Joe Deville

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

It's been a difficult week. Still in denial about the loss of our @lancasteruninews.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social friend and colleague Elaine Sykes

In case you missed it or weren't there, check out the poster on Zenodo via the link below 👇

.... and... home! Five trains, two trams, and a fair bit on feet based transferring. But all smooth and easy. I do love travelling by train (when it works)

Heading up to Edinburgh this evening for #EORC to present with @kjsanders.bsky.social on Author Agency and the Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social - see the full programme here openresearch.ed.ac.uk/conference/

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Agree.. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for the #DIAMAS / Royal Library of Belgium seating infrastructures. Doing sterling work to materially support open access

The Copim perspective on Community-Led In this post, we outline what community-led means to us in theory and in practice, how it can be identified in organisations, and some of our concerns about the co-option of the term.

Joe also mentioned the following 👇

The Copim perspective on Community-Led 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-pe...

Our Experimental Publishing Group 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/experimental...

Screenshot of Twitter post by Sofie Wennström from September 2019, with a photo of Joe Deville, Sofie and Jeroen Sondervan at a conference, with a headshot of Graham Stone superimposed. The tweet reads: "Hot off the press at #OASPA2019 New article about #Library and #Scholar-led #OA publishing that @joe_dev talked about earlier today! Promoting the team (in image) @Graham_Stone @jeroenson – We give you: #Rebels with a Cause? https://liberquarterly.eu/articles/10277/"

Ah ha...! Found the original on the other place, so everyone can really track the impact of 6 years of #OpenAccess advocacy on us all! 👴 (including the digitally inserted @graham-stone.bsky.social)

What do you know!

After 6 years we’ve managed to have an in-person authors reunion at the DIAMAS final conference of this @libereurope.bsky.social paper: Rebels with a Cause.

liberquarterly.eu/article/view...

Older, but not letting go on institutional diamond openaccess publishing!

"Slightly greyer rebels with a cause" 😆

True... ! Turns out that OBC is not simply an organisation but a mobile, networked, digital/human, mechanism for occasional but very-nice-when-happens copresence! [or something like that]

Slide introducing the speakers for the panel at the DIAMAS conference: diamond diversity across Europe. There are thumbnail pictures of the moderators and the speakers who are sitting beneath the screen which is hung on a wood panelled wall. The first few rows of conference delegates are visible.

Slide with the diamas logo and diamond diversity across europe in white against a blue background. The moderators and speakers are sitting beneath the screen which is hung on a wood panelled wall. The first few rows of conference delegates are visible.

Just finished discussing #Diamond diversity across Europe 💎 (yes, we got 📚 into it)

@joedeville.bsky.social @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social

#DIAMASFinalConference #Diversity #Visibility #Funding #Sustainability #Governance

In the discussion about funding options for #DiamondOpenAccess, both Daniela Hahn from University of Zürich and @ivamz.bsky.social note the real lack of options for journals, specifically. Here's looking, hopefully, at you @ojcollective.bsky.social 👀

A manic two days so far: Manchester => Edinburgh => London => Brussels 🚂. Happy to be here to join the conversation about the future of #DiamondOpenAccess at the @diamas.bsky.social final conference

So happy to see this video out. Shot at the Charleston conference late last year, with compelling testimonials on why @openbookcollective.bsky.social's work is so vital to the future of OA publishers, infrastructure providers, authors and the wider scholarly system. Thanks to all who took part

🧵 My views after #UKSG2025, regurgitated from linkedin. Themes of lack of money, wider turmoil, malevolent tech but with opportunities everywhere to do things differently now

Loved this analogy "“No one cares about the longevity of a mayfly, but it’s the population that’s important… these programs are supporting an ecosystem”

Speaker at podium with hand raised

Fantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social

Speaker at podium alongside slide with key terms including cost effective and scalable

Another chance at #UKSG2025 to talk about how our initiatives are doing not just bare bones sustainability but as per @theblochian.bsky.social long term viability @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social

The sheer scale of the community-led Diamond OA presence at UKSG is phenomenal. We just need a little bit more divestment from legacy expenditure, and we have the prospect of an exciting scholarly comms. future.

Leading on these issues at this time is not straightforward. Thanks to those librarians that are stepping up and engaging in the sometimes difficult emotional labour of staging conversations with academics about these questions

Just followed up with a question about how the engagement with academics went. Sarah's answer: not easy, particularly in the context of the wider HE funding crisis in the UK, including issues such as voluntary severance at institutions. Makes me respect this even more ...

Speaker at podium in front of slide titled "Case Study: OBC - University of London Press"

Wow. @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social not holding back in sharing the "transformative difference" @openbookcollective.bsky.social is having on their work, inc funding several new #OAbooks, a partnership w/ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, a new editorial assistant & a new EDI internship

For me, this is the *very* model that we would encourage the library sector as a whole to adopt #DiamondOA #OAbooks

Key in this process, she said, was engaging academics and explaining how the decisions the library was taking were informed by its principles.

Sarah also talked about how this support came in the context of budgetary constraints and decisions to cut some subscriptions to closed content. But this was guided by the same principles-based approach to decision making

Including @openbookcollective.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social and @openingthefuture.bsky.social

Speaker at a podium by a slide titled Decision Making Guided by Principles, with logos from OAPEN, D2O, Open Book Collective, Thoth, Open Book Publishers, DOAB, and Opening the Future

Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.

Man at a podium alongside a slide highlighting PALOMERA General Recommendation #4: "Consider funding mechanisms for OA books that do not involve BPCS"

Zoomed in slide, with identical content

Niels Stern from @doabooks.bsky.social highlighting PALOMERA's recommendation that national funders should consider funding mechanisms for #OAbooks that *don't* involve publication level charges (BPCs) #UKSG2025 (👀 @openbookcollective.bsky.social). Report at zenodo.org/records/1404...