The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...
@oapenbooks.bsky.social
OAPEN connects libraries, publishers, researchers, and funders with a global infrastructure for peer-reviewed open access books to advance research and the public good. Explore our collection of 40,000+ OA books: https://library.oapen.org
The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...
LAST CALL: Beyond Certainty-What does 'Discovery' mean in an open & artificially intelligent world? #AIBeyond2025
Wed 8 Oct - www.deakin.edu.au/library/abou...
Keynote @mcintold.bsky.social
Videos from @aj-boston.bsky.social, @heroicendeavour.bsky.social @aarontay.bsky.social + live discussions!
Danny - OAPEN books are by definition not textbooks, but we know they are being used for teaching & learning. Conclusion (in Katina article): need a system like COUNTER for eBooks. katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #OASPA2025
24.09.2025 12:23 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1#OpenAccess #OpenScience #FrankfurterBuchmesse #OATage2025 #Wissenschaftskommunikation #Publikationskultur
02.10.2025 10:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nach unserer Teilnahme an den Open-Access-Tagen 2025 und mit Blick auf die Frankfurter Buchmesse war Deutsch einfach der perfekte Startpunkt.
Stay tuned for more! β¨
Wir freue uns sehr, euch unseren allerersten Blogbeitrag auf Deutsch vorstellen zu dΓΌrfen! π
Neben Englisch mΓΆchten wir kΓΌnftig auch Inhalte in anderen Sprachen anbieten.
π Unique employment opportunity w/ @pkp.sfu.ca -- lead an impactful, mission & values driven team that works to advance quality & global reach of #ScholarlyPublishing!
This could very well be what you've been seeking in your change-making management career:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
#AcademicSky
New Open Research Event ππ - Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS 2026) [EN]Β held United Kingdom (Oxford), online from 03/03/2026 to 06/03/2026. For more info, view the event in our calendar.
02.10.2025 07:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0NEW RESOURCES on #CopimCompass π§
Hear from @universityofessex.bsky.social authors who have published their research #OA
π READ
πΉ WATCH
π LEARN
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#OpenAccess #OpenResearch
Thank to @hannahcrago.bsky.social for sharing!
Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords
www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...
New OAPEN logo showing exclusion space. The logo is a minimalistic stylised rendition of OAPEN with green stars next to it.
Weβre thrilled to unveil OAPENβs refreshed visual identity β including a new logo β that better reflects who weβve become, what we stand for, and where weβre headed.
Read more about it in the announcement: oapen.org/article/intr...
VACANCY NOTE: Metadata & Systems Specialist.
We're looking for someone to join our technical team to help manage and enhance our open infrastructures for #OAbooks.
Read the full job description and find out how to apply: oapen.hypotheses.org/1586
Deadline: 10 October 2025 at 10 AM CEST.
Wonderful to see among others two @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social board members - @charleswatkinson.bsky.social and Antia Wiersma - and @doabooks.bsky.social Scientific Committee member @c-bz.bsky.social on #oaspa2025 stage discussing WHY #openaccess matters and HOW to make it work
24.09.2025 09:23 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0ππ Moving beyond closed silos: Liberating workflows based on #OpenMetadata... #interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for #OpenAccess books and chapters
With @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, @pkp.sfu.ca, #OBC, @oapenbooks.bsky.social ‡οΈ
#OASPA2025 convo @joedeville.bsky.social & at #Munin2025
Image of the OPERAS OA Books SIG poster for the OASPA conference
Coming up now at the #OASPA2025 poster session, @nielsstern.bsky.social will be presenting on behalf of the @operaseu.bsky.social #OABooks SIG.
Preview the poster, 'Building a Stronger OA Book Ecosystem' below!
Tackling the problems of getting #OA works into the wider book supply chain TOGETHER π€
A sneak preview of @openbookcollective.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca @thoth-metadata.bsky.social presentation at #Munin2025
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#OpenScience #ScalingSmall #Bibliodiversity
WITH PHOTO - #OASPA2025
22.09.2025 15:10 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0REFERENCE to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) by @oapenbooks.bsky.social Niels Stern at #OASPA2025 open book panel - using as a mechanism for structuring the panel discussion around Introductions, Governance, Impact & Quality and Sustainability openscholarlyinfrastructure.org
22.09.2025 15:17 β π 13 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0DOAJ and CNPIEC Collaborate to Support Open Access Journals in China blog.doaj.org/2025/09/22/d... #scholcomm #publishing #oa @doaj.bsky.social
22.09.2025 12:57 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Demmy Verbeke at a lecturn, in front a slide titled 'Words of welcome', with stained glass windows to the left and right
Happy to be here at the #OASPA2025 conference at the University of Leuven, to see Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social from the university (and also an @openbookcollective.bsky.social Steward/Trustee) open proceedings in the beautiful Irish College
22.09.2025 11:21 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0We're at the beautiful Irish College Leuven, Belgium for #OASPA2025
π 22 β 24 September
Programme includes keynote talks, panel discussions, poster lightning talks, and much more!
Full conference programme π buff.ly/4cjqhjm
And don't forget to follow @oaspa.bsky.social too
Great news, well done team DOAJ!
22.09.2025 13:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0πDOAJ is pleased to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (CNPIEC) to establish a joint #DOAJ China Open Access Journal Pre-evaluation Working Group
#DOAJCollaboration
blog.doaj.org/2025/09/22/d...
Guest Post β Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/22/g...
22.09.2025 13:15 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Stained glass image of the devil in green glass, with shifty eyes, horns and long fingers. Surrounded by a red lick of fire
This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?
22.09.2025 12:22 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0ποΈApplications close this Friday #DOAJ
22.09.2025 05:53 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Congratulations Caroline! We look forward to working with you!
22.09.2025 13:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0POSTERS session at #OASPA2025 - a good set of work being described here. Posters are available www.oaspa.org/wp-content/u...
22.09.2025 13:31 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0π΅Live from our community development activity
How do @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doabooks.bsky.social benefit the libraries that support them?π€
A snippet from the first part of our seminar presented by @nielsstern.bsky.social π
#OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure
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So @openbookcollective.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social have made it! Come and speak with us about all things open access around books, including infrastructures. @copim.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social
17.09.2025 08:30 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1