Joe Deville

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...

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

Very nice to be here with @samuelmoore.org, who is kicking off the LundOnline (=not online!) conference in Sweden. Giving a keynote about his book, Publishing Beyond the Market. Available to all for free, #OpenAccess, published by @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...

This new part time Head of Operations role at the OBC is a really important one for us. An opportunity to join a committed small team working collaboratively with others to help reshape the scholarly publishing landscape.

Triple digits! A century! 1,100,100! (in binary). Symbolically really important for us -- half of the way to our first big target, of 200 supporting institutions by 2029 (which we really need to sustain ourselves, and our members, into the long term)

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“The question is not whether a new open access mandate is coming (it is), but if the sector is remotely prepared for it (it is not).”

Check out the panel session on 14 May featuring @joedeville.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social alongside @erudit.org @wearelyrasis.bsky.social @pkp.sfu.ca ✍️ The Future of Collective Funding Models for Open Access 🔗 buff.ly/NMzyE6m 2/2

Btw my press funded a small study into best-practices for alt text for illustrations, especially of illustrations of art. The resulting guide is short and clear and available free to download.

🍽️ What happens when parenting becomes an economic project? @joedeville.bsky.social @ninabandelj.bsky.social talk to @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social about how parenting is shaped by markets, metrics, and digital platforms. youtu.be/otObwf4tStY?...

🎉 Aand, it's done! Thoth 1.0 is live! 🎉 🎉 And with it, our new website 🎉 (below a comparison of the old style (yellow) vs. the new look - head over to thoth.pub to see for yourself)

Felt fitting to me that one of the last @copim.bsky.social plenary interventions at #UKSG2026 came via @simonxix.com's clear and direct call to remember that, as we have always argued, open access without open infrastructures -- e.g. in libraries, in research -- means little. Such a great talk.

Our Managing Director, @joedeville.bsky.social, and Community Engagement Lead, @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social, will both be at #UKSG2026 tomorrow! Find them at the COPIM stand (#66) or roaming around talking about all things OA books, OBC, and collective funding!

V. pleased to announce this. We have been working together for some time, but the MoU helps formalise things. The divisions between books & journals in the scholarly system are ultimately arbitrary, so this kind of collaboration is vital to collectively argue for better ways of doing open publishing

Meta is dropping encrypted messages from Instagram DMs from 8 May. This means that your all private conversations will be readable by Meta, shareable with advertisers, and subpoenable by courts. Privacy should be a default. Sign our petition. www.mozillafoundation.org/petitions/ke...

For those that missed it - videos of all sessions at the @copim.bsky.social conference last week are now available on the Internet Archive. Lots of enthusiasm and stimulating discussion around community-led publishing of #openaccessbooks .... archive.org/details/copi...

Annual reminder to tag us if you or your child dress up as an AUP book character for World Book Day tomorrow. I would suggest going as a Scottish Benedictine monk in 17th century Germany, but Patrick Gordon or Sorely Maclean are always great option. Explore more here: www.fulcrum.org/aberdeenunip...

The @copim.bsky.social conference last week was such an excellent conference. Copim and #OpenBookFutures have been such important projects for moving discussions and practices for #OpenAccess books forward 🙌

To paraphrase @rupertgatti.bsky.social: ‘We have the important principle of ‘scaling small’. But to get to that point, you have to start. Start small. But have your ambitions to the roof.’ #CopimConference

Heading home after a really energising and thought-provoking couple of days at the @copim.bsky.social conference. Huge thanks to everyone involved for organising such an inspiring programme celebrating the valuable work done by both Copim and #OpenBookFutures 👏 #CopimConference

A rare chance for a mini-mattering-meeting at the #CopimConference, where @joedeville.bsky.social opened the event talking about his work with @copim.bsky.social & Julien McHardy is speaking about the possible futures of #ScholarLed publishing. Joined by Mattering co-editor @annadowrick.bsky.social

Final #CopimConference panel!! Led by @rupertgatti.bsky.social. How can we protect the ability of communities to communicate? In the face of extractive publishing, AI and all the pressures of 2020s HE. One answer: join the new @copim.bsky.social mailing list! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.e...

We’re at the #CopimConference in London this week! 🔓 Great discussions about accessibility, metadata, open infrastructure and the future of community-led #OpenAccess book publishing! Looking forward to the upcoming sessions! 📚 Many thanks to @copim.bsky.social for organising this event! 🫶

With Open Book Collective funding there was the potential for a coordinated intervention to build more integrated diamond OA infrastructure @openbookcollective.bsky.social #copimconference

Fatimah J. Abduldayan from Nigeria Maritime University describes the structural constraints of a print-first publishing strategy across Nigerian institutions. Lack of metadata sharing really restricts the global visibility & discoverability of their authors’ research. #CopimConference #OpenAccess