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CEU Press @ceu-press.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗰𝗮. 𝟭𝟴𝟳𝟬–𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟬 (ed. Sibylle Marti and Christof Dejung) demonstrates that informal labor was a key part of labor politics in Europe. Read in open access or preorder your hardcover copy here: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048573707/in…

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Rob Johnson @rschrobuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@uksg.bsky.social turns 50 in 2027 and we're taking it on the road with half-day regional events, hosted by members. We still need hosts in Wales, the South West, the North of England and Northern Ireland- express interest here: www.uksg.org/uksg-at-50/u...

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Attending #OASPA2026? Join Copim folks for an informal drink & chat at COPIM CORNER on Tues at 5:30pm, Tolkien's House (a short walk from the conference venue) Dig into conference themes, talk community-led #OpenAccess or just relax with a drink & chat pets/Tolkien/Croatian beers! #CopimCorner

An image of the inside of Tolkien's House below text that says "Copim Corner: Just an informal get-together. Come buy yourself a drink, and join like-minded folks for a chat about all things open access... or simply about what your pets did over the weekend...'

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today at Copim we're reflecting on 'community' & 'collectivity' in #OpenAccess - & #OA marketing - & revisiting this post from 2024 when the #OAWeek theme was 'Community over commercialisation' How can we tell when these terms are buzzwords or meaningful principles? buff.ly/eAmRGen #OASPA2026

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you're attending #OASPA2026 this week, you can catch team Copim's/the LSE library's Kira Hopkins tomorrow at 9.05am! They will be speaking on the panel 'The Many Faces of Sustainability in #OpenAccess'. Then come to Copim Corner on Tuesday evening to discuss!

Promotional poster inviting attendees to Copim Corner on Tue, Sept 22 from 5:30pm at Tolkien's House (Opatovina 49, Zagreb, a 7-min walk from the conference venue), with an arrow pointing to the venue's outdoor café seating labeled "This could be your space."

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨 Have you registered for next week's #CoP? 🔹11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 🔹16:00 UK time 🔹12:00 midday European time) All details 👉 copim.pub/join-the-ope... @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social #OABooks #OpenAccess

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Join the Opening the Future Community of Practice for their second meeting - Copim

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative. Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...

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Gates cash ‘vote of confidence’ for diamond open access initiative - Research Professional News

Open Journals Collective receives over £500,000 to accelerate shift towards alternative scholarly publishing

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You was robbed. I imagine some AI tool won instead? Sigh. Because AI in scholarly publishing is going so well as we all know (Exhibit Z of a thousand other examples: www.404media.co/the-ai-ghost...)

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Great practical principles 👏 There's no #Open without #OpenInfrastructure

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Katherine Stephan @msiowaintheuk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My quarterly message to the void after witnessing a paywalled article about open research: if you're writing about open research, please make it open. Always. You have choices. Choose better. Don't know your options? Start with @doaj.bsky.social (and filter by No APC) if you're short on cash.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

100% catch rate, every time #LifuX #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a huge “for context” BBC bias in hard figures;

For context, Reform UK's unelected spokesperson Zia Yusuf has appeared on BBC Question Time a whole 38 times. That's more than the Green Party's people have appeared collectively on the show.

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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Join us tomorrow (12 August @ 11am) for an in depth discussion about #DRIs & who makes them work ⚙️ No need to register! More info + joining link 👇 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/ #DRTPs #Research #RIs @digitalcuration.bsky.social Photo: Randy Fath via Unsplash

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is fantastic! Thoth is an incredible and much-needed service. If you've ever been frustrated that your OA books are less findable than gated books then you need Thoth in your life. GOOD LUCK FOLKS!

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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was recently asked by Science to write a book review. I was really excited, but on reading it I discovered this book was definitely not written with me in mind! I disagreed with so much, but I tried to be fair & diplomatic. It's essentially long form SKitchen. www.science.org/eprint/9KGWH...

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Change comes for science publishing paradigms

A pair of insiders cast recent efforts to increase access to research as problems, not progress

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/08/2026

"Alperin alleges he learned insider details about APC pricing as a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association, including “outright unlawful conduct” and “conspiratorial discussions” among the publishers, the complaint states." Go get 'em @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca !

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Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 30/07/2026

Look, MIT Press are progressive in OA publishing. Heck, I have published with them and have another book under contract with them. But they always think they are the source of influence, never the influenced. They rarely acknowledge the work of others. www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

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Amy Brand: Publishing for a new era - Research Information

EXCLUSIVE: The director and publisher of MIT Press reflects on risk-taking, leadership, innovation and human judgement

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well worth a read for anyone interested in the ramifications of the various ongoing publishing acquisitions... @openingthefuture.bsky.social

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So great to see this network growing. Power in numbers and collective action and advocacy ✊ Giving voice to lots of smaller players who might struggle to do this stuff alone, or at least who might have a smaller voice alone.

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yes this is brilliant. OA book & metadata deposit into OAPEN based on a protocol originally co-developed by the late Julie Allinson back in 2008!! 🫨 She would be *thrilled* to see her work expanded on & implemented like this - well done @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social & @oapenbooks.bsky.social

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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So, the premise is because AI is further burdening peer-review, we should implement it across the publishing process. This uses inevitability rhetoric, and noticing a pattern of those who are developing AI tools, or building their career and status around AI expertise, saying we need to use more AI

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This was an early set of guidelines hoping to help libraries build a case for supporting collective and good-faith OA book programmes. It covers investment criteria and arguments to use with budget holders - still worth a look for any interested librarians wanting to invest in OA but struggling

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

See our friends at @openingthefuture.bsky.social at OIPA 2026 on June 18 #OpenAccessBooks #OABooks

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Join @oipassoc.bsky.social either online or in person for their 2026 Symposium! 📆 Thursday 18 June Programme features panels, lightning talks, workshops & more! PS. Lots of #CopimCommunity will be there too! @scholtom.bsky.social @simonxix.com @joedeville.bsky.social Reserve your spot now!

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OIPA Symposium 2026

Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Several of our authors have received AI-generated emails. What to watch out for 👀 -generic praise for your work from an unknown source/journal/book club -weird email addresses w/typos -requests for donation -promises of "wide audiences" for your book Read the full post here: tinyurl.com/4v9ptydj

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Fake AI Marketing Proposals

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Recommend signing up to attend this if you can! We need to keep momentum going on collective funding models, for books and journals: APCs are a binfire, transformative agreements are a scam, BPCs will bankrupt the system. Diamond and collective models are the only way to secure reliable funding.

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This webinar will give more background to why it's critical we embed financial investment for programmes like OtF & @ojcollective.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social @copim.bsky.social @leverpress.bsky.social etc etc

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The first CoP meeting will Wed 10 June at 4pm ⏰ All details 👇 @scholtom.bsky.social

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What are you up to on Wed 10 June, 4pm UK time/11am EST?? Come along to the first OtF Community of Practice where we hope to talk about how to ensure the programme continues to fund OA books at more publishers! (zoom registration link below)

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Absolutely this. Some smaller programmes have already been dropped by Jisc (e.g. Lever Press) and we'd hate to see small, growing initiatives like ours be dropped from Jisc's LSM. This would cut off UK library participation in one go 🙃

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Agree these are all questions that deserve exploration, altho whether "the dial" is moving/whether this sits alongside the status quo might not be mutually exclusive. If something is happening that wasn't before/not to this extent, it can be a significant development w/out displacing everything else

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OpeningTheFuture @openingthefuture.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

What a fantastic event to have been involved with! Catch up with the session we curated - Where is collective funding for open access monographs going? - with @scholtom.bsky.social @kirahopkins.bsky.social @tweeterbarr.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is so great to see - OtF beginning to grow to include v small presses that looking for a route to sustainable/reliable #openaccess book publishing. Hope to see libraries get behind this if they can - increasing their own local collections while simultaneously funding OA. Hat tip @eve.gd!

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you work in production in #publishing and are open to a new role or know anyone who might be, we are #hiring! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... The closing date is 15th Feb. We're a small and friendly team focused on making high quality #OpenAccess books in the #humanities. Read more:

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Production Manager:London Senate House - Hybrid

PRODUCTION MANAGER – University of London Press

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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For Day 9 we see: The Copim Compass! This comprehensive and continuously updated guide from our friends @copim.bsky.social provides resources for anyone wanting to get involved in Open Access book production be you a: author, publisher, editor, software designer or library abdn.site/vNQ3U

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Compass

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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

A great London OIPA meet up last night! With representatives from several of our member presses, associates & friends including @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @uolpress.bsky.social @uniwestpress.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @openpress.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social

A large group of OIPA members and friends in a London pub

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ScholCommTom @scholtom.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@eve.gd 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott! From this : eve.gd/2020/10/22/b... to this: bsky.app/profile/open... [Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆]

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