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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 19h

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

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

Webinar poster for “Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures,” dated 24 October 2025.

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 15d

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

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 19h

Well done you lot, that's fab - here's to another 17 🍾

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 7d

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!

ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 7d

@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.

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 8d

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?

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 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.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Aug 13

Great article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck.

Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.bsky.social · Aug 13

Sharing again, because state censorship is a major threat for open access publishing and for the right to read.

Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hair looks good though so swings and roundabouts

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Aug 11

A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀

Niels Stern @nielsstern.bsky.social · Aug 11

We are looking for a Head of Technology, responsible for the development and maintenance of the technical environments and other ICT-related tasks at OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social and DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social
Vacancy note: oapen.org/article/vaca...

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Jul 28

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.

Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jul 24

NEW Author Profiles 📣

We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with
@livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉

🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh

Opening the Future, Author Profile: Dean Allbritton

Copim catches up with author Dean Allbritton about their book "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.

buff.ly

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 22

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.

ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 18

Fair enough yep I'm sure it's tricky.

ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 17

Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.

OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · Jul 17

Incredibly frustrating title to this article 'OA economic model branded ‘fundamentally broken’ by Jisc' what they mean (and say in the article) is TA's don't work, not OA "https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-open-access-2025-7-open-access-economic-model-branded-fundamentally-broken/

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 17

but the headline is very frustrating: making it sound like OA is the problem whereas the article does a good job of explaining that it's the publishers and their APC & transformative agreement models that are the problem

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yeah this is great to see it written out like this "Any hope that [universities are] going to pay more into a publishing system… looks extractive" 🔥🙌

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jul 10

WHOOP WHOOP! That's fantastic! 🥳 Well deserved my friend ✒️❤️

ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jun 25

I can't repost this enough times ❤️

Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · Jun 25

Two data points:

academics at Trinity College Dublin elect its Provost (and held on to the right to do so a few years ago);

after Bath spectacularly drove out the VC in 2019, there was a review of governance and a big cut in the boss's pay: Bath is not currently threatened with mass redundancies.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jun 25

It will be great when we finally democratise higher education governance and we'll look back on this strange period where people from business were given control of our universities and then ran them into the ground.

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jun 25

Date for your diaries!

Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!)

Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement

FORM @forumforopen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Making Space on the Shelves: #OpenAccess Books in #OpenScience

The #OA movement has extended its reach from articles to books. Join us for a fruitful discussion with @kjsanders.bsky.social & @kirahopkins.bsky.social on why this matters.

📅8 July 2025
⏰1:00 PM
🌐Online

🔗Register: shorturl.at/GLam6

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jun 23

Joining forces with @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social to present 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿

FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍

📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu

Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times – National Acquisitions Group

New edition of Taking Stock available now

nag.org.uk

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jun 19

Your snippets are always useful, thanks! Still struggle to see how this kind of revenue year on year can be sustainable for HEIs. At some point, their budgets surely can't keep feeding the hungry mouths of the big beasts?

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jun 17

Find out more about the other presses in the @openingthefuture.bsky.social family

⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net

⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · Jun 18

nutter 😆

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Kira Hopkins @kirahopkins.bsky.social · Jun 17

Really excited about this one! Both @scholtom.bsky.social and myself are really looking forward to working with MSU Press on this. We're happy to facilitate them to publish more of their African Studies titles open access 😀

Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 Exciting news!

Michigan State University Press joins @openingthefuture.bsky.social‬ 🎉

They’ll expand #OpenAccess publishing in African & Diaspora Studies, with 65 backlist titles becoming available to subscribers

Learn more 👉 buff.ly/dY9rAcu

#OAbooks #MSUPress #AcademicPublishing

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