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Rupert in front of a slide titled 'Endnotes'. Underneath: 'Join the Copim Community JiscMail', with a QR code

Final #CopimConference panel!! Led by @rupertgatti.bsky.social. How can we protect the ability of communities to communicate? In the face of extractive publishing, AI and all the pressures of 2020s HE. One answer: join the new @copim.bsky.social mailing list! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.e...

#CopimConference - that’s a wrap! Two days well spent, celebrating the spirit of the @copim.bsky.social community & enjoying time together in person ✨ Let’s all keep up momentum and continue exploring the future of community-led #OAbooks

Join us for the Copim Conference 2026! Exploring the future of community-led open access books - Copim Join us in 2026 for the Copim Conference! This will be a hybrid event (26-27 February) focusing on the future of community-led open access books.

That's a wrap! Thanks so much to all who came to the #CopimConference, to our fantastic speakers & our wonderful hosts at Loughborough University London campus.

We'll release recordings soon & we look forward to taking the energy & ideas from conference into the coming months! 🔜

On the train back to Manchester reflecting on a fab #CopimConference - I received some very kind feedback about my paper and have made new connections as well as being able to connect with existing ones. So many enthusiastic & interesting people in the @copim.bsky.social community. Thank you all!

A call to arms from @rupertgatti.bsky.social for all attendees at #Copimconference to keep engaging with @copim.bsky.social and to feed into what's next for #openaccess & #openinfrastructures - join the Jiscmail! copim@jiscmail.ac.uk

@copim.bsky.social now has to be the infrastructuring for solving collective problems around the future of open - start small, with the achievables, but aim high. This is the preface not the end-notes #CopimConference

Libraries need to get in the rooms where the decisions are made to grapple with this crisis and offer the open solutions that now exist thanks to @copim.bsky.social & Open Book Futures - step up; if not us, who? #CopimConference

We now have more open infrastructures and open access publishers (born diamond OA) but we have a funding crisis in libraries (due to broader HE funding crisis) #CopimConference

@copim.bsky.social began with a group of academics & small-scale OA publishers coming together over their worries about the behaviour of legacy academic publishers enclosing knowledge plus the takeover of publishing infrastructures by legacy publishers to 'lock down' schol comms #Copimconference

Mattermost and Nextcloud FTW. Open source infrastructure is the best infrastructure. #CopimConference

Spent the last couple of days at the #copimconference and reflecting on the range of personal and disciplinary perspectives represented. Leads to a mix of: “I can take this away and use it”, “I’m enjoying this discussion“ and “I don’t know what to do with this yet”. All are good in their own way.

Closing Remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social and thanks to @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & @alittleroad.bsky.social for organising such a great #CopimConference plus the funders of @copim.bsky.social - Arcadia & Research England

Extremely pleased by Siddharth Soni's critical stance on generative "AI" and how it is embedded in a closed ecosystem and serves to enclose what should be commons. It's been nice to attend a conference that isn't in thrall to ridiculous Big Tech hype. #CopimConference

Pleasing to see this history acknowledged as one of the things we wanted to achieve with our recent article on radical librarianship was to be clear that radical librarianship didn't emerge the 2010s but has been around as part of a lengthy intellectual genealogy. #CopimConference

Amazingly stimulating closing keynote by Siddharth Soni here at #CopimConference - and wonderful to see both Harney & Molten and Ruth Wilson Gilmore referenced!

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

The intersection of Open Research and decolonisation is not about saying that all knowledge must be 'free' it is about moving from simply making, research "open" to, ensuring it is, equitable, accessible, and, locally, relevant #CopimConference

But 'Open Research' can be appropriated by university bureaucracy: the political economy of the university campus impacts on research culture into a fatal coupling of knowledge and power. #CopimConference

i.e. "I don't care about who can access and benefit from research." Because Open Research is the means to achieving broader access to research. #CopimConference

Scholarship as extraction; a resource to be exploited. - Not as a public good. How different is it to say "I don't care about Open Research" to saying "I don't care about research" ? #CopimConference

Open research talks a lot about 'traditional academic publishers' as being in opposition to the ultimate goals of open scholarship and the knowledge commons - and to small-scale library-led or scholar-led publishing as the antidote
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The scholarly commons is a shared enterprise as much as a shared resource - open research has to be seen beyond compliance as a recipe for decolonisation
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Intellectual power becomes concentrated and controlled by the few. Decolonising our data in this context means developing new strategies for resisting the new extractivist order, and for re-imagining internet governance and the digital commons. #CopimConference

What is data colonialism? Colonialism has not disappeared – it has taken on a new form. In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources – our data – exploiting our ...

Siddharth Soni speaks to AI & Data colonialism: Big Tech companies grabbing our data exploiting our labour & connections, & repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. cf. www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player/w... #CopimConference

Tools and technologies such as AI assistants are prevalent today acting as an interface between students/scholars and the information they seek "data data everywhere and not a thought to think" #CopimConference

This case was a catalyst for activist or radical librarianship and reconsidering notions of the knowledge commons, and the idea of expanding notions of research to include building & maintaining scholarly infrastructure #CopimConference

Rameshwari Photocopy Services argued that its preparation of the course packs fell within the bounds of fair dealing under Sections 52(1)(a) and (h) of the Copyright Act, 1957. #CopimConference

University Presses sued the Rameshwari Photocopy Services in Delhi in 2012 for copyright infringement regarding the unauthorized creation and sale of photocopied "course packs" to students. #CopimConference

Closing keynote: Scholarly Book and the Digital Commons - Dr Siddharth Soni of @unisouthampton.bsky.social considers the future of the scholarly book amid new digital cultures of writing and reading, and the role of the librarian #CopimConference

+ open infrastructure providers - this is a space to talk about what needs to change to ensure the future of open knowledge dissemination in multiple forms, formats, guises, and to work out how to do it collaboratively #CopimConference