Another library joins the OtF backlist subscription/frontlist OA program Central European University Press ! The press has been able to fund 25+ new OA books already with same (& more again) still to come, all thru OtF. Non-BPC models work when libraries can get behind them.

Still time to complete this survey (closes 28 June) on how society & small specialist book publishers might transition to sustainable OA models OASPA ALPSP SSP UK Research and Innovation COPIM ([email protected]) informationpower.co.uk/surveys-to-hel…

'A 2023 British Academy survey of SHAPE learned societies revealed pressures from Read & Publish deals to publish more articles in their journals, threatening academic integrity/quality.' Good point but this is a feature of commercial publishing. OA doesn't have to be this way.

"Is it so outrageous, when awarding over a billion pounds of public funding, to insist that a mere 1.7% of it is spent to ensure the public can see the results?" 🔥🚒🧯

If you're interested in the Humanities in any way, in the REF, and open access for books then please read this blog from Martin Paul Eve eve.gd/2024/06/21/a-f… Policies perhaps needed when change is too slow...? OpeningTheFuture COPIM ([email protected]) Thoth (@[email protected]) Open Book Collective

Published next week: 'Designed for Play', by Jon Winder, is the 19th title in Royal Historical Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' series for early career historians bit.ly/3VBUN4V. Jon's book is available #openaccess and p/back print from 11 July University of London Press #twitterstorians

Before you leave #LIBER2024 - please share your opinion on how to drive more #openaccess for academic books by giving feedback on the #PALOMERA recommendations for libraries. Posters are found around the venue or you go directly to tinyurl.com/32udb5fm

OA Books: Draft Recommendations for Libraries (LIBER Conference Consultation) ift.tt/psDqm5Q

🔓📙 #New and #openaccess from @ceupress! Biopower in Putin’s Russia tinyurl.com/DownloadBiopow… From Borderland to Burgenland tinyurl.com/DownloadJanko Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights tinyurl.com/CEUPressFemini… #books #scholarly #research

The COPIM ([email protected]) Open Book Futures team reflect on a successful first year and look ahead to Year 2 of the project where they will continue their work to generate new forms of support for #OpenAccess book publishing copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-open…

Where can we find the most productive conversations about #openaccess for books? Help us understand with this quick twitter poll!

Published #openaccess thanks to library members of OpeningTheFuture

Come and meet the Copim Squad in London! (or attend virtually obvs)

BLOG: ‘How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books' 🤔 The latest post from COPIM ([email protected]) is a community resource which offers support for building assessment criteria for collection development policies 📜 copim.pubpub.org/pub/building-a…

This has been a wee while in pulling together but is hopefully useful for libraries assessing OA models

Initiatives like Open Book Collective can help securing a more sustainable future of OA books and democratizing the model to allow all publishers to access it 🤝 #alpsp2024

It’s lovely to see this announcement from Scottish Universities Press today about their first books - congratulations to the team! 👏 Their model of non-profit consortial #OpenAccess publishing across Scotland is a really interesting one 👇

Whoop whoop! 🥳🍾🎉🔓🔓🔓

How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books 🤔 COPIM ([email protected]) have created a new community resource which offers support for building assessment criteria for collection development policies 📜 USE & SHARE! copim.pubpub.org/pub/building-a…

Here's the collective COPIM ([email protected]) poster I presented yesterday at the OASPA conference in Lisbon. We've done so much! But much still to do. Also archived on Zenodo zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/ze… Hat tip to Silke Davison from DOAB for a design I adapted..