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

This new resource from COPIM ([email protected]) looks really helpful for libraries assessing #OA models from publishers 👇 #LibraryTwitter #OpenAccess

NEW RESOURCE: ‘How can I persuade my institution to support collective funding for open access books?' Our latest post shares advice on building OA books assessment criteria for collection development policies, offered as a community resource. 🔗copim.pubpub.org/pub/building-a…

NEW WEBINAR: 'Open access book policies: The author’s experience' This event in the #PALOMERA Series explores what it's like to publish an OA book, & author experiences of policy mandates 📅Wed 2 Oct ⏰14:00-15:00 BST / 15:00-16:00 CEST 💰FREE to join 🔗 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/09/ope…

Dive into the world of sound in cinema with 'Soundings: Documentary Film and the Listening Experience'. Explore how listening shapes our understanding of documentaries. Perfect for film buffs and scholars! 🎬🎧 [zurl.co/4CI4 ] #FilmStudies #Documentary

Building assessment criteria for collection development policies: a community resource, by Anna Hughes (Anna Hughes), Lucy Barnes (Lucy Barnes ([email protected])), Tom Grady and Kira Hopkins / COPIM ([email protected]) copim.pubpub.org/pub/building-a…

📘 SUP's first book is a series of interviews with Tim Ingold by Robert Gibb, Philip Tonner and Diego Maria Malara exploring Ingold’s crucial contributions to anthropology. Conversations with Tim Ingold publishes #OpenAccess in October! bit.ly/4eicyfz University of Glasgow UofG Open Research

📙SUP's second book is Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, edited by James O’Sullivan, Michael Pidd, Michael Kurzmeier, Orla Murphy, Bridgette Wessels and Dr Sophie Whittle @sophiewhittle.bsky.social. Publishing #OpenAccess December 2024! 🔗bit.ly/4eicyfz UCC Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences UCC Ireland UofG Social Sciences

Many congratulations to Scottish Universities Press - may these be the first of many!

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 👇

NEW POST: 'A Glance at the Zimbabwean Open Access Landscape' 'Kuwanikwa kwezvinyorwa pasina mubhadharo muZimbabwe' Written in English and the Shona language, find out more about #OAbooks in Zimbabwe in this post: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/12/aro…

4/ When we say community-led and transparently governed we mean it. Our Stewards are the executive of the OBC, which means that they steer its direction and make final decisions on all aspect of our work. They, in turn, are answerable to the members who elect them

5/5 We & the wider COPIM ([email protected]) have argued repeatedly that community-governance is key to the futures of #OpenAccess. You can read more about the details of our own model here, including the role played by our three member caucuses: openbookcollective.org/cms/fixed_page…

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..

NEW POST: 'The #PALOMERA project: Four months to go!' Find out more about the project's work on #OAbooks funding in Europe in recent months, as well as how you can get involved as the project concludes: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2024/09/13/the…

Devika Madalli argues that the time has come for calls for *disruption*, given the failure of many calls for *action* to date. She suggests a need for rights retention and community-led and shared infrastructure. #OASPA2024

We've heard this more than once at #OASPA2024 but also heard 'community-led' identified as a term of 'value' by a commercial press. Important to be clear about *what* e.g. 'community-led' *means* to avoid a kind of 'community-washing' as organisations latch on to the term.

If you’re an academic and interested in finding out more about #OpenAccess book publishing and policy mandates, this webinar looks helpful ⬇️ Please share #AcademicPublishing #OA #AcademicBooks

“The implicit contract is broken”, says Judith Fathallah. Publishing is not delivering the same benefits to today’s “precarious academics” as it did for previous cohorts. #OASPA2024

Wrapping up an excellent #oaspa2024 conference w/ an international group of colleagues committed to #OpenAccess scholarly publishing. Happy to contribute to the conversation with "A Scholarship-First Approach to Born-Digital Multimodal Publishing." Brown University Library