🌏 Ambassador Voices: Danny Kingsley 🇦🇺
“Unlike an increasing number of countries across the world, Australia has no position on ‘open’.”
Read the interview 👇
🔗 oapen.hypotheses.org/2125
#OA #OAbooks #OS #DOAB
HUP’s books are reaching more readers than ever. Our download map contains data for 48 per cent of all downloads and views. For more information, see our Annual Report 2025: hdl.handle.net/10138/629568
Image: Map of regions where HUP's books have been downloaded in 2020-2025
#openaccess #OAbooks
Oh wow, recordings of last week's @pkp.sfu.ca 's OMP Fest 2026 already available online! 😀
Really inspiring to hear about the many uses of #OpenMonographsPress by presses & initiatives, and we also presented on the OMP-Thoth plugin with Lepidus Tecnologia and UJ Press #MetadataMatters #OAbooks
There's still time to pop by the Copim Community stand at #UKSG2026 and have a chat about #OABooks and #OpenInfrastructure
Alright, today is the day ... in a bit more than 2 hours, at noon (GMT) today, we will be pushing the button to initiate that long-awaited release of Thoth 1.0! *giddy*
#OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters
Ahead of the launch, a summary on what we've been working on ...
doi.org/10.70950/gfs...
🌏 Ambassador Voices: Danny Kingsley 🇦🇺
“The global scholarly communication community is full of talented, intelligent, creative and fun people — it’s hard not to remain enthusiastic.”
Read the interview 👇
🔗 buff.ly/Y6VPmeM
#OA #OAbooks #OS #DOAB
🌏 Ambassador Voices: Danny Kingsley 🇦🇺
“The global scholarly communication community is full of talented, intelligent, creative and fun people — it’s hard not to remain enthusiastic.”
Read the interview 👇
🔗 buff.ly/Y6VPmeM
#OA #OAbooks #OS #DOAB
And come and find the #CopimCommunity on stand no. 66
Chat about #OpenAccess #OABooks #OpenInfrastructure #Metadata and more...
And that's a wrap for day 1 of #UKSG2026
Join us at the Taphouse later tonight for #CopimCorner & 'a quality selection of the finest craft ales, spirits and cocktails' ...
And of course, the finest #OABooks chat 📚
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A man standing at a lectern in front of a slide
Excellent talk by @tmorley24.bsky.social on #OAbooks and Lancaster's advocacy strategy. Includes mention of the N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing: www.n8research.org.uk/what-we-do/r...
#UKSG2026
It's time for #UKSG2026! The @copim.bsky.social crew will be at stand 66 ready to talk all things #OAbooks. Thoth's @rupertgatti.bsky.social will be demoing Thoth 1.0 which goes live this week! Check out our poster & get yourselves to #CopimCorner tonight from 7:30 @ TapHouse (work talk optional) 🍻
Really moving tribute from Andrew Barker to Elaine Sykes at #UKSG2026. I still find myself thinking, when planning something new related to #OAbooks, "Elaine needs to be involved in this", even though I know she can't be. She's so missed even by people like me who didn't know her well. What a star.
All the seasons in one day can't dampen our spirits!
The team are nearly all in Glasgow for #UKSG2026 and look forward to chatting to everyone about #OABooks #Community #Publishing #Infrastructure on stand no. 66 tomorrow!
Out of office on - I'll be heading to #Glasgow for #UKSG2026 shortly 🚆
Find me on @copim.bsky.social stand [no 66] and we can chat #OABooks #OpenInfrastructure
Plus @jisc.bsky.social #DigitalResearchCommunity & #OPERASUK @operaseu.bsky.social
Excellent Friday read here via #OLH - which strongly resonates with the collective stance held within @copim.bsky.social and beyond on why we believe there can't be no real #openaccess without truly non-profit and community-led #openinfrastructure
#OAbooks
I'm representing Stockholm University and the Swedish Node for Diamond Open Access in this new and promising project. I'm looking forward to contributing, especially to developing more tools for #OAbooks . #DiamondOA
Another key insight from Mandy Taha, #DOAB Ambassador in Egypt:
Advancing #OpenAccess in the MENA region isn’t only about funding—it’s about shifting perceptions around quality, prestige, and trust.
Changing the narrative is part of the work.
🔗 buff.ly/yJDBqtS
#OABooks #OpenScience #ScholComm
Another key insight from Mandy Taha, #DOAB Ambassador in Egypt:
Advancing #OpenAccess in the MENA region isn’t only about funding—it’s about shifting perceptions around quality, prestige, and trust.
Changing the narrative is part of the work.
🔗 buff.ly/yJDBqtS
#OABooks #OpenScience #ScholComm
Great thread 🧵 (as ever) from @emmabooth.bsky.social about an #RLUK26 session yesterday on #OAbooks that featured Geoffrey Khan, editor of the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, which we're proud to publish: www.openbookpublishers.com/series/2632-...
We can't and we don't want to! If you share our values and aims, and might want to collaborate with us in future, join the Copim listserv to stay in touch with us post-project:
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
#OAbooks #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure
Luckily the sessions are being recorded for catch-up later 👍
I've joined the #openaccess for #longform scholarship session with Dave Jago, Geoffrey Khan, & Rosie Higman - there's been a mention of @copim.bsky.social already! 👏
#RLUK26 #OAbooks #OAmonographs
Awareness is only the first step.
Through events, networks, and ongoing engagement, Mandy Taha points to a key challenge: turning visibility into real uptake of #OAbooks while maintaining quality, metadata and discoverability.
How are you approaching this?
🔗 buff.ly/yJDBqtS
#OABooks #OS #MENA
Awareness is only the first step.
Through events, networks, and ongoing engagement, Mandy Taha points to a key challenge: turning visibility into real uptake of #OAbooks while maintaining quality, metadata and discoverability.
How are you approaching this?
🔗 buff.ly/yJDBqtS
#OABooks #OS #MENA
Cover of the Helsinki University Press Annual Report 2025, featuring a photograph of the Helsinki University Main Library. The title 'Helsinki University Press Annual Report 2025' appears at the top, and the HUP logo is displayed in the lower-left corner.
HUP's Annual report 2025 has been published!
If you want to learn more about our books, journals, download numbers, and more, check out the report at: hdl.handle.net/10138/629568
#scholarlypublishing #openaccess #OAbooks #ReadUP
The report's cover image: Veikko Somerpuro
RLUK CSN's OA Monographs Group (of which I am a member) have put these Shared Principles together after consultation with RLUK member libraries about in-house strategies for supporting Diamond OA monograph schemes - I was happy to contribute @uomlibrary.bsky.social's perspective #OABooks #DiamondOA
We're delighted to be a partner on this project aimed at strengthening #DiamondOA for #OABooks 💎📚
"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
"Meeting colleagues in person for the first time and making new connections highlighted just how integral mutual enthusiasm, sharing experiences and viewpoints and open discussion is for the [open research] landscape moving forward."
#CopimConference #OAbooks #OpenResearch #OpenAccess
Next up is @chelle703.bsky.social Senior Library Assistant @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
▶️ Explore the impact of #OpenResources on funding
▶️ Learn how open #Metadata practices enhances the discoverability & value of #OAbooks
Read & share: copim.pub/exploring-co...
#CopimConference
