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The University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha joins the Open Book Collective as a Library Supporter The Open Book Collective is delighted to welcome Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury as its latest Library Supporter.

Kia ora, Ōtautahi!

A warm welcome Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury as our latest Library Supporter, championing open scholarship, Māori knowledge systems, and research in the public interest from Aotearoa New Zealand.

We're delighted to have you with us!

Here's our lovely Thoth powered catalogue, showcasing books from across our OBC publishers: catalogue.openbookcollective.org/books

Many congrats to @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social on this major platform update. Thoth are not just one of our members, but our metadata management partner. They power our own collective catalogue and are making it far easier for small publishers to manage and disseminate their works. Well done all!

It's the last day of #UKSG2026 ...

And your last chance to get hold of our merch!!

Get your mits on bags, pens, stickers and bookmarks & more from stand no. 66 !

@thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

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Just in time for #UKSG2026 the @openlibhums.org team have launched this blistering Robin Hood poster campaign. Divest from commercial publishing (the rich) & redirect your library budget into non-profit scholar-led publishing like @ojcollective.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! 💪🏼🔥💪🏼

The UKSG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition: Glasgow - UKSG The UKSG Annual Conference is a major event in the scholarly communications calendar which attracts delegates each year from around the world - librarians, publishers, content providers, consultants a...

Our Managing Director, @joedeville.bsky.social, and Community Engagement Lead, @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social, will both be at #UKSG2026 tomorrow! Find them at the COPIM stand (#66) or roaming around talking about all things OA books, OBC, and collective funding!

Collaborating for a sustainable open access publishing future: Announcing a new MoU between OBC and OJC - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

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...

Verfassungsblog tritt dem Open Book Collective bei Wir freuen uns, den Verfassungsblog als neues Mitglied des Open Book Collective begrüßen zu können!

Neues Mitglied! Heute heißen wir @verfassungsblog.de in der OBC-Familie willkommen.

Der Verfassungsblog ist eine führende #OpenAccess-Plattform für fundierte Analysen und Kommentare zu Verfassungsrecht und Politik – mit fast 5 Millionen Aufrufen letztes Jahr so wichtig und aktuell wie nie zuvor!

Verfassungblog joins the Open Book Collective - Open Book Collective The OBC is delighted to welcome Verfassungblog as the newest member of the Open Book Collective!

New member alert! Today we're welcoming @verfassungsblog.de to the OBC family.

Verfassungsblog is a fully #OpenAccess world-leading source of expert analysis and commentary on constitutional law and politics - with nearly 5 million views last year, it's more necessary & relevant than ever!

It was great to see @rluk.ac.uk's recent call for collective OA funding. We also need to ensure that the full diversity of HEIs and libraries can and do participate as a shared, collective commitment to help support a new publishing ecosystem, not just historic or 'research-led' HEIs and libraries.

RLUK's new Shared Principles for OA Monographs points straight to the OBC - Open Book Collective RLUK, a consortium of UK and Irish research libraries, recently released their Collections Strategy Network’s Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models: a ne...

RLUK's new principles call for collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, and transparency. For us here at the OBC, these principles are at the core of our operating model. 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

1/ This feels like a watershed moment to me. @rluk.ac.uk's Collections Strategy Network has posted new guidance on the criteria Research Libraries should use when making their investment decisions on #OpenAccess monographs, inc. recommending @openbookcollective.bsky.social as one model to consider

We are very happy to see RLUK so strongly advocating for its members to consider supporting organisations like the Open Book Collective! Having one of the UK's most influential library bodies align so clearly with what we've been building is a real validation of this work.

These principles are our operating model - and with 96 libraries across 12 countries already supporting us, they clearly resonate across the sector. With the post-2029 REF mandate for monographs and chapters looming, it's more important than ever to invest OA now and help build capacity to meet it.

Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models - Research Libraries UK RLUK's Collections Strategy Network (CSN) has developed a set of principles to guide RLUK members when evaluating future investment in Open Access Monograph models.  These take into account the need t...

RLUK's just-published principles for evaluating OA monograph models call for: collective funding, not-for-profit governance protected from commercial acquisition, bibliodiversity, transparency & equity.

Sounds familiar! So if you're an RLUK library wondering where to start - look no further!

Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models - Research Libraries UK RLUK's Collections Strategy Network (CSN) has developed a set of principles to guide RLUK members when evaluating future investment in Open Access Monograph models.  These take into account the need t...

New from @rluk.ac.uk: "Shared Principles for the Evaluation and Acquisition of Open Access Monograph Models", with direct mention of @oapenbooks.bsky.social, @doabooks.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social & Thoth as prime examples 🌞 www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...
#OAbooks #OpenInfras

The School of Advanced Study, University of London joins the Open Book Collective as a Library Supporter - Open Book Collective The Open Book Collective is delighted to welcome the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, as a new supporting member.

Delighted to welcome the School of Advanced Study, University of London as our newest Library Supporter!

The UK's national centre for humanities research, backing scholar-led, non-commercial diamond open access book publishing - what could be a better fit?

📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

Buyers' Guide 2026

Read @heroicendeavour.bsky.social's editorial on the vulnerability of long-form scholarship and the importance of collective funding models in the latest CILIP Buyers' Guide. 👇

‘Knowledge accessible to the community’: CLACSO as a platform to democratize scholarly publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean Building on CLACSO’s history of researching, implementing, and disseminating Diamond open access, this project addresses asymmetry between associated centers in Latin America regarding knowledge of op...

We are delighted to share an update from the second project funded by our Collective Development Fund in 2025: 'Knowledge accessible to the community’: CLACSO as a platform to democratize scholarly publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean’
obc.copim.pub/update-on-cd... #OABooks

The Open Book Collective welcomes Newcastle University - Open Book Collective The Open Book Collective is delighted to welcome Newcastle University as a supporting member.

Big news: @newcastleuni.bsky.social has joined the Open Book Collective as our latest Library Supporter! 🙌 Support like this helps us make scholar-led, non-commercial OA book publishing a genuinely viable and sustainable alternative - so thanks, Newcastle, welcome aboard! 📚 #OpenAccess #DiamondOA

OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

Please note: *only* applications made using the application form provided in the Call will be considered. This fund is not for BPCs. obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...

Just under a week left to apply to the #CollectiveDevelopmentFund 2026. This fund is to support projects building capacity for Open Access Books, including networks and infrastructure. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. #OpenAccess #OABooks #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA

As a small, predominantly #OpenAccess publisher, we’ve really benefitted from the work done by these projects - working with @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social which have been so beneficial to our work @uolpress.bsky.social

Collaboration in action at #CopimConference ❤ Getting together with Harrison Inefuku (Iowa State U Digital Press), Steel Wagstaff ( @pressbooks.bsky.social ), Joe Muller ( @janewayolh.bsky.social ), and Javier Arias (Thoth Open Metadata) to establish ...

Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim

4/ "The overall conceit of the project is that the book travels deep into the ocean as the argument unfolds. Points in the argument will be pinned to visualizations of stories, media objects and events associated with particular depth" copim.pub/launch-of-ex...

John standing beneath a slide showing images from Deep Maps: Blue Humanities, with the title: How is experimental publishing changing scholarly publishing?

3/ Or there's @uniwestpress.bsky.social's forthcoming Deep Maps: Blue Humanities text, involving a collaboration with @jstor.bsky.social Labs and @copim.bsky.social, as presented by John Atkinson at #CopimConference

Living with Machines - University of London Press Living with Machines is a data-driven history of the coming of the machine age in the long nineteenth century, arising from one of the largest interdisciplinary projects undertaken in the humanities. ...

2/ Including #LivingWithMachines, which used open peer review, and features interactive maps, datasets, digital notebooks and multimedia content
uolpress.co.uk/book/living-...

Slide titled Our publishing experiments, with bulleted text that reads: - Experimentation an explicit part of UoL Press's publishing remit - Manifold platform - Example book projects: Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, Women Working in the Past, Living with Machines

1/ OBC publishers are innovating when it comes not only to #OpenAccess, but also to form & process. Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social from @uolpress.bsky.social talking at the #CopimConference about how the press is engaging in a range of #ExperimentalPublishing practices

Sticker reading "the only diamonds I care about" open book collective

Don't usually go for open access stickers but there are some good ones