Open Book Collective

@openbookcollect
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The Open Book Collective (OBC) brings together #OpenAccess publishers, service providers, and libraries, working towards a sustainable and equitable future for #OAbooks #OpenAccessBooks and #OpenInfrastruture
Our Websitehttps://openbookcollective.org/
Our Information Hubhttps://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/

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 πŸ‘‰ https://buff.ly/PA8t22T

🚨 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 ...

Choosing open access for books: An author journey 🧳

Join Judith Fathallah online next week (Wed, 25 June, 13:00 BST) to learn about the author’s journey from traditional academic publishing to choosing a new, scholar-led OA press for books

@openbookcollect

πŸ”— https://buff.ly/G77IdX1

Je vous prΓ©sente:
"Grady Opening the Future"

AI summaries in search engine result pages... 🀣

The man, the myth, the legend Tom Grady has been merged into the word soup model. A statistically-likely word that probabilistically fits. Let's just hope CEO's don't get all their comprehension of open access from LLMs...

Bravo Gemini, bravo.

cc @openbookcollect @mpe

Registration has now closed but if you were lucky enough to get a ticket to join Kevin from @openbookcollect & Tom Grady from Opening the Future at the ALN webinar next week, expect an incendiary session 🧨

πŸ“† 12 June @ 10 AM

Supporting and encouraging authors to publish #OpenAccess with no #REF2029 mandate

https://academiclibrariesnorth.ac.uk/event/supporting-and-encouraging-authors-to-publish-open-access-monographs-with-no-ref2029-mandate-hosted-online-by-research-support-group-and-lancaster/

Join us TODAY for our workshop at the Association of European University Presses (AEUP) conference in Vienna, Austria

πŸ‘‰ Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing
⏲️ 15:30–16:30
πŸ”— https://www.aeup.eu/conferences/2025-4th-aeup-conference/

@Thoth_metadata
@openbookcollect

2025 4th AEUP Conference – AEUP

Join us for our workshop with Netherlands University Presses and OAPEN at the 4th AEUP Conference in Vienna!

Scaling Small: Horizontal Collaboration based on Open Values and Interoperability to Sustain Open Workflows in #OpenAccess Book Publishing

πŸ“† Friday 23 May 2025
⏰ 15:30–16:30

@openbookcollect
@Thoth_metadata

πŸ”— https://www.aeup.eu/conferences/2025-4th-aeup-conference/

#Infrastructure #Interoperability #Metadata

2025 4th AEUP Conference – AEUP

On my way to beautiful Vienna (a full 11h train ride from Hamburg) to attend this year's AEUP conference #AEUP25 πŸ€—

Together with colleagues from @oapenbooks @openbookcollect and the Netherlands University Presses (https://nups.nl), we will be hosting a workshop on how the NUPs are collaborating with #openinfrastructures in the #OAbooks space to establish a collective catalogue for their presses - this is gonna be fun!

Come join us if you happen to be in Vienna these next few days πŸ˜‰

https://www.aeup.eu/conferences/2025-4th-aeup-conference/

Netherlands University Presses - NUPs.nl

NUPs.nl - Netherlands University Presses

Join @openbookcollect at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference on 4 June πŸ“†

You can register to attend the conference in person or view the talks online πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

FIND OUT MORE! Full programme now available πŸ‘‡

https://library.ed.ac.uk/research-support/conference/programme

EORC: 2025 Programme

On the 4th of June we are coming together to ask the question, "What's stopping us?" We are asking what barriers we face, the challenges slowing progress, and searching for strategies to overcome them. Find out about our speakers and read their abstracts below.

The University of Edinburgh