🔓📙 Coming soon and #openaccess from Central European University Press and OpeningTheFuture! Mariupol 2013-2022 by Hana Josticova tinyurl.com/Josticova Riverine Citizenship by Azra Hromadzic tinyurl.com/Hromadzic The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje by Cathie Carmichael tinyurl.com/CathieCarmicha…

🥳UMass Amherst Libraries has renewed their membership of OtF with Central European University Press! They keep their original subscription to 100 backlist books in perpetuity & are now accessing 100 more: simultaneously funding new OA frontlist with their (v reasonable!) membership fees ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/127/

Very proud to be part of this small-but-mighty-and-growing community. Not seeking to take on big commercials at their own game, rather we're seeking to ensure sustainable routes for small/med/scholar-led/uni publishers to work at OA scale & pace they want to work #biliodiversity

An interesting article, well worth a read "Imagine an academic publishing universe in which the majority of journal titles are owned and run by institutions..." also OtF are here for anything with a Seinfeld reference

We need to put Open Access journals at the heart of academic publishing blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/20…

We are delighted to share that Tilburg University LIS Research Support - Tilburg University are the latest library to sign up to OpeningTheFuture, gaining access to 36 multi-user titles across our Hispanic and Lusophone series whilst also supporting #OA publication of frontlist books. 🔗lup.openingthefuture.net/about/

Hot off the press is Opening the Future's quarterly newsletter, detailing some of the progress made in 2024, and some of our plans for the future. Give it a read here! 👉 copim.pubpub.org/pub/byw6u40c

📢 Announcement 📢 Four new books funded Central European University Press via OtF! Whoop! Read all about it: ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/128/ New, really important OA books on Ukraine, the Balkans, and Russia - all funded through library members. No author & no reader charges. OA for books does work.

🔓📙New #openaccess book on the Una River! Riverine Citizenship: A Bosnian City in Love with the River shows how the love of the natural environment becomes a political force. 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/DownloadHromad… #saveuna #bihać #river #BalkanRivers

What does open scholarship in the humanities mean in practice? What might the benefits be, and how do we get there? Join us online for a unique panel event next month, ft. author Paul Longley Arthur + speakers connected to The British Academy Find out more: bit.ly/3Xl6xZT #OA

Interesting read for your coffee break

We too at OAPEN support equitable and transparent pricing for OA. Check out our work with #PALOMERA operas-eu.org/projects/palom…, view the framework coalition-s.org/pricing-framew…, and explore the Pricing Tool zenodo.org/records/127806… cOAlition S Information Power #openaccess

We have now left X. Our Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, has shared an announcement: openlibhums.org/news/750/. For those in #OA publishing, you can now connect with OLH and Janeway on Bluesky and FB. Please do sign up to the newsletter to stay in touch. openlibhums.org/news/750/

Come along and hear some great speakers, also meet some of the COPIM ([email protected]) team afterwards!

Pls fill in this poll if you have a sec! Helpful for us to know where to find everyone 🙏

A very good point 👇 Real question is "can we afford to keep doing things the way we always have?" Answer is no. HE in crisis? 🤔Let's keep on throwing money at 6 megacorps yes that will fix it 🧐

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…

Join members of the team online at a joint webinar from Irish Open Access Publishers Open Institutional Publishing Association for #OAWeek 🔓 OpeningTheFuture Open Book Collective Thoth (@[email protected]) will highlight the work they're doing to underpin a more sustainable future for #OpenAccess books 📚 tinyurl.com/yc6uwwyj