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Claire McGann
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Project Manager for Open Book Futures, a @copim.bsky.social project. Researcher of 17th-C women's writing, book history, & DH. Copy editor & indexer of academic publications. An enthusiastic (though often unsuccessful!) home cook.
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 8d
NEW WEBINAR: “Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access” hosted by Copim, @sparc-eu.bsky.social and @scossfunding.bsky.social

📆 Tue 11 Nov
⏰ 3pm-4.15pm GMT/4pm-5.15pm CET
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#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OAbooks
"Beyond technical interoperability? The future of open infrastructures and open access" (11 November 2025, 3pm-4:15pm [GMT]) - Copim
Please register to attend the online webinar via this Zoom link. We will be recording the event, and will circulate speaker presentations & slides after the w…
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 22d
🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to announce publication of our new report: Collective funding models for open access books: Librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation across six European contexts openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/report-o...
Report on librarians' barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books
Announcing a new report published by the Open Book Collective exploring librarians’ experiences and barriers to participation in collective funding models for open access books across six European con...
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · 26d
Congratulations! This looks BRILLIANT!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Sep 30
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Sep 17
🚨 Job opportunity at @lborouniversity.bsky.social

Join the wonderful Open Book Futures project team as a Research Associate in Archiving and Preserving Open Access Books

🔸 1 FTE, Fixed Term appointment for six months
🔸 Anticipated start date of 1st November 2025

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 13
Pushback over moves by major publishers to ‘fix open access’.

Open access group sceptical that solutions will come from companies rather than community-led initiatives.

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Pushback over moves by major publishers to ‘fix open access’ - Research Professional News
Open access group sceptical that solutions will come from companies rather than community-led initiatives
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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Jul 18
🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...
Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective
Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing
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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30
When did game studies start? & what & WHO is at the core of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are NOT as by what they are & their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces.

Download for FREE this #OpenAccess 780-page BRICK of a book & press PLAY.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Jul 18
Some very good news for academics chasing permissions & high res images.
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jul 16
Yes I asked the waiter to take our photo… capturing a rare moment of meeting *off* the computer screen!
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jul 16
Today I got to eat pizza with some of my @copim.bsky.social colleagues! A pleasure to be together and to discuss plans for Year 3 of our project and beyond…! 🍕💫
10 members of the Copim Community sitting around the table smiling: Joe Deville, Kira Hopkins, Simon Bowie, Lucy Barnes, Hannah Hillen, Anna Hughes, Kevin Sanders, Toby Steiner, Claire McGann, Francesca Corazza
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · Jul 16
NEW on #CopimCompass 🧭

The Open Accessibility Book is a practical guide for small diamond #OA publishers to improve #Accessibility in #Publishing 💡

✅ Accessibility knowledge base
✅ Planning models
✅ 6 chapters on principles, law, standards, strategy

🔗 compass.copim.ac.uk/books/09-ope...

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09. Open Accessibility | Compass
This book contains a knowledge base, guidance and planning models that will support small diamond op...
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jul 10
This is brilliant Emily!
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · Jul 10
So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!)

If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC...
#Shakespeare #skystorians
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 1
'In the UK we’ve somehow convinced ourselves that the only viable model for student housing involves luxury studio flats with ensuite bathrooms, designer kitchens and increasingly impossible rents.' Interesting, esp. in light of HEI multi-crises (maintenance costs, cold spots etc). 1/2
Twin rooms, shared bathrooms and communal kitchens - Ireland's plan for student accommodation
I’m in Dublin this week doing a bit of training, and my eye has been caught by actual policy on student accommodation.
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jun 26
This fab article introduced me to this from Michael Gavin: “[b]ibliographic catalogues provoke a kind of sublime experience, an awareness of ambient textuality, whispering: Books like this, but different, exist”. A reverence for linked metadata my pals at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social will enjoy!
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jun 26
Does a backwards imprint spotted at the end of a digitised 17thC book indicate a bibliographic mishap (a page’s acidic ink creating an imprint on the preceding leaf); or a digital one? As DeLuca expertly discusses, “technical imperfections can mimic historical artifacts”
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Jun 26
Such a great photo! The smiling faces of community-led OA
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Apr 12
There’s a great guide to this mad, brilliant painting on the Lakeland Arts website: lakelandarts.org.uk/items/jan-va...
Jan van Belcamp (c1610–1653) - Lakeland Arts
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Apr 12
Paid a visit to Anne Clifford’s “Great Painting” today. Found it quite moving that my 3-year old is the same height as Anne’s brothers, depicted in life-size. Toddlers, separated by 350+ years, meeting eye-to-eye.
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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · Apr 11
It's that Friday feeling.
The end of a printed book in which the word FINIS has been printed FINSI with the letters somewhat crooked.
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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · Apr 10
It’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share!

#Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Apr 10
Mate, our calculators should get together for a drink sometime. They both sound like they've been through a lot.
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Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social · Apr 10
Over 3,000 readers have already accessed Peter's book on "Football and Nation Building in Colombia", and you can too- for free!- library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018)
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