Lucy Barnes

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

Catch up with the conversation! 👇

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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! 🧭

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

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You can also access the User Guides in the Knowledge Base itself, which include a handy guide on contributing a policy and a new FAQ document developed as a result of the policy-a-thon!

Link below 👇

Image advertising the post available on our website about the policy-a-thon event.

Did you miss our #OAbook policy-a-thon event last month? Catch up now!

Read our post summarising the event 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/24/o...

Watch the recording on YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zsf...

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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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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OA Books Toolkit What experimental publishing does

On the Open Access Books Toolkit the latest article on Experimental Book Publishing is now online! www.oabooks-toolkit.org/publishing-o... #OpenAccess #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure

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

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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

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

Strengthening open access through collaboration: building connections with OPERAS UK - Jisc This event will bring together voices from across the UK open access (OA) landscape to examine current collaborations, identify opportunities for deeper engagement, and explore how collective efforts ...

Looking forward to this event on Monday, discussing collaborative efforts to support #OpenAccess in the UK and how the new @operaseu.bsky.social UK node might be able to support and participate in that work.

It's free to sign up: www.jisc.ac.uk/events/stren...

More evidence why we - as in "the whole sector" - need to collectively prioritise divestment from transformative agreements, and move to support not-for-profit and community-led #openaccess publishing in all its facets #DiamondOA #bibliodiversity

There are some thoughtful and insightful comments in this discussion -- well worth a free signup to read and participate in the conversation on diamond #OAbooks!

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💬 #EDCHVoices – #DiamondOA for books: Are we trying to fit books into a journal-shaped model?

Following the article by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar and @nielsstern.bsky.social, how #DiamondOA can truly embrace the diversity of book publishing?

New closing line for my noncommittal emails

Free resources for #OAbooks publishers on an extremely important topic! ⬇️

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

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭

The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡

✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models
✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

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NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

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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.

We recently wrapped up our Year 2 (1 May 2024-30 April 2025) progress report for our funders

This was a mammoth undertaking as we had so much to share! There's 140+pages ...

Just want to read the highlights? 👀

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@ukri.org

Just reminding you of this: PBSR will be free of APCs and subscriptions. I love it! 🥰 #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

We are delighted to announce that beginning in 2026, the Papers of the British School at Rome will appear fully open access with Open Book Publishers. See more at this link: buff.ly/KXFnyD7

Painting by Joe Whyte, who was William Fletcher Foundation Fellow at the BSR in 2024.

How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books? As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...

"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?"

Read the article on the Katina Magazine by Lucy Barnes, Iva Melinscak Zlodi, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and Niels Stern: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

@alittleroad.bsky.social

@nielsstern.bsky.social

OA policies/mandates don't regulate actual *publishers*, especially corporate publishers

And this is one of the reasons why "policy" is a flawed tactic in changing scholarly publishing

Here's a major flaw with the #OSTP nelson memo that continues to play out: it regulates individual researchers through a system of compliance, auditing, & punishment

Universities & commercial publishers are responsible for paywalls not individual workers

From a labor perspective, this memo is bad

How to run an academic writing retreat and bring the campus back together - Impact of Social Sciences Since it started in 2011, Academic Writing Month has seen a growth of workshops and initiatives aimed at helping researchers to prioritise writing projects. In 2020, as many researchers are in lockdow...

Thanks. If you want to know more, I wrote about it here for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social in Lockdown blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Really interesting thread, thanks Andy