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Frankfurter Buchmesse | Home Frankfurter Buchmesse 15 - 19 October 2025

And the day before, they'll be at the EDItEUR 46th International Supply Chain Seminar (Frankfurt's essential mini-conference for metadata and supply chain specialists)

📅 14 October
🕰️ 13:00 - 17:30
📌 Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main
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Next up for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social is #fbm2025

📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
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Go and find them to talk all about open access book publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!

For anyone heading to the Frankfurt book fair this year, you can find out details about @oipassoc.bsky.social at the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social stand (Hall 4.0 / E67)!

OIPA was founded to connect and encourage #OpenAccess publishing.

#InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPress #FBF25 #Academic

JUST RELEASED by @openbookcollective.bsky.social Report on Librarians' Barriers to Participation In Collective #Funding Models For Open Access Books
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o... #libraries #librarians #oa #scholcomm

Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...

Excited to be going to my first Frankfurt Book Fair next week #fbm25
Will be hanging out at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social stand (Hall 4.0 / E67) & discussing digital sovereignty (wed, 1pm, International stage) and the evolution of #OABooks (thurs, 12noon, Innovation Stage)
Do make contact to meet up!

The Evolution of Open Access Books <p class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 text-editor-left">This year marks the 15th anniversary of the OAPEN Library, a platform hosted by OAPEN. OAPEN supports the transition to open access ...

Join our celebratory panel at @buchmesse.de on Thursday 16 October from 12:00 to 12:30 CEST at the Innovation Stage (Hall 4.0, H106). 

@tandfresearch.bsky.social @barbarabudrich.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @ebsco.bsky.social

YouTube video by Open Book Collective Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community

The OBC remains proudly community-governed, transparent, and collaborative.
Together, our Members, libraries, + supporters are reshaping how scholarly books are shared and sustained youtu.be/ev-O82zQmMU

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

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Missed Toby's #craft_oa2025 presentation on our collaboration across #DiamondOA #OAbooks publishing infrastructures?

👇Slidedeck on how @pkp.sfu.ca, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doabooks.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social and Thoth Open Metadata work together

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.

The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...

Oh, looks like we've made it 😀

First day of #CRAFT-OA conference - organised by the EU-funded @craft-oa.bsky.social project - is about to kick off ... and I for one am very much looking forward to discussing #openinfrastructures for #DiamondOA #OAbooks 📚

We strongly approve of this message ❤️ #openinfra #oabooks

"It was about relationships, shared labour, and refusal. It was about making space – for each other, for alternative forms of scholarship, and for survival."

Write-up by Rebekka Kiesewetter of the recent Radical Open Access conference.

A nice quote from L'HarmattanOA @ #OASPA2025 on how we support them: "The international [book] distribution is managed by Thoth. Thanks to their persistent efforts our titles are submitted to several databases such as OAPEN&DOAB, EBSCO, ProQuest collections, Google Books, & Web of Science."

Toby from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social will be at the @craft-oa.bsky.social conference next week

#Metadata #MetadataMatters #OpenInfrastructure #OABooks

Might also be of interest to #OASPA25 attendees 👇

Tackling the problems of getting #OA works into the wider book supply chain TOGETHER 🤝

A sneak preview of @openbookcollective.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @thoth-metadata.bsky.social presentation at #Munin2025

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#OpenScience #ScalingSmall #Bibliodiversity

The academic system needs to take the work of building community-led, open source/access initiatives much more seriously as a valid and vital form of academic labour

One answer from the @openbookcollective.bsky.social is their Collective Development Fund: an optional 5% fee paid by the publishers & services in the collective. This creates a pot of money disbursed via grant payments to publishers & service providers for projects that build OA publishing capacity.

This is more than just adapting to an imperfect system. It is a bottom up set of initiatives that are not just working differently, but showing how a different scholarly system can be built, and that crucially this involves working with each other differently and collaboratively/interoperably

New financial models like @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @ojcollective.bsky.social. New cataloguing & metadata management models - e.g. @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @doaj.bsky.social. Often engaging and interoperating in dynamic & highly innovative ways

Yes! We've made three awards so far and will shortly be announcing our next four. Updates/more info here: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/collective-d...

Stained glass image of the devil in green glass, with shifty eyes, horns and long fingers. Surrounded by a red lick of fire

This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?

We also had a lovely #CopimCorner together with the scholar-led.network, and many #oat25 participants dropped in to stay for a drink, enjoying the wonderful view over Lake Constance from Konzil's main terrace 😍

Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata This year, the judges have selected four finalists for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing. The finalists will be showcased in a lightning pres...

Spotlight on: Thoth Open Metadata | ALPSP Blog https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/alpsp-blog/spotlight-on-thoth-open-metadata/

Slides of our #oat25 workshop together with #AGUniverlage, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social, @doabooks.bsky.social and #BerlinUP now live! 👇

Come on in, the water - and weather - is nice! #CopimCorner #oat25

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