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Copim Conference 2026 : Copim Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive On Feb 26 and 27, 2026, the two-day conference brought together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book...

Videos from the COPIM conference from last week

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Save the date! Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots - Copim Approaching the conclusion of the Open Book Futures project, Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce a two-day online conference on Exper…

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Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce a two-day online conference on Experimental Publishing Practices

Join us next month to celebrate 3 fantastic experimental book pilot projects!

📆 8–9 April 2026

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Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing

Excellent piece by Geoffrey here - also: don't get us started on PIDs in books publishing ... 🙃

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A quote from me - “it’s pretty insulting to see scholarship used this way when the academic humanities are currently under attack from every possible angle — as though the actual people who do the thinking and produce the scholarship are reducible to their work itself, and can be removed entirely from the equation”

Went on record saying, essentially, “AI sucks, fund the humanities” today

Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) With this post, we share the results of our recently-conducted self-assessment of Thoth Open Metadata against the current version v2.0 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). POSI…

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Join @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on their deep dive into the results of a recently conducted self-assessment against v2.0 of #POSI

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Celebrate with us: Registration is Open for PKP's OMP Fest! - Public Knowledge Project You are invited to register for OMP Fest, bringing together the Open Monograph Press (OMP) community on March 25th 2026, 8 AM - 11 AM PDT, free, online.

This #OEWeek26 PKP is pleased to announce registration for OMP Fest is now open!

Come celebrate unique and diverse international community examples of #OpenMonographPress in action for #OpenPublishing

Online, free, March 25, 8 - 11 AM PDT: pkp.sfu.ca/2026/03/04/r...

#OpenTextbooks #OpenAccess

Join Thoth, @rupertgatti.bsky.social (@openbookpublish.bsky.social) & @emmabooth.bsky.social (@uomlibrary.bsky.social) @cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures Conference. We'll present "Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books"👩🏻‍🔧💧🔩📚 lnkd.in/eDDi2WGQ

Forthcoming Webinar: Benefits and Barriers — Open Metadata for Books in Latin America - Open Book Collective %%smart_desc%%

Forthcoming Webinar: Benefits and Barriers — Open Metadata for Books in Latin America. March 11, 3pm GMT / noon BRT / 9am CST | Open Book Collective https://obc.copim.pub/benefits-and-barriers-open-metadata-for-books-in-latin-america/

What did the #CopimConference spark for you? Stay engaged with @copim.bsky.social and feed in to what's next!

Join the Jiscmail and stay tuned 📻

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Zoe: publishing is the act of making public - it is not the multi-billion dollar industry of extracting financial value out of academic labour. Scholar-led presses are a site of resistance against the marketization of research publishing #CopimConference

@copim.bsky.social began with a group of academics & small-scale OA publishers coming together over their worries about the behaviour of legacy academic publishers enclosing knowledge plus the takeover of publishing infrastructures by legacy publishers to 'lock down' schol comms #Copimconference

A call to arms from @rupertgatti.bsky.social for all attendees at #Copimconference to keep engaging with @copim.bsky.social and to feed into what's next for #openaccess & #openinfrastructures - join the Jiscmail! copim@jiscmail.ac.uk

Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community YouTube video by Open Book Collective

The @openbookcollective.bsky.social is just the best damn org in the world. Their importance to the open book ecosystem cannot be overstated & I am grateful for every single bit of it. Check out their testimonials vid and get ye to your institution to support them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev-O...

A crowd of delegates, arranged in a rough semi circle, looking up at the camera, some cheering

Two delegates talking to each other during a coffee break, both smiling, other delegates in the background

Caroline Ball speaking, holding a lapel mic, with Fatimah Abduldayan, Martina Benz, and Sarah Thompson sitting alongside, with Martina looking up and back at a screen off camera

View from the back of a tiered lecture theatre, showing around 100 delegates seated in rows looking at a screen at the front, showing a remote delegate speaking, with four other speakers sitting below and to the left

1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...

Statuette of Thoth as an ibis (Late Period (722-332 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Statuette of Thoth as an ibis (Late Period (722-332 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) With this post, we share the results of our recently-conducted self-assessment of Thoth Open Metadata against the current version v2.0 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). POSI is an important reference point for us: it articulates important elements of what it means for an infrastructure to be open, community-governed, and sustainable over the long term.

Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) | Thoth https://thoth.pub/blog/10.70950/sllm9969

#CopimConference - that’s a wrap! Two days well spent, celebrating the spirit of the @copim.bsky.social community & enjoying time together in person ✨ Let’s all keep up momentum and continue exploring the future of community-led #OAbooks

scholar-led initiatives: History and recent examples from Cultural and Media Studies | Flavours of Open Overview of scholar-led initiatives (journals, book publishers, and consortia / network initiatives) in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with a focus on Cultural and Media Studies.

Thinking some more about the long history of scholar-led presses, I was reminded of an H5P timeline, which was looking into the emergence of scholar-led initiatives particularly in the field of #MediaStudies ... might be of interest to #CopimConference participants?

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Amazingly stimulating closing keynote by Siddharth Soni here at #CopimConference - and wonderful to see both Harney & Molten and Ruth Wilson Gilmore referenced!

Extremely pleased by Siddharth Soni's critical stance on generative "AI" and how it is embedded in a closed ecosystem and serves to enclose what should be commons. It's been nice to attend a conference that isn't in thrall to ridiculous Big Tech hype. #CopimConference

... closer connections between #openinfrastructures to enable uptake of good #OAbooks #metadata practice across platforms, based on the use case of ISU Digital Press.

Collaboration in action at #CopimConference ❤ Getting together with Harrison Inefuku (Iowa State U Digital Press), Steel Wagstaff ( @pressbooks.bsky.social ), Joe Muller ( @janewayolh.bsky.social ), and Javier Arias (Thoth Open Metadata) to establish ...

Demand from the big ones, collaborate with the small ones.

Slide displayed at the Copim Conference showing the metadata pipeline for open access books with Emma Booth standing in front presenting.

Day 2 of the #CopimConference has kicked off with more discussion about #metadata, including this great slide from @emmabooth.bsky.social showing the complexities of the metadata pipeline which can reduce the discoverability of #OpenAccess books.

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@emmabooth.bsky.social discussing metadata & dissemination challenges for #OABooks from a library perspective and how #OpenInfras like Thoth can ease pain points. Recording and slides will be shared by @copim.bsky.social after the Conference. #MetadataMatters

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Stuff your @thoth-metadata.bsky.social tote bags full of goodies!!

Morning! Ready for Day 2 of #CopimConference!
I wont be live posting the first session on "Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books" as I am speaking!
Recording and slides will be shared by @copim.bsky.social after the Conference. #MetadataMatters

Feeling energised by yesterday’s #CopimConference and excited for today! Values-driven, community‑owned, scholar‑led infrastructures aren’t just ideals, they’re becoming part of the reality of sustainable #OpenAccess book publishing.