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OpeningTheFuture
@openingthefuture.bsky.social
openingthefuture.net is a funding model for open access books. Designed for small/med scholarly publishers, it is free to use by any Press seeking a low-risk move towards OA. Doesn't rely on BPCs, is equitable, sustainable, & part of the Copim Community.
You lucky people - not one but TWO opportunities to hear us speak on the same day! 🗣️
Join @openingthefuture.bsky.social on Weds 26 November for a joint webinar with @ceu-press.bsky.social exploring how mission-driven publishing can endure under political pressure

The event is running twice 💙

➡️ 10:00–11:00 CET: buff.ly/pExK5d3
➡️ 14:00–15:00 CET: buff.ly/0FWhoz5
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The last of our spotlights on Opening the Future authors - we hope you've enjoyed them!

🗣️ Dr. Tess C. Rankin tessrankin.com
📚 Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction (2024) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔆

🗣️ Prof. @deanallbritton.bsky.social (Colby College)
📚 Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (2023) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We'll be there talking about #CopimCompass 🧭
The @uksg.bsky.social Forum 2025 is happening on 3 December at The Brighton Centre, bringing together librarians, publishers & info professionals. Free for UKSG members | Still time to register! uksg.org/events/forum2025/
#UKSGForum2025 #ScholarlyComms #AcademicLibraries
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Next we have @kirahopkins.bsky.social | Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer for @openingthefuture.bsky.social | Birkbeck, University of London

👉 copim.pub/open-access-...
Open Access Week 2025 Interview with Kira Hopkins - Copim
Since 2022, we have released Open Access Week interviews to share more about who we are and what we care about when it comes to open access books (here are th…
copim.pub
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 📸

🗣️ Daniel Ferreira da Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College)
📚 Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures (2022) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/empire-f...
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔦

🗣️ Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social (Visiting Fellow, UCL)
📚 Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/jurisdic...
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
All this week we're shining a spotlight on authors who have published #OpenAccess thanks to Opening the Future 🔦

Five authors tell us

❓more about their books
❓why they published #OA and what the experience was like
❓whether they'd recommend the process to others and/or pursue it again

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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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[BLOG] @scholtom.bsky.social shares his thoughts in a 2-part guest post on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social

1️⃣ Bonfire of the Humanities: Publishing Challenges, Opportunities, and Open Access buff.ly/ofK2Zl0
2️⃣ Viable Alternatives to Book Processing Charges (BPCs) buff.ly/HwLMXkS

#FeedingTheElephant
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Finally we have Michigan University Press, the scholarly publishing arm of @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Their African and Diaspora Studies Package contains 65 titles from across MSUP’s well-regarded lists on African and Diaspora studies

Find out more 💡https://msup.openingthefuture.net/

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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Next up is @ceu-press.bsky.social

They publish English language books from & about Central / Eastern Europe

Subjects include:

🔹Politics, History, Economics
🔹Gender studies
🔹Jewish studies
🔹Cultural Studies
🔹Medieval studies
🔹Post-communism

Find out more 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net

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Opening the Future is a collective subscription model for libraries, broadening your collections and funding further open access publishing. .btn-warning { max-width: 300px; min-width: 100%; } Watch…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Fresh preprint from @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I: From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing zenodo.org/records/1754... (We have some ideas of where to submit...)
From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing
The recent partial acquisition of a university press by Taylor and Francis provoked strong reaction from some quarters and walkouts by academic editors at the press. This case, however, fits into a mu...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Shining a light on the presses who publish via OtF 🔆

@livunipress.bsky.social offers subscription/membership access to 2 Hispanic Studies backlist series of monographs, using the subs to produce new #OA monographs, freely accessible to all!

Visit their site 👉 lup.openingthefuture.net

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Welcome to Liverpool University Press's Opening the Future programme: funding BPC-free open access book publishing while also broadening your own collection through an affordable subscription to…
lup.openingthefuture.net
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Have you heard about our new Opening the Future program? We're proud to be expanding open access publishing in a sustainable way, ensuring that more high-quality content can be made accessible globally. buff.ly/0G8gi5k

#OpenAccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Lots of interesting stuff in here and can't help but notice that it's a bit of a @copim.bsky.social Community Takeover! 🔥Loads of topical blogs from colleagues & partners incl: @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @openlibhums.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Today we launch our new Opening the Future (OtF) program: a partnership model funding equitable and sustainable open access. Learn more: buff.ly/vYJO8QN

#chsconf2025 #library #openaccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @chashub.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So pleased to see this go live! When we first launched OtF with two pilot presses in 2021 (shoutout to @ceu-press.bsky.social & @livunipress.bsky.social for being early adopters!) we hoped other scholarly publishers would take up the model to fund more OA books. That is now happening... (1/2)
Today we launch our new Opening the Future (OtF) program: a partnership model funding equitable and sustainable open access. Learn more: buff.ly/vYJO8QN

#chsconf2025 #library #openaccess @openingthefuture.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social @chashub.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔

@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians

👉 buff.ly/2iEJ3YZ

@uksg.bsky.social
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish OA monographs with no REF2029 mandate - UKSG
As I sat through the presentations last December at the UKSG Forum – Our Profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future I wondered if the people attending the…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀

Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Panel discussion chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
and featuring

🔸@kirahopkins.bsky.social
🔸@rupertgatti.bsky.social
🔸@joedeville.bsky.social
🔸@joannaball.bsky.social
🔸@theblochian.bsky.social

#CopimCommunity 🤝
#OAWeek WEBINAR: Join us this Friday (24 Oct, 1pm BST) for Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional perspectives, Shared Futures, a webinar bringing together key voices from the #DiamondOA community to share how their organisations are advancing open access.

👉 Register now: www.openlibhums.org/news/862/
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond - Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
Date: Friday 24 October 2025 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm BST | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET. Check your time zone here. Registration: Free. Please register here. Reflecting on …
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October 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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We're nearing the end of International #OAWeek 2025! But there's still lots in the diary 📆

Check out our curated list of events we think will be of interest to #CopimCommunity

👉 buff.ly/g7YE1jM

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Who Owns Our Knowledge? International Open Access Week 2025 - Copim
International Open Access Week is organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. It was founded in 2008 by SPARC and partners…
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October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
For a small press publishing in a specialist area, the OtF model works really well to help CEU Press move towards being fully #openaccess on their frontlist. Contact us if you want to know more!
This #OpenAccessWeek we're championing our @openingthefuture.bsky.social model; a sustainable way to make books free to readers everywhere.

By joining OtF, libraries support new OA books while gaining access to a rich backlist of titles

Learn more 🔓 www.openingthefuture.net
@copim.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hi 👋

Did you know that members pay a small annual fee to get DRM-free, unlimited access to a closed selection of the @ceu-press.bsky.social backlist, with perpetual access after three years 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣

Find out more 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM