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A little treat created by @scholtom.bsky.social and inspired by the Copim report (coming soon!...ish) -- the Copim crew and friends! Tag yourself! (If you're not there though please don't tag Tom as this has already gone through multiple redrafts and it'll make him cry) #OAbooks #OpenAccess

A little treat created by @scholtom.bsky.social and inspired by the Copim report (coming soon!...ish) -- the Copim crew and friends! Tag yourself! (If you're not there though please don't tag Tom as this has already gone through multiple redrafts and it'll make him cry) #OAbooks #OpenAccess

An important #OpenInfrastructure update from the Open Book Collective! 👇 #OpenAccess #OpenInfra

‘No open access without open infrastructures.’ Our new document management portal gives OBC publisher and service provider members one place for all their library support, with notifications, multiple users per organisation, and openly licensed code. #OpenInfrastructure #OpenBookCollective

NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': copim.pub/wileys-acqui... The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI. #Scale #AcademicPublishing

This is something we also pick up on in this @copim.bsky.social post -- profit-driven inflation of the quantity of published research is bad for research and for researchers: copim.pub/wileys-acqui...

NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': copim.pub/wileys-acqui... The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI. #Scale #AcademicPublishing

Pretty stoked to get mail this morning. Thanks @copim.bsky.social and @minorcompositions.bsky.social! (Some @concordiapress.bsky.social titles on the right..)

Congratulations to all at @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social on this nomination 🎉 We've long argued that community-led open infrastructures have the potential to exceed the standards of commercial, closed alternatives. It's great to see one of our members demonstrating this so impressively 😁

We're delighted to welcome @uclpress.bsky.social to the Open Book Collective! One of the UK's largest fully OA university presses, publishing 400+ books, 60+ titles a year, free to read worldwide. Libraries can now support their work through our University Presses package. #DiamondOA #OpenAccess

After the recent meeting of our General Assembly of Custodians, we're pleased to announce the election to our Board of Stewards of: Teresa Lee, Managing Director of @pkp.sfu.ca Gareth Cole, Open Research Manager at @exeter.ac.uk Congratulations to both, and welcome to the Open Book Collective!

Another reminder of how lucky we are to have easy Companies House information access in the UK - there's often such useful stuff on there!

Great blog from @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social on the new Netherlands #OpenAccess strategy. It would be fantastic to see something like this developed in the UK in support of presses like @lsepress.bsky.social and members of @oipassoc.bsky.social.

📢 From partnerships & community-building to metadata, discoverability & author engagement, effective #OA marketing is about connecting the right audiences with the right content at the right time! Watch the recording from our recent workshop @nedpotter.bsky.social 🔗

How do you do, fellow humans? 🤖🛹

We know social media algorithms aren't always the best at reaching the people they need to when they need to, so don't forget we also have a mailing list! If you want to stay up to date with events at the OBC, consider joining our mailing list at the link below: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... It's great to see the 2026 Version of the Australian Research Council's OA policy (updating their previous 2017 iteration) now includes OA books. The inclusion of OA books in more and more national policies speaks to the broad and growing interest in OA books.

Did you miss @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social keynote at #ALN26 Never fear, the slides are now freely available via the #CopimCommunity Zenodo page Enjoy 👉 buff.ly/YGyjwva Photo by Ries Bosch on Unsplash

Catch up with this post from our senior editor and outreach coordinator @alittleroad.bsky.social on our membership of @operaseu.bsky.social and the potential of the new OPERAS UK Node to support engagement with the wider European network 👇

NAG Members - our next Coffee and Chat is Tues 28th July at 10:00 talking about "connecting the dots - acquisitions and engagement" How can data offer an insight into the engagement with the materials we acquire? nag.org.uk/event/chatju... Free but NAG Members only