#oabook — Public Fediverse posts

The Emerald acquisition by Wiley is yet another stark reminder of what really counts for those large publisher conglomerates: profits above everything else.

We've all read this playbook again and again, seen this movie many times.

To be clear, this is not how publishing needs to be. In the @copim community, we've worked hard to first conceptualise and then establish different way of thinking about publishing as a truly community-led non-profit #DiamondOA ecosystem.

For #OAbook publishing, which is particularly relevant to the Humanities and Social Sciences, new non-profit infrastructures such as @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata have been established over the past couple of years, which are strongly dedicated to their communities' needs, and guided by the principle of Scaling Small, which prioritises open collaboration and knowledge-sharing over competitive practices that [...]

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@ORCID_Org is running a webinar to promote ORCID more widely across the UK. Particularly relevant for Thoth publishers looking to learn more about the benefits of using PIDs in #OAbook metadata!

🗓️ Tuesday 30 June 11:00-12:00 (BST/UTC+1)
Open to all, register here: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/orcid-for-researchers

LIVE scenes from #chsconf2025 Vendor Showcase today🤳

Join @openbookcollect at booth no. 29

Grab yourself some merch and have a chat about #Equitable #OABook #Publishing 📚

Full list of vendors 👉 https://buff.ly/QCtPhWz

The Operas Open Infrastructures for OA Books Working Group is meeting today! 📆

Revisit the blog that traces the efforts to establish this important collaboration between like-minded open not-for-profit infrastructures active in #OAbook publishing 🤝

🔗 https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/seeding-for-a-not-for-profit-community-led-oa-books-ecosystem/release/1

We recently hosted an online workshop looking into the interconnected worlds of #metadata #archiving #accessibility

Featuring small, scholar-led, university & library presses, the event was structured around 3 core themes, each representing a critical pillar in the #OAbook publishing ecosystem:

1️⃣ Safeguarding the Legacy of OA
2️⃣ Ensuring Inclusivity and Equity in OA
3️⃣ Improvements in metadata management, new services, in-development features

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/publishers-workshop-2024-accessibility-archiving-open-metadata/

Join us on Nov 6 to explore how the @DiamasProject is building capacity in Diamond publishing, learn what recommendations #PALOMERA has for #OABook policies, and CRAFT-OA's @OpenAIRE_eu publisher dashboard is all about! #OA #DiamondOA

🔗 Register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcu-qrDIjGNViqxiA4w3svMROBxs597Mq#/registration

#OAbook Modelling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice #DigitalHumanities https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0369

#Webinar @copim and SCONUL: exploring practical problems and potential strategies to fund equitable #OAbook publishing.
Jan 25, 2024 10:00 UTC
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2dL4BIpOQ1KKsCevCLuXaw#/registration

"The key to our collective survival is our collective knowledge and our willingness to collaborate in good faith. To unlock and utilise the great and growing pool of knowledge, we need to reimagine higher education as an open commons. Scholars are not cogs in a capitalist knowledge factory. We need stewards of the public knowledge commons."

👏🏽 Jim Luke (@econproph) is on 🔥 here - go read his amazing chapter
"Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons", which has been published just earlier this week as an #OAbook with @OpenBookPublish

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

There is still time to have your say on #OABook policy! Complete the #PALOMERA survey before 08/10: https://utfragen.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php/471452?lang=en 📖 🔓 #OpenBooks #policy