Die @tuberlin setzt sich für offenes Wissen ein und ist am Aufbau der nationalen Servicestelle für Diamond Open Access #SeDOA beteiligt. Im Mai 2025 startet das v. der @dfg_public geförd. Projekt gem. mit 14 Partnerinstitutionen sowie der AG Univerlage Ziel ist es, nachhaltige, wissenschaftseigene & für Autor*innen kostenfreie Publikationsstrukturen aufzubauen und zu etablieren. Die UB bringt sich mit @berlinup beim Publizieren von #OABooks #DiamondOA ein. Zur TU News https://www.tu.berlin/news/detail/offenes-wissen-fuer-alle

We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass

This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks

Learn more & get started today!

And don't forget to share your feedback with us via info@copim.ac.uk

We'd love to hear what you think of it!

#Job An der Universitätsbibliothek der @tuberlin suchen wir in meiner Abteilung Publikationsdienste eine*n neue*n Kolleg*in für die Arbeit im @dfg_public Projekt "Servicestelle Diamond #OpenAccess #SeDOA Die 100%-Stelle E11 (TV-L Berl. HS) ist auf 3 Jahre befristet. Schwerpunkt ist die Unterstützung des Publizierens von #OABooks via @berlinup #BerlinUP im Diamond OA #DOA. Alle wichtigsten Infos gibts in der Ausschreibung, Bewerbungsfrist ist der 16.05.2025 https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/193500

Upcoming books!

'Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global Catholic Priesthood' by Brian Conway

'Forced Migrants in Nordic Histories', edited by Johanna Leinonen et al.

'Remote and Roaming: Practices, Meanings, and Politics of Digital Nomadism' by Mari Toivanen

'Birth and Death of Liberal Democracy in Hungary: The Populist Logic of Polarisation as Hegemony' by Emilia Palonen

Read more about the upcoming books at: https://hup.fi/catalogue

Good metadata practice for open access books [webinar recording on Youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2mZwIpIog

Why metadata matters, and how to create and use it most effectively

speakers: Hannah Hillen, Graham Bell, Jeffrey Edmunds

[BLOG] Putting the 'Open' in 'Thoth Open Archiving Network'

Our Archiving group announce a new direction for our #OpenAccess archiving solution

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-open-archiving-network/

@Thoth_metadata

New extended blog post by
@copim 's Archiving group, in which we identify a list of features that are deemed essential for archiving solutions to account for the specifics of #openacces content, including #OAbooks.

#MetadataMatters #archiving #transparency #openarchiving

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-open-archiving-network/release/1

Not long to go now until #UKSG2025 where we're exhibiting alongside the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN

Find out more about us

Copim https://buff.ly/UsB8v2r
DOAB https://www.doabooks.org/
OAPEN https://www.oapen.org/

Exciting news! We're exhibiting at #UKSG2025 alongside the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN

Find out more about us

Copim https://buff.ly/UsB8v2r
DOAB https://www.doabooks.org/
OAPEN https://www.oapen.org/

Den richtigen Verlag für dein Open-Access-Buch finden? Der oa.finder macht’s leicht – mit dem neuen Bereich "Buch"!
Durchsuche rund 70 Wissenschaftsverlage nach Programmschwerpunkten, Services & Kosten. Wie das geht, zeigen dir @KatjaDammann und Nina Schönfelder in unserer kostenlosen Online-Schulung:
3. April 2025 | 11:00–12:00 Uhr
Jetzt anmelden! https://uni-bielefeld.zoom.us/meeting/register/jOJNYZ9qTtKKYH2NNVgSMQ#/registration

SIGN UP for the OABN and OIPA's FREE webinar on Thursday on 'Good Metadata Practice!

Speakers from Thoth, EDItEUR & Penn State University Libraries
Audience Q&A
Learn why #MetadataMatters for #OAbooks & how to create & use it well

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gd3SXeoVRsCL0muKEpx2rQ#/registration

Join the Open Access Books Network (OABN) and the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) on 20 March. Featuring a panel of experts, and with plenty of time for questions, it's completely FREE!

Tobias Steiner (COO), Hannah Hillen (Metadata & Publisher Outreach Specialist) - Thoth Open Metadata
Graham Bell - Executive Director, EDItEUR
Jeffrey Edmunds - Digital Access Coordinator, Penn State Libraries

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gd3SXeoVRsCL0muKEpx2rQ#/registration

New blog post from us here at Thoth on #PIDs in #OAbooks publishing - in which we highlight some of the problems being encountered with the implementation of PIDs, and particularly DOIs for books when created by multiple agents in the distribution channel

#MetadataMatters

van Gerven Oei, V. W. J., Steiner, T., Hillen, H., & Higman, R. (2025). Maybe Persistent but Certainly Not Unique: On the Proliferation of DOIs in Open Access Book Publishing. Copim. https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.fb6181fd

Exciting news! We're exhibiting at #UKSG2025 alongside the Directory of Open Access Books and OAPEN

Find out more about us

Copim https://buff.ly/UsB8v2r
DOAB https://www.doabooks.org/
OAPEN https://www.oapen.org/

Coming to #UKSG2025

Free on the Monday evening (31 March)

Want to have informal drinks and chat (not necessarily all #OAbooks #infrastrucrure related!)

Join us at The Mesmerist, Brighton for #CopimCorner. We'll be there from 7:30pm onwards - come and say hi!

https://www.mesmerist.pub/

Are you going to the @UKSGofficial conference in Brighton on Monday 31 March?

Not going to the UKSG quiz?

Come and join us at COPIM CORNER at the Mesmerist from 7.30! We'll be talking #OAbooks, community-led OA and generally setting the world to rights.

All welcome!

We know #MetadataMatters for #OpenAccess books - so we're delighted to be co-organising this FREE WEBINAR on 'Good Metadata Practice for #OABooks' with the Open Institutional Publishers Association (OIPA).

Thurs 20 March
3pm GMT/4pm CET/11am EDT
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Gd3SXeoVRsCL0muKEpx2rQ#/registration

I will be chairing and I'll be joined by these fantastic speakers:

· Tobias Steiner & Hannah Hillen (@Thoth_metadata)
· Graham Bell (EDItEUR)
· Jeffrey Edmunds (Penn State Libraries)

NEW: We've added a new practice to the Experimental Publishing Compendium!

'Designing' explores the experimental design elements of experimental books and links to tools and books that can inspire authors:

https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/practices/58

NEW REPORT from our Experimental Publishing Group: 'Developing a Governance Model for the Experimental Publishing Compendium':

https://buff.ly/413d4un

The Group is currently working on expanding the Compendium, and the development of this governance model is part of that work.

We signed @investinopen 's timely Statement of Support for a Global Research Ecosystem because now is the time to support and sustain #openinfrastructures – for #oabooks and beyond!