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[CONFERENCE] Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots

The programme is organised around themed sessions:

1️⃣ Infrastructuring
2️⃣ Open Peer Reviewing
3️⃣ Binding

Kenotes: Simon Dumas Primbault (CNRS), Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Scholars’ Lab UVA Library), & Bob Stein (Founder of Tapestry)

Get your ticket now! FYI one ticket covers both days 🎫

More info on our website 👉 https://buff.ly/zX0kSlC

#OpenAccess #OpenBooks #ScholarlyPublishing #ExperimentalPublishing

[BLOG] Supporting OA publishing in Ukraine

Members of our Opening the Future team recently took part in an event organised by #SUPRR #OICPJ

💙 Community-led #OpenAccess
🩵 Open infrastructures for books
💛 Community support & collective funding

Head over to our blog to find out more from the event 👉 https://buff.ly/ZOUU7Bf

To find out more about SUPRR, their aims and activities, please email info@suprr.org 📧

A call to arms from for all #Copimconference attendees to keep engaging with us via our new mailing list 💪

Feed into what's next for #openaccess and #openinfrastructures

Subscribe to copim@jiscmail.ac.uk 👉 https://buff.ly/Kij8Abw

Photo credit: Philip Oroni via Unsplash

📆 SAVE THE DATE!

Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce a two-day online conference on Experimental Publishing Practices

Join us next month to celebrate 3 fantastic experimental book pilot projects!

📆 8–9 April 2026

👉 https://buff.ly/5J80AJO

[BLOG] Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)

Join @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social on their deep dive into the results of a recently conducted self-assessment against v2.0 of #POSI

🔗 https://buff.ly/dRtiWQq

Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out which events we'll at this month - there's lots going on!

📲 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/copim_metafutures-activity-7434162968420007937-K_eF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACPoW54BlJ2Ee2IdPVh_YLFz9FrFJlAnwoI

Photo: Juliana Romeo via Unsplash

📢 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)

👉 https://buff.ly/dn2MzlC

#CDF #OABooks #OpenAccess #Funding

We're back on the road (or rails) again! 🚆

Kira Hopkins & Kevin Sanders will be joining Dan Rudmann & Rowan Wilson for an #OxFOS panel discussion

✍️ Helping researchers navigate ‘open’: communities and reforms
📆 Weds 4 March
🕰️ 15.30–17.00
🔗 https://buff.ly/wKNtmqL

Many thanks to everyone who attended #CopimConference!

We hope that conversations were stimulating, connections were made and ideas were hatched!

The recordings & resources will will be linked from our website so watch this space!

🔗 https://buff.ly/RGFgZkm

And that's a wrap! Thanks so much to everyone who came to the #CopimConference, to our fantastic speakers and our wonderful hosts at Loughborough University London campus.

We'll be releasing recordings of the panels soon, and we look forward to taking the ideas and energy of our conference discussions into the coming weeks and months! 🔜

https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/

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!

https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/

If you've still got plenty of energy and you'd like to carry on the conference conversations, join us at Copim Corner from 7pm (or drop by sooner if you'd like -- some Copim folks will probably head down straight from the conference!)

📍 CRATE Brewery
⏲️ From 7pm
🔗 https://www.cratebrewery.com/

We hope everyone enjoyed the first day of #CopimConference, whether attending online, in person or following via socials 📲

Day 2 starts a little bit earlier tomorrow - set your alarms for 9am (UK time) ⏰

We've got another exciting line up for you 👉 https://copim.pub/join-us-for-the-copim-conference-2026-exploring-the-future-of-community-led-open-access-books/

📢 Public Service Announcement!

If you want to check whether your potential application to the @openbookcollect@mastodon.social Collection Development Fund is in scope, send it to us by 7 February 2026 & we'll review it for you 📅

The 2026 Call closes on 7 March 2026

@copim@hcommons.social

[NEW REPORT] International Metadata Recommendations and Platform-Specific Requirements for Open Access Books and Chapters

Co-authored by not-for-profit Diamond OA book publishers, librarians, and open infrastructures, the report tackles a key challenge in OA publishing: creating metadata that truly works across a fragmented ecosystem.

🔗 https://copim.pub/new-report-published-international-metadata-recommendations-and-platform-specific-requirements-for-open-access-books-and-chapters/

[MILESTONE] Over 100 people have now registered to attend the #CopimConference in person

Only 75 in person tickets left (and less than 50 online tickets left!) 🎫

Get yours today 👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-next-for-community-led-open-access-book-publishing-tickets-1753736566279

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | LONDON

Join @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social at the 20th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing TODAY!

🖊️ Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters
⏰ 12:00-12:10
🔗 https://buff.ly/3BX2Ahl

#Munin2025 #OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OpenAccess #OpenData

🔦 Spotlight on @openbookcollect@mastodon.social report

Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences & barriers to participation across six European contexts

Read to find out more 🧵

Photo by Interactive Sports on Unsplash

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🚨 Join the @openbookcollect@mastodon.social next week at #chsconf2025 for the Vendor Showcase on Tuesday 4 November!

You'll find them at booth no 29 - they'd love to chat about #OpenAccess books and equitable #Publishing 📚

List of exhibitors 👉 https://buff.ly/Ybquein

Find out more about the OBC - watch this short video filmed last year at the 2024 Conference 📽️

Members & supporters explain why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

👉 https://buff.ly/M0LeOFk

Join @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social at #DCMI2025 all week

Today they're sharing a poster

📝 Open Access, Open Data, Open Archiving: Liberating Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape
📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 https://buff.ly/BjlTux1

#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks

✈️ @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social are a busy lot!

They'll be at #DCMI2025 all week

Catch them delivering a lightening talk at the Open Metadata Clinic TODAY

📌 University of Barcelona, Spain
🔗 https://buff.ly/BjlTux1

#OpenMetadata #MetadataMatters #OABooks

Who Owns Our Knowledge? That's the question for International #OAWeek 2025!

Have a look at our webpage which features ...

🌟 A curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity

🌟 Interviews with new members of the team, asking them what this year's theme means to them in the context of their work on the Open Book Futures project

🔗 https://buff.ly/r8pRBZD

[VIDEO] Open Book Collective in action!

Hear from @openbookcollect@mastodon.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books 📚

Watch now!

📽️ https://buff.ly/ixjVQ3m