Lucy Barnes

COSTS & FUNDING: Read our deep dive into the finances of #OpenAccess book publishing, with a review of our costs and revenues from the last financial year and a comparison with six years ago. What's changed? buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #OAbooks #OA

Our ‘Open Access in the Humanities’ course was developed by my @uolpress.bsky.social colleague @emmagallon.bsky.social and is a free, online and helpful overview of all aspects of OA publishing. Please share it with colleagues and students looking to understand more about #OpenAccess this #OAWeek!

New from @alittleroad.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social discuss the cost of #OA books, 6 years on from the original blog What is different today? 🔸 the changing context we’re work in 🔸 how costs & revenue models have shifted 🔸 what the future looks like 🔗 buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek

5 ways to support open infrastructure 1️⃣ Know what you rely on 2️⃣ Share the responsibility 3️⃣ Prioritize community governance 4️⃣ Fund it as core, not a project 5️⃣ Start small, stay consistent scoss.org/supporting-o... The cost of knowledge is a choice. #OAweek

The ever reliable @openbookpublish.bsky.social have published this blog post updating and exploring the costs of OA books: blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-cost-of-...

It's #OpenAccessWeek and the theme is 'the cost of knowledge': what better time to read a deep dive into the costs of #OA book publishing? 📚️ 🔓 We revisit our figures from six years ago and ask: what's changed? buff.ly/xDf5s3K #OAWeek

A further interesting point from @hannahcrago.bsky.social about the #invisiblelabour of librarians working to make things as easy as possible for researchers - the hard work of publisher negotiations & navigating agreements is often hidden from view, & publishers can exploit that! #OAWeek

TU Delft Library have switched from a Web of Science subscription to open alternatives, reinvesting library collection budget funds to support #OpenAccess & #OpenScience - #OAWeek

Louise Otting (TU Delft) not talks about the university's dedicated fund for #DiamondOA and how it came to exist. - Beginning with the Dutch context: the Netherlands has a national expertise centre & strategy for investment in diamond publishing & infrastructure #OAWeek

Joining @openbookcollective.bsky.social for an #OAWeek webinar on "Making the case: how libraries justify support for open access" looking at the theme of "The Cost of Knowledge" #openaccess #diamondOA

Next we're heading to Çiğdem Yıldırım (Suna Kıraç Library) where @alittleroad.bsky.social is part of a panel providing a global perspective 🌐 Registration link 👉 buff.ly/rVA3ZmL 3/4

There's been a lot of interest in this webinar - this is clearly a topic lots of libraries and librarians are interested in! (We love to see it.) There is still time to register and places available, so why not come along? 📚 #OAWeek

Just in time for #OAWeek... Big thanks to @simonxix.com for taking care of this headache!

We’ll be exploring open access publishing by following one of @openbookpublish.bsky.social’s titles on its journey from conception to publication and beyond - a new approach for us, so it should be a fun session! 📚

Next up in the #OAWeek diary for #CopimCommunity is the @uksg.bsky.social Introduction to #OA seminar where @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social will be discussing #OA for Books: Beyond the BPC 📚 🔗 buff.ly/IyWvxCj

Our second author interview for #OAWeek features @palaeofuturist.bsky.social and @nottinauta.bsky.social talking about their just-published book ‘Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies’ - with some excellent quotes about the value of Diamond OA ⬇️ @oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Lots to think about in this post by @kjsanders.eurosky.social on what 'open access publishing' is and how it is developing. Is the goal simply to have more "outputs" (ugh) be available openly, or does it matter how we get there?

What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity The next set of interviews are live, head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/MFjSSdu @kjsanders.eurosky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social

“The Hungarian government has ended its partnership with Times Higher Education. Byline Times raised questions about why the publication failed to report on allegations surrounding Reform policy chief & Cambridge theologian James Orr – who also directs the Hungarian-funded Roger Scruton Foundation”

What is the cost of knowledge? Find out what this year's #OAWeek theme means to #CopimCommunity Head to our website to find out more! 👉 buff.ly/S9PFs6n @beckywojturska.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social

It's Open Access Week 2026 🥳 This year's theme is 'The Cost of Knowledge' Find out more on the official #OAWeek website 👉 buff.ly/sDmSZoT Find out where #CopimCommunity will be this week by heading over to our events page 👉 buff.ly/Ahww0f2 #OAWeek 1/2

Really important and interesting topic being covered in this webinar today; free to register! Do come along if you can. #DefendResearch #AcademicFreedom

Our first event is this afternoon! Please register at luma.com/onkgv07k and come hear Lisa Schiff speak about 'Responding to political upheaval with #DefendResearch', with time for questions and discussion. We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Team Copim still going strong 🧡 Find out what we're up to and how to get involved in our post project era

Fantastic to announce our @openlibhums.org tech team are collaborating with @plos.org to develop @janewayolh.bsky.social. As Tom Scott from PLOS writes: “Open, community-developed infrastructure is essential to the future of scholarly publishing & Janeway is an important part of that future.”

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! What is the cost of open knowledge? @alittleroad.bsky.social joins Koç University Suna Kıraç Library to discuss global perspectives 🌍️ 📆 22 Oct (11:30am) 🔗 buff.ly/rVA3ZmL

[EVENT] Meet the UK members: why we joined OPERAS! Find out more about @operaseu.bsky.social including the practical benefits of membership & the opportunities it creates for strategic collaboration, advocacy and support 🔗 www.jisc.ac.uk/events/meet-... Photo: Absolutvision, Unsplash 1/2

UPDATE: What’s next for Copim? An update on our plans for Copim’s future. buff.ly/cKZeDEd #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure #OpenAccess

Next week is #OAWeek and there's still time to get tickets for the various events #CopimCommunity are speaking at! Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @alittleroad.bsky.social for the 2nd day of @uksg.bsky.social Introduction to #OA seminar series 📆 21 October (10am-1pm) 🔗 buff.ly/IyWvxCj

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

I'm very excited and honored to be part of this seminar series! I'll be talking about the vulnerability of social infrastructure within the knowledge ecosystem. Please consider registering!

It's being used as a marketing term, like 'transformative', and like 'transformative', it means, 'keep giving us your money as you've always done'.

Come along to this workshop (19 October 1-3pm BST) I am doing together with Simon Worthington for Open Access week ‘Experimental and computational publishing workshop - Can we reimagine scholarly communication?’ Hosted by LSE Open Research & CIVICA: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

NEW POST & VIDEO | 'Distributing knowledge for equity — An evolving concept and a call for action' Recording of & reflections on our recent webinar to explore openness & equity in the distribution of knowledge -- plus a call to action! buff.ly/zWUc2tD #OpenAccess #OpenEducation #HigherEd

NEW EVENT | 'Shaping the Future of Diamond Open Access for Books: Have Your Say' Find out more about how you can feed in to the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) for books! 📍Online, free 📆 Monday 12 October ⏰ 10-11am BST / 11am-12pm CEST us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW - @defendresearch.bsky.social campaign to raise money to conduct a rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the aggregated impact of U.S. government censorship: donorbox.org/defendresearch

Four students have succeeded in punting from Oxford to Cambridge, having skipped part of the Oxford Canal closed due to drought. The crew from St John's (Cambridge) left Magdalen on 23 September. They have so far raised over £10,000 for the Alzheimer's Society. www.justgiving.com/page/punting...

"Central to BOP's diamond mission is the principle of #scholar-led publishing. This means that the decisions regarding content are made by researchers." Read more about Bern Open Publishing in the new #BornOpen series blog post: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/09/17/b...

How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Add to your calendars now! 📆 Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social @hannahcrago.bsky.social Louise Otting from TU Delft to celebrate #OAWeek2026 and discuss the Cost of knowledge Find out more about #OAWeek 👉 www.openaccessweek.org

OBP is 18! We are officially publishing adults! But -- are we sustainable yet...? 🤪 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

🎉 Open Book Publishers is 18 today! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone & reflect on 18 years of publishing Diamond #OpenAccess books, we share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years' on our experience as an independent, scholar-led #OA press Enjoy & raise a glass of your drink of choice with us! buff.ly/jOJAfYR

Today at Copim we're reflecting on 'community' & 'collectivity' in #OpenAccess - & #OA marketing - & revisiting this post from 2024 when the #OAWeek theme was 'Community over commercialisation' How can we tell when these terms are buzzwords or meaningful principles? buff.ly/eAmRGen #OASPA2026