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‼️Reminder: Our CDA is happening tomorrow!

Building Open Science Communities in the Arabic-speaking World (Arabic)

4 Feb 2026 | 13:00 GST | Online

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Mondaecus - OPERAS Multilingualism Service Mondaecus is a collaborative translation platform that introduces a human dimension to machine translation, improving its sensitivity to different linguistic contexts. It…

✔️ Many thanks to @operaseu.bsky.social & the University of Coimbra for developing #Mondaecus which we used to translate the first post in this 🧵from English into the other languages used in the Call

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Programa de subvenções do Fundo de Desenvolvimento Coletivo do OBC: Edital e Orientação de 2026 - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

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Programa de Subvenciones del Fondo de Desarrollo Colectivo de OBC: Convocatoria y Orientación 2026 - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

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📢 PSA: in person ticket sales for #CopimConference close in less than a week!

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Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

📢 PSA: today (Sun 1 Jan 2026) is the deadline to apply for a sponsored place at #CopimConference

A bursary covers in-person attendance at both days, including hotel accommodation w/breakfast for 2 nights (25 and 26 February), plus transport costs up to £200!

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Recommended reading for #metadata #discovery & #cataloguing practitioners.
Whether you work to enable discovery & access to #openaccess or #paytoread books (or both), this report sheds light on the complex & often idiosyncratic metadata ecosystem for publishers, system providers & libraries.

[NEW REPORT] International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters

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Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

📢 PSA: there are only TWO days left to apply for a sponsored place at #CopimConference

⏳️ Deadline = Sun 1 Jan

Win tickets for in-person attendance at both days, hotel accommodation w/breakfast for 2 nights (25 and 26 February), plus transport costs up to £200!

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The world of book metadata is a complex one!

I had the pleasure of reviewing a draft version of this report, from which I learned a lot. There are important connections to the open research information movement, in particular @barcelonadori.bsky.social!

Highlights from Day 2 of #CopimConference programme are over on our LinkedIn page!

Head over there now to find out more!

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⏰ The deadline to apply is Sunday 1 February

New Report Published: International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters - Copim We are pleased to announce the publication of “International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters”, …

New Report: International #Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for #OpenAccess #Books and Chapters, from @copim.bsky.social

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I'm speaking at the Copim Conference "What next for community-led open access book publishing?" Emma Booth (she/her), Metadata Manager for Content Management at the University of Manchester Library 9:00 AM on Friday 27th Feb 2026

I'll be joining a panel at the @copim.bsky.social Conference chaired by @thoth-metadata.bsky.social: "Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books" 9:00 am on Friday 27th Feb 2026
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Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…

Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?

Find out how to apply for one of these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend & colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP

Deep Maps: Blue Humanities — Online Peer Review Party - Copim Join the Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party for Deep Maps: Blue Humanities, an experimental publishing project by James Smith, deve…

Last chance take part in an experiment in collective review 👥

Register now & join our Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party on 29 Jan 📆

Help review @uniwestpress.bsky.social Deep Maps: Blue Humanities alongside author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

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Want to know more about the #CopimConference programme?

Details of Day One are over on our LinkedIn page

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Full criteria and application post in the blog post below 👇

Registration for the event below has now closed - if you got a ticket, join @rupertgatti.bsky.social Gareth Cole and other #digipres experts tomorrow 🎫

Making scholarship openly available in a sustainable way 💚

Thanks @bulac.bsky.social 🧡

Great role over at @uolpress.bsky.social

Get applying now! 📝

Membership: we are here for you As a CILIP member, you have access to a range of tailored resources and career support.

Over the next few weeks we will be posting further details about the programme for #CopimConference - so stay tuned!

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 University of London | LONDON (or online via Zoom)

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What the FIL Guadalajara debates reveal about metadata for academic books and how Thoth Open Metadata and SciELO Books respond to this challenge - Copim In early December, FIL Guadalajara 2025 took place, one of the main international events in the Latin American publishing sector. Among the various profession…

📚✨ Now live: What does the FIL Guadalajara reveal about the circulation of academic books?

This post links a panel discussion to the role of Thoth Open Metadata and SciELO Books in supporting the discovery and circulation of OA books.
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Announcing a Major Update to the Thoth Platform Thoth Open Metadata is pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Thoth 1.0, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of its open metadata infrastructure for open access book publishing.

📢 Announcing a Major Update to the Thoth Platform 📢
We are pleased to announce the forthcoming launch of Thoth 1.0, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of its open metadata infrastructure for #OA book publishing 🎆🎆🎆

Read more in our latest blog post: thoth.pub/blog/10.7095...

Starting 2026 with a bang 🚀

▶️ 3 completed deliverables and a wealth of new research and resources to advance and strengthen #DiamondOA in Africa, Europe & Latin America

New #OpenScience resource!

#CreativeCommons licenses answer a simple but crucial question: what am I allowed to do with this work?

Learn how they support sharing, reuse, & collaboration in Open Science without losing control👇

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