Thoth Open Metadata
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👋🏽 Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks, developed under the remit of @copim.bsky.social, now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK, and key partner in the Copim Open Book Futures project (2023-26).
#MetadataMatters #openinfra #OAbooks
#MetadataMatters #openinfra #OAbooks
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First up is @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
📆 19 November
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
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🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
📆 19 November
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
2/3
Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters | Septentrio Conference Series
Within the context of Open Science, book publishing has traditionally lagged behind in the adoption of open access, open data and corresponding practices. Not-for-profit infrastructures including the…
septentrio.uit.no
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
First up is @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
📆 19 November
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
2/3
🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
📆 19 November
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 buff.ly/3BX2Ahl
2/3
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The volume of university libraries using proprietary software that *limits* their ability to import high quality CC0 bibliographic metadata records articulates some of the problems in libraries, their relationships with technology, an overreliance on vendors, and the challenges they create for open.
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The volume of university libraries using proprietary software that *limits* their ability to import high quality CC0 bibliographic metadata records articulates some of the problems in libraries, their relationships with technology, an overreliance on vendors, and the challenges they create for open.
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🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social
An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
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An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
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Collections and Collectives
Subscribe to collective Packages or individual Supporter Programmes made available by open access book publishers and service providers
openbookcollective.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social
An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
1/6
An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books
👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7
1/6
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Interesting point in the Q&A discussion about Open Infrastructures & the Open Ecosystem being complex & 'messy' with many stakeholders & organisations. Toby maintains that this is a feature not a bug - there's no 1 single point of failure and the complexity supports different needs and use-cases.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Interesting point in the Q&A discussion about Open Infrastructures & the Open Ecosystem being complex & 'messy' with many stakeholders & organisations. Toby maintains that this is a feature not a bug - there's no 1 single point of failure and the complexity supports different needs and use-cases.
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We build community and collaboration upon shared common goals across this complexity. Janneka Adema explores the value of preserving the messiness, creativity and diversity of the movement: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Embracing Messiness: Open access offers the chance to creatively experiment with scholarly publishing. - Impact of Social Sciences
In the quest for greater access to scholarly work, the discussion has long been characterised as a search, for better or for worse, for the most sustainable model. In this transcript of her recent tal...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
We build community and collaboration upon shared common goals across this complexity. Janneka Adema explores the value of preserving the messiness, creativity and diversity of the movement: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: OBC New Members Showcase. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Open Book Collective (OBC) invites colleagues from across the library and open access community to join our upcoming New Member Showcase - an open session for libraries, consortia, and others inte...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sign up for our upcoming New Member Showcase (3pm GMT, 24 Nov) to hear our latest updates and meet some of our newest members, who will introduce their work, their supporter offers, and opportunities for collaboration and library support.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Open to all, not just OBC members! Registration required.
Join Thoth tomorrow for a free webinar on “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” 🕸️ 📖
📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]
📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]
Still time to sign up for this webinar tomorrow hosted by @copim.bsky.social, @sparc-eu.bsky.social & @scossfunding.bsky.social
The 75-minute workshop will feature presentations from SCOSS, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & our very own Graham Stone.
Find our more and register below 👇 #OAbooks
The 75-minute workshop will feature presentations from SCOSS, @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & our very own Graham Stone.
Find our more and register below 👇 #OAbooks
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Join Thoth tomorrow for a free webinar on “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” 🕸️ 📖
📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]
📆 11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]
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Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Oh & this also mentions a webinar that @thoth-metadata.bsky.social & colleagues are running on open infrastructures on Tues 11 Nov that is free & well worth attending. OA books are all very well but no good without open infra that's not owned by corp giants: copim.pub/webinar-11-n...
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Excited to be presenting at this webinar with
@copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social
and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!
@copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social
and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!
Webinar on #OpenInfrastructure: "Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access"
Join us with @copim.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social next week:
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
Join us with @copim.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social next week:
📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT / 4pm-5.15pm CET
🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
"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…
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Excited to be presenting at this webinar with
@copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social
and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!
@copim.bsky.social, @oapenbooks.bsky.social
and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social! Join us!
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HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
HUZZAH! Community-led #OpenAccess book platforms that attend, not to scale, but to systems designed for resiliency and bibliodiversity will not only succeed, but are already succeeding. We helped build the OBC & we're proud as hell of it.
Join @copim.bsky.social, @scossfunding.bsky.social & @sparc-eu.bsky.social at this free webinar to discuss how best to facilitate interoperability between open infrastructures, to ensure a bright future for #OA research and publication 🕸️ 📖
"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…
copim.pub
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Join @copim.bsky.social, @scossfunding.bsky.social & @sparc-eu.bsky.social at this free webinar to discuss how best to facilitate interoperability between open infrastructures, to ensure a bright future for #OA research and publication 🕸️ 📖
Join the @jisc.bsky.social team for a session exploring the Library Hub services and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), which will shortly be part of Thoth Plus book distribution for publishers! 📚
Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community for their November meet-up!
🗣️ Discover Library Hub with @jencrate.bsky.social
📆 12 November 2025
⏰ 11:00-12:00 GMT
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
#Discover #Cataloguing #Compare
🗣️ Discover Library Hub with @jencrate.bsky.social
📆 12 November 2025
⏰ 11:00-12:00 GMT
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
#Discover #Cataloguing #Compare
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Join the @jisc.bsky.social team for a session exploring the Library Hub services and the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK), which will shortly be part of Thoth Plus book distribution for publishers! 📚
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The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!
#chsconf2025
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Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️🔥
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝
👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/...
#chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝
👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/...
#chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs
Opening the Future
Opening the Future is a book subscription model that achieves the dual objectives of enhancing library collections while supporting open access.
boydellandbrewer.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Hot off the press from @chashub.bsky.social 🗞️❤️🔥
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝
👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/...
#chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social have launched their OtF programme in partnership with @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @michiganpublishing.bsky.social via Fulcrum (an #OpenSource platform) 🤝
👉 boydellandbrewer.com/open-access/...
#chsconf2025 #OA #Monographs
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📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books
Get your ticket now! 🎟️
🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
Get your ticket now! 🎟️
🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books
Get your ticket now! 🎟️
🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
Get your ticket now! 🎟️
🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
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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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Looking forward to joining @copim.bsky.social for this upcoming webinar, where we’ll be speaking about how open infrastructures collaborate to strengthen interoperability and sustainability. Join us on 11 Nov, 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
October 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Looking forward to joining @copim.bsky.social for this upcoming webinar, where we’ll be speaking about how open infrastructures collaborate to strengthen interoperability and sustainability. Join us on 11 Nov, 🔗 buff.ly/akMIIW8
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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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Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together
Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social
Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press and the University Library working together
Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social
Free webinar Wed 19th Nov 1400 with @emmabooth.bsky.social, Kate Horton, @mellordramatic.bsky.social, Jessica Thompson & Beth Price.
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek @manchesterup.bsky.social
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New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence.
buff.ly/7radka2
buff.ly/7radka2
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence.
buff.ly/7radka2
buff.ly/7radka2
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✈️ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social are a busy lot!
They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week
Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY!
📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 buff.ly/BjlTux1
#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks
They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week
Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY!
📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 buff.ly/BjlTux1
#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks
October 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
✈️ @thoth-metadata.bsky.social are a busy lot!
They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week
Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY!
📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 buff.ly/BjlTux1
#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks
They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week
Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY!
📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 buff.ly/BjlTux1
#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks
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Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
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Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/4
Who Owns Our Knowledge? International Open Access Week 2025 - Copim
International Open Access Week is organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. It was founded in 2008 by SPARC and partners…
buff.ly
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/4
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/4
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Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/6
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/6
Who Owns Our Knowledge? International Open Access Week 2025 - Copim
International Open Access Week is organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. It was founded in 2008 by SPARC and partners…
buff.ly
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Who Owns Our Knowledge? It's International Open Access Week 2025! 😍
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/6
Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity and interviews with the team
🔗 buff.ly/r8pRBZD
#OAWeek
1/6
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1/ We are extremely happy to announce that Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (ECF), or Venice University Press, has joined the Open Book Collective, taking the total number of publisher members to 15. ECF is a fully #OpenAccess publisher openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/edizioni...
Edizioni Ca' Foscari Joins the Open Book Collective
openbookcollective.pubpub.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
1/ We are extremely happy to announce that Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (ECF), or Venice University Press, has joined the Open Book Collective, taking the total number of publisher members to 15. ECF is a fully #OpenAccess publisher openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/edizioni...
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[EVENT] SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference for #OAWeek
Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing'
📆 21 October
⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
📍 Online
🔗
Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing'
📆 21 October
⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
📍 Online
🔗
Open Access Conference | Conferences | San Jose State University
open access | open education | conference | institutional repository
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
[EVENT] SJSU Biennial Open Access Conference for #OAWeek
Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing'
📆 21 October
⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
📍 Online
🔗
Join @alittleroad.bsky.social to discuss how to 'Keep it Open, Keep it Ours: The Importance of Community-Owned Infrastructure in Open Access Book Publishing'
📆 21 October
⏰ 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
📍 Online
🔗