Anna Hughes

Join us for the inaugural webinar of the Discussion Series on Scholar-led Publishing, co-hosted with @globalyacademy.bsky.social

🕓It will take place on December 11, 2025 at 16:00 CET.

It will focus on Reclaiming knowledge: why Diamond Open Access matters.

👉Register to attend: u2l.fr/vq6tzq

This sounds a really interesting event, so pleased some of it will be streamed online 👩‍💻

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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

We'll be back this afternoon at 1-2PM GMT ⏰

Please do register and attend

🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ac7b1...

Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇

Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback

Sobering but inspiring!

Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇

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As part of the DOAJ Data campaign, we've made it easier to find research using DOAJ data

💻 Help us grow the DOAJ Zotero group of articles and research on #OA publishing, using DOAJ data
Anyone can add to it, and use it to explore and find relevant research

www.zotero.org/groups/62501...

The 9am session is just starting, but there's still time to sign up for second session 1-2pm (GMT) 👇

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What's new on #CopimCompass 🧭

This month we're focusing on Book 09. Open Book Accessibility

There's so much new content thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social

🔗 buff.ly/naVbu2T

Photo: @felirbe on Unsplash

#Accessibility #eBooks

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Lots of tickets left, both online and in person (London, UK) 🎫

Opening books collectively: Working together for a fairer future for books This presentation introduces how a relatively new, non-profit initiative – the Open Book Collective (OBC) – is furthering open science in a closing world via its diamond approach to funding open…

The team are back from #Munin2025

Their presentations are available to view /download via our Zenodo Community 🖥️

@openbookcollective.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/83LSXMu

@thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca 👉 buff.ly/6IKKASS

TODAY 👇

Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.

Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️

ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs

🔗

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

Join us for a special SCOSS Showcase Webinar highlighting the collective impact of the SCOSS-endorsed open infrastructures! 🌍

🗓️ Date: Monday, 1 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15.00–16.45 UTC / 16.00–17.45 CET / 17.00–18.45 CAT(convert to your time zone)
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community group for their final meet up of the year on 10 December!

📝 Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use
📍 Online (via Teams)
⏰ 11.05-11.55 AM

Find out more and register 👇

research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

MARK YOUR CALENDAR 📆

Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community group for their final meet up of the year on 10 December!

▶️ Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use

Registration details available very soon 👇 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...

This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:

opendivide.hypotheses.org/625

Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.

@beckywojturska.bsky.social 😀

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Finally we have Michigan University Press, the scholarly publishing arm of @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Their African and Diaspora Studies Package contains 65 titles from across MSUP’s well-regarded lists on African and Diaspora studies

Find out more 💡https://msup.openingthefuture.net/

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[BLOG] @scholtom.bsky.social shares his thoughts in a 2-part guest post on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social

1️⃣ Bonfire of the Humanities: Publishing Challenges, Opportunities, and Open Access buff.ly/ofK2Zl0
2️⃣ Viable Alternatives to Book Processing Charges (BPCs) buff.ly/HwLMXkS

#FeedingTheElephant

Fresh preprint from @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I: From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing zenodo.org/records/1754... (We have some ideas of where to submit...)

The first focus group is TOMORROW 🚨

@operaseu.bsky.social this will be of interest to #SSH #AHSS #SHAPE researchers and organisations

It's not too late to register for tomorrow's
@jisc.bsky.social digital research community November meet-up!

🗣️ @jencrate.bsky.social will be giving an overview of the Library hub service

📆 12 November 2025
⏰ 11:00-12:00 GMT
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

#Discover #Cataloguing #Compare

Find out about the first 2025-26 award winners on the @openbookcollective.bsky.social website👇

openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...

I spy a familiar face on the programme of speakers 🔎

Learn more about #CopimCompass our new(ish) #OpenAccess monograph and scholarly communication resource 🧭

@kirahopkins.bsky.social

👉 www.uksg.org/events/forum...

Definitely. Really helped join some dots.

Have you read white debt by Thomas Harding?

Ooh adding this to my reading list thanks 🙏