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[NEW REPORT] International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters

Read more on our website 👉 buff.ly/6Ab7hhf

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If you care about sustainable Diamond Open Access, 287 journals that don't charge fees to authors or readers are seeking your support. Browse the inaugural collection online (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/).

Tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, our Executive Director, Prof. Caroline Edwards, will speak at Open Access and the Commons, organised by the LSE Open Research Community

Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the 'Collective Infrastructures for Publishing' Event - Copim This is the fourth blogpost in the series documenting the work on the ‘ServPub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ experimental book pilot project.

NEW POST: 'Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Event'

Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:

Collective funding for Diamond #OpenAccess books in action! Libraries who support the OBC @openbookcollective.bsky.social made the Collective Development Fund possible, which awards micro-grants to smaller OA operations to start up or improve their technical & other capacities.

VIVE la Diamond OA!

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Delighted to announce the seventh lecture in the Open Divide – Critical Studies on Open Access series! 🎙️ Samuel Moore on 📷 Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons 📷
November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM (CET)
unilu.webex.com/weblink/regi...

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books

Get your ticket now! 🎟️

🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference

YouTube video by Open Access Books Network Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors

RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share:

📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?...

#OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

SALON: At the next ScholarLed Salon we will discuss marketing and outreach. Anyone interested in scholar-led publishing is welcome to join us!

📆 Wednesday 8 October
⏰ 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT

The details will be sent via our mailing list -- sign up here: scholarled.org/salon.html

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Do you want to learn more about what it’s like to publish an #OA book?

Join this FREE online event which brings together researchers funded by @erc.europa.eu to talk about their experiences

#OpenAccess #Monographs #Publishing

ICA | GLUE: Book Fair and Creative Programme The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

GLUE Artist Book Fair & Creative Programme – New at the ICA! 13–14 September 2025 | 12–7 pm (exhibitions until 9 pm)

A weekend-long celebration of independent and DIY publishing with over 70 publishers showcasing emergent artist books, zines, and hybrid editions.

ica.art/talks/glue-i...

Join us for pt. 3 of a seminar series on Experimental Publishing in Practice: Collaborative & Digital Tools. Organised by @copim.bsky.social's Experimental Publishing Group, the Post-Publishing research strand, HD LAB @ IIBICRIT-CONICET, Paideia Editorial & Thoth. Sept 10, 2pm BST 👉 smplu.link/j0soK

The best of art manifests an ordinary devotion to experiences that become extraordinary given enough care & attention. ~Paul Chan

OUT NOW #OpenAccess: Lizzie Olesker & @lynnesachs.bsky.social's HAND BOOK: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry

tinyurl.com/um49y59n

#laundry

09. Open Accessibility | Compass This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...

NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭

The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡

✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models
✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

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A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

"... a timely and powerful collection of Jewish dissent against Zionism and the impact of Israeli statehood on the indigenous Palestinian population ... traces a moral and intellectual tradition of resistance from within the global Jewish community."

The recording of the @copim.bsky.social and @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social webinar 'Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' is now available: nag.org.uk/materials/re...

our little book is officially launched, freely downloadable in glorious open access at meson press: meson.press/books/childr...

Choosing open access for books: An author journey This event describes the author’s journey from traditional academic publishing to choosing a new, scholar-led OA press for books. It addresses some of the common questions, roadblocks and concerns aca...

Choosing open access for books: An author journey
25th June 2025 13:00-14:00 online.
Dr. Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University) is the Research Lead for the Open Book Collective.
From traditional publishing to choosing a scholar-led OA press.

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/ad8...

We're delighted that our author, Michael Hughes, is shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography prize for his book, 'Feliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life'

Huge congratulations to Michael & to the other nominees!

Read Michael's book #OpenAccess: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess!

@michaelbeltran.bsky.social's THE SINGING DETAINEE shares lesser-known tales about two of the most well-known revolutionary exiles, Jose Maria Sison & Julie de Lima & about a community & history behind their ordeal, weaving it into the Filipino diaspora.

tinyurl.com/54envkw7

Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals

Markdown, dive deep 23 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 CEST: A hybrid online session exploring Markdown writing & publishing for deep mapping

Join our Experimental Publishing Group online to explore Markdown writing & publishing workflows for experimental digital monographs

Hear more about @simonxix.com experience with Markdown publishing using Juncture

📆 23 May
⏰ 15:00-16:30 CEST

Find out more & register 👉

🧵 It's #TeacherAppreciationWeek & we're highlighting Radical #Pedagogy titles from our #OpenAccess catalog.

J. Cohen & A. Dalke's STEAL THIS CLASSROOM explores classrooms in prisons, college, high schools & playgrounds as places of danger & opportunity.

tinyurl.com/yyj59453 pic.x.com/TQXcPFy62P

Any and all interested in book typesetting, please join our ninth ScholarLed Salon (next Thursday), where member presses gather for informal sharing around a rotating cast of topics—this time on typesetting. May 8, 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l50a1

Neither an introduction nor an attempt to popularize the cultural movement, “a #decolonial manual” offers a transoceanic mosaic of thirty-three pieces guiding readers through the key struggles in current decolonial thinking and action. Coming Fall 2025.

tinyurl.com/mrnd4t33

#OpenAccess #books

YouTube video by Open Book Collective Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Defending Academic Freedom in an Age of Censorship: Why Open Access Matters More Than Ever We believe OA publishing is crucial, because it is an act of resistance against censorship and control. When knowledge is published OA, it can be accessed in many places with no restriction. When know...

We've published two new blog posts today, reflecting on #OpenAccess, academic freedom & censorship -- one from our team, and another from one of our authors, Ash Lierman.

Our team: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

Ash: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/defending-ac...

#DefendResearch