OpeningTheFuture

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...

Lara Speicher of @uclpress.bsky.social discusses how BPCs reinforce academic hierarchies and why UCL made the choice to move from BPCs to collective funding via the OBC in July. #OAWeek2026 #OpenAccess blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

'Cost to researchers and authors is also a big issue ... Publishers like UoLP who are able to work with alternative funding streams to enable diamond open access are therefore a godsend for truly open and equitable scholarship.' - @palaeofuturist.bsky.social #OAWeek #OpenAccess

Our second author interview for #OAWeek features @palaeofuturist.bsky.social and @nottinauta.bsky.social talking about their just-published book ‘Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies’ - with some excellent quotes about the value of Diamond OA ⬇️ @oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

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

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! 📚

Looking forward to the British Library event tomorrow: Open and Engaged 2026: The Costs of Inequity, Infrastructure and Trust Register here: https://openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-engaged-2026 #OpenAccess

It's #OpenAccessWeek 2026! To celebrate, we're showcasing the latest OA books, journals & initiatives from LUP, all freely available to read online. Read more on the blog: bit.ly/LUP-OAWeek26 🔓️ @oapenbooks.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

Music to our ears 🎶 @openbookcollective.bsky.social

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

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

🎉 We're delighted to announce The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network will participate in the 2027 Boydell Horizons programme! The programme helps ECR's understand the publishing process & gain practical insights. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/GrQkddm #OAWeek @britishacademy.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

Published an EU-funded #OABook? Make your research easier to find, access, and preserve for the future. Three reasons why you should deposit it in the OAPEN Library 👇 Deposit your EU-funded research today: oapen.org/researchers/....

Loads of Copim colleagues are contributing talks and blogs etc for OA week - check it out 👉 buff.ly/Ahww0f2

@ojcollective.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social are here at the National Open Science Festival at TU Delft today! If you're here, come and meet Thomas Shaw from OJC and Francesca Corazza from OBC. Find us in the Information Market and at the Poster session

From the Katina Magazine archive 🗄️: a resource advisor review of Thoth and what libraries should know about it: katinamagazine.org/content/arti... #KatinaMagazine #CharlestonConference #CharlestonHub #OpenInfra #OpenAccess #OpenSource #OAbooks

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop 📆 Mon 19 October (1-3pm) 🔗 buff.ly/0OxaMdo

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social for the 2nd day of @uksg.bsky.social Introduction to #OA seminar series 📆 21 October (10am-1pm) 🔗 buff.ly/IyWvxCj

Next week is #OAWeek & there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social as they share the arguments that will help libraries justify support for #OA 📆 22 October (10am) 🔗 buff.ly/DsOvBW3

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

At this point the word 'community' is becoming meaningless in some contexts 😭

We are delighted to share that Thoth is now an accredited @crossref.bsky.social Service Provider at the Advanced tier, recognising years of work to make rich, open book metadata achievable for presses of every size! 🎉 thoth.pub/blog/10.7095... #openinfrastructure #MetadataMatters #OAbooks

Happening on Monday - don't miss your chance to shape a new quality standard for #OABooks! To register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

CONGRATS to our colleagues at Thoth, this is a(nother) excellent development for a service that is just going from strength to strength 🔥

🚨 Our 2nd #CoP is this Weds! 🔹11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 🔹16:00 UK time 🔹12:00 midday European time Register now! 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

Whether you want raise agenda items, or just listen & learn, all are welcome 💙 Joining details 👇 @wearelyrasis.bsky.social

Tagging @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

If you're attending #OASPA2026 this week, you can catch team Copim's/the LSE library's Kira Hopkins tomorrow at 9.05am! They will be speaking on the panel 'The Many Faces of Sustainability in #OpenAccess'. Then come to Copim Corner on Tuesday evening to discuss!

Are they hopping on the bandwagon and hoping you won't notice? 🤔 Always check the label!

🚨 Have you registered for next week's #CoP? 🔹11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 🔹16:00 UK time 🔹12:00 midday European time) All details 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

Better luck next time guys! Third time lucky? 🤞 #ALPSP2027

We spy a few #CopimCommunity resources in that list 🕵️‍♀️ #CopimCompass @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social Are there any tools that you use to support #DiamondOA publishing? Let the community know about them!

🚨 MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The next #CoP will take place on Weds 30 September All details 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, edited by Sorin Radu, Constantin Iordachi, Ovidiu Buruiană, and Andrei Sora, explores the political integration of peasants in Central and Southeastern Europe 1848–1939. Preorder your copy here: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633869383/integrating-the-rural-world

Pete’s book, Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018) was published #OA by @livunipress.bsky.social with funding from @copim.bsky.social via #OtF 🧡 Join the debate about Latin American, Caribbean teams & nations in the aftermath of #FIFAWorldCup #FWC26 👉 yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New @openingthefuture.bsky.social subscribing member! The Libraries at Smith College now have access to 150 eBooks from our medieval history and literature, music, African studies and performing arts collections, whilst contributing to funding new #openaccess titles. Learn more > buff.ly/kDudXN5

Religious Failure, Geopolitics, and Forced Displacement in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus by Lucian Leustean argues that when states fail to respond to violence, religious institutions are often among the first to assist displaced populations. Preorder https://tinyurl.com/3vpzbppf

So great to see the OtF model being picked up and used by more publishers, and supported by more libraries like this

Support #OtF and help build a reliable non-BPC pathway for authors 🤝

Join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @wearelyrasis.bsky.social for the second Community of Practice meeting 📆 Weds 30 Sept ⏰ 11:00 AM ET (US and Canada) / 16:00 UK time / 12:00 midday European time) 📍Online (Zoom) More info 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... #CoP #OA #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

Good luck to our colleagues at Thoth who have been nominated for a prize, I think for the second year in a row?? Thoth is a service that is becoming crucial to open access books being discoverable once more in a sea of software and platforms that routinely strip out good metadata.

You may have noticed the Sir Duncan Rice Library is closed this week, but do you know what never closes and can be accessed from anywhere? OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES!!!!!🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️ 🪩 Check out some of our favourite OA databases here abdn.site/OAreads

I love this ‘Where’s Wally’ style pic of the people that have been part of the COPIM + Open Book Futures projects 🙂 Spot the @uolpress.bsky.social team members… These projects have been so valuable in progressing #OpenAccess book publishing 👏 (Props also to @scholtom.bsky.social for the pic)

Great to see the achievements of #OPERAS in black and white (and colour!) in the Annual Report 2025 A fantastic year of growth, collaboration and progress towards a more open and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem PS. Check out the focus on #OPERASUK on p. 42 👀 #ERIC #NationalNodes

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 (ed. Anja Tippner and Johanna Lindbladh) offers insights into documentary film, theater, and literature from the 1960s to the 2020s in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633866733/the-art-of-witnessing

We know social media algorithms aren't always the best at reaching the people they need to when they need to, so don't forget we also have a mailing list! 📧 👉

🎉 We are pleased to announce that the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are a new subscribing member to our @openingthefuture.bsky.social programme! As well as enhancing their eBook collection, by subscribing they are contributing to new #openaccess titles. Learn more > buff.ly/EO4IwMw

🚨 MARK YOUR CALENDAR! The next #CoP will take place on Weds 30 September All details 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

Look, MIT Press are progressive in OA publishing. Heck, I have published with them and have another book under contract with them. But they always think they are the source of influence, never the influenced. They rarely acknowledge the work of others. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...