ScholCommTom
@scholtom.bsky.social
Copim 'Open Book Futures' Project. Helping presses flip to OA monographs through 'Opening the Future' 🔗openingthefuture.net
Academic publishing, scholarly comms, HE, open access.
@copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social
Academic publishing, scholarly comms, HE, open access.
@copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social
@eve.gd 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!
From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open...
[Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]
From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open...
[Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@eve.gd 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott!
From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open...
[Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]
From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open...
[Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]
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!
CEU Press were the first press to take a chance on a new OA model in 2021 and they, and the member libraries, have made such a success of it since 😍
This #OpenAccessWeek we're championing our @openingthefuture.bsky.social model; a sustainable way to make books free to readers everywhere.
By joining OtF, libraries support new OA books while gaining access to a rich backlist of titles
Learn more 🔓 www.openingthefuture.net
@copim.bsky.social
By joining OtF, libraries support new OA books while gaining access to a rich backlist of titles
Learn more 🔓 www.openingthefuture.net
@copim.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
CEU Press were the first press to take a chance on a new OA model in 2021 and they, and the member libraries, have made such a success of it since 😍
Read wot we have wrote
[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔
@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians
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@uksg.bsky.social
@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians
👉 buff.ly/2iEJ3YZ
@uksg.bsky.social
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish OA monographs with no REF2029 mandate - UKSG
As I sat through the presentations last December at the UKSG Forum – Our Profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future I wondered if the people attending the…
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October 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read wot we have wrote
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Join us for #OAWeek!
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Join us for #OAWeek!
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures
With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social
🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST
🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
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Today is OBP's 17 year anniversary! We have... published 434 books; received 24 awards; surpassed 250 book reviews & 380 endorsements; worked on software development projects; and amassed 273 member libraries.
The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG
The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG
September 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today is OBP's 17 year anniversary! We have... published 434 books; received 24 awards; surpassed 250 book reviews & 380 endorsements; worked on software development projects; and amassed 273 member libraries.
The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG
The code 17OBP2025 provides 17% off our books, available for 17 days! buff.ly/8tQiAjG
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📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Great article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck.
Sharing again, because state censorship is a major threat for open access publishing and for the right to read.
Our colleagues @simonxix.com and @kjsanders.bsky.social express some of Copim's concerns around the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, with particular consideration of how the Act creates barriers to scholar-led open access publishing (and for their readers): doi.org/10.21428/785... @copim.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Great article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck.
A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀
We are looking for a Head of Technology, responsible for the development and maintenance of the technical environments and other ICT-related tasks at OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social and DOAB @doabooks.bsky.social
Vacancy note: oapen.org/article/vaca...
Vacancy note: oapen.org/article/vaca...
August 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀
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This is the no-fee open-access model for books I designed and worked on with @scholtom.bsky.social -- real-world impact from authors who benefited from it.
NEW Author Profiles 📣
We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with
@livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉
🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh
We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with
@livunipress.bsky.social thanks to funding from our collective library funding model @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉
🔗 Tess C. Rankin buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🔗 Dean Allbritton buff.ly/e7GQ8eh
Opening the Future, Author Profile: Dean Allbritton
Copim catches up with author Dean Allbritton about their book "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future.
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July 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is the no-fee open-access model for books I designed and worked on with @scholtom.bsky.social -- real-world impact from authors who benefited from it.
Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.
Incredibly frustrating title to this article 'OA economic model branded ‘fundamentally broken’ by Jisc' what they mean (and say in the article) is TA's don't work, not OA "https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-open-access-2025-7-open-access-economic-model-branded-fundamentally-broken/
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.
I can't repost this enough times ❤️
Two data points:
academics at Trinity College Dublin elect its Provost (and held on to the right to do so a few years ago);
after Bath spectacularly drove out the VC in 2019, there was a review of governance and a big cut in the boss's pay: Bath is not currently threatened with mass redundancies.
academics at Trinity College Dublin elect its Provost (and held on to the right to do so a few years ago);
after Bath spectacularly drove out the VC in 2019, there was a review of governance and a big cut in the boss's pay: Bath is not currently threatened with mass redundancies.
June 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I can't repost this enough times ❤️
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It will be great when we finally democratise higher education governance and we'll look back on this strange period where people from business were given control of our universities and then ran them into the ground.
June 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It will be great when we finally democratise higher education governance and we'll look back on this strange period where people from business were given control of our universities and then ran them into the ground.
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Date for your diaries!
Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!)
Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement
Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!)
Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement
Making Space on the Shelves: #OpenAccess Books in #OpenScience
The #OA movement has extended its reach from articles to books. Join us for a fruitful discussion with @kjsanders.bsky.social & @kirahopkins.bsky.social on why this matters.
📅8 July 2025
⏰1:00 PM
🌐Online
🔗Register: shorturl.at/GLam6
The #OA movement has extended its reach from articles to books. Join us for a fruitful discussion with @kjsanders.bsky.social & @kirahopkins.bsky.social on why this matters.
📅8 July 2025
⏰1:00 PM
🌐Online
🔗Register: shorturl.at/GLam6
June 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Date for your diaries!
Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!)
Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement
Explore some of the unique considerations for #OpenAccess in the book world (and how they differ from journal priorities!)
Trace the fascinating journey of the past and future development of the #OA book movement
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Joining forces with @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social to present 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿
FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍
📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu
FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍
📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu
Copim and acquisitions librarians present… Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times – National Acquisitions Group
New edition of Taking Stock available now
nag.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Joining forces with @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social to present 'Beyond buying books: Rethinking content acquisition in unstable times' 🍿
FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍
📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu
FREE and open to everyone! Recording available #OA after event 😍
📆 Wed 25th June
🕰️ 2pm
🔗 buff.ly/TVoAoRu
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Find out more about the other presses in the @openingthefuture.bsky.social family
⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net
June 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Find out more about the other presses in the @openingthefuture.bsky.social family
⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ Liverpool University Press lup.openingthefuture.net
⭐ CEU Press ceup.openingthefuture.net
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Really excited about this one! Both @scholtom.bsky.social and myself are really looking forward to working with MSU Press on this. We're happy to facilitate them to publish more of their African Studies titles open access 😀
📢 Exciting news!
Michigan State University Press joins @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉
They’ll expand #OpenAccess publishing in African & Diaspora Studies, with 65 backlist titles becoming available to subscribers
Learn more 👉 buff.ly/dY9rAcu
#OAbooks #MSUPress #AcademicPublishing
Michigan State University Press joins @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🎉
They’ll expand #OpenAccess publishing in African & Diaspora Studies, with 65 backlist titles becoming available to subscribers
Learn more 👉 buff.ly/dY9rAcu
#OAbooks #MSUPress #AcademicPublishing
June 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Really excited about this one! Both @scholtom.bsky.social and myself are really looking forward to working with MSU Press on this. We're happy to facilitate them to publish more of their African Studies titles open access 😀
This one has been in the works a while so I'm super pleased it's finally ready to go! Opening the Future is expanding with a 3rd publisher, Michigan State University Press 🥳🎉 with books on African & Diaspora studies. Any library interested in enhancing their coll in this field, pls do get in touch!
📢We are so pleased to be able to announce the 3rd Press initiating an OtF programme! Same concept as with the other presses: libraries subscribe to a special package of books (perpetual access after 3 years) & MSUP use those fees to *only* produce new, OA frontlist books! msup.openingthefuture.net
June 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This one has been in the works a while so I'm super pleased it's finally ready to go! Opening the Future is expanding with a 3rd publisher, Michigan State University Press 🥳🎉 with books on African & Diaspora studies. Any library interested in enhancing their coll in this field, pls do get in touch!
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"Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities" — a blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern at OLH: www.openlibhums.org/news/822/
Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities
A blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLH What first drew me to the CHASE placement at OLH was their ethos around open access …
www.openlibhums.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities" — a blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern at OLH: www.openlibhums.org/news/822/
Chris Pressler (Library Director at U of Manchester) really pulling no punches in his intro at this event "we need to walk away from exploitative publishing practices" @copim.bsky.social
Happening today!
@theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, will be speaking at today’s N8 event about the @ojcollective.bsky.social and OLH
OLH is proud to be a founding member of OJC, and to have helped inspire its scholar-led, community-owned publishing model.
@theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, will be speaking at today’s N8 event about the @ojcollective.bsky.social and OLH
OLH is proud to be a founding member of OJC, and to have helped inspire its scholar-led, community-owned publishing model.
Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky
June 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Chris Pressler (Library Director at U of Manchester) really pulling no punches in his intro at this event "we need to walk away from exploitative publishing practices" @copim.bsky.social
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📣 We are delighted that @lancasteruni.bsky.social are now supporter members of @openingthefuture.bsky.social! Find out more about the sustainable #OA book initiative at: lup.openingthefuture.net @tmorley24.bsky.social @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @jofitz.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📣 We are delighted that @lancasteruni.bsky.social are now supporter members of @openingthefuture.bsky.social! Find out more about the sustainable #OA book initiative at: lup.openingthefuture.net @tmorley24.bsky.social @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @jofitz.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social
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Registration has closed but we can still provide the link if anyone missed out 😎
June 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Registration has closed but we can still provide the link if anyone missed out 😎
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We're hearing rumours that popular demand for tickets to this incendiary session featuring @scholtom.bsky.social & @kjsanders.bsky.social is so high that a petition has been set up to re-open registration 🔥 Watch this space 👀
Registration has now closed but if you were lucky enough to get a ticket to join @kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social & the ALN next week, expect an incendiary session 🧨
📆 12 June @ 10 AM
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish #OpenAccess with no REF2029 mandate
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📆 12 June @ 10 AM
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish #OpenAccess with no REF2029 mandate
buff.ly/U7Tjcrr
June 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
We're hearing rumours that popular demand for tickets to this incendiary session featuring @scholtom.bsky.social & @kjsanders.bsky.social is so high that a petition has been set up to re-open registration 🔥 Watch this space 👀
This is particularly good news considering Cardiff (sadly in common with many UK HEIs) are going through a tough time financially & experiencing layoffs. I am really impressed they are still sticking their neck out to support programmes like this. Good for you Cardiff and thanks! ☺
📣 Happy to announce that @cardiffunilib.bsky.social are supporting @livunipress.bsky.social via Opening the Future! This will enable more of the Press's frontlist Hispanic & Lusophone Studies titles to be OA. We're grateful for their support. For more info 👉https://lup.openingthefuture.net/news/149/
June 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is particularly good news considering Cardiff (sadly in common with many UK HEIs) are going through a tough time financially & experiencing layoffs. I am really impressed they are still sticking their neck out to support programmes like this. Good for you Cardiff and thanks! ☺
+1 on this! This would be a great job for the right candidate 🥳
If any of our Bsky followers are job-seeking in academic publishing (OA publishing in particular), then this role would be tremendous to consider if you have experience in production: a great press to work for and a super team 😍🙌
🚨 * VACANCY! *
We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small and friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
⏰ Deadline: Mon 9th June
Please share with your networks!
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
@oipassoc.bsky.social
We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small and friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
⏰ Deadline: Mon 9th June
Please share with your networks!
#PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing
@oipassoc.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
+1 on this! This would be a great job for the right candidate 🥳