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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.
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Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇

Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback

Sobering but inspiring!
How can community-driven OA initiatives sustain mission-driven publishing in politically constrained environments?

Join our webinar this afternoon! Including Q&A with CEU Press and Opening the Future

🕙 14–15 CET tinyurl.com/348fwkrm
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November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We'll be back this afternoon at 1-2PM GMT ⏰

Please do register and attend

🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ac7b1...
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️

ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs

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Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're all super lovely we promise 😇
JOB KLAXON: Who wants to come work with us?! 📣

Join us as a Project Manager (0.60FTE) on a fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1st February 2026)

All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY

Don't delay, get your application in today!
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.
✨We're delighted with the response to our survey for #neurodivergent staff in the #library & information sector

It takes 10 mins, so if you haven’t already filled it in, please think about doing so (closing date is 30/11/25)⬇️
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

psst. Pass it on!
a man in a tie says attention everyone
ALT: a man in a tie says attention everyone
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
TODAY 👇
Join @samuelmoore.org this Weds. (5pm) to hear his discuss discuss key ideas from his fantastic new book ⏰

And download the book for FREE (if you haven't already!) via @uofmpress.bsky.social ebook collection website

🔗 www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Lots of tickets left, both online and in person (London, UK) 🎫
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]
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November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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What's new on #CopimCompass 🧭

This month we're focusing on Book 09. Open Book Accessibility

There's so much new content thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social

🔗 buff.ly/naVbu2T

Photo: @felirbe on Unsplash

#Accessibility #eBooks

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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The 9am session is just starting, but there's still time to sign up for second session 1-2pm (GMT) 👇
Two opportunities to join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social TOMORROW 🥳

📝 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
📅 26 November
📌 Online
🔗 buff.ly/pExK5d3 (9-10 AM GMT), buff.ly/0FWhoz5 (1-2PM GMT)
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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

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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…
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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…
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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