I really like the use of @internetarchive to host recordings of conference sessions.

The @copim team have done a really nice job here with the COPIM Conference 2026 recordings: https://archive.org/details/copim-conference-2026

Rich metadata, abstracts, links to slides. 💯

You can also watch on x2 & x3 speed which is _very_ handy since we're all pressed for time 🙂

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Good metadata practice for open access books [webinar recording on Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2mZwIpIog

Why metadata matters, and how to create and use it most effectively

speakers: Hannah Hillen, Graham Bell, Jeffrey Edmunds

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Great to see more than 80 people on the Open Access Books Network call right now: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/

the subject of this one is: "From Permission to Publication: Managing Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books"

still a lot of confusion out there on this topic! Great to have a high-quality webinar on it.

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Nice to see Cambridge University Press unafraid to advertise & highlight a book that has an open access edition (spotted on p.20 of the LRB, vol. 46, no. 18).

The book “Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum” is available online & open access (link below) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-the-english-literary-curriculum/4B2B28BDD55CBC4852A17509A227D047

Remember folks: OA does not diminish print copy sales! Advertising the existence of an OA book is still a good idea, could potentially drive print copy sales.

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**New** DeGruter eBound University Press Library https://uplopen.com/about

a bit like DOAB but with extra functionality e.g. Hypothes.is integration, @wikidata concept mappings, and links-out to buy a paper copy from the original publisher

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Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12916

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Went to my first ever London Book Fair this week.

I wouldn't say it was 'fun' but it was useful.

Most people at the London Book Fair want to sell books.

Open access business models for books are often supported by print copy sales.

OA ❤️ print copy sales (but not everyone realises this)

I'm sure I'll be back at the London Book Fair next year...

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ALL of the new 2024 MIT Press academic books will be open access again, 3rd year running, thanks to the 'Direct to Open' model

https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-presss-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-opens-access-to-full-list-of-2024-monographs/

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This is really great news: LSE Press and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) have entered into a new publishing partnership, which came into effect on 1 January 2024 and will see LSE Press publish the highly respected RGS-IBG book series from mid-2024 onwards, publishing up to four open access titles each year

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2024/01/08/royal-geographical-society-to-publish-its-book-series-open-access-with-lse-press/

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