Copim
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An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support open access book publishing.
Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/
#OAbooks
Find us at https://www.copim.ac.uk/
#OAbooks
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Copim is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructur...
www.copim.ac.uk
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
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
Happy Christmas to the #CopimCommunity 🎄
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎉
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎉
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Happy Christmas to the #CopimCommunity 🎄
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎉
Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎉
It's been a super busy year for you all - enjoy the break guys! 😴
As 2025 comes to an end, we’ll be taking a short break over the holidays. Season’s greetings to all our readers, authors, supporters, and colleagues. We’ll be back in 2026 with more #DiamondOA.
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It's been a super busy year for you all - enjoy the break guys! 😴
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NEW: Support us by joining our individual membership programme!
This year, we’ve published 60+ #OA books without mandatory fees. Support us by joining one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us:
This year, we’ve published 60+ #OA books without mandatory fees. Support us by joining one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us:
Open Book Publishers | Patreon
Open access academic books
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December 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Support us by joining our individual membership programme!
This year, we’ve published 60+ #OA books without mandatory fees. Support us by joining one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us:
This year, we’ve published 60+ #OA books without mandatory fees. Support us by joining one of 5 monthly membership tiers—ranging from £1 to £50—receive benefits & support #OpenAccess to research! ✊
Join us:
We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period
Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄
Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period
Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄
Wishing the #CopimCommunity a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄
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Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄
We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!
👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀
#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture
We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!
👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀
#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture
December 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄
We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!
👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀
#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture
We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!
👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀
#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture
Are you a @buffer.com user?
What plant are you?
And how do you intend to grow in 2026? 🌱
#FridayFun #GiantSequoia
What plant are you?
And how do you intend to grow in 2026? 🌱
#FridayFun #GiantSequoia
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Are you a @buffer.com user?
What plant are you?
And how do you intend to grow in 2026? 🌱
#FridayFun #GiantSequoia
What plant are you?
And how do you intend to grow in 2026? 🌱
#FridayFun #GiantSequoia
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#OPERASServices | We are thrilled to announce that the OPERAS Services Catalogue has two new additions to end 2025 on a very high note: the Mondaecus platform and the OPERAS Innovation Lab.
Discover more about OPERAS services: https://operas-eu.org/services/ and stay tuned for updates!
Discover more about OPERAS services: https://operas-eu.org/services/ and stay tuned for updates!
December 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#OPERASServices | We are thrilled to announce that the OPERAS Services Catalogue has two new additions to end 2025 on a very high note: the Mondaecus platform and the OPERAS Innovation Lab.
Discover more about OPERAS services: https://operas-eu.org/services/ and stay tuned for updates!
Discover more about OPERAS services: https://operas-eu.org/services/ and stay tuned for updates!
It's going to be an exciting 2026 for the Thoth team - can't wait to see what they have in store 👀
Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the Open Access books space a restful winter break and a very happy new year. We'll still be here if you need us, while we continue work behind-the-scenes on some exciting developments and releases for Thoth in 2026 🎆 #OAbooks #openinfra #MetadataMatters
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It's going to be an exciting 2026 for the Thoth team - can't wait to see what they have in store 👀
We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We'll be taking a break from socials over the festive period
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
[CATCH UP] @amandasramalho.bsky.social at #FILGuadalajara2025 📚
Listen to insights on @scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers! @openbookcollective.bsky.social
🎥 Watch now buff.ly/XCQwcz0
#FIL2025 #MetadataMatters
Listen to insights on @scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers! @openbookcollective.bsky.social
🎥 Watch now buff.ly/XCQwcz0
#FIL2025 #MetadataMatters
Encuentro de Editores Universitarios Iberoamericanos | FIL 2025
El martes 2 de diciembre, FIL Guadalajara 2025 acogió el Encuentro Iberoamericano de Editores Universitarios que tiene como objetivo reflexionar y definir lo...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
[CATCH UP] @amandasramalho.bsky.social at #FILGuadalajara2025 📚
Listen to insights on @scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers! @openbookcollective.bsky.social
🎥 Watch now buff.ly/XCQwcz0
#FIL2025 #MetadataMatters
Listen to insights on @scielo.org @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & why open metadata matters — sparking lots of interest from publishers! @openbookcollective.bsky.social
🎥 Watch now buff.ly/XCQwcz0
#FIL2025 #MetadataMatters
MARK YOUR 2026 CALENDAR!
Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS26
📝 Who owns our knowledge?
📆 Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026
🔗 openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS26
📝 Who owns our knowledge?
📆 Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026
🔗 openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
MARK YOUR 2026 CALENDAR!
Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS26
📝 Who owns our knowledge?
📆 Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026
🔗 openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @kjsanders.bsky.social at #OxFOS26
📝 Who owns our knowledge?
📆 Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026
🔗 openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos
Find out more about @operaseu.bsky.social
Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social are all members?!
Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social are all members?!
#EndOfYearReflections | In 2025, the OPERAS Communication team has taken extra care in curating the OPERAS YouTube channel. Discover new general videos here https://bit.ly/YT-discover-OPERAS and explore the full channel with recent updates: https://www.youtube.com/@operas-eu
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Find out more about @operaseu.bsky.social
Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social are all members?!
Did you know that @jisc.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social are all members?!
[READ] Affordances, Resilience, and Precarity: Reflections on the 2025 Charleston Conference 📚
Members of team @openbookcollective.bsky.social share their reflections from #chsconf2025
🔗
Members of team @openbookcollective.bsky.social share their reflections from #chsconf2025
🔗
Affordances, Resilience, and Precarity: Reflections on the 2025 Charleston Conference
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that [...] is best able to adapt and to adjust to the changing environment in…
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December 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
[READ] Affordances, Resilience, and Precarity: Reflections on the 2025 Charleston Conference 📚
Members of team @openbookcollective.bsky.social share their reflections from #chsconf2025
🔗
Members of team @openbookcollective.bsky.social share their reflections from #chsconf2025
🔗
Lots of the Copim team will be there - find us at stand no. 66!
Klaxon alert! Delegate bookings for the Annual Conference are now open! dub.sh/OpKsP4B
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Lots of the Copim team will be there - find us at stand no. 66!
Library support means that @ceu-press.bsky.social has already been able to publish many new #OA books (with more funded and planned)
▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!
▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!
🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk
They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social
This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing
👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/
They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social
This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing
👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Library support means that @ceu-press.bsky.social has already been able to publish many new #OA books (with more funded and planned)
▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!
▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!
Join us in 2026 for more outreach & engagement 📆
If you want any of our groups to speak at your event, get in touch via email [mailto: info@copim.ac.uk]
Catch up with past events 👉
If you want any of our groups to speak at your event, get in touch via email [mailto: info@copim.ac.uk]
Catch up with past events 👉
Events - Copim
This Copim community organises and participates in many events. This page provides a public record of the outreach and engagement work carried out during the …
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December 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Join us in 2026 for more outreach & engagement 📆
If you want any of our groups to speak at your event, get in touch via email [mailto: info@copim.ac.uk]
Catch up with past events 👉
If you want any of our groups to speak at your event, get in touch via email [mailto: info@copim.ac.uk]
Catch up with past events 👉
Our outreach & engagement diary is now closed for 2025!
It's been a super busy year! See where we've been 👇
*Other more sustainable forms of transport were also used
#PlanesTrainsAutomobiles
It's been a super busy year! See where we've been 👇
*Other more sustainable forms of transport were also used
#PlanesTrainsAutomobiles
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Our outreach & engagement diary is now closed for 2025!
It's been a super busy year! See where we've been 👇
*Other more sustainable forms of transport were also used
#PlanesTrainsAutomobiles
It's been a super busy year! See where we've been 👇
*Other more sustainable forms of transport were also used
#PlanesTrainsAutomobiles
#FRIDAYFUN
Let's play 'Who is coming to #CopimConference?'
Is your country represented? It's not too late to join in 👉 register now!
🔗 buff.ly/oTQZ7R6
Let's play 'Who is coming to #CopimConference?'
Is your country represented? It's not too late to join in 👉 register now!
🔗 buff.ly/oTQZ7R6
What next for community-led open access book publishing?
Join Copim for a free two day hybrid conference!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#FRIDAYFUN
Let's play 'Who is coming to #CopimConference?'
Is your country represented? It's not too late to join in 👉 register now!
🔗 buff.ly/oTQZ7R6
Let's play 'Who is coming to #CopimConference?'
Is your country represented? It's not too late to join in 👉 register now!
🔗 buff.ly/oTQZ7R6
A busy day for the Copim team today! 🐝
First up is a presentation to the @rluk.ac.uk Collection Strategy Network
🔗 buff.ly/ZnaLa1s
We're also heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social London campus to visit the venue for #CopimConference2026
🔗 buff.ly/Es3JPkb
First up is a presentation to the @rluk.ac.uk Collection Strategy Network
🔗 buff.ly/ZnaLa1s
We're also heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social London campus to visit the venue for #CopimConference2026
🔗 buff.ly/Es3JPkb
Collective Collections - Research Libraries UK
Your Content Goes Here The collections held by RLUK members, together with other memory institutions across the world, provide an interconnected network of scholarship. Scholars and students navigate…
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December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A busy day for the Copim team today! 🐝
First up is a presentation to the @rluk.ac.uk Collection Strategy Network
🔗 buff.ly/ZnaLa1s
We're also heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social London campus to visit the venue for #CopimConference2026
🔗 buff.ly/Es3JPkb
First up is a presentation to the @rluk.ac.uk Collection Strategy Network
🔗 buff.ly/ZnaLa1s
We're also heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social London campus to visit the venue for #CopimConference2026
🔗 buff.ly/Es3JPkb
NEW POST: 'Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Event'
Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:
Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:
Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the 'Collective Infrastructures for Publishing' Event - Copim
This is the fourth blogpost in the series documenting the work on the ‘ServPub – A Collective Infrastructure to Serve and Publish’ experimental book pilot project.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW POST: 'Infrastructuring Books Together: Notes from the ‘Collective Infrastructures for Publishing’ Event'
Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:
Rebekka Kiesewetter on the event at London South Bank University’s Borough Road Gallery, hosted by Copim's Experimental Publishing team & the 'ServPub' pilot project team:
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 12:46 PM
BLOG POST: Simon Bowie writes for LSE Impact blog on the lessons from the British Library hack: buff.ly/nAPvMCZ
'Commercial software providers have failed us. The Government continues to offer little support. [We must] invest in people & build our own community-led systems & infrastructures'
'Commercial software providers have failed us. The Government continues to offer little support. [We must] invest in people & build our own community-led systems & infrastructures'
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
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December 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
BLOG POST: Simon Bowie writes for LSE Impact blog on the lessons from the British Library hack: buff.ly/nAPvMCZ
'Commercial software providers have failed us. The Government continues to offer little support. [We must] invest in people & build our own community-led systems & infrastructures'
'Commercial software providers have failed us. The Government continues to offer little support. [We must] invest in people & build our own community-led systems & infrastructures'
Our Experimental Publishing Group are in Nairobi for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa
📆 8–9 December 2025
Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions
More information, plus online registration 👉
📆 8–9 December 2025
Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions
More information, plus online registration 👉
Hybrid workshop: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa - Copim
The Research Data Share (RDS) Collective, Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), and African Minds invite you to join us for a workshop and…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Our Experimental Publishing Group are in Nairobi for a HYBRID WORKSHOP: Extending Knowledge and Publishing Infrastructures in and from Africa
📆 8–9 December 2025
Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions
More information, plus online registration 👉
📆 8–9 December 2025
Online participants can attend 3 panel sessions
More information, plus online registration 👉
🚨 WARNING: one day left to get your application in!
We're looking for a Project Manager (0.60FTE), fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1 Feb 2026)
📆 Closing date is 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟎𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫!
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
We're looking for a Project Manager (0.60FTE), fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1 Feb 2026)
📆 Closing date is 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟎𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫!
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Project Manager: Open Access Publishing
Project Manager (0.60FTE): Open Access PublishingEmployment type: Fixed Term Duration: up to three months, available to start from 1st February 2026 This is a 3-month, part-time maternity cover…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚨 WARNING: one day left to get your application in!
We're looking for a Project Manager (0.60FTE), fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1 Feb 2026)
📆 Closing date is 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟎𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫!
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
We're looking for a Project Manager (0.60FTE), fixed term 3 month contract (available to start from 1 Feb 2026)
📆 Closing date is 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟎𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫!
All the details are on the Lancaster University website 👉 buff.ly/A70OcHY
NEW POST: Discussions with the 'Database as Book & Lively Community Archive' experimental book project team on how the different institutional backgrounds of the collaborators (or their lack) shape the pilot project. Audio recordings of the discussion are included in the post:
Instituting ‘Database as Book and Lively Community Archive’ - Copim
This blogpost documents how diverse institutional contexts shape collaboration in the ‘Database as Book and Lively Community Archive’ experimental book pilot …
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December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW POST: Discussions with the 'Database as Book & Lively Community Archive' experimental book project team on how the different institutional backgrounds of the collaborators (or their lack) shape the pilot project. Audio recordings of the discussion are included in the post: