Open Access Books Network

Hi Bluesky! We're the Open Access Books Network. We share resources & blog posts & host events & discussions about all things open access books! We're an open network & we share what we do freely. If you're interested in #OAbooks, give us a follow 👋 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org

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...

"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...

📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

📝 New 'Born Open' post by Firenze University Press #OABooks "FUP follows open science principles for barrier-free dissemination, building on the University of Florence’s early digital experiments that enabled global exchange and high research impact." Find out more 👉 tinyurl.com/36nkjhtm

We're delighted to introduce the newest member of our coordination team, Martina Dvořáková! @martidvorako.bsky.social. Read more about Martina and her journey to #OABooks 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/07/02/i....

📣New post in our blog series 'Born Open' from @langscipress.bsky.social, a #OABook publisher in the field of linguistics. Hear what Sebastian Nordhoff had to say about navigating the issue of prestige & learn more about how LangSci operates 👉 tinyurl.com/OABooksN

This is well worth a read - particularly interesting for how it frames the role of the institutional / library-based publisher, and its reflections on what such presses have the ability to provide (and I mean this in a capacious sense) as well as some of the dynamics created by "prestige".

📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

Our thanks to our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for taking part in this #accessibility interview with @copim.bsky.social. Well worth a read for anyone working on this (or wondering how to begin) and what resources are available. Since Nov 2024, all of our frontlist books are “born accessible”.

Take a look at this upcoming webinar from a former OABN speaker (Thoth was a speaker and co-organiser of our metadata event: copim.pubpub.org/pub/good-met...) and a fellow member of the @operaseu.bsky.social OA Books SIG 👇 #MetadataMatters #OAbooks

Thothally Fresh - Launching Thoth 1.0 webinar - If you're a publisher looking to improve your #OpenAccess book metadata and distribution, join us online to kickstart your Thoth journey! 📍 Online event 🕒️ Wednesday 3 June • 3 PM - 4:30 PM GMT+1 🎟️

Listen (and watch) now 🎧

NEW POST | 'UJ Press: Innovation and Sustainability in Scholarly Book Publishing' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Wikus van Zyl, Manager of UJ Press: 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/20/u...

NEW RECORDING: 'How to make your #OpenAccess books more accessible (and why it matters' A recent OABN webinar with @jofitz.bsky.social of @copim.bsky.social, Richard Orme of DAISY & James Rice of @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on the tools & strategies publishers can use: youtu.be/_QPncp6FHPk?...

NEW POST | 'Morepress platform: Advancing Open Access Publishing at the University of Zadar' #OA The latest post in our series 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' is by Ivana Morić Filipović, Head of Publishing at Zadar: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/05/07/m...

Another post in the @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social series on born #OABook publishers, this time from Croatia!

We're delighted our first post comes from UN@ éditions, a #DiamondOA publishing platform founded in 2019: "Born-open presses and platforms such as UN@ are no longer experimental: they are already fully operational actors in scholarly communication." Read it here 👉 tinyurl.com/y22dxaz6

📚 New blog series: "Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing". In this series, we'll spotlight #BornOA presses worldwide & hear how they build quality, value & recognition, often without author fees. 👉Read our intro post: tinyurl.com/mr3bnk77

Really worth reading this post: the platform itself is an interesting collab b/w different unis and Stéphanie Vincent makes some excellent points about the tension between the 'symbolic' value of prestige and the different forms of recognition that UN@éditions offers. #Prestige #OAbooks #Publishing

Catch the recording on our YouTube channel 👇

[WEBINAR] How to make your #OA books more accessible (and why it matters!) How can smaller publishers can make their #OA books more accessible to users of assistive tech? .@jofitz.bsky.social joins @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social next week to discuss #Accessibility for #EBooks 🔗 buff.ly/GVQ2CCD

Happening tomorrow at 14:00 CEST! Still time to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Want to know how to make #OpenAccess books accessible? Join this free webinar on 27 April & hear from @jofitz.bsky.social of @copim.bsky.social, Richard Orme of DAISY & James Rice of @whitehorsepress.bsky.social on the tools & strategies to help: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/04/16/h...

📆 One week to go until the free webinar 'OAPEN-EU Project: Insights from EU-funded authors' w. @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social incl. Dr Imre Keserü (@vubrussel.bsky.social) Dr Jochen Hung (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & @cern.bsky.social's Zenodo team. Full agenda & register 👉 tinyurl.com/yapwnd5s

WEBINAR | How to make your open access books more accessible (and why it matters) 📍Online & free 🗓️ Monday 27 April, 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST 🔗https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/qpnL-2wxTbuB9abb8-qmww#/registration

Join this free online webinar on April 21 to hear EU‑funded researchers share their experiences of publishing #openaccess books 👇 @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social #OAbooks #openresearch

WEBINAR | How to make your open access books more accessible (and why it matters) 📍Online & free 🗓️ Monday 27 April, 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST 🔗https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/qpnL-2wxTbuB9abb8-qmww#/registration

Also very happy to talk all things @openbookpublish.bsky.social and @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social...!

📣 New JiscMail list for small publishers! Help grow the community! 🌱 Join us for open, supportive discussions on accessibility challenges and good practice Search OPENBOOK-ACCESSIBILITY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK 👉 buff.ly/b1eJBdE Photo: Bernd Dittrich via Unsplash

'Can I include third-party content in an #OpenAccess book?' YES! Find out the key things you need to know with this FAQ 👇

✔️ Many thanks to @operaseu.bsky.social & the University of Coimbra for developing #Mondaecus which we used to translate the first post in this 🧵from English into the other languages used in the Call 👉 buff.ly/ddXFeOt #Multilingiusm #Translation 5/5

💡 Tem uma ideia que pode fazer a diferença? Esta é a SUA oportunidade de garantir financiamento e ajudar a moldar o futuro dos livros #OA! Detalhes completos e orientações no site @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/cCPLdQs 4/5

💡 ¿Tienes una idea que puede marcar la diferencia? ¡Esta es TU oportunidad de obtener financiación y ayudar a moldear el futuro de los libros de #OA! Detalles completos y orientación en el sitio web de @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/yU1Lw2d 3/5

💡 Vous avez une idée qui peut faire la différence ? C'est VOTRE chance d'obtenir un financement et d'aider à façonner l'avenir des livres #OA! Détails complets et guide sur le site Web @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/KOsKdre 2/5

The Collective Development Fund 2026 Call is open for applications! This is a great opportunity to recieve grant funding for work that supports #OAbooks. Key dates: 📅7 February: optional scope check deadline 📅7 March: call closes More information 👉 obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...

The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open! We fund projects dedicated to building capacity, networks and infrastructure for OA book publishing. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti... N.B. this fund is not for BPCs

Missed out on an event for #OAWeek? Look no further! You can find a list of recordings in our latest post below 👇 Happy viewing!

Within the SIG are 3 Working Groups focussing on bringing together stakeholders to look at OA Business Models, Open Infrastructures, and ongoing advocacy for #OABooks via the @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

'Can I include third-party content in an #OpenAccess book?' YES! Find out the key things you need to know with this FAQ 👇

In case you missed it during our flurry of activity during #OAWeek, resharing this new resource we developed with @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social resulting from our joint webinar on managing third-party permissions for OA books. Link to the webinar recording and some FAQs for researchers below ⬇️

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

This is a great resource for researchers! #AcademicPublishing #Author #OABooks #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess

For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book. 'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books': openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...

It's #OAWeek! Why not sign up to some of the free online events listed in this post, focusing on #OAbooks and open infrastructures ⬇️