This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

Q. How does a Community Publishing Garden grow? 🌱
A. Together! 🤝

Judith Fathallah, Kath Burton, and Zoe Wake Hyde share how the Community Publishing Garden project is blooming with support from @openbookcollect Collective Development Fund!

🌺 https://buff.ly/GuZ8G3c

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

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

🔗 https://buff.ly/G77IdX1

Je vous présente:
"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 🧨

📆 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

👉 Sustaining the Flow: Keeping the Pages Turning in Scholarly Publishing
⏲️ 15:30–16:30
🔗 https://www.aeup.eu/conferences/2025-4th-aeup-conference/

@Thoth_metadata
@openbookcollect

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

📆 Friday 23 May 2025
⏰ 15:30–16:30

@openbookcollect
@Thoth_metadata

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

#Infrastructure #Interoperability #Metadata