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Anna Hughes
@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social
Development and engagement manager at @jisc.bsky.social - working on the @copim.bsky.social Open Book Futures project

@uksg.bsky.social Outreach & Engagement committee member

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7210-3199
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📢 Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community group for their final meet up of the year on 10 December!

📝 Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use
📍 Online (via Teams)
⏰ 11.05-11.55 AM

Find out more and register 👇

research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
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[EVENT] Diamond ERA: Fostering Openness in the European Research Area 💎

The showcase session Institutional & Community-Driven Diamond OA Initiatives features lightning talks by @alittleroad.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social

Full programme and event link 👉 buff.ly/Ntr9Zem

#AHSS #SSH
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November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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We'll be back this afternoon at 1-2PM GMT ⏰

Please do register and attend

🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4ac7b1...
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Thoroughly recommend people attend this 👇

Find out more about the history of, and the current examples of, ongoing threats to academic freedom and how #OA can support the fightback

Sobering but inspiring!
How can community-driven OA initiatives sustain mission-driven publishing in politically constrained environments?

Join our webinar this afternoon! Including Q&A with CEU Press and Opening the Future

🕙 14–15 CET tinyurl.com/348fwkrm
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November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Excellent library job in Cambridge.👇
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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As part of the DOAJ Data campaign, we've made it easier to find research using DOAJ data

💻 Help us grow the DOAJ Zotero group of articles and research on #OA publishing, using DOAJ data
Anyone can add to it, and use it to explore and find relevant research

www.zotero.org/groups/62501...
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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The 9am session is just starting, but there's still time to sign up for second session 1-2pm (GMT) 👇
Two opportunities to join @openingthefuture.bsky.social @ceu-press.bsky.social TOMORROW 🥳

📝 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
📅 26 November
📌 Online
🔗 buff.ly/pExK5d3 (9-10 AM GMT), buff.ly/0FWhoz5 (1-2PM GMT)
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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What's new on #CopimCompass 🧭

This month we're focusing on Book 09. Open Book Accessibility

There's so much new content thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social

🔗 buff.ly/naVbu2T

Photo: @felirbe on Unsplash

#Accessibility #eBooks

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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Lots of tickets left, both online and in person (London, UK) 🎫
Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀

Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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TODAY 👇
Join @samuelmoore.org this Weds. (5pm) to hear his discuss discuss key ideas from his fantastic new book ⏰

And download the book for FREE (if you haven't already!) via @uofmpress.bsky.social ebook collection website

🔗 www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️

ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs

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Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Registration for #CopimConference is now LIVE 🚀

Our FREE 2--day hybrid event will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #OpenAccess book publishing

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London [or online]
🔗 buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Join us for a special SCOSS Showcase Webinar highlighting the collective impact of the SCOSS-endorsed open infrastructures! 🌍

🗓️ Date: Monday, 1 December 2025
⏰ Time: 15.00–16.45 UTC / 16.00–17.45 CET / 17.00–18.45 CAT(convert to your time zone)
🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢 Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community group for their final meet up of the year on 10 December!

📝 Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use
📍 Online (via Teams)
⏰ 11.05-11.55 AM

Find out more and register 👇

research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
MARK YOUR CALENDAR 📆

Join @jisc.bsky.social digital research community group for their final meet up of the year on 10 December!

▶️ Inclusive Futures: Mapping pathways for future data use

Registration details available very soon 👇 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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This Wednesday I'm giving an online talk about my new book. It's at 4pm UK time and you can register here:

opendivide.hypotheses.org/625
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
In the seventh lecture of the Open Divide Series, Samuel Moore will present “Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons”. In his talk on November 26, 2025, at 5:00 PM CET, Samuel...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Closing soon, our representation statistics survey. If you are ND and work in libraries archives and information then please fill this in, thankyou.
✨We're delighted with the response to our survey for #neurodivergent staff in the #library & information sector

It takes 10 mins, so if you haven’t already filled it in, please think about doing so (closing date is 30/11/25)⬇️
lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

psst. Pass it on!
a man in a tie says attention everyone
ALT: a man in a tie says attention everyone
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November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Finally we have Michigan University Press, the scholarly publishing arm of @michiganstateu.bsky.social

Their African and Diaspora Studies Package contains 65 titles from across MSUP’s well-regarded lists on African and Diaspora studies

Find out more 💡https://msup.openingthefuture.net/

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November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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[BLOG] @scholtom.bsky.social shares his thoughts in a 2-part guest post on @hnetbookchannel.bsky.social

1️⃣ Bonfire of the Humanities: Publishing Challenges, Opportunities, and Open Access buff.ly/ofK2Zl0
2️⃣ Viable Alternatives to Book Processing Charges (BPCs) buff.ly/HwLMXkS

#FeedingTheElephant
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Fresh preprint from @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, and I: From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing zenodo.org/records/1754... (We have some ideas of where to submit...)
From Mission to Market: The Commercialisation of Institutional Publishing
The recent partial acquisition of a university press by Taylor and Francis provoked strong reaction from some quarters and walkouts by academic editors at the press. This case, however, fits into a mu...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The first focus group is TOMORROW 🚨

@operaseu.bsky.social this will be of interest to #SSH #AHSS #SHAPE researchers and organisations
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It's not too late to register for tomorrow's
@jisc.bsky.social digital research community November meet-up!

🗣️ @jencrate.bsky.social will be giving an overview of the Library hub service

📆 12 November 2025
⏰ 11:00-12:00 GMT
🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

#Discover #Cataloguing #Compare
November 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Find out about the first 2025-26 award winners on the @openbookcollective.bsky.social website👇

openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/announci...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I spy a familiar face on the programme of speakers 🔎

Learn more about #CopimCompass our new(ish) #OpenAccess monograph and scholarly communication resource 🧭

@kirahopkins.bsky.social

👉 www.uksg.org/events/forum...
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social is LIVE at the Charleston Conference from 10am to 5pm today! Come chat all things community-led #OpenAccess book publishing with Livy Snyder & Eileen Joy.

Grab a Thoth bag and punctum bookmarks while you’re at it!

#chsconf2025
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM