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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

Forthcoming @alpsp.bsky.social webinar Experiences of Open Peer Review: From Concept to Practice 17 November 2026, 3pm UK time Open to all - an opportunity to deepen understanding of how open peer review is evolving across the disciplines. Details/booking: www.alpsp.org/events/event...

Choosing where to publish can be a difficult decision Authors will have differing needs & requirements How should they approach this, and what questions should they consider? Explore this in more detail with @oipassoc.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/nyHi3wd

COSTS & FUNDING: Read our deep dive into the finances of #OpenAccess book publishing, with a review of our costs and revenues from the last financial year and a comparison with six years ago. What's changed? buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #OAbooks #OA

📢 One week left to share your views on #DiamondOA books! Help shape the adaptation of the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) to OA book publishing as part of the EU-funded #AEGISOA project. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 November, 23:59 CET 📝 Take the anonymous survey: tinyurl.com/343raz5m

5 ways to support open infrastructure 1️⃣ Know what you rely on 2️⃣ Share the responsibility 3️⃣ Prioritize community governance 4️⃣ Fund it as core, not a project 5️⃣ Start small, stay consistent scoss.org/supporting-o... The cost of knowledge is a choice. #OAweek

New from @alittleroad.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social discuss the cost of #OA books, 6 years on from the original blog What is different today? 🔸 the changing context we’re work in 🔸 how costs & revenue models have shifted 🔸 what the future looks like 🔗 buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek

**WE'RE HIRING!** The Open Journals Collective is recruiting for an Administrative Officer. This is a permanent, fully remote role and the postholder needs to be based in the UK. Full details and how to apply are on our website: www.openjournalscollective.org/news/were-hi...

How Library Memberships Fund Open Access Books 📚 New blog from @scholtom.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social explaining how the Opening the Future model works, and what makes it different from other approaches to #OpenAccess book publishing 🔗 boydellandbrewer.com/blog/open-ac...

And still time for this one too! (Though @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social is replacing @joedeville.bsky.social on behalf of the OBC)

. @janebuggle.bsky.social's talk at this event is really excellent -- I particularly like this elucidation of the concept of stewardship, and how this approach can lead to a greater emphasis on open access as a process, rather than a product.

One diamond for another 😘

As are we! Massive thanks to @simonxix.com Head over to our website now 👉 copim.pub @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Another episode of the fantastic #UKSG podcast has dropped 🎧 Head over to SoundCloud now ▶️

Open infrastructures don't operate in isolation. 19 SCOSS-endorsed infrastructures connect to 60+ other non-commercial ones. Fund one, and you help sustain the whole ecosystem. 🌐 scoss.org/smart-invest... 👀 Tomorrow: five principles to get you started. #OAweek

❗A major vulnerability have been discovered in PHP (see below), which runs Wordpress, among other platforms. Our OBC blog is based on Wordpress, so as a precaution, we have taken our site offline until a security patch is released. ❗ So if you can't access our site, it's definitely not you!

As we mark #OAWeek and this year's theme, “The Cost of Knowledge”, our Annual Report offers an opportunity to reflect on how resources are allocated and how collective funding supports our #DiamondOA publishing model. A huge thank you to all our library supporters!

We've had a good spread of responses, but more data means more insight into libraries' decision-making processes when choosing to support #OpenAccess initiatives - so please take a few moments to complete our survey or share with colleagues! Consider it your contribution to #OAWeek! 📚

There's been a lot of interest in this webinar - this is clearly a topic lots of libraries and librarians are interested in! (We love to see it.) There is still time to register and places available, so why not come along? 📚 #OAWeek

We’ll be exploring open access publishing by following one of @openbookpublish.bsky.social’s titles on its journey from conception to publication and beyond - a new approach for us, so it should be a fun session! 📚

The European Diamond Capacity Hub @eudch.bsky.social invites you to "XML in practice - Tools and workflows for journal editors" webinar Thursday 29 October 2026, 13:00 - 14:00 CET If you're working with #OpenJournalSystems (OJS), don't miss out! #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #OAWeek

Next up in the #OAWeek diary for #CopimCommunity is the @uksg.bsky.social Introduction to #OA seminar where @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social will be discussing #OA for Books: Beyond the BPC 📚 🔗 buff.ly/IyWvxCj

🎉 Featuring @joedeville.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Lots to think about in this post by @kjsanders.eurosky.social on what 'open access publishing' is and how it is developing. Is the goal simply to have more "outputs" (ugh) be available openly, or does it matter how we get there?

For #OAweek, our Executive Director Professor Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social) spoke to SPARC about the @ojcollective.bsky.social, inspired by the Open Library of Humanities, and what motivates her to challenge academic publishing cultures. Read the interview 👇

OA's plasticity is a feature, not a bug. "interventions from outside of the work of publishing continue to be made at various levels, and these contribute to further restrictions of OA’s capacity to receive and create appropriate forms, and to explode form through continuous critical struggle."

Can #OpenAccess books help make research more equitable across the Arab world? Join Dr Anna Walek from OAPEN NOW at #FORM2026 to explore Arabic scholarship, regional collaboration, and the future of #KnowledgeEquity! 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In our second #OAWeek blog, @palaeofuturist.bsky.social and @nottinauta.bsky.social explain why it was important for them to publish 'Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies' #OpenAccess - and why diamond is best 🔓💎 uolpress.co.uk/2026/10/refl... @ics.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

It's International #OAWeek! This year's theme, 'The Cost of Knowledge', has prompted reflections from OIPA and our members. We've brought together their thoughts and perspectives in our latest blog post. Read more: oipauk.org/2026/10/19/o...

Starting in 20 mins! ⏰

What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity The next set of interviews are live, head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/MFjSSdu @kjsanders.eurosky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

Looking forward to this event where @joedeville.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social joins the conversation on the costs of #DiamondOA 💎

What's it like working for @openbookcollective.bsky.social Find out below 👇

Music to our ears 🎶 @openbookcollective.bsky.social

What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity Head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/S9PFs6n @beckywojturska.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social

It's #OAWeek26 🎉 and we have a new blog by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social on the importance of #OpenAccess publishing for researchers and their recent book: uolpress.co.uk/2026/10/refl... @oipassoc.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Our member LSHTM Press has published the first in a series of blog posts they will share each day of #OpenAccessWeek on topics varying from the cost of preparing data, to the impact of AI. Read the new LSHTM Press blog on 'the cost of knowledge': press.lshtm.ac.uk/blog-23 @lshtm-laors.bsky.social

The National Library of Sweden has diamond fever! 💎 Join them for #OAWeek on 22 Oct to discuss the visible & invisible costs in Diamond #OpenAccess No advance registration required, just click the link to join (2pm UK time) 👉 buff.ly/zmWNgX5 @joedeville.bsky.social

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! What is the cost of open knowledge? @alittleroad.bsky.social joins Koç University Suna Kıraç Library to discuss global perspectives 🌍️ 📆 22 Oct (11:30am) 🔗 buff.ly/rVA3ZmL

UPDATE: What’s next for Copim? An update on our plans for Copim’s future. buff.ly/cKZeDEd #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess

Still time to get tickets for the various #OAWeek events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! KIT Library & @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social will discuss 'Low-cost and no-cost community-developed services: the institutional publishing perspective' 📆 22 October (1030-1200) 🔗 buff.ly/D2hbDxU