs in the first place.
📆 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!
Some photos from #UKSG26 last week where the team discussed university presses, corporate takeovers, and implications for the future of scholarly books 📚
Featuring @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social @earthowned.bsky.social
Photos by Peter Lawson Photography.
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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Slide showing ref impact data
Great slide from @kirstywallis.com at #uksg2026 showing a surprising finding that library management/support for REF activities gave libraries a higher profile within their institution
A tote bag full of conference merch, on a train platform
The Opening the Future team is on its way to #UKSG2026 !! (train delayed obvs) Doing our bit for Copim Community and carrying Thoth bags full of OBC flyers 😆 @openbookcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @copim.bsky.social
See you there!
And don't forget #CopimCorner 🍻
We are very pleased to be able to announce that OBC and @ojcollective.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, committing to work together to achieve a sustainable, open access future, for both books and journals obc.copim.pub/collaboratin...
'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference'
In this post, @alittleroad.bsky.social summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here!
👉 copim.pub/exploring-th...
#OAbooks #OpenAccess
"Promoting scholar-led publishing is one form of this collective resistance—an effort to build publishing models that prioritise the common good and make knowledge as widely accessible as possible. Libraries have an important role to play as changemakers in this transition to open access"
#OAbooks
Going to #UKSG2026 but forgot to get a ticket for the official Monday night quiz?
Come along to #CopimCorner instead!
Informal chat & drinks in a lovely cosy pub close to the SEC!
Any questions? You can find us on stand 66 or contact us via the Whova app!
⏰️ 1930 onwards
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[BLOG] Accessibility in action at @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
@jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social found that WHP is making huge strides in their accessibility journey
▶️ WCAG‑compliant PDFs
▶️ Accessible EPUBs
▶️ Improved workflows across formats
Read more 👉
We'll be there 👋
Lots of #OtF goodies for visitors to the stand
PLUS we're speaking as part of Plenary 1 (1020-1200)
Find out more 👉 www.uksg.org/events/confe...
What a fantastic event to have been involved with!
Catch up with the session we curated - Where is collective funding for open access monographs going? - with @scholtom.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @tweeterbarr.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social
Looking forward to reading the rest of the series 👩💻
I spy @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @openingthefuture.bsky.social logos! 👀
