An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing. #OAbooks
[BLOG] The (Im)possibility of Non-Extractive Collaboration
Explore the negotiations involved in collaborative publishing across academic and non-academic contexts.
Read the earlier blogs in the series:
1️⃣ Documenting 'Servpub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ https://buff.ly/PwLjh4C
2️⃣ Embodied and embedded publishing infrastructure on ServPub https://buff.ly/wEydsTi
NEW Author Profiles
We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with Liverpool University Press thanks to funding from Copim’s collective library funding model, “Opening the Future”.
🌟 Tess C. Rankin - "Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction" https://buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🌟 Dean Allbritton - "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain" https://buff.ly/e7GQ8eh
Catch up with previous author profiles 👉 https://buff.ly/MdzIelr
[NEW] Accessibility standard implementation and #OpenAccess publishers
Joanne Fitzpatrick and Jordy Findanis summarise the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small #DiamondOA monograph publishers 📚
Read more 👉 https://buff.ly/VHFVGho
NEW Author Profiles
We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with Liverpool University Press thanks to funding from Copim’s collective library funding model, “Opening the Future”.
🌟 Tess C. Rankin - "Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction" https://buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🌟 Dean Allbritton - "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain" https://buff.ly/e7GQ8eh
Catch up with previous author profiles 👉 https://buff.ly/MdzIelr
NEWS! Thoth Open Metadata receives finalist nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing!
The winner will be announced at the ALPSP conference in September. Keep your fingers crossed for @Thoth_metadata
JOB OPPORTUNITY!
The @openbookcollect are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support outreach activity with diverse stakeholders, including academic libraries and open access publishers and infrastructure providers.
So if you're passionate about #OpenAccess and want to deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for #OA book publishing, get in touch!
Find out more, including salary, term & benefits, here 👉 https://buff.ly/PA8t22T
Congrats and good luck!
@copim @openbookcollect @PublicKnowledgeProject @crossref @ORCID_Org
@Thoth_metadata @copim @PublicKnowledgeProject @crossref @ORCID_Org This is incredible -- and very well deserved -- news! Thoth Open Metadata is an integral initiative for the vitality of the open access book publishing ecology! Well done to all of the incredible people busily beavering away on and with Thoth! We wish you luck! 🙏
We are truly honoured to have received a finalist nomination for the 2025 @alpsp Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025!
Hannah and Toby just gave their presentation to the ALPSP panel of judges, and we'll know more in about two months' time, as award winners will be announced at this year's ALPSP Conference in Manchester (Sept 10-11).
Really wonderful to see more and more interest across the sector in what we've been developing within the @copim community - and also good to keep in mind the importance of that growing network of #openinfrastructures that have come together to explore alternative ways to OA publishing of #OAbooks based on interoperable #opendata ...
So this is also a shoutout to the important work happening at @openbookcollect, @PublicKnowledgeProject (with OMP), @crossref, @ORCID_Org, and many others not on Mastodon, incl. OAPEN, DOAB, OaEBU DT, and the OA Switchboard ...
New on #CopimCompass 🧭
The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small, diamond OA publishers to improve accessibility in publishing 💡
✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models for small presses
✅ Six chapters on principles, law, standards, strategic planning, use cases & customised tools
📣 Send your thoughts and feedback to us at info@copim.ac.uk
Start your #Accessibility journey today! https://compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-open-accessibility-Iyy
Copim's Open Book Futures Project, Year 2 Report (1 May 2024-30 Apr 2025)
We recently wrapped up our Year 2 progress report for our funders (Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia), and we’ve made a public version (yep, all 140+ pages of it!) available on Zenodo.
TL:DR. This blog post gives you the highlights and updates on what we’ve been up to lately!
More good news from https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata 🎉
They are a partner with Netherlands University Presses who have just received €300,000 from the Steering Board of Open Science NL to strengthen collaboration, coordination, and knowledge-sharing within the network!
The finalists for ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2025 have been revealed! 🎇
Recognised for their innovation in publishing 👉 @Thoth_metadata
Read more (and roll on 11 Sept. when the winners will be revealed!)
Have you used #CopimCompass yet? 🧭
👉 https://compass.copim.ac.uk/books
What have you found the most useful?
Is there anything you'd like to see added?
Let us know! 📮
[BLOG] Archiving and Preserving my PhD Thesis: Reflections for Further Research
New WP7 research associate, Holly Turpin, reflects on her own experience of archiving and preserving a #PhD #Thesis and related outputs, as a means of kickstarting further research as part of Open Book Futures.
Read more 👉 https://buff.ly/2QlaKCo
#doctoralresearch #libraries #digitalpreservation #borndigital #emergingformats #openresearch #openaccess
[UPDATE] Copim’s thoughts on the changes announced at PubPub
We recently published a blog (10 Jun) sharing our thoughts and concerns about the new PubPub Platform
🔗 https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/pubpub-update-thoughts-from-copim/
Knowledge Futures have since released a statement detailing the wind-down of key initiatives - we have updated our original post in response
Read the KF statement in full 👉 https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-06-update/
⏰ The European Accessibility Act comes into force tomorrow (28 June)
Revisit the recent blogposts from our #Accessibility team
Global Accessibility Barriers 👉 https://buff.ly/khVDXLG
Accessibility Tools and Resources 👉 https://buff.ly/GS8k519
Librarians and Open Accessibility 👉 https://buff.ly/FsKZ4JV
We are excited to present Copim Compass, a comprehensive tool suite developed by Copim's Open Book Futures project 🚀
As the name suggests, Copim Compass points you in the right direction and we hope it will steer you through the choppy waters of #OA book resources!
We make no excuse for the nautical puns ⚓
Read the full post 🔗 https://buff.ly/tL1JgHG
At #bibliocon25 but missed out on tickets to the official #bid25 conference party?
Don't worry, we have an alternative for you! 🍻
Join us at #CopimCorner all details in the flyer 👇
📢 Calling publishers/librarians working in African contexts
Join the #OpenBookCollective online TOMORROW to discuss 'Making the Case for OA Books to Authors'
📆 Thursday 26 June
🕰️ 7pm (Central African Time)
Please register to attend 👉 https://buff.ly/WIci0fK
