😍 What an accomplishment OAPEN! Congrats to our OBC member!

A growing network of open infrastructures and federated services with Thoth (@[email protected])

Read more 👇

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💥An update from Thoth (@[email protected])

Implementing international metadata standards and requirements ⏬

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#metadata #standards #openaccess

Giving this article a boost for anyone that hasn't read it. Some excellent REF-related counter-arguments to but-the-sky-will-fall-if-we-make-books-open-access by Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) dr. judith fathallah Open Book Publishers Open Book Collective COPIM ([email protected]) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Recommend coming to this. OIPA is v much one to watch: important community of practice & advocacy, will only get bigger and more influential I think. COPIM ([email protected]) OpeningTheFuture Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) all attending, come and say hi!

An author and publisher perspective 👀

The REF consultation shows the need for a more plural perspective on #OpenAccess books 📚

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Excellent blog post from Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) and dr. judith fathallah for LSE Impact Blog - raising awareness about the plurality of options for authors when it comes to publishing OA Books. #openaccess

Compelling piece here from Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) and dr. judith fathallah offering an publisher and author view on #OpenAccess ⬇️

So many important points made, esp about the narrow #REF discussion on BPC models and the need for OA given the increase in precarious employment in academia 👏

💥 New piece from Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) and dr. judith fathallah on the need for more informed conversations about #OAbooks 💥

It also questions whether the 'prestige economy' that drives high BPCs is actually paying off for today's ECRs ⬇️

💥New: The REF consultation shows the need for a more plural perspective on OA Books

Lucy Barnes ([email protected]) & dr. judith fathallah #OpenAccess #REF2029 wp.me/p4m9em-d1v

Wow Thoth (@[email protected])! New website, who dis?

If you have time to watch this pls do: expert librarians from institutions large & small discussing *practical advice* around funding OA for books. V topical with REF consultation in mind etc etc

Barr: we want values over revenue; a move away from publishers taking our content and selling it back to us, and towards a value-adding service.

#Redux2024

NEW POST: Thoth (@[email protected]) launch their new website!

💻copim.pubpub.org/pub/launch-of-… 💻

OpeningTheFuture ScholCommTom / [email protected] COPIM ([email protected]) Open Book Collective Thoth (@[email protected]) Paula Kennedy Liverpool University Press Open Institutional Publishing Association I’ll be live-tweeting the entire #Redux2024 conference, either from this account or the ALPSP account. (Where there are simultaneous sessions, I’ll cover one of them.)

Fabulous resource!

This is a useful point: 'scaling small' isn't the same as 'small-scale'

It's about enabling smaller presses to 'realise the advantages of scale' The White Horse Press

& thus enabling more presses to shift to #OA : 'scaling up' OA book publishing *without* sacrificing smaller presses.

NEW: from Jisc on how smaller presses can adapt to #OpenAccess by joining collective initiatives like Open Book Collective

jisc.ac.uk/blog/how-small…

Neatly encapsulates 'scaling small' - enabling smaller presses to 'realise the advantages of scale' as The White Horse Press says

#OAbooks

Recommend registering for this if you can ..

Publishers! Librarians! OA Fans! Are you involved in OA publishing at your institution? Sign up for our SYMPOSIUM discussing next steps for this sector.

Keynote: Jane Buggle
Date: Monday 10th June
Where: Univ of York

Find out more + sign up form here:
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