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An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing. Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/ #OAbooks
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Aug 21
Hello Bluesky! 👋

We're Copim, an international community of people building non-profit, community-owned & community-governed infrastructure to support equitable open access book publishing:

🌐 www.copim.ac.uk
📝 copim.pubpub.org

Follow us for all things #OAbooks #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure
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Copim is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructur...
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 2d
Don't miss our free, online Open and Engaged Conference 2025, as part of #InternationaOpenAccessWeek.

This year we're exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved.

Register for free: bit.ly/BLEngagedCon...
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 16h
Another #OAWeek event to add to the diary 📆

Calling librarians and professional services staff 📢

Learn more about #OpenResearch and how it impacts on YOUR role 🫵
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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 2d
Calling library and professional services staff! Do you want to learn more about open research and how it impacts on your role?

Join us during #OAWeek for 'A Practical Guide to Open Research'!

Find out more and register: www.sup.ac.uk/news/upcomin...

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An advert for the Scottish Universities Press webinar 'A practical guide to open research'. Date: Wednesday 22 October Time: 09:30am to 12:30pm Register: https://bit.ly/4q6n2pl
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 16h
Join @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @pkp.sfu.ca online for #OAWeek (or in person if you're near Ottawa!)

What are the opportunities presented by #openinfrastructures - systems designed to be #community-driven, #transparent, and #inclusive of diverse types of research outputs 💡
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Bibliothèque uOttawa Library @uottawabiblio.bsky.social · 2d
#OpenAccessWeek (Oct 20–26) is coming! Theme: “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”

Join us on Oct 23, 1 – 2:30 p.m., with @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca & Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin to discuss equity and transparency in scholarly communication: www.uottawa.ca/library/even...

@uottawaarts.bsky.social @uottawa.ca
Text reads: International Open Access Week - Who Owns Our Knowledge? From Closed to Open Infrastructures for Research Assessment and Metascience. Please register in advance for this hybrid event. With Stefanie Haustein, Associate Professor, School of Information Studies and Co-Director of the ScholCommLab and Juan Pablo ALperin, Scientific Director, Public Knowledge Project and Co-Director of the ScholCommLab.
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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 1d
The 1st Canadian Conference on #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship is happening October 9 -10, 2025!

PKP, @erudit.org, and #CoalitionPublica are pleased to be partner contributors to this event.

Livestreaming will be on!

Details: oscanada.github.io/en/

#OSCanada #CanadaSky #AcademicChatter
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 17h
And the day before, they'll be at the EDItEUR 46th International Supply Chain Seminar (Frankfurt's essential mini-conference for metadata and supply chain specialists)

📅 14 October
🕰️ 13:00 - 17:30
📌 Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main
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Frankfurter Buchmesse | Home
Frankfurter Buchmesse 15 - 19 October 2025
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 17h
Next up for @thoth-metadata.bsky.social is #fbm2025

📅 15-19 October
📌 Frankfurter Buchmesse
🔗 buff.ly/wLLMLbN

Go and find them to talk all about open access book publishing, open infrastructures, bibliodiversity and more!
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 3d
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...
Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process
In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 3d
#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 18h
Great 🧵 from @openbookcollective.bsky.social sharing highlights from their 2024–2025 annual report

Get a cuppa and dive in!
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 1d
🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...
Open Book Collective 2024-2025 annual report: A year of important progress
The team provide an overview of the Open Book Collective's work, as well as the work of its Publisher and Publishing Service Provider Members
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 1d
The @openbookcollective.bsky.social share lessons learnt from their call for applicants to the Collective Development Fund

Find out more, including:

📝 Fewer applications, but of very high quality
🤝 Community-led review process
✅ Due diligence
🪜 Next steps

Full blog 👉 buff.ly/yw010x6
OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2025 Call & Guidance
The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the second call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. For updates on our previously funded projects, see the following:
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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 2d
Did you miss the LIS Research seminar on "Obstacles to Open Access publishing for researchers with weak institutional ties"?

If so, never fear, the recording is now out! I'd really recommend giving it a listen.

doi.org/10.52843/cas...

#Library #openaccess #LISResearch #Librarian
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 2d
Great to see so many partners collaborating to progress #OAbooks publishing 🧡
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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.bsky.social · 2d
Missed Toby's #craft_oa2025 presentation on our collaboration across #DiamondOA #OAbooks publishing infrastructures?

👇Slidedeck on how @pkp.sfu.ca, @oapenbooks.bsky.social & @doabooks.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social and Thoth Open Metadata work together

doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The power of horizontal collaboration: an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books
Within the context of Open Science, book publishing has traditionally lagged behind in the adoption of open access, open data and corresponding practices. A number of not-for-profit infrastructures in...
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 2d
Looking forward to working with very soon! 🧡
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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · 2d
Settling in for my last day today. It's a strange feeling. The last time I moved jobs I had the Christmas break in-between finishing one and starting the other, which rather softened the transition. Tomorrow I will wake up and be (temporarily) a lady of leisure!
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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d
Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 2d
The recording is now available 📽️

Catch up with insights from ERC-funded authors about publishing their books #OpenAccess

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVf9...
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 3d
If you’re not joining #CRAFT_OA2025 in person, you can watch the livestream (please note only the talks from Pauliner Church are being livestreaming)
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 3d
It's just started if you want to join the live stream!!
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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 3d
The 2025 National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria, starting today, will have plenary sessions live streamed and is open to all. Titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty', the event starts at 9am BST/10am CEST. Programme: oa-summit.bookhub.ng. Streaming at wacren.zoom.us/j/67762421550
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 3d
You can catch Toby Steiner not once but twice!

↔️ Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape
➡️ The power of horizontal collaboration: an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 3d
LOOKING AHEAD 🔮

Join @thoth-metadata.bsky.social in Gottingen, Germany for the @craft-oa.bsky.social conference!

Full programme 👉 buff.ly/DOhyE5U

#infrastructure #metadata
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 3d
Find out more about the decision-making process and how applicants to the @openbookcollective.bsky.social Collective Development Fund are assessed 👇
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 3d
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...
Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process
In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 4d
Hope you enjoyed it!
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 6d
Open Book Collective and Open Monograph Press: An Interview with Joe Deville

The interview explores the origins, mission, and impact of @openbookcollective.bsky.social and its collaboration with @pkp.sfu.ca Open Monograph Press (OMP) 🤝

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d
Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project!

📆 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details 👉
Collective Infrastructures for Publishing
4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive…
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d
If you have any resources you think the community would benefit from accessing via #CopimCompass please send them to [email protected]
A person climbing a ship's mast with the text 'Announcing Copim Compass' in bold orange and black letters. Below, it reads 'Guiding you through the choppy waters of OA book resources.' The bottom left corner features logos for Arcadia, UKRI Research England, and compass.copim.ac.uk
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 7d
NEW RESOURCES on #CopimCompass 🧭

Hear from @universityofessex.bsky.social authors who have published their research #OA

📙 READ
📹 WATCH
🎓 LEARN

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#OpenAccess #OpenResearch

Thank to @hannahcrago.bsky.social for sharing!
University of Essex | Compass
The University of Essex website provides a dedicated Q&A on OA publication section with Essex author...
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