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Now we’re frustrated by things like institutional debt says Gatti. Though I’d say these severe financial challenges have sharpened the institutional focus on the costs we have railed against, and we’re starting to see the results #CopimConference

Gatti: “Collective grumbling is very powerful”. #CopimConference

Rupert Gatti speaking, with a backdrop slide with the logos of the project and funders and request to sign up to the mailing list - COPIM@jiscmail.ac.uk

#CopimConf is summed up by @rupertgatti.bsky.social and we thank all the folks involved in making this happen and powering the projects that underpinned it 👏

I’ve often been asked to help someone find the next item on their grocery list in supermarkets.

Is this hypothetical or actually happening? I’d be really interested to see real world examples to help me understand this perspective. It’s a long way from my own #CopimConference

"Don't ask me what our business model is". That's a very familiar feeling... #CopimConference

There are barriers in the way of using experimental publishing to support the emerging interdisciplinary spaces, noting in particular the conservative academic culture. This is something we aspire to @abdnunipress.bsky.social and capacity is certainly one of the barriers we face #CopimConference

Interesting to note that generative AI (just mentioned) has not had much airtime at #CopimConference. #R2RConf was obsessed by it.

This was a really inspiring call to action in the context of being more inclusive and interdisciplinary through experiment that isn’t happening in the traditional sector. Even if the speaker did (I think) just call me a prehistoric ape 🦍 #CopimConference

Example of a publication that includes embedded media on Michigan’s Fulcrum publishing platform.

A shout out to Michigan University Press @uofmpress.bsky.social on their innovative experiment representing work in a way traditional publishing can’t do. I think that MUP’s director @charleswatkinson.bsky.social is watching this event online… #CopimConference

Now hearing from @uolpress.bsky.social at #CopimConference. How the other new OA presses do things are always so helpful to hear as we learn as we go at @abdnunipress.bsky.social

Fascinating to hear from Loughborough about theses when your daughter is doing a PhD at Loughborough! #CopimConference

As a panellist, with a different (literal) perspective, I can now say with confidence that this is the segment of the scholarly research communications community that collects laptop stickers #CopimConference

👏 Brilliant; well done @abdnunipress.bsky.social team!

Agreed with @emmabooth.bsky.social that lobbying LMS vendors is frustrating, but not that metadata is low priority when procuring (in my experience) #CopimConference

New Report: International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters We are pleased to announce the publication of **International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters**, a substantial report from Thoth Open Met...

The @thoth-metadata.bsky.social metadata report that @emmaboothmather.bsky.social has just highlighted at #copimconference is at thoth.pub/blog/10.7095...

Reflecting, not for the first time, that #CopimConference and #R2RConf have been so close in terms of content, date, and location, but not community. There was a whole workshopping series during Research to Reader where (mainly) publishers discussed "Book Metadata, Discoverability & Usage"

Hearing from @emmabooth.bsky.social on that great irony that open access books are hard for libraries to make discoverable #CopimConference

I’m delighted to see that the amazing Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei of @thoth-metadata.bsky.social has PhD from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social #CopimConference

Zeyen: accessibility goes beyond the need for compliance with standards. Scholarly writing is often inaccessible to others. There are wider questions about good science communications and also a need to acknowledge how much time this can take #CopimConference

Another good point from Pete Barr. Librarians aren’t the ultimate decision makers in their universities; lots of factors in play. No one who knows me would accuse me of supporting the status quo, but Aberdeen hasn’t left any of the deals. I’d be delighted to talk about that. #CopimConference

Graham Stone is positive about things changing in the context of open monographs, and it’s helpful, as he does, to take a longer view and reflect on how far we’ve come. I’ve been in this space for 20 years: much has changed for the better! #CopimConference

Ensure your content budget strategy makes ‘open’ a commitment, and is signed off at the highest level. Another great point from Pete Barr. There’s important ‘soft politics’ here. Do we have the diplomacy and leadership skills to be sure we can make this approach succeed? #CopimConference

Yes, always (3 different unis). It needs some relationship building work and the agency and willingness to speak up and see who responds. My open research team have champions across the university helping them get these messages across. I’d say this is getting better all the time. #CopimConference

‘Spend to save’ can be a good driver, but it’s hard in the context of immediate in year savings targets.

Totally agree on this analysis from
Pete Barr on the situation as it stands with the reasons for walking away from publishers doesn’t play into reinvestment in different models #CopimConference

And even if subject librarians aren’t consciously being barriers, it’s not fair on them to expect them to know this stuff in depth - let your open research teams go direct! #CopimConference

Subject librarians as ‘gate keepers’ raised as an issue. Not all of them, but it’s a challenge. This is one of the reasons I led a process to change our structure entirely at the University of Manchester. At Aberdeen the change has been less dramatic, but we have found it necessary #CopimConference

Math with Bad Drawings Lover of math. Bad at drawing.

After the final slide of that talk, I am now very distracted by mathwithbaddrawings.com #CopimConference

Jill Cirasella: has crafted 'soft funds' proposals to invest in Diamond. I have done precisely that with library-related donor funding at @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social - the challenge is then reaching sustainability after time-limited start up funding ends. #CopimConference