Lucy Barnes
@alittleroad.bsky.social
Open Book Publishers • ScholarLed • Copim • Open Access Books Network • All things open access books • Also on Mastodon (@alittleroad@hcommons.social) & LinkedIn (lucy-barnes-01670473) • She/her
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Wiley, as ever, serving its most important stakeholders, the shareholders.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
Wiley create new "Chief AI and Data Services Officer" (CADSO?) to accelerate their content licensing programme www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Wiley Names Inaugural AI Chief
To accelerate its efforts to make more licensing deals with AI developers and other tech companies, Wiley has named Rafat to the newly created position of chief AI and data services officer.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Wiley, as ever, serving its most important stakeholders, the shareholders.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
I’m not implacably against these licenses, but in the current dispensation the scholarly communities that created, vetted, & curated the knowledge aren’t even at the table in these deals.
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Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Sponsored places for the Copim Conference 2026 - Copim
Copim is offering a minimum of three sponsored places to this year’s conference ‘Exploring the future of community-led open access books’. Find out more in th…
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January 15, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Do you work in a UK HE library? Are you early-career? Would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
Find out how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: buff.ly/sbU2eRP
#OAbooks
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[MILESTONE] Over 100 people have now registered to attend the #CopimConference in person
Only 75 in person tickets left (with less than 50 online tickets left!) 🎫
Get yours today 👉 buff.ly/hpWCA6L
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | LONDON
Only 75 in person tickets left (with less than 50 online tickets left!) 🎫
Get yours today 👉 buff.ly/hpWCA6L
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | LONDON
January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
[MILESTONE] Over 100 people have now registered to attend the #CopimConference in person
Only 75 in person tickets left (with less than 50 online tickets left!) 🎫
Get yours today 👉 buff.ly/hpWCA6L
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | LONDON
Only 75 in person tickets left (with less than 50 online tickets left!) 🎫
Get yours today 👉 buff.ly/hpWCA6L
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | LONDON
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⏰ This is not a drill - last chance to register!
Discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess monographs AND theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
Discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess monographs AND theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
[WEBINAR] We're joining @bodleian.ox.ac.uk TOMORROW to talk about the challenges & solutions for preserving #OA monographs & #Theses
✍️ Bodleian Open Scholarship series
📆 13 Jan 2026
⏰ 2 PM GMT
Book your place now 🔗 buff.ly/nnrT0fk
#OpenAccess #DigitalPreservation #Archiving
✍️ Bodleian Open Scholarship series
📆 13 Jan 2026
⏰ 2 PM GMT
Book your place now 🔗 buff.ly/nnrT0fk
#OpenAccess #DigitalPreservation #Archiving
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January 13, 2026 at 11:14 AM
⏰ This is not a drill - last chance to register!
Discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess monographs AND theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
Discuss issues faced in digitally preserving #OpenAccess monographs AND theses from the perspective of publishers, university repositories and authors
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NEW: Why not start the new year by joining our individual membership programme?
Last year, we published 60+ #OA books w/no mandatory fees. Join one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us: www.patreon.com/c/openbookpu...
Last year, we published 60+ #OA books w/no mandatory fees. Join one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us: www.patreon.com/c/openbookpu...
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Open access academic books
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January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
NEW: Why not start the new year by joining our individual membership programme?
Last year, we published 60+ #OA books w/no mandatory fees. Join one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us: www.patreon.com/c/openbookpu...
Last year, we published 60+ #OA books w/no mandatory fees. Join one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us: www.patreon.com/c/openbookpu...
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The Compass really is an excellent tool; have a look and see what you think, researchers.
For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library
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December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Compass really is an excellent tool; have a look and see what you think, researchers.
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For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library
abdn.site/vNQ3U
abdn.site/vNQ3U
December 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library
abdn.site/vNQ3U
abdn.site/vNQ3U
An enjoyable day spent yesterday presenting on @openbookpublish and discussing #OpenAccess at the "Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area" conference.
Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.
Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
An enjoyable day spent yesterday presenting on @openbookpublish and discussing #OpenAccess at the "Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area" conference.
Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.
Thanks and congratulations to PolSCA and CHC Digital Humanities for an excellent event.
Looking forward to this event on Thurs!
[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
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December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Looking forward to this event on Thurs!
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[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social ⚡
Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem
#AHSS #SSH
How to tell the people who work for you, "we don't care about you or what you do" in one easy step #efficiency
In some recent sTResSfUl documents we received from senior management, the name of our research centre was continually spelled wrong. It feels bad that the people with power over our livelihoods have no sense of attention to detail.
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
How to tell the people who work for you, "we don't care about you or what you do" in one easy step #efficiency
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"The news comes shortly after OUP acquired Karger Publishers, a medical press based in Basel"
ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky
Oxford University Press enters collective consultation 'proposing 113 redundancies'
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November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"The news comes shortly after OUP acquired Karger Publishers, a medical press based in Basel"
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In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books.
Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️
Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️
For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book.
'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books':
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...
'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books':
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books.
Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️
Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️
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WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
Bartleby the Scrivener logging on for another day of bullshit
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
WHAT'S up YouTube, it's your boy Bartleby the Scrivener here, coming at you for another day of the I Would Prefer Not To challenge. Be sure to SMASH that subscribe button and hit that bell so you don't miss a single video. If you saw last week's video, you'll know I am now SLEEPING in the office.
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May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social
My kingdom for a publisher that allows you to download an entire book as one file rather than individual chapter pdfs
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social
May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social
My kingdom for a publisher that allows you to download an entire book as one file rather than individual chapter pdfs
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
May I introduce @openbookpublish.bsky.social
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This year, the team are focussing on:
✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles
2/2
✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles
2/2
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This year, the team are focussing on:
✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles
2/2
✅ National Libraries legal deposit workflows for #OA monographs
✅ Archiving & preservation of PhD Theses at UK unis libraries/repositories
✅ Challenge of link rot & the proposal to change to a PDF/A standard
✅ Developing Open Archiving principles
2/2
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Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Can confirm — Livy and @openbookcollective.bsky.social have some great swag! Head to booth 29 to learn about “the most gorgeous metadata management system” and pick up a tote bag #chsconf2025 #charleston2025
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[WEBINAR] Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access
Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
"Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access" (11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]) - Copim
Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
[WEBINAR] Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access
Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
Hosted by Copim @sparc-eu.bsky.social @scossfunding.bsky.social
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
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So it's about viewing public libraries not just as community hubs or amenities, but as part of our public knowledge infrastructure - and extending the original public library mission of making printed knowledge and learning available to everyone, to digital knowledge as well.
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
So it's about viewing public libraries not just as community hubs or amenities, but as part of our public knowledge infrastructure - and extending the original public library mission of making printed knowledge and learning available to everyone, to digital knowledge as well.
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Basically - there's a policy gap! Research policy embraces open access, via REF, funder mandates etc, but library & cultural policy rarely even mentions it - so publicly funded research is increasingly 'out there', but the public isn't supported to learn about its existence or how to access it.
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Basically - there's a policy gap! Research policy embraces open access, via REF, funder mandates etc, but library & cultural policy rarely even mentions it - so publicly funded research is increasingly 'out there', but the public isn't supported to learn about its existence or how to access it.
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Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!
Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Anyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation!
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Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing
📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
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[BLOG] Continuing last week's #OAWeek theme @alittleroad.bsky.social has written about #OA licences for books 📚
❓Who owns open knowledge?
❓What are the implications of different types of open licence?
❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences?
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❓Who owns open knowledge?
❓What are the implications of different types of open licence?
❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences?
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Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access
When a more restrictive open access licence is applied to a book, who gets to make decisions about usage that falls outside the open licence?
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October 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
[BLOG] Continuing last week's #OAWeek theme @alittleroad.bsky.social has written about #OA licences for books 📚
❓Who owns open knowledge?
❓What are the implications of different types of open licence?
❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences?
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❓Who owns open knowledge?
❓What are the implications of different types of open licence?
❓Who makes decisions about reuse in the case of more restrictive licences?
🔗