@scholtom
Copim 'Open Book Futures' Project. Helping presses flip to OA monographs through 'Opening the Future' 🔗openingthefuture.net Academic publishing, scholarly comms, HE, open access. @copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social
This is so great to see - OtF beginning to grow to include v small presses that looking for a route to sustainable/reliable #openaccess book publishing. Hope to see libraries get behind this if they can - increasing their own local collections while simultaneously funding OA. Hat tip @eve.gd!
If you work in production in #publishing and are open to a new role or know anyone who might be, we are #hiring!
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The closing date is 15th Feb. We're a small and friendly team focused on making high quality #OpenAccess books in the #humanities.
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You know you've made it to the big time when you're being used as the hook in a phishing scam eh 😬
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For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library
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Unsure if glad or offended they waited until I was in the loo before taking the photo
A large group of OIPA members and friends in a London pub
A great London OIPA meet up last night! With representatives from several of our member presses, associates & friends including @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @uolpress.bsky.social
@uniwestpress.bsky.social
@lsepress.bsky.social @openpress.bsky.social
@openingthefuture.bsky.social
Yes same ☹️ And I think it was me that talked you out of it soz
@eve.gd 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!
From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open...
[Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]
Rainbow hair goth best friend meme next to image of Tom and Kevin
@kirahopkins.bsky.social too good not to add here too 😆
[shakes head sadly] There is nothing I can do :(
Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!
CEU Press were the first press to take a chance on a new OA model in 2021 and they, and the member libraries, have made such a success of it since 😍
Read wot we have wrote
Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.
Join us for #OAWeek!
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
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Today is OBP's 17 year anniversary! We have... published 434 books; received 24 awards; surpassed 250 book reviews & 380 endorsements; worked on software development projects; and amassed 273 member libraries.
The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG
Well done you lot, that's fab - here's to another 17 🍾
Thanks Christoph, yes sorry I meant if you knew why the OA version had gone. Have a copy of the T&F corporate explanation on the acquisition already, but thanks!
@christophsorg.bsky.social are you able to share any details on this, how you found out, why it happened etc? My colleagues and I at @copim.bsky.social are very interested in developments like this in schol comms, including researching an article on T&F's takeover of AUP.
I wonder what happened here then? Did T&F pull the plug on the official OA version? If so, how is that possible and for what reasons?
📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
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Great article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck.
Hair looks good though so swings and roundabouts
A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀
This is the no-fee open-access model for books I designed and worked on with @scholtom.bsky.social -- real-world impact from authors who benefited from it.
The one conspiracy theory I allow myself is that he faked his own death and is living happily on an island somewhere, sipping Mai Tais.
Fair enough yep I'm sure it's tricky.
