Esther Fagelson (she/her)

Looking for #OpenAccess scholarship to spark your ideas? 💡

Discover our most popular OA titles: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/open-access/popular-and-most-accessed 📚

& explore your OA options: www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/open-access/publishing-open-access 🔓

Happy #OpenAccessWeek to all who celebrate

Player card from the Open Access Alchemy game. Character shown is "Liesandra Ravenwood", a wizard with long hair and a raised arm, shown saying "My magic should be free for all to cast"

Is it time we bring back #FunFridays and share the more whimsical side of #OpenAccess publishing news? My entry this week is the OA journals card game created by librarians at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social
If only they had an #OpenAccessBooks version 🤔https://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/12035/

Mega pumped to share @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social has surpassed 500 #openaccess books! Bring on the next milestone 🔓

Mega chuffed that I am now able to share that the Bloomsbury Open Collections subscribe-to-open #OpenAccess model will add 24 new open access titles throughout the year, at no cost to the authors

We're excited to announce a vacancy for a community manager:

barcelona-declaration.org/vacancy_comm...

This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the successful realization of the Barcelona Declaration’s vision

Deadline for application: March 20

📣 Any writers over 50 out there looking for somewhere to submit their work? (And anyone of any age who enjoys reading short stories and flash fiction should take a look at Issue 2)

#litmag #writing #shortstories #opencall

Aha you raise a good point around BPCs, but there also several community/collective funded OA books models. Bloomsbury Open Collections, to name one, prioritises supporting ECRs, unaffiliated authors, & authors in LMICs who otherwise couldn't fund OA publication (to pick a totally random example 😉)

Great to see this milestone in #OABooks!

Slide showing sample of live submitted responses to the question "what worries you most about research integrity in the next 3 years?". Responses include AI, Kennedy, lack of institutional accountability, culture of dis- and misinformation and guidelines.

Nicko Goncharoff and Elliott Lumb used fun interactive approach to a complex and concerning topic - the future of research integrity. In amongst the many many AI responses from #R2RConf were a few other ideas including funding, and disinformation culture

A photo of a big screen while a slide titled 'Global reach and national preferences for open access books'. The slides shares the assumptions and results for the languages of titles in the OAPEN Library.

A 'Conclusion' slide on a big screen telling people there are different aspects to bibliodiversity. It also lists some further reading into the topic.

This morning @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social gave a lightning talk at @r2rconf.bsky.social on 'Bibliodiversity and Open Access
Book Platforms'.

Did you know the OAPEN Library has titles in 75+ languages? library.oapen.org/browse?type=...

Tell us your thoughts on language & bibliodiversity #OAbooks

I completely appreciate the constraints of the debate format and your background knowledge and really appreciate this hands up moment. In return, hands up, I've never been a librarian and equally have no solutions to the funding/profit concerns across publishing but always happy to chat

And the results are in for the #R2RConf debate. Caroline Black is the winner shifting the poll to 66% disagree, down from 84%* at the start.

(*I misreported 82% when it was 84%)

Both sides have admitted some gaps in understanding of scholarly books publishing, and in particular OA books publishing. The conversation feels very slanted toward STEM, once again leaving AHSS beind in the world of scholarly publishing
#R2RConf

As ever, scholarly books (monographs, edited collections etc) have been left out of the debate thus far. Preprints don't work for longer form texts, and many subjects work through books rather than articles. #R2RConf

Some evidenced points to push back against these arguments from Webster (various peer review models, cross publisher RI strategies etc). Time for questions from the floor

Black counters that publishing isn't accessible, the peer review process is an outdated model, and publishers have grown too large to truly provide integrity oversights (integrity concerns being a common theme of the conference)

Keith Webster, dean of libraries at CMU, argues publishers make research accessible, peer review is vital to quality control, publisher oversight maintains integrity of research records

Initial poll of #R2RConf is 82% disagree. Let's see if Caroline Black from CUP can sway opinions

Ah thank you! I'll quickly delete my draft message asking for the papers so I can read them later

Bracing myself for a spicy debate at #R2RConf: Scholarly publishers are no longer necessary 👀😬

Slide showing overview of OA book language of publishing prefences with French most popular in African countries

Slide showing clustered subjects and countries in open access books. Economics and education dominant in east and south African countries. Society and social sciences, military history in countries neighbouring Russia

Interesting lightning talk from @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social to kick off the break at day 2 of #R2RConf. Two case studies of bibliodiversity in OA books: print language and subject area. Definitely some food for thought on what and why some languages dominate OA publishing

Happy to let my open books bias come through as I listen to @kirahopkins.bsky.social and Rose Harris-Birtill present a case study on OLH and OA collective funding of humanities books. Love the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Bloomsbury Open Collections shout out too #R2RConf

Session 2 at #R2RConf discusses open science and open data policies. Dr Beth Montague-Hellen argues policy may not be as effective as clear specific guidance from publishers, institutions, and funders

First panel of #R2RConf explores how to engage policy makers with research. Elevator pitches and short form publications are the most digestible and accessible formats, but what does this mean for monographs?

Thought provoking keynote from Prof John Willinsky on ethics and integrity in scholarly publishing and open source research to kick us off at #R2RConf

Looking forward to Day 1 of the #r2rconf