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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 1d

... early discussions between colleagues in Africa, Latin America and India to explore the feasibility of setting up a registry outside the Global North fit for the needs of local and regional scholarly communities

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 1d

V. interesting discussion between Omo Oaiya (@wacren.bsky.social‬) and Vincent about the major issues (inc. cost, governance & sovereignty) of current DOI registration options, all of which are based outside the Global South, and are inherently exclusionary. And highlighting...

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 1d

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

A smiling Mary Felix-Maina projected onto a large screen above a stage, with onlooking audience in the foreground

Vincent van Gerven Oei projected onto a large screen above a stage, with onlooking audience in the foreground

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 2d

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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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

Hearing now (also streaming live) from our FUT Minna colleagues, talking about their @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project #OAbooks

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

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

Flyer, with a monochrome collage showing colleagues at events and speaking, alongside text reading From Pilots to Policy: Advancing a National Framework for Open Access Books in Nigeria. National Stakeholder Summit on Community-led Academic Publishing

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 2d

It's just started if you want to join the live stream!!

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

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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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

Start time has been pushed back a bit, but colleagues can wait in the Zoom waiting roon

Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow I will be joined remotely by @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @oapenbooks.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social. Looking forward to a rich two days of discussion!

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

Today, I'll be presenting alongside Omo Oaiya from @wacren.bsky.social & #LIBSENSE, as well as colleagues from FUT Minna's @openbookcollective.bsky.social funded project, which is building a new platform for Nigerian book publishers openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/annoucin...

Announcing OBC's First Collective Development Fund award: Fostering Academic Self-Reliance in Nigeria through Open Access Books

Establishing a sustainable platform to empower Nigerian scholars and educators to create, produce, and disseminate high-quality open access books, as well as fostering new collaborations across Academ...

openbookcollective.pubpub.org

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 2d

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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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 5d

Explore @openbookcollective.bsky.social origins, purpose, and relationships, as well as OMP and the open book publishing landscape with @joedeville.bsky.social 💗

Copim @copim.bsky.social · 5d

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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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 6d

1/ Open Book Collective is proud to be supporting next week's conference in Abuja on 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty: Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing', with OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social speaking alongside a number of @copim.bsky.social colleagues
oa-summit.bookhub.ng

Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty — OAConference 2025

Nigeria’s National Open Access Stakeholders Conference — Oct 6–7, 2025 at NOUN, Abuja.

oa-summit.bookhub.ng

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 11d

Den einen ist der Verfassungsblog nicht wissenschaftlich genug, den anderen zu kostenfrei, um von wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken finanziert zu werden.

Wieso an beidem nichts dran ist, erklärt EVIN DALKILIC im Editorial.

verfassungsblog.de/diese-wissen...

Zitat aus dem Editorial von Evin Dalkilic: „Der Verfassungsblog bietet Wissenschaftler*innen eine Plattform, um diesen Diskurs anzustoßen und zu führen, zwischen Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit, schneller als jede Zeitschrift und mit strengerer Qualitätssicherung als die meisten.“

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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 11d

Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us speculativemachines.co.uk/news-item/19...

Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us

Carolyn Pedwell gave an interview as part of the Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Tactics & Practice podcast series, ‘Are you a Software Upda…

speculativemachines.co.uk

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations!

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Alastair Dunning @alastairdunning.bsky.social · 12d

Our Diamond OA publisher, TU Delft Open, published 45 books in 2024

20 textbooks, 18 edited volumes, 4 conference books, 3 monographs
One significant growth area: interactive textbooks (25% of the textbooks)

openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl/tu-delft-ope...

TU Delft OPEN Publishing | 2024 Annual Report - Blog TU Delft OPEN Publishing

2024 marked the 5-year anniversary of TU Delft OPEN Publishing (TUDOP) Publications Highlights | Books In April 2024, we reached the milestone of 100 books published. The landmark textbook publication...

openpublishing.tudl.tudelft.nl

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 13d

TY Joe, for comments on how what our communities have been doing (some for 25+ years), works. Lots of folks in #OpenAccess, #OpenInfrastructure spaces have been quite successful at community-driven, non-traditional approaches, as your interview with us shows (just out!): pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/23/o...

Open Book Collective and Open Monograph Press: An Interview with Joe Deville - Public Knowledge Project

Urooj Nizami interviews OBC’s Joe Deville. Explore OBC’s origins, purpose, and relationships, OMP, and the open book publishing landscape.

pkp.sfu.ca

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 13d

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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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 15d

📢Employment opportunity at PKP!

PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.

If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project

The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

pkp.sfu.ca

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 14d

Have a read of Sam's excellent new book, which is of course published #OpenAccess 🎉

🔗 press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...

Publishing Beyond the Market

Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

press.umich.edu

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

4/ heh.. glad to see this echoed a lot of what @samuelmoore.org just said in his contribution, including the new, careful and experimental ways of working that scholar-led initiatives are putting into practice in their daily work

Sam Moore speaking on the right hand side of a row of four seated scholars on a stage, with a fifth speaker above and much larger on a screen

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

3/ ... are being built by large commercial publishers, via mechanisms like transformative agreements or APCs/BPCs, but also that I worry could be in future built indirectly via commercially controlled LLM-driven systems. In other words, the way open access is done matters

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

2/ For us at @copim.bsky.social it's about forms of open scholarly knowledge controlled by engaged communities of scholars, libraries, publishers and infrastructure providers. This to me, and for us I think, is something so very different to the kinds of open access that ...

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 14d

1/ With speakers now addressing the central question of "why do you care about open access"? I'm not sure actually what my own answer would be. But I think part of it would borrow from what @rupertgatti.bsky.social said yesterday, which is that open access is for many of us not a sufficient goal

Copim @copim.bsky.social · 14d

The next #OASPA2025 panel should be good!

Open Access: of what, for what, and why?

🔶Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan Press
🔶Antia Wiersma, Royal Netherlands Historical Society
🔶John Wilkin, Lyrasis
🔶Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Université Claude Bernard Lyon
🔶Sam Moore, Radical Open Access

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