OpeningTheFuture

Subscriptions to their OtF backlist will fund new OA books from the press, available globally with no paywalls. Read more here: bab.openingthefuture.net/news/168/ Supported by africanbookscollective.com with help from @copim.bsky.social 🔥

📢ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢A fifth publisher launches an OtF programme today! Step forward Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) Publishing House! Founded in 1971 as the publishing arm of a Swiss research library, they publish scholarly works on, and from, Southern Africa and Namibia. (1/2)

Preparing, Reviewing, and Fixing Versions: Editorial Work in ‘Database as Book’ - Copim Reflections from a conversation with Aurelia Munene, Syokau Mutonga, Leonida Mutuku, Angela Okune, François van Schalkwyk, and Mike Fortun

Preparing, Reviewing & Fixing Versions: Editorial Work in ‘Database as Book’

Our new blog details reflections on editing & peer review - sparked by conversation ahead of the workshop "Extending Knowledge & Publishing Infrastructures in & from Africa" (8-9 Dec , 2025)

Read more ▶️ buff.ly/AUCbzjy

IPG 2026 Spring Conference

Join us @independentpublishersguild.com Spring Conference next week!

@kirahopkins.bsky.social @bethanylogan.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social will discuss the future of #OA funding in academic #Publishing 🔮

📆 11 Feb.
📍 The Shaw Theatre, London (+ online)
🔗 tinyurl.com/2wyyywyk

#IPGSC

Thanks to @irelibrary.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social is supporting @ceu-press.bsky.social participation in #OtF the for 3 years (2026-2028)!

➡️ Funding #OA book publication AND allowing UL access to selected CEU closed content

#WinWin #OpenAccess #Monographs #DiamondOA

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💡 Got an idea that can make a difference?

This is YOUR chance to secure funding and help shape the future of #OA books!

Full details & guidance on @openbookcollective.bsky.social website

🔗 buff.ly/N8dqhJE

#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #FundingOpportunity #OBC #CDF26

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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

🔗Register now and don't miss it: shorturl.at/rbuDf
See you tomorrow!
#OpenScience #ArabRegion

The deadline to register for an in person ticket to #CopimConference is 8 February 2026 ⏳

⏰ The deadline to apply is Sunday 1 February

Want to know more about the #CopimConference programme?

Details of Day One are over on our LinkedIn page

Check it out now 👀 buff.ly/pe3QHsc

Photo: Jon Schnobri via Unsplash

📢 New subscribing member to @ceu-press.bsky.social Opening the Future programme!

Thanks for the library’s investment! @bulac.bsky.social (BULAC) 🤝

▶️ Staff & students now have unlimited AND concurrent access to nearly 250 different eBooks

Full announcement 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/167/

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👇

🔗: shorturl.at/jKlZw

Opening the Future Posted by Tom Grady on Jan. 12, 2026 at 1448

Looking back on 2025 with @openingthefuture.bsky.social annual report

Our participating publishers doubled, creating more #OA routes for authors and richer backlist content for libraries ✨

@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Read on 👉

FORM and Copim - Community building in MENA - Copim During Open Access Week 2025, Opening the Future presented, along with Lucy Barnes, a project partner and editor at Open Book Publishers, at the Forum for Ope…

[CATCH UP] @kirahopkins.bsky.social shares her experiences of presenting to @forumforopen.bsky.social last year during #OAWeek

Just one thread in a growing relationship between ourselves and #OpenAccess #Publishing in the Middle East & North Africa 🌱

Find out more 👉

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📣 New JiscMail list for small publishers!

Help grow the community! 🌱

Join us for open, supportive discussions on accessibility challenges and good practice

Search OPENBOOK-ACCESSIBILITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 👉 buff.ly/b1eJBdE

Photo: Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash

Promotional image for Niels Stern's session 'Open Access Books in Asia - What's the status?' at Charleston Conference Asia on 28 January 2027.

One week to go until #CharlestonAsia! @chashub.bsky.social

If you're there, join @nielsstern.bsky.social on the panel 'Open Access Books in Aisa - What's the Status?' with pannelists from Nepal and India 🌏

Full conference agenda 👉 buff.ly/j5VuHAw

Did you know you can apply for an expenses paid trip to #UKSG2026? UKSG is sponsoring a number of places, and Jove is sponsoring an additional place for an early career library professional. Check it out here: dub.sh/zXgew9r and please share far and wide!

A reminder about the @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund which is open to new applications until 7 March 2026 👇

#CDF #OBC #OABooks

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...

(Episode 142) Navigating careers in academic libraries: a conversation with Josh Sendall Quickly and easily listen to Research Culture Uncovered for free!

🆕The #ResearchCultureUncovered podcast's back in 2026! @nickshepp.bsky.social talks to @jsendall.bsky.social about his career in academic libraries culminating in his recent appointment as Acting Librarian & Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social.

Amazing 🤩

We're leading a session on 'Where is collective funding for open access monographs going?' 💸

#OpenAccess #OA #Funding #Books

Our team - Open Library of Humanities We are based at Birkbeck, University of London, but make up a geographically distributed network of expert bookworms, specialist software developers, and typography enthusiasts.

🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again.
Meet our team:

Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄

We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!

👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀

#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture

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Reflections from 2025 💭

This year (you saved me from tears) #OtF has gone from strength to strength 💪

We welcomed two new presses to the programme 🤝

@michiganstateu.bsky.social
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

With another being announced in the New Year 🤫

👉 www.openingthefuture.net

What does this mean for @sussex.ac.uk staff and students?

▶️ Unlimited, concurrent access to 50 eBooks exploring the Russia-Ukraine war—its historical, political, and cultural context

▶️ PLUS the library now has perpetual access to all titles from their initial subscription!

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🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk

They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social

This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing

👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/

Opening the Future

The University of Limerick subscribes to Opening the Future at CEU Press via IReL https://ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/

Opening the Future

Happy to announce @unioflimerick.bsky.social has supported @ceu-press.bsky.social's OtF programme, after it was hosted by @irelibrary.bsky.social. We and the Press are really grateful to both the library at Limerick, and to IReL for facilitating this! ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/161/

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

💥New: Don’t rely on government to save the British Library

✍️ @simonxix.com

#BritishLibrary #HigherEducation #ResearchInfrastructure

I've got a new piece at @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today following on from my previous piece about the British Library cyberattack and arguing that, since the UK Government clearly doesn't care about the UK knowledge sector, we need to develop our own community-led tech and infrastructure solutions.