#oabooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oabooks, aggregated by home.social.
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1/ We are delighted to welcome Helsinki University Press @HelsinkiUPress to the OBC! This brings to 20 the total number publishers & service providers that are part of the OBC, all deeply committed to building a sustainable future for #OAbooks https://obc.copim.pub/helsinki-university-press-joins-the-open-book-collective/
HUP is a fully open access publisher operating within Helsinki University Library. It is known for its high quality peer-reviewed publications and has particular strengths in the humanities, education and the social sciences.
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If you're attending the #operas2026sciros conference, day 1 will open with workshop 'From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books' 📢📚🇸🇮
⏰ 9:00, Wed 20 May
📍 Staszic Palace – Room 132@PublicKnowledgeProject
#DOAB
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What role did colour play in the long nineteenth century?
'Colour Matters: Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)' ed. by Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol & Matthew Winterbottom provides a fresh investigation of the materiality, politics & sensory experience of colour during this period.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0501
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You can also read a blog post by the author, exploring the theme of equity that underpins the book.
'Transforming universities with an equity focus' by Richard Heller: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
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You can also read a blog post by the author, exploring the theme of equity that underpins the book.
'Transforming universities with an equity focus' by Richard Heller: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
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You can also read a blog post by the author, exploring the theme of equity that underpins the book.
'Transforming universities with an equity focus' by Richard Heller: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
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You can also read a blog post by the author, exploring the theme of equity that underpins the book.
'Transforming universities with an equity focus' by Richard Heller: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/transforming-universities-with-an-equity-focus/
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NEW BOOK | A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam by Phillip Stokes
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0517
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[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
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[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
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[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
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[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
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[UPDATE] Find out more about the Collective Development Fund project at the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium, Colombia
Funded by @openbookcollect the project aims to build capacity for academic #OABooks in small & medium-sized HEIs
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NEW BOOK | From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity edited by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk
This is the much-anticipated second volume following Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (2023).
It can be freely accessed digitally or purchased in hard copy here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0508
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🤝 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬
The Copim Open Book Futures project may finish today, but it's not the end!
The fantastic #CopimCommunity continues!
Members of the OBF project are booked up well into 2026 so keep an eye on our socials for more info 👀
And join our new mailing list 👉 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=copim
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NEW BOOK | 'Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia, Vol. 2' by Miranda J. Morris, Erik Anonby and Janet C.E. Watson
The latest book in the Semitic Languages and Cultures series can be purchased or freely read and downloaded here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0538
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Join @Thoth_metadata TODAY at @helmholtz_hmc
☑️ Open data
☑️ Open access
☑️ Open Source🟰 Liberating #Metadata for #OABooks and chapters!
Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
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Heute ist Welttag des Buches und des Urheberrechts!
Daher haben wir euch ein Best-of unserer Materialien zum Thema Open-Access-Bücher zusammengestellt:🔗 Was sind OA-Bücher?: https://open-access.network/informieren/publizieren/open-access-buecher
📽️ Finanzierung von #OpenAccess Monographien: https://doi.org/10.5446/49535
🗞️ Blogpost: Eine Politik für OA-Bücher beginnt in der Einrichtung: https://open-access.network/blog/eine-politik-fuer-open-access-buecher-beginnt-in-der-einrichtung
Ihr wollt euch zu dem Thema #oabooks vernetzen? Dann schaut gern bei unserer Fokusgruppe vorbei: https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen/fokusgruppe-open-access-buecher
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Want to know how to make #OpenAccess books accessible?
Join this free webinar on 27 April & hear from Joanne Fitzpatrick at @copim community, Richard Orme of DAISY Consortium & James Rice of The White Horse Press on why accessibility matters and the tools and strategies that can help:
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NEW BOOK | The American Archipelago: A New Edition of Oscar Handlin’s Classic Anthology, 'This Was America', edited by Kenneth Weisbrode
Read the new edition of this classic text freely online in #OpenAccess or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0495
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NEW BOOK | 'Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition' translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley
Freely available to read online or download, and available to buy in paperback, hardback or EPUB: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0483
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NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
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NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
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NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
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NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
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NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
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In the first of a series from our #CopimConference bursary attendees, Megan Kilvington, Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian at York St John University, shares:
🧠 her reflections on the event,
🔜 what she will take forward from the conference,
🤝 advice for others thinking of getting involved with CopimRead & share: https://copim.pub/reflections-of-the-copim-conference/
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'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference'
In this post, @alittleroad summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here!
👉 https://copim.pub/exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books-a-copim-conference/
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NEW BOOK | Spaces for Action: A Repository of Tools and Methods for a Socially Situated Architectural Education, edited by Guido Cimadomo and Ingrid C. Vargas Díaz
👉️ Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0503
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NEW BOOK | 'Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah' by Jane Hathaway
The latest book in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, this groundbreaking volume marks a rare and transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah, a vast trove of documents generated by Egypt’s Jewish community between the 10th and 19th centuries.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0502
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NEW POST | 'Choose Your Own Adventure' by Anna Beresin
Reflecting on the research process behind her latest book, 'Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change'
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NEW POST | 'On Colonial Knowledge, Africa, and Imperial Russia' by Anita Frison
'the discourses, rhetoric and practices of Russian subjects in relation to Africa were deeply embedded in Western colonial culture'
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NEW BOOK | Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change by Anna Beresin
Read online freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0511
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I really like the use of @internetarchive to host recordings of conference sessions.
The @copim team have done a really nice job here with the COPIM Conference 2026 recordings: https://archive.org/details/copim-conference-2026
Rich metadata, abstracts, links to slides. 💯
You can also watch on x2 & x3 speed which is _very_ handy since we're all pressed for time 🙂
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NEW BOOK | Historicizing IQ Testing: Intelligence Assessments and their Role in Norwegian Society from the 1900s to the Present, edited by Håkon Aamot Caspersen & Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
Access freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0471
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📢 PSA: there are only a few days left to apply to the Collection Development Fund!
📆 7 March 2026
All details of the 2026 Call are over on the @openbookcollective.bsky.social website (available in French, Portuguese & Spanish as well)
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Day Two of #CopimConference! We hope everyone is caffeinated and ready to go for another day of panels and conversations about all things community-led #OAbooks 📚️ 🔓️
Follow along using the #CopimConference hashtag!
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II am very sad that I cannot be there in person in #London today, but I am very much looking forward to meeting online and getting to know the @copim Community online. I am excited about the presentations on #openaccessbooks #DOA #OAbooks! @openrewi is gaining momentum here, and we are delighted about the networking and collaboration!
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Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
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Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
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Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
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Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
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Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉
For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters
This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.
There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!
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Lots of team Copim are heading down to London today to set up for the #CopimConference which starts tomorrow!
We're excited for some brilliant panels and thought-provoking discussions with everyone who's attending, either online or digitally, as we think together about what's next for community-led #OAbooks.
More info 👉️ https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/
Follow the conversation using the #CopimConference hastag!
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We're looking forward to attending the #CopimConference on Thursday and Friday of this week -- say hello if you'll be there too! 👋
@rupertgatti and @alittleroad are part of the programme, and Alessandra Tosi, Laura Rodriguez, Javi Arias, Ross Higman and other members of the team will be there in person. If you see us, say hi -- we'll all be happy to talk all things #OAbooks & open infrastructure!
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NEW BLOG | The “Charm” of Objectivity by Tricia De Souza
This post explores how Anita Frison's book 'Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850-1917)' probes the instability of the 'objective' viewpoint.
Read now: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-charm-of-objectivity/
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Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week!
On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on
Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books
and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku.
Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #dissemination - perspectives that will touch upon questions such as “What is a book?”, and discuss issues of ingest pipelines and adoption of #PIDs and controlled vocabularies in the books space.
Panellists will also seek to touch upon the benefits of, and potential barriers to, establishing practical, community-led solutions that make #OAbooks findable and re-usable within as well as outside of library systems.
Intrigued? Find out more here https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/
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Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week!
On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on
Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books
and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku.
Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #dissemination - perspectives that will touch upon questions such as “What is a book?”, and discuss issues of ingest pipelines and adoption of #PIDs and controlled vocabularies in the books space.
Panellists will also seek to touch upon the benefits of, and potential barriers to, establishing practical, community-led solutions that make #OAbooks findable and re-usable within as well as outside of library systems.
Intrigued? Find out more here https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/
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Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week!
On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on
Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books
and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku.
Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #dissemination - perspectives that will touch upon questions such as “What is a book?”, and discuss issues of ingest pipelines and adoption of #PIDs and controlled vocabularies in the books space.
Panellists will also seek to touch upon the benefits of, and potential barriers to, establishing practical, community-led solutions that make #OAbooks findable and re-usable within as well as outside of library systems.
Intrigued? Find out more here https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/
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Really looking forward to our #CopimConference to kick off later this week!
On Day 2, I'll be chairing a session on
Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books
and will be welcoming panelists @EmmaE_B , Edgar Garcia Valencia, and Harrison W. Inefuku.
Emma, Edgar, and Harrison will be sharing perspectives of a library, an infrastructure researcher, and a library publisher, on the varied issues related to book #metadata and #dissemination - perspectives that will touch upon questions such as “What is a book?”, and discuss issues of ingest pipelines and adoption of #PIDs and controlled vocabularies in the books space.
Panellists will also seek to touch upon the benefits of, and potential barriers to, establishing practical, community-led solutions that make #OAbooks findable and re-usable within as well as outside of library systems.
Intrigued? Find out more here https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/