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[NEW] Accessibility standard implementation and #OpenAccess publishers
Joanne Fitzpatrick and Jordy Findanis summarise the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small #DiamondOA monograph publishers 📚
Read more 👉 https://buff.ly/VHFVGho
NEW Author Profiles
We catch up with 2 authors who have published #OpenAccess with Liverpool University Press thanks to funding from Copim’s collective library funding model, “Opening the Future”.
🌟 Tess C. Rankin - "Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction" https://buff.ly/Ix1Lo63
🌟 Dean Allbritton - "Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain" https://buff.ly/e7GQ8eh
Catch up with previous author profiles 👉 https://buff.ly/MdzIelr
NEWS! Thoth Open Metadata receives finalist nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing!
The winner will be announced at the ALPSP conference in September. Keep your fingers crossed for @Thoth_metadata
JOB OPPORTUNITY!
The @openbookcollect are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support outreach activity with diverse stakeholders, including academic libraries and open access publishers and infrastructure providers.
So if you're passionate about #OpenAccess and want to deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for #OA book publishing, get in touch!
Find out more, including salary, term & benefits, here 👉 https://buff.ly/PA8t22T
Congrats and good luck!
@copim @openbookcollect @PublicKnowledgeProject @crossref @ORCID_Org
We are truly honoured to have received a finalist nomination for the 2025 @alpsp Award for Innovation in Publishing 2025!
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 ...
New on #CopimCompass 🧭
The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small, diamond OA publishers to improve accessibility in publishing 💡
✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models for small presses
✅ Six chapters on principles, law, standards, strategic planning, use cases & customised tools
📣 Send your thoughts and feedback to us at info@copim.ac.uk
Start your #Accessibility journey today! https://compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-open-accessibility-Iyy
Copim's Open Book Futures Project, Year 2 Report (1 May 2024-30 Apr 2025)
We recently wrapped up our Year 2 progress report for our funders (Research England Development (RED) Fund and Arcadia), and we’ve made a public version (yep, all 140+ pages of it!) available on Zenodo.
TL:DR. This blog post gives you the highlights and updates on what we’ve been up to lately!
More good news from https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata 🎉
They are a partner with Netherlands University Presses who have just received €300,000 from the Steering Board of Open Science NL to strengthen collaboration, coordination, and knowledge-sharing within the network!
Join the team at #bibliocon25 #bid25 this week!
📆 24-27 June
📍 Bremen, Germany
Find us on Stand D07 for a chat about not-for-profit, community-led open access book publishing 📚
Max Petras
Open Book Collective
Thoth Open Metadata