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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🤝 Join us for our first Community of Practice meeting next week! 📆 Weds. 10 June ⏲️ 4pm BST/5pm CEST/11am EDT 🔗 lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💙 Whether you've got agenda items to raise or you just want to listen in and learn more about the programme, do come along!

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🤝 Our first Community of Practice meeting is coming up soon! Join us on Weds. 10 June to find out more! ⏲️ 4pm BST/5pm CEST/11am EDT 🔗 lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💙 Whether you've got agenda items to raise or you just want to listen in and learn more about the programme, do come along!

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Some photos from #UKSG26 last week where the team discussed university presses, corporate takeovers, and implications for the future of scholarly books 📚 Featuring @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social @earthowned.bsky.social Photos by Peter Lawson Photography.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Great slide from @kirstywallis.com at #uksg2026 showing a surprising finding that library management/support for REF activities gave libraries a higher profile within their institution

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Opening the Future team is on its way to #UKSG2026 !! (train delayed obvs) Doing our bit for Copim Community and carrying Thoth bags full of OBC flyers 😆 @openbookcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @copim.bsky.social

A tote bag full of conference merch, on a train platform

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Join @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social at #UPREDUX2026 #ALPSP today / tomorrow If you're interested in finding out more about the Opening the Future model, they'll be happy to chat over coffee ☕ (cake helps too!) 🔗 www.openingthefuture.net #OpenAccess #Books #Monographs #Publishing

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

oh wait, got a bit excited there and didn't attach the right flyer whoops: Monday 30th a nice alt for anyone not doing the conference quiz but who'd like to chat to other attendees. 7.30pm onwards, informal, at Finnieston Taphouse (same venue as last time in Glasgow) on Argyle Street. All welcome.

Flyer advertising Copim social event at UKSG conference in Glasgow on Monday 30th March 2026. The event is a good alternative for anyone not doing the conference quiz night but who would like to go out and chat to other attendees. From 7.30pm onwards, very informal, at the Finnieston Taphouse (same venue as last time in Glasgow) on Argyle Street. All welcome.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We'll be at #UKSG2026 later this month! 📆 30 Mar - 1 Apr Join us for Plenary 1 to discuss 'A fox in the henhouse? University presses, corporate takeovers, and implications for the future of scholarly books' 🦊 @kirahopkins.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Copim Conference Team Assemble! Everyone's making their way to London for tomorrow's conference and the OtF team passed the time on their train hole punching all the name tags. Next beer, tomorrow GAME ON! 🥳💃 @copim.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social

Conference registration name tags and a hole punch crammed together on on a train table

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📢 New subscribing member to @ceu-press.bsky.social Opening the Future programme! Thanks for the library’s investment! @bulac.bsky.social (BULAC) 🤝 ▶️ Staff & students now have unlimited AND concurrent access to nearly 250 different eBooks Full announcement 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/167/

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄 We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share! 👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀 #OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Reflections from 2025 💭 This year (you saved me from tears) #OtF has gone from strength to strength 💪 We welcomed two new presses to the programme 🤝 @michiganstateu.bsky.social @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social With another being announced in the New Year 🤫 👉 www.openingthefuture.net

A dark background with red text that reads “Merry Christmas! From the Copim Opening the Future team!” Below the text, there is a decorative red string arranged in loops with five white star-shaped ornaments placed along it.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/

Opening the future in large blue font. The words diagonally.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The last of our spotlights on Opening the Future authors - we hope you've enjoyed them! 🗣️ Dr. Tess C. Rankin tessrankin.com 📚 Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction (2024) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔆 🗣️ Prof. @deanallbritton.bsky.social (Colby College) 📚 Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (2023) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 📸 🗣️ Daniel Ferreira da Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) 📚 Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures (2022) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/empire-f...

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔦 🗣️ Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social (Visiting Fellow, UCL) 📚 Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/jurisdic...

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

First up is Peter Watson 🗣️ @drpetewatson.bsky.social (Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds) 📚 Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018) via @livunipress.bsky.social 🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/football... #ColombianFootball #LatinAmericanFootball #football #soccer #footballhistory 2/2

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

All this week we're shining a spotlight on authors who have published #OpenAccess thanks to Opening the Future 🔦 Five authors tell us ❓more about their books ❓why they published #OA and what the experience was like ❓whether they'd recommend the process to others and/or pursue it again 1/2

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

although this did make us snort our tea out of our noses @kjsanders.bsky.social

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It was nice for us to be able to acknowledge Graham's hard work in this blog post, but also was important to plot the evolution of his beard over time. Unclear on correlation/causation of beard getting shorter as workload increased over time. Perhaps some clever people can help.

Graph showing the evolution of Graham Stone's period over time and factoring in workload. His beard gets shorter as time progresses and as workload increases.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Great to see the @ukri.org #ref2029 guidance for PCE has been published: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/guidanc... slightly disappointing to see that 'Sharepoint' gets 4 x more mentions than 'open research' 😥 1/2

pie chart showing sharepoint getting mentioned 4 times, and open research getting mentioned only once in UKRI REF PCE guidance

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our very own Tom Grady presenting at the Charleston Conference yesterday: Beyond the BPC: Collective Funding Model Experimentation & Challenges in Accelerating Sustainable #OpenAccess Books! (pictures taken from punctum books!)

Opening the Future presentation on open access collective funding models at the Charleston conference

A slide from the Opening the Future Presentation demonstrating the high costs of book processing charges and the value/return of collective funding alternatives

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Oh OK, thanks Dottie, I guess we have to get some more flyers now for Frankfurt Book Fair and the Charleston Conference 😆 #fmm24 #chsconf24

Meme image of chewed flyers and dog laughing because she chewed them and DGAF

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