Joe Deville
@joedeville.bsky.social
#OpenAccess & #OpenInfrastructure advocate. Professor in #STS at Lancaster University. Managing Director at Open Book Collective. Trustee/Editor at Mattering Press. Heading up the @copim.bluesky.social Open Book Futures project
Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Day 2 of the National OA Summit in Nigeria. Kicking off with @copim.bsky.social colleagues Mary Felix-Maina from @doabooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social & Vincent van Gerven Oei from @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @punctumbooks.bsky.social talking about trust, metadata & discoverability for books
The 2025 National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria, starting today, will have plenary sessions live streamed and is open to all. Titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty', the event starts at 9am BST/10am CEST. Programme: oa-summit.bookhub.ng. Streaming at wacren.zoom.us/j/67762421550
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The 2025 National Open Access Stakeholders Summit in Nigeria, starting today, will have plenary sessions live streamed and is open to all. Titled 'Reclaiming Academic Sovereignty', the event starts at 9am BST/10am CEST. Programme: oa-summit.bookhub.ng. Streaming at wacren.zoom.us/j/67762421550
4/ heh.. glad to see this echoed a lot of what @samuelmoore.org just said in his contribution, including the new, careful and experimental ways of working that scholar-led initiatives are putting into practice in their daily work
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
4/ heh.. glad to see this echoed a lot of what @samuelmoore.org just said in his contribution, including the new, careful and experimental ways of working that scholar-led initiatives are putting into practice in their daily work
Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Very much appreciate @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @pkp.sfu.ca is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative
This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This guy is looking down at us all over my shoulder. Wondering who this is, in the context of the conversations at #OASPA2025. Monopolistic commercial publishing practices? LLM-based exploitation of open content? Higher education meltdown and rising censorship? Caffeine overload?
Happy to be here at the #OASPA2025 conference at the University of Leuven, to see Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social from the university (and also an @openbookcollective.bsky.social Steward/Trustee) open proceedings in the beautiful Irish College
September 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Happy to be here at the #OASPA2025 conference at the University of Leuven, to see Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum.bsky.social from the university (and also an @openbookcollective.bsky.social Steward/Trustee) open proceedings in the beautiful Irish College
A busy @copim.bsky.social day at OA Tage #OAT25 ends with @kjsanders.bsky.social presenting a paper co-authored with @kirahopkins.bsky.social outlining the problematic outcomes for the scholarly system resulting from entanglements between large commercial publishers, acquisition practices & funders
September 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A busy @copim.bsky.social day at OA Tage #OAT25 ends with @kjsanders.bsky.social presenting a paper co-authored with @kirahopkins.bsky.social outlining the problematic outcomes for the scholarly system resulting from entanglements between large commercial publishers, acquisition practices & funders
Day 2 at University of Konstanz for OA Tage #OAT25, the most important annual event for German language #OpenAccess practitioners. A busy day for @copim.bsky.social, starting with a workshop on Scaling Small with AG Universitätsverlage, inc @kjsanders.bsky.social on @openbookcollective.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Day 2 at University of Konstanz for OA Tage #OAT25, the most important annual event for German language #OpenAccess practitioners. A busy day for @copim.bsky.social, starting with a workshop on Scaling Small with AG Universitätsverlage, inc @kjsanders.bsky.social on @openbookcollective.bsky.social
Ah ha...! Found the original on the other place, so everyone can really track the impact of 6 years of #OpenAccess advocacy on us all! 👴 (including the digitally inserted @graham-stone.bsky.social)
June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ah ha...! Found the original on the other place, so everyone can really track the impact of 6 years of #OpenAccess advocacy on us all! 👴 (including the digitally inserted @graham-stone.bsky.social)
A manic two days so far: Manchester => Edinburgh => London => Brussels 🚂. Happy to be here to join the conversation about the future of #DiamondOpenAccess at the @diamas.bsky.social final conference
June 3, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A manic two days so far: Manchester => Edinburgh => London => Brussels 🚂. Happy to be here to join the conversation about the future of #DiamondOpenAccess at the @diamas.bsky.social final conference
Fantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fantastic off the cuff remarks from @rupertgatti.bsky.social talking about how, more important than supporting any one particular #OpenAccess initiative, is supporting the ecosystem of open publishing that many of us are invested in developing #UKSG2025 @copim.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social
Another chance at #UKSG2025 to talk about how our initiatives are doing not just bare bones sustainability but as per @theblochian.bsky.social long term viability @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Another chance at #UKSG2025 to talk about how our initiatives are doing not just bare bones sustainability but as per @theblochian.bsky.social long term viability @openbookcollective.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @doabooks.bsky.social
Wow. @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social not holding back in sharing the "transformative difference" @openbookcollective.bsky.social is having on their work, inc funding several new #OAbooks, a partnership w/ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, a new editorial assistant & a new EDI internship
April 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wow. @paulakennedy.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social not holding back in sharing the "transformative difference" @openbookcollective.bsky.social is having on their work, inc funding several new #OAbooks, a partnership w/ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social, a new editorial assistant & a new EDI internship
Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Almost goosebumps to see Sarah Thompson from York University at the @oipassoc.bsky.social panel, talking about how proud they are to support initiatives they judge as in line with their principles. Including so many @copim.bsky.social things 🤩.
Niels Stern from @doabooks.bsky.social highlighting PALOMERA's recommendation that national funders should consider funding mechanisms for #OAbooks that *don't* involve publication level charges (BPCs) #UKSG2025 (👀 @openbookcollective.bsky.social). Report at zenodo.org/records/1404...
April 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Niels Stern from @doabooks.bsky.social highlighting PALOMERA's recommendation that national funders should consider funding mechanisms for #OAbooks that *don't* involve publication level charges (BPCs) #UKSG2025 (👀 @openbookcollective.bsky.social). Report at zenodo.org/records/1404...
The #DOAsummit2024 declaration -- deliberately brief, as the mighty Reggie Raju told us, so that we can remember it! Anyone can comment on the declaration, via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hhH...
December 13, 2024 at 7:02 AM
The #DOAsummit2024 declaration -- deliberately brief, as the mighty Reggie Raju told us, so that we can remember it! Anyone can comment on the declaration, via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1hhH...
Day 2 here in picturesque Cape Town at the #DOAsummit2024 -- thanks to the organisers for this generous @copim.bsky.social banner, and great to see such a strong focus on #SocialJustice across our discussions
December 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM
Day 2 here in picturesque Cape Town at the #DOAsummit2024 -- thanks to the organisers for this generous @copim.bsky.social banner, and great to see such a strong focus on #SocialJustice across our discussions
It's been such an intense 2 days, at our @copim.bsky.social workshop at the #doasummit2024 at University of Cape Town. But what a workshop. Here's some of us at the end, after discussing all things #oabooks, including funding, distribution and social justice.
December 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM
It's been such an intense 2 days, at our @copim.bsky.social workshop at the #doasummit2024 at University of Cape Town. But what a workshop. Here's some of us at the end, after discussing all things #oabooks, including funding, distribution and social justice.
1/ I'm overtired, but feeling a bit emotional sitting here, in the shadow of Senate House, ahead of tonight's event. This is where I first came, in around 2003, while in a dead end job in music marketing, to simply read. With no plan. But this would eventually lead me to Sociology.. and then
September 19, 2024 at 12:54 PM
1/ I'm overtired, but feeling a bit emotional sitting here, in the shadow of Senate House, ahead of tonight's event. This is where I first came, in around 2003, while in a dead end job in music marketing, to simply read. With no plan. But this would eventually lead me to Sociology.. and then
*Loved* this panel we put on at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference on Open Access & Precarity in the Academic Landscape. Alongside @judithfathallah.bsky.social & Nonhlanhla Dube, with @theblochian.bsky.social chairing. My talk is archived on the Mattering site www.matteringpress.org/blog/precari...
September 19, 2024 at 9:00 AM
*Loved* this panel we put on at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference on Open Access & Precarity in the Academic Landscape. Alongside @judithfathallah.bsky.social & Nonhlanhla Dube, with @theblochian.bsky.social chairing. My talk is archived on the Mattering site www.matteringpress.org/blog/precari...
Here's the collective @copim.bsky.social poster I presented yesterday at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference in Lisbon. We've done so much! But much still to do. Also archived on Zenodo zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... Hat tip to Silke Davidson from DOAB/OAPEN for a design I adapted..
September 17, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Here's the collective @copim.bsky.social poster I presented yesterday at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference in Lisbon. We've done so much! But much still to do. Also archived on Zenodo zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/... Hat tip to Silke Davidson from DOAB/OAPEN for a design I adapted..
So great to see Reggie Raju from UCT here in Lisbon making a strong case that #DiamondOA isn't about funding models but about social justice and equity. Argues for a de-northernised publishing system that addresses biases in publishing, e.g in production, peer review & academic content
September 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM
So great to see Reggie Raju from UCT here in Lisbon making a strong case that #DiamondOA isn't about funding models but about social justice and equity. Argues for a de-northernised publishing system that addresses biases in publishing, e.g in production, peer review & academic content
Catherine Mitchell at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference making a strong case for values driven, community-led approaches to #DiamondOA publishing
September 16, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Catherine Mitchell at the @oaspa.bsky.social conference making a strong case for values driven, community-led approaches to #DiamondOA publishing