Lucy Barnes

The Compass really is an excellent tool; have a look and see what you think, researchers.

For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library
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A woman with dark hair standing in front of a room and presenting with slides in the background.

A woman with dark hair standing in front of a room and presenting with slides in the background.

An enjoyable day spent yesterday presenting on @openbookpublish and discussing #OpenAccess at the "Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area" conference.

Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.

Looking forward to this event on Thurs!

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[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎

The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡

Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem

#AHSS #SSH

How to tell the people who work for you, "we don't care about you or what you do" in one easy step #efficiency

"The news comes shortly after OUP acquired Karger Publishers, a medical press based in Basel"

Oh wait he works for MI6 doesn't he

I haven't seen many Bond films

SIMON what I demand from James Bond films is REALISM

Bond is dead and MI5 is suffering the impact of government cuts; Moneypenny has been made redundant as a result and is suing for workplace harassment

In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books.

Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️

WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.

May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social

May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social

This year, the team are focussing on:

✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles

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Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025

"Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access" (11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]) - Copim Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…

[WEBINAR] Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access

Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social

📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8

#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks

So it's about viewing public libraries not just as community hubs or amenities, but as part of our public knowledge infrastructure - and extending the original public library mission of making printed knowledge and learning available to everyone, to digital knowledge as well.

Basically - there's a policy gap! Research policy embraces open access, via REF, funder mandates etc, but library & cultural policy rarely even mentions it - so publicly funded research is increasingly 'out there', but the public isn't supported to learn about its existence or how to access it.

Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!

I never knew about these! Really interesting.

Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀

Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ

Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access When a more restrictive open access licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?

[BLOG] Continuing last week's #OAWeek theme @alittleroad.bsky.social has written about #OA licences for books 📚

❓Who owns open knowledge?
❓What are the implications of different types of open licence?
❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences?

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I wrote a post about open access licences for books, and who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences (e.g. CC BY-NC-ND) 👇

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #OAWeek

International Open Access Week International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...

Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books.

www.openaccessweek.org

Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award.

Here's a blog post for the Open Library of Humanities website outlining how we used the funding granted by the award to support our research culture activity relating to Open Access Books.

(Albeit it also provides fresh evidence that the 'OA books don't come in paper formats' myth refuses to die... We need to keep showing the beautiful physical copies of OA books because this belief is still staggering on!)

Making Open Access Book publishing ‘Normal’ The OLH Open Access Award 2024 Awardee Report, authored by Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. Last year Lancaster University Library was awarded the...

Great post from Tom Morley at Lancaster Uni Lib re. using an @openlibhums.org Open Access Award grant 'to facilitate a research culture in which #OAbooks publishing is part of normal, everyday practice'

Really practical, achievable steps to shift publication culture:

www.openlibhums.org/news/861/

This is a great resource for researchers!

#AcademicPublishing #Author #OABooks #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess

A neon question mark in a neon square at the end of a dark tunnel.

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book.

'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books':

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...