'Protecting Workers?’ (2026) uses mixed methods and cases from #Bangladesh, #India, #Nepal, #Pakistan and #SriLanka. The volume shows how states responded to #COVID19 and the ensuing #economic crisis, and the effect these events had on workers’ lives.
Read the #OAbook at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
'Displaced Families, Dispersed Memories' (2026) examines family #memory as a dynamic, intergenerational process. The volume draws on case studies from around the globe in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This #OAbook is freely available at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
#history #memorystudies #migration
@cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures Conference, Bristol ~ a great city setting for sparking convos with librarians interested in exploring embedding #OAbook metadata into their collections directly via Thoth! Plus Thoth’s Hannah & @emmabooth.bsky.social got to play dress up on board the SS GB ⚓️🥂
New blog post on our technical roadmap for 2026 🛣️
Find out how we plan to strengthen the foundations of OAPEN & @doabooks.bsky.social and modernise the work behind the scenes to make our #OABook infrastructure more sustainable in the long-term.
#ScholComms #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess
The cover of 'Rays of Language' along with a quote from the book’s introduction (page 2). The quote reads: "The main aim of this volume is to provide a platform that continues the discussion on the language of the papyri, giving scholars an opportunity to present the results of ongoing research; to propose new approaches, theoretical discussions, and methodologies; and to introduce new projects, data repositories, tools, or corpora."
'Rays of Language' explores the ways everyday written documents illuminate #linguistic diversity, change, and communication in the ancient #Mediterranean world. The book features 13 chapters and is edited by Klaas Bentein and Marja Vierros.
Read or download the #OAbook at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
'Rays of Language' expands horizons in #papyrological #linguistics and historical #sociolinguistics. Edited by Bentein and Vierros, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of #language used in the everyday written culture of the ancient #Mediterranean.
Read the #OAbook at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
There are many #OABook publishers out there, but there are issues or barriers in the book supply chain that prevent publishers from getting their digital #OA outputs into the ecosystem
The book cover of 'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' by Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenmäki, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, and Patricia Scalco. Next to the cover image is an endorsement from Matei Candea, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. The endorsement reads: “This fascinating and multistranded book opens up anew the question of how ‘somewheres’ come to be. Moving back and forth across the Mediterranean, tracing disconnections as much as connections, the authors carefully and vividly triangulate the rich complexity of spatial coexistence and the shifting struggles between overlapping ways of locating particular places.”
'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' (2024) brings together seven anthropologists. In this #multigraph, Sarah Green and her co-authors introduce a radical new approach to understanding #location.
Read the #OAbook for free via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP....
#anthropology #ethnography #politicalgeography
Today we're excited to publish the 25th #OABook in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series w/ @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org, Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society.
Congratulations @latemedievalist.bsky.social!
Read it online, download or purchase it here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...
LIVE scenes from @chashub.bsky.social Vendor Showcase today🤳
Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social at booth no. 29
Grab yourself some merch and have a chat about #Equitable #OABook #Publishing 📚
Full list of vendors 👉 buff.ly/QCtPhWz
Some more thoughts on 'Who owns our knowledge?', the theme of this year's #OpenAccessWeek, from @nicholasmaple.bsky.social at the @rli-sas.bsky.social and author of recent #OABook Refugee Reception in Southern Africa.
uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl...
#Publishing #ResearchCulture #Academic
Last chance to catch @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @buchmesse.de at #fbm2025 📚
📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
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Talk to them about #OAbook publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!
It's time for @buchmesse.de 📚
You'll find @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social in Hall 4.0 #fbm2025
📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
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It's your chance to talk about #OAbook publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!
@alittleroad.bsky.social, @paulakennedy.bsky.social, @rbnmyr.bsky.social discussing enabling #OAbook publishing for scholarly societies @ #ALPSP2025. Innovative & sustainable approaches explored incl. funding via @openbookcollective.bsky.social & shared infrastructure with Thoth & @copim.bsky.social
Book cover of 'Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories', edited by Johanna Leinonen, Miika Tervonen, Hans Otto Frøland, Christhard Hoffmann, Seija Jalagin, Heidi Vad Jønsson, and Malin Thor Tureby. The cover features a black and white photograph depicting a rural scene with several people, horses, and cows.
'Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories' – winner of the Nordic #History Book Award 2025 – draws on oral histories, personal testimonies, and archival research. Central to the volume is the recognition of forced #migrants as #historical actors.
Read this #OAbook for free via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP...
Introducing ... Copim Compass 🧭
Everything you need to know about #OABook publishing in one place!
Find out more 👉
We're thrilled to officially welcome our first DOAB & OAPEN ambassadors: @dannykay68.bsky.social, Mandy Taha & Dr. Ramazan Turgut!
Danny, Mandy & Ramazan will offer a critical contribution to support our goals of advancing #OAbook publishing & #OpenInfrastructure. We look forward working with them!
Researching ways to more closely align existing software, tools and technologies, workflows and infrastructures for experimental publishing with the workflows of #OABook publishers 🛠️
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Why publish an #OAbook 🤔
These author testimonials cover a wide variety of ALL aspects of #OpenAccess publishing!
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Who finds it hard to stay on top of the ever increasing number of #OA resources out there 🙌
Even for those who try to stay in the know, it can be overwhelming!
We've pulled together a collection of resources to support #OAbook publishing
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Welcome to #CopimCompass 🧭 your ‘guide of guides’ to #OAbook publishing!
Whether you’re a publisher, librarian or author, there’s something for you 🫵
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Image advertising the post available on our website about the policy-a-thon event.
Did you miss our #OAbook policy-a-thon event last month? Catch up now!
Read our post summarising the event 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/24/o...
Watch the recording on YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zsf...
NEW from Katina Magazine 📰
As infrastructures, policymaking activities & funding for #OAbook publishing evolve, how should #Diamond #OpenAccess work for books? 📚
Read the full article 👉
NEW from Katina Magazine 📰
As infrastructures, policymaking activities & funding for #OAbook publishing evolve, how should #Diamond #OpenAccess work for books? 📚
Read the full article here!
Tomorrow @nielsstern.bsky.social will be hosting a Networking Power Session at #LIBER25 on 'Diamond #OABook Publishing – how to make it work'.
If this topic is of interest to you, join him at 17:00-18:00 CEST in the restaurant area (Anteroom of the 1129) of the Anthropole Building.
We've been making some changes to our ONIX, MARC, KBART, and JSON metadata feeds - find out what these changes are and why we're making them, as well as future developments to our #OAbook metadata in this new blog post: oapen.hypotheses.org/1484
@ronaldsnijder.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social
Researching ways to more closely align existing software, tools and technologies, workflows and infrastructures for experimental publishing with the workflows of #OABook publishers
🔗 buff.ly/3Wdg9HI
13/14
Why publish an #OAbook 💭
These author testimonials cover a wide variety of ALL aspects of #publishing
⭐ how and why an author decided to publish OA
⭐ find out more about the editorial and production process
⭐ the benefit of #OA has been from the author’s perspective
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