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What role do university presses have to help secure the quality of Diamond OA publishing? Enjoying the 4th Association of European University Presses ([AEUP]: https://www.aeup.eu/) Conference “Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing”. Hearing some great prese...

How can university presses better support #DiamondOA?
What obstacles do you see? Share your thoughts!
👉 Add your voice: forum.diamas.org/t/what-role-...

It was a really interesting discussion featuring @alittleroad.bsky.social @philippagrand.bsky.social (and others)

Catch up with the conversation! 👇

Compass Open Access is reshaping the future of scholarly book publishing, offering new opportunities for ...

Access all of #CopimCompass 👉 buff.ly/H4i3znf

Get in touch info@copim.ac.uk ☎️

05. Publisher Success ... | Compass Open Access is reshaping the future of scholarly book publishing, offering new opportunities for pub...

It's been a few months since we launched #CopimCompass 🚀

We've been busy adding content, find out what's new!

✨ Publisher success stories buff.ly/XCyGI2Q
✨ Open accessibility book buff.ly/tHokipg
✨ Recordings of the Experimental Book Publishing in Practices Seminar series buff.ly/WfahskY

We love working with @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social team 🤝

So pleased to see new supporters as well as renewals from previous supporters 📚

OBC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Statement

OBC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Statement: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/obc-dive...

Documenting 'Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ How to capture the technical, social, and affective dimensions of publishing infrastructures? Introducing and situating the documentation strategy for the 'Servpub' experimental book pilot project

Read the earlier blogs in the series

1️⃣ Documenting 'Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ buff.ly/PwLjh4C

2️⃣ Embodied and embedded publishing infrastructure on ServPub buff.ly/wEydsTi

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The (Im)possibility of Non-Extractive Collaboration The third post documenting the ‘ServPub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ book pilot project centres on a recorded conversation with the project team exploring the negotiations…

[BLOG] The (Im)possibility of Non-Extractive Collaboration

Explore the negotiations involved in collaborative publishing across academic and non-academic contexts

👉 buff.ly/4b8RQWX

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DCDC25 - DCDC25 A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being…

Last day of #DCDC25 today 📆

We've been on the @jisc.bsky.social stand and have had a great time attending talks and meeting with the #GLAMA sector 🤝

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Opening the Future, Author Profile: Dean Allbritton Copim catches up with author Dean Allbritton about their book "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.

NEW Author Profiles 📣

We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with
@livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉

🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh

All set up at @durham-university.bsky.social for #DCDC25

Come and say hello 👋

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

#openaccess #openinfrastructure

09. Open Accessibility | Compass This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

Publishers! Find out more about #OpenAccessibility on #CopimCompass 🧭

There are 6 chapters designed to support small diamond #OAss publishers improve their accessibility

⭐ buff.ly/dsZBhgT

Accessibility standard implementation and OA publishers Joanne Fitzpatrick and Jordy Findanis summarise the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small diamond open access monograph publishers.

[NEW] Accessibility standard implementation and #OpenAccess publishers

A summary of the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small #DiamondOA monograph publishers 📚

@jofitz.bsky.social

Read more 👉

DCDC25 - DCDC25 A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being…

We're at #DCDC25 for the next few days 🚆

📆 29 – 31 July 2025
🌐 Online (using the platform Pheedloop) and in person (Durham University)
🔗 buff.ly/PSDRgoc

Find us @jisc.bsky.social stand - we're looking forward to talking with the #GLAMA sector 🤝

The future is going to be things like @copim.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social. There's exciting, important work going on. Or see my conversation with Eileen Fradenburg Joy of punctum last year: colab.plymouthcreate.net/resource/eve...

Great to see real impact from authors who have benefited directly from OA funding via OtF members 😍

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Did you know that we have created 'shelves' for some of our #CopimCompass 'books'?

You can now check out all the success stories - libraries, publishers and presses - in one place! 🧭

⭐ buff.ly/QeFPWKp

And the same with all the books about @openingthefuture.bsky.social

⭐ buff.ly/ng14xFN

The Thoth Open Metadata logo

The words 'no open access without open infrastructure'

NEWS! Thoth Open Metadata receives finalist nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing!

The winner will be announced at the ALPSP conference in September. Keep your fingers crossed for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🤞

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/Q2tTcTK

The author of this post, Janneke Adema, is also part of Copim's Experimental Publishing group. Find out about their work, incl. the Experimental Publishing Compendium, via:

- Experimental Publishing group: copim.pubpub.org/experimental...
- Experimental Publishing Compendium: compendium.copim.ac.uk

Curious about experimental publishing and #OAbooks? Janneke Adema has written this introductory article for the OA Books Toolkit all about it!

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Opening the Future, Author Profile: Dean Allbritton Copim catches up with author Dean Allbritton about their book "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.

NEW Author Profiles 📣

We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with
@livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉

🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh

Experimental Publishing Compendium The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide for scholars, publishers, librarians, and artists who want to experiment with the form of scholarly books.

Interested in what you've read?

Want to challenge, push and redefine the shape, form and rationale of scholarly books?!

Check out our Experimental Publishing Compendium now!

🔗 buff.ly/g6MKZDY

OA Books Toolkit What experimental publishing does

NEW from @oapenbooks.bsky.social #OABooks toolkit 🛠️

▶️ Experimental book publishing
▶️ What experimental publishing does
▶️ Collaborative scholarship
▶️ Equitable interaction
▶️ Critique of legacy systems
▶️ New models, practices, and imaginaries
▶️ How to get started

🔗 buff.ly/rlbqGUG

The Thoth Open Metadata logo

The words 'no open access without open infrastructure'

NEWS! Thoth Open Metadata receives finalist nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing!

The winner will be announced at the ALPSP conference in September. Keep your fingers crossed for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social 🤞

buff.ly/Q2tTcTK

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The @jisc.bsky.social digital research community is taking a break for the summer 🏖️

Join us in September for an exciting discussion around Electronic Research Notebooks 🖥️

👉 jisc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Photo: Etienne Girardet via Unsplash

DCDC25 - DCDC25 A collective call to action, DCDC25 invites you to come together, no matter where you are in the world or the stage of your career, to Choose Your Own Future: to celebrate what is already being…

We're going to #DCDC25 🚆

📆 29 – 31 July 2025
🌐 Online (using the platform Pheedloop) and in person (Durham University)
🔗 buff.ly/PSDRgoc

Find us @jisc.bsky.social stand - we're looking forward to talking with the #GLAMA sector 🤝

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

JOB OPPORTUNITY! 📢

Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as Community Engagement Lead

More info online ▶️

Join members of the #CopimCommunity at this online event 🌐

Copim's Open Book Futures: Progress Update As the Copim Community enters the final year of the Open Book Futures Project, the team is pleased to share some updates on recent progress and milestones.

[READING] We've condensed our Year 2 progress report for our funders into a blog post for you!

Here's a snapshot of what we've been up to May 2024 to 30 April 2025 📸

👉 buff.ly/oaCL05j

We know that accessibility is something members of the OABN are interested in - some time ago we hosted an Open Cafe on the topic & agreed there was a lack of supportive resources in one place for #OAbooks publishers.

This free resource from @copim.bsky.social aims to fill that gap - take a look! 👀