Thrilled to share this blog post oapen.hypotheses.org/1733 introducing our new Head of Technology at @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social, Anna Wałek - a warm welcome, Anna.

Truly thankful to @barbarabudrich.bsky.social, Nicola Parkin (@tandfresearch.bsky.social), @rupertgatti.bsky.social and Jon Elwell (@ebsco.bsky.social) for making the @oapenbooks.bsky.social 15-year anniversary event at Frankfurter @buchmesse.de so festive and insightful.
Congratulations to all 🥳

@dannykay68.bsky.social sharing the #openaccess situation in Australia. It used to be better than it is today she shows. In this landscape, Danny promotes preprints among other things. #OASPA2025

Excited to present the OPERAS Research Infrastructure Special Interest Group on #OpenAccess Books at #OASPA2025. If you want to join the community then have a look at operas-eu.org/special-inte...

Wonderful to see among others two @oapenbooks.bsky.social and @doabooks.bsky.social board members - @charleswatkinson.bsky.social and Antia Wiersma - and @doabooks.bsky.social Scientific Committee member @c-bz.bsky.social on #oaspa2025 stage discussing WHY #openaccess matters and HOW to make it work

#OSFair2025 Rethinking Research Assessment @hldejonge.bsky.social shares how Open Science NL has provided funding for Dutch institutions to include open science in their career assessment policies. Currently, 25 institutions in the Netherlands are exploring this. We look forward to the results!

Zoé Ancion shares how the French national science funder @agencerecherche.bsky.social promotes full and immediate open access to publications and supports multilingualism and bibliodiversity at #OSFair2025 @cern.bsky.social

Pierre Mounier sets the scene for discussing equitable publishing and the Open Research Europe platform initiated by @ec.europa.eu at #OSFair2025

@bsaenen.bsky.social kicking off the first plenary panel at #OSFair2025 with important discussions on open science policies. Looking forward to the next couple of days at @cern.bsky.social with an exciting programme www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/programme

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...

Our CTO, Ronald Snijder, has decided to take the next step in his career and will therefore be leaving OAPEN @oapenbooks.bsky.social end of this month. I have published a short farewell blog post: oapen.hypotheses.org/1543
Wishing you all the best in your new role, @ronaldsnijder.bsky.social

@paulakennedy.bsky.social from uolpress.bsky.social explains how @openbookcollective.bsky.social has helped their #openaccess books programme grow at #UKSG2025

Next Monday and Tuesday already at #UKSG2025 together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (DCU), and Nienke Schaverbeke (TU Delft)

I look very much forward to be presenting at this panel session at #UKSG2025: " #OpenAccess for Books: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Policy Landscape" together with Tahia Zaidi (UKRI), Ellen Breen (Dublin City University), and Nienke van Schaverbeke (TU Delft).

www.uksg.org/events/confe...

The sun was shining bright over Madrid as a new initiative to support #DiamondOpenAccess scholarly publications - the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) - was launched. Congratulations to all involved!

diamasproject.eu/public-launc...

For two years I have been contributing as Scientific Coordinator to the excellent EU-funded #PALOMERA project on policies for #openaccess #books. The project has now ended but its results will remain.

In this policy brief lnkd.in/dh3r_FBz we've summarised the main outcomes and a path forward.

Dr. Alwaleed Aklhaja, Qatar National Library: A world without open infrastructure is just the world of commercial solutions. We need to support open infrastructures!
#DiamondOpenAccess #DOASummit2024 #GlobalSummit #InnovationInPublishing #CapeTown2024 #OpenAccess #DKIS

What an amazing week at the Charleston Library conference #chsconf2024 in beautiful Charleston. Encouraging conversations with library consortia who think open infrastructures for academic books are important! Fantastic to see and talk with so many good colleagues from around the world.