New release!

In 'The Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary', Emilia Palonen explores Hungary’s post-communist #political transformation. The book is published in the Pro et Contra series and is freely available in #openaccess at: https://doi.org/10.33134/pro-et-contra-4

#democracy #authoritarianism #polarisation #populism #illiberalism #OAbooks #politicalscience #culturalstudies #Hungary

On the Open Access Books Toolkit, the latest article -- on Experimental Book Publishing -- is now online!

If you're curious about experimental publishing and #OAbooks, then @openreflections has got you covered with this useful introduction:

https://www.oabooks-toolkit.org/publishing-open-acces-books/1865255-consider-publishing-options/article/experimental-book-publishing

#OpenAccess #OAbooks

OA Books Toolkit

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-position-community-engagement-lead-full-time-at-open-book-collective/
Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing 

OBC Information Hub

We are truly honoured to have received a finalist nomination for the 2025 @alpsp Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025!

#MetadataMatters

Hannah and Toby just gave their presentation to the ALPSP panel of judges, and we'll know more in about two months' time, as award winners will be announced at this year's ALPSP Conference in Manchester (Sept 10-11).

Really wonderful to see more and more interest across the sector in what we've been developing within the @copim community - and also good to keep in mind the importance of that growing network of #openinfrastructures that have come together to explore alternative ways to OA publishing of #OAbooks based on interoperable #opendata ...

So this is also a shoutout to the important work happening at @openbookcollect, @PublicKnowledgeProject (with OMP), @crossref, @ORCID_Org, and many others not on Mastodon, incl. OAPEN, DOAB, OaEBU DT, and the OA Switchboard ...

So wonderful to see punctum books 📚 going from strength to strength!

A living testament (among many others active in the @copim and @RadicalOA communities and beyond) that sparkly #DiamondOA for #OAbooks can actually work! 😍

> For the first time in our fourteen-year history, we have reached a threshold of financial stability whereby we have the salaried staff we need to do the work we want to do at a pace that is liveable, everyone is being compensated above academic publishing industry standards, and economic sustainability is no longer something we hope for: it is a reality, especially thanks to the libraries who have decided that investing in community-led Diamond OA book publishing is a vital and valuable wedge against the wholesale commercial privatization (theft) of publicly funded knowledge production and exchange.

https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-books-activity-and-financial-report-2024/release/1

Punctum Books Activity and Financial Report 2024

punctum books

Im März fand unser #OpenAccess-Barcamp 2025 in Kooperation mit @oa_nrw und der Unibibliothek in Duisburg statt. OA-Professionals trafen auf Einsteiger*innen aus dem gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum. Die großen Themen: Diamond Open Access, Qualitätssicherung und Sichtbarmachung von OA-Büchern.
Den Veranstaltungsbericht könnt ihr jetzt in unserem Blog lesen:
https://open-access.network/blog/open-access-barcamp-2025-von-best-practices-und-visionen-bis-zur-triage-im-publikationsfonds

#OABarcamp #OAbooks #Bilbiothek #Duisburg

📍 Mit nur drei Klicks findet ihr den passenden Open-Access-Verlag für euer Publikationsvorhaben, verspricht unsere Kollegin Katja Dammann im wbv-Blog. Besonders bei Neu-Autor*innen ist das Recherche-Tool oa.finder beliebt, aber auch Bibliotheken äußern sich positiv. Darüber und die Hintergründe der Erweiterung des Services mit Verlagen lest ihr im vollständigen Interview:
🔗 https://www.wbv.de/blog/detail/mit-drei-klicks-zum-passenden-open-access-verlag/
🔎 Zum oa.finder: https://open-access.network/services/oafinder

#WissKomm #Bibliothek #OAbooks

@pampel ich würde mich gerne auch noch anmelden, falls noch Platz ist. 😀

Vielleicht auch als Input: das Thema liegt uns in der @copim Community insb. mit Blick auf #openinfra für #OAbooks am Herzen - wichtig hier das kollektive Finanzierungsmodell des @openbookcollect das bspw. @oapenbooks @Thoth_metadata @PublicKnowledgeProject (mit Blick auf OMP) unterstützt.

💎 📖 A lire : l’article de Kira Hopkins et @kjsanders qui analyse le développement de la voie diamant pour les livres en se concentrant sur l’exemple anglais et en particulier sur la communauté @copim

https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/18284/

#OAbooks #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess

Open access, open infrastructures, and their funding: Learning from histories to more effectively enhance diamond OA ecologies for books

The decade since the “Bottlenecks in the Open Access System” special issue of JLSC in 2014 has been an expansive one for open access (OA) and OA books in particular. The creation of a scholarly publishing ecosystem that enables works to be freely accessible for readers has been successful in many ways. However, the underlying politics and economics of OA scholarly publishing often remain opaque or under-interrogated (Lawson et al., 2015). The problems with journal OA funding, specifically regarding inequality of access to publishing, discussed by Bonaccorso et al. (2014) in their contribution to that issue, have also increased and become entrenched as we discuss below. This entrenchment has been largely via the growth and consolidation of gold OA, “transformative” agreements, and read-and-publish journal deals, which have effectively, and unnecessarily, commodified OA publications. We would argue that this is in direct tension with some of the foundations of contemporary OA. OA was explicitly described from early principles as not a business model and as aiming to reduce financial barriers from authors, libraries, and other groups (Suber, 2024). We would like to note that, while the main focus of this paper is books, we begin with a discussion of journals. This is because we are focusing on the history, development, and critiques of OA fundings in the intervening ten years following the “Bottlenecks” special issue. OA journal publishing has been at the forefront of discussions of OA funding, and it has dominated the last decade, and more, of this discussion; it would therefore be remiss of us not to discuss this history, the resulting current landscape of inequity, and the potential ramifications if this were to be transferred to OA books, a more nascent field in general.

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication
We're honoured to be participating in #pkpOslo2025 - lots of folks are converging today at University of Oslo to work on all things PKP - and we're keen to make #OAbooks a more prominent topic #OMP