#oabooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oabooks, aggregated by home.social.
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A little treat created by @ScholTom and inspired by the Copim report (coming soon!...ish) -- the Copim crew and friends!
Tag yourself!
(If you're not there though please don't tag Tom as this has already gone through multiple redrafts and it'll make him cry)
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A little treat created by @ScholTom and inspired by the Copim report (coming soon!...ish) -- the Copim crew and friends!
Tag yourself!
(If you're not there though please don't tag Tom as this has already gone through multiple redrafts and it'll make him cry)
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On that earlier note, @copim colleagues @openreflections @joe_dev @alittleroad @kjsanders @Kirahopkins @annahughes @ScholTom and yours truly have now published a longer reflection on the matter:
"Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim"
> The increasing consolidation of publishing activity within an ever-shrinking number of publishing organisations raises major challenges across the sector vis á vis trust and control. Scholar- and community-led approaches offer [...] alternative models to this mode of centralised control, and we encourage university and library leaders to explore these opportunities for investing in and partnering with more equitable publishers and infrastructures. Seeking collective, community-led solutions to our shared challenges is an opportunity that we cannot afford to miss in times of rapid digital change that is further exacerbated by the onslaught of commercial AI.
https://copim.pub/wileys-acquisition-of-emerald-some-observations-from-copim/
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NEW BOOK | 'After the Before Times: Teachers’ Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogy' by Sarah Barrett
Delve into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on teachers in Canada.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0529
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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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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
#OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters -
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
#OAbooks #openinfrastructures #metadatamatters -
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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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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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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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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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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🤝 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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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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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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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 | 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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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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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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'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 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 | '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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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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📢 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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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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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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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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OUT NOW | Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850-1917) by Anita Frison
Explore how Sub-Saharan Africa was imagined in Russian culture from 1850 to 1917 in this new #OpenAccess book.
Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0504
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NEW TITLE | Neomania: How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust by Krist Vaesen
Vaesen argues that worshipping the “new” has fractured science and eroded trust, and presents a sharp, constructive case for rebuilding research around reliability, and truth.
Read for free or buy a copy: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0507
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We are super excited to announce the publication of our substantive report "International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for #OABooks and Chapters"
The report addresses a longstanding challenge in #OAbooks publishing: how to create, manage, and disseminate metadata that actually works across today’s fragmented scholarly ecosystem. #MetadataMatters
Bringing together multiple perspectives of not-for-profit #DiamondOA book publishers, librarians, and open infrastructures, the report takes a closer look at research, policy analysis, and community insight to support publishers, libraries, and aggregators working to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and sustainability of books and chapters – with a particular focus on small-to-medium-sized, scholar-led and institutional publishers.
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Are you using #OpenMonographPress (OMP) to publish scholarly books, #monographs or other long-form works?
Join our Community Call with Zoe Wake Hyde @zwhnz to contribute to the future of OMP!
January 29, 8 AM PT
If you haven't signed up for invites, email zwhyde[at]sfu[dot]ca or sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/4zcv52jb
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Do you work in a UK HE library? Do you consider yourself to be early in your career (typically within your first ten years of working in the sector and not in a senior role)? And would you like a sponsored place to attend the Copim Conference at the end of February?
Find out more about how to apply for these sponsored places, which are offered in memory of our beloved friend and colleague, Elaine Sykes: https://copim.pub/sponsored-places-for-the-copim-conference-2026/