Introducing: The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes ift.tt/ztQnLpV

NEW POST: Thoth (@[email protected]) launch their new website!

💻copim.pubpub.org/pub/launch-of-… 💻

Great thread - debunking some of the myths about #OA book publishing following the recent REF consultation document ...

If you are working at a library that uses #Alma in your LMS, we would be grateful for your vote on this community proposal:

➡ Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone

#OAbooks #MetadataMatters #libraries #OpenAccess 📚

ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/574345-…

AUTHORS: find out more about rights retention at this hybrid webinar tomorrow at 3pm GMT!

Remote access available online, or attend in person in Cambridge 💻

Hear from Christina Angelopoulos, Sally Rumsey and Samuel Moore

🔗crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41423/

A really interesting thread - including country specific data showing a huge number of nationally funded DOA journals within Europe

A wind of change is blowing in Europe when it comes to awareness and a renewed interest for the diamond #openaccess (DOA).

National coordinated and funded journal platforms play an important role in the further uptake of DOA. Who and what are they? Time for a (long) 🧵! 1/x

'When you can't do what you want with your own work ... and what to do about it' - CRASSH, Cambridge seminar on secondary publishing rights and rights retention strategy - Tues Feb 27th 3-4.30pm UK time. Hybrid event - sign up here:
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41423/

Feb 27, 3-4.30pm UK time: CRASSH, Cambridge seminar on secondary publishing rights and Rights Retention Strategy - with Sally Rumsey Samuel Moore and Christina Angelopoulos.
Open (and free) to all; in-person or online.
Sign up: crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41423/

NEW POST: we offer thoughts on the UKRI funding mechanism for Diamond #OpenAccess book models.

Featuring contributions from the Copim team plus sector-specific analysis from Elaine Sykes of Lancaster University Library & Rupert Gatti of Open Book Publishers

copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-resp…

#OAbooks

Sorbonne has decided to end its subscription to the proprietary Web of Science tools.
‘By resolutely abandoning the use of proprietary bibliometric products, it is opening the way for open, free and participative tools.’
sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbon…
#OpenScience #OpenAccess

I will be talking about publishing #OpenAccess books (a thing I never usually do) at this webinar next week!

It's free to attend & includes me talking about Open Book Publishers & other publishers (@BloomsburyAcad & Scottish Universities Press) on how you can make your books #OA with us

Sign up!

#OABooks Seminar CRASSH, Cambridge for researchers considering publishing their book Open Access - Tuesday 28th at 3pm UK. Speakers - rachelbruce Siddharth Soni Geoffrey Khan and Joanna Page.
Free and open: in-person and remote
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39940/

Starting this afternoon, 3-5pm UK time, with 'How do we foster good research culture in our departments?' Open to all, in person & online - registration still open

UKRI Longform open access policy webinar for researchers and research organisations - 8th November.

🚨 New initiative: Research Culture seminars
Co-hosted by CRASSH and the University’s Research Culture Team, this new series beginning in October will feature fortnightly panel discussions on key questions relating to research culture and open research
crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/event…

We are looking for a software engineer, motivated by working on an array of open source, community-owned, non-profit projects, to join the OBP and COPIM ([email protected]) - supporting an array of different projects and contributing to all aspects of our tech stack ....

📢NEW: The Open Book Futures project and COPIM ([email protected]) are inviting individuals and teams to submit proposals for experimental scholarly pilot book projects.

💰We offer support and funding to help realise 3 projects.

📅 Apply by 22 November 2023

📝copim.pubpub.org/pub/expub-pilo…