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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 5h

NEW EVENT | 'Shaping the Future of Diamond Open Access for Books: Have Your Say' Find out more about how you can feed in to the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) for books! 📍Online, free 📆 Monday 12 October ⏰ 10-11am BST / 11am-12pm CEST us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Central to BOP's diamond mission is the principle of #scholar-led publishing. This means that the decisions regarding content are made by researchers." Read more about Bern Open Publishing in the new #BornOpen series blog post: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/09/17/b...

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European Diamond Capacity Hub @eudch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📝 New 'Born Open' post by Firenze University Press #OABooks "FUP follows open science principles for barrier-free dissemination, building on the University of Florence’s early digital experiments that enabled global exchange and high research impact." Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/36nkjhtm

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We're delighted to introduce the newest member of our coordination team, Martina Dvořáková! @martidvorako.bsky.social. Read more about Martina and her journey to #OABooks 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/07/02/i....

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

📣New post in our blog series 'Born Open' from @langscipress.bsky.social, a #OABook publisher in the field of linguistics. Hear what Sebastian Nordhoff had to say about navigating the issue of prestige & learn more about how LangSci operates 👉 tinyurl.com/OABooksN

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is well worth a read - particularly interesting for how it frames the role of the institutional / library-based publisher, and its reflections on what such presses have the ability to provide (and I mean this in a capacious sense) as well as some of the dynamics created by "prestige".

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our thanks to our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for taking part in this #accessibility interview with @copim.bsky.social. Well worth a read for anyone working on this (or wondering how to begin) and what resources are available. Since Nov 2024, all of our frontlist books are “born accessible”.

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Take a look at this upcoming webinar from a former OABN speaker (Thoth was a speaker and co-organiser of our metadata event: copim.pubpub.org/pub/good-met...) and a fellow member of the @operaseu.bsky.social OA Books SIG 👇 #MetadataMatters #OAbooks

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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 🎟️

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Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar

If you're a publisher looking to improve your open access book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey!

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Listen (and watch) now 🎧

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW POST | 'UJ Press: Innovation and Sustainability in Scholarly Book Publishing' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Wikus van Zyl, Manager of UJ Press: 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/20/u...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW RECORDING: 'How to make your #OpenAccess books more accessible (and why it matters' A recent OABN webinar with @jofitz.bsky.social of @copim.bsky.social, Richard Orme of DAISY & James Rice of @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on the tools & strategies publishers can use: youtu.be/_QPncp6FHPk?...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

NEW POST | 'Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Ivana Morić Filipović, Head of Publishing at Zadar: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/07/m...

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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Another post in the @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social series on born #OABook publishers, this time from Croatia!

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

'The Morepress platform is available in Croatian & English, enhancing accessibility & making scholarly content easily available to both local & international readers. [...] All books are registered in CrossRef, which helps Zadar strengthen its presence among an international audience' #OAbooks

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We're delighted our first post comes from UN@ éditions, a #DiamondOA publishing platform founded in 2019: "Born-open presses and platforms such as UN@ are no longer experimental: they are already fully operational actors in scholarly communication." Read it here 👉 tinyurl.com/y22dxaz6

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📚 New blog series: "Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing". In this series, we'll spotlight #BornOA presses worldwide & hear how they build quality, value & recognition, often without author fees. 👉Read our intro post: tinyurl.com/mr3bnk77

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Really worth reading this post: the platform itself is an interesting collab b/w different unis and Stéphanie Vincent makes some excellent points about the tension between the 'symbolic' value of prestige and the different forms of recognition that UN@éditions offers. #Prestige #OAbooks #Publishing

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Catch the recording on our YouTube channel 👇

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

[WEBINAR] How to make your #OA books more accessible (and why it matters!) How can smaller publishers can make their #OA books more accessible to users of assistive tech? .@jofitz.bsky.social joins @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social next week to discuss #Accessibility for #EBooks 🔗 buff.ly/GVQ2CCD

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Want to know how to make #OpenAccess books accessible? Join this free webinar on 27 April & hear from @jofitz.bsky.social of @copim.bsky.social, Richard Orme of DAISY & James Rice of @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on the tools & strategies to help: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/04/16/h...

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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📆 One week to go until the free webinar 'OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors' w. @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social incl. Dr Imre Keserü (@vubrussel.bsky.social) Dr Jochen Hung (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & @cern.bsky.social's Zenodo team. Full agenda & register 👉 tinyurl.com/yapwnd5s

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

WEBINAR | How to make your open access books more accessible (and why it matters) 📍Online & free 🗓️ Monday 27 April, 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST 🔗https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/qpnL-2wxTbuB9abb8-qmww#/registration

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Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Join this free online webinar on April 21 to hear EU‑funded researchers share their experiences of publishing #openaccess books 👇 @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social #OAbooks #openresearch

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Full details about the webinar and what to expect are available on the OABN website: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/01/23/o...

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OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors – Open Access Books Network

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Also very happy to talk all things @openbookpublish.bsky.social and @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social...!

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📣 New JiscMail list for small publishers! Help grow the community! 🌱 Join us for open, supportive discussions on accessibility challenges and good practice Search OPENBOOK-ACCESSIBILITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 👉 buff.ly/b1eJBdE Photo: Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

'Can I include third-party content in an #OpenAccess book?' YES! Find out the key things you need to know with this FAQ 👇

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

✔️ Many thanks to @operaseu.bsky.social & the University of Coimbra for developing #Mondaecus which we used to translate the first post in this 🧵from English into the other languages used in the Call 👉 buff.ly/ddXFeOt #Multilingiusm #Translation 5/5

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Mondaecus - OPERAS

Multilingualism Service Mondaecus is a collaborative translation platform that introduces a human dimension to machine translation, improving its sensitivity to different linguistic contexts. It…

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

💡 ¿Tienes una idea que puede marcar la diferencia? ¡Esta es TU oportunidad de obtener financiación y ayudar a moldear el futuro de los libros de #OA! Detalles completos y orientación en el sitio web de @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/yU1Lw2d 3/5

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Programa de Subvenciones del Fondo de Desarrollo Colectivo de OBC: Convocatoria y Orientación 2026 - Open Book Collective

Open Book Collective se complace en lanzar la tercera convocatoria de solicitudes de financiamiento de nuestro Fondo de Desarrollo Colectivo. Para obtener actualizaciones sobre nuestros proyectos…

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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The Collective Development Fund 2026 Call is open for applications! This is a great opportunity to recieve grant funding for work that supports #OAbooks. Key dates: 📅7 February: optional scope check deadline 📅7 March: call closes More information 👉 obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open! We fund projects dedicated to building capacity, networks and infrastructure for OA book publishing. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti... N.B. this fund is not for BPCs

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OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective

The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the third call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This document outlines the det…

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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/11/2025

Within the SIG are 3 Working Groups focussing on bringing together stakeholders to look at OA Business Models, Open Infrastructures, and ongoing advocacy for #OABooks via the @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

'Can I include third-party content in an #OpenAccess book?' YES! Find out the key things you need to know with this FAQ 👇

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books. Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This is a great resource for researchers! #AcademicPublishing #Author #OABooks #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess

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