@copim @Thoth_metadata @openreflections @joe_dev

Following in the footsteps of Sarah's interview with us, @alittleroad and I got together and reflected a bit more about how @copim has worked to document the variety of Work Packages' activities, and how - guided by COPIM's overall set of values - we've tried to do so in open ways by using #FLOSS tools, platforms, and #open #infrastructure such as @bigbluebutton, @cryptpad, Jitsi, @nextcloud, Zenodo, @zotero, and PubPub.

#OAbooks

Steiner, T., & Barnes, L. (2023). Building open infrastructure step-by-step: COPIM’s approach to open documentation via PubPub. PubPub Community Spotlight https://help.pubpub.org/pub/mden459s

Good to see the amount of independent bookshops in the UK is at its highest level for a decade. The number of these #bookstores has continued to rise for the seventh consecutive year, reaching a total of 1,072 shops. That's a significant increase from their lowest point of 867 shops back in 2016.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/london-book-fair/article/92066-london-book-fair-2023-u-k-bookstore-numbers-hit-ten-year-high.html

Also good that independent publishers are doing well:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/16/uk-indie-publishing-mavericks-shook-up-books-booker-nobel-fitzcarraldo-sort-of-books-daunt

So we can say there is something of a change in who is #publishing and disseminating #books. What we can’t say so much is that there is a change in how they are doing so.

#OAbooks #writing #openness #open

Our colleague @flavoursofopen is gearing up and getting ready for #LIBER23 ... and this is what he'll be bringing along: make sure to be on the lookout for our **Thoth bags** - we only have a limited number of them available, so get yours as soon as possible 😀 🎉

Also, do check in with colleagues at our @copimproject@hcommons.social conference stand (we'll be on the 1st floor, booth #16 😉), for a catch-up on all things #OAbooks, e. g.

Lots to talk about re: @openbookcollect and Opening the Future, with colleagues @ScholTom, and Francesca, and Toby will also be there to talk about our work on making a truly open book metadata ecosystem become reality. ❤️

Work with a friendly, international team to help deliver a more equitable and sustainable future for #OpenAccess #OAbooks publishing.

More info on the OBF project:
https://doi.org/10.21428/785a6451.39b2b1ea

📢 More @COPIMproject hiring! 📢

We are looking for an excellent Project Manager to lead the new Open Book Futures project.

This crucial role is based out of Lancaster University Library, with remote working options. Part time (3 days per week), with flexible hours.

More information: https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0296-23-R

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #Jobs #Vacancy

Our colleague Ross Higman has worked tirelessly to investigate interaction options with various archiving platforms for #OAbooks - a documentation mini-🧵

Their notes (incl. APIs, etc.) have now been published on our ever-growing Thoth Wiki where they hopefully will be useful for other developers seeking to connect to these platforms.

Take, for example, the detailed writeup of how to use the #SWORD protocol, which is useful to connect to #DSpace and #EPrints repositories. #openinfra #archiving #opensource

https://github.com/thoth-pub/thoth/wiki/SWORD

🎂 Congratulations to @nielsstern, @RonaldSnijder and all at the Directory of Open Access Books to your 10-year anniversary - the DOAB is such an important #openinfra and we hope you'll be around for another 10x10x10 years to come 🥳!

Oh, and thank you very much for your mentioning Thoth together with SciELO Books, we are humbled and deeply grateful for your support! 🙏

Read more about how the DOAB has advanced its mission over the past ten years to develop #openinfrastructures for the distribution and discoverability of #OAbooks (incl. monographs, edited collections, and other long-form publications) 👇🏽

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/06/14/guest-post-towards-global-equity-for-open-access-books/

📢 Our wonderful colleagues over at the Open Book Collective (OBC) are looking for a colleague interested in helping them advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

This position funded until the end of April 2026.

Colleagues at the OBC are looking for someone to support engagement work both in person and remotely in UK/EU locations / timezones.

End of play for applications is July 9, 2023

#OAbooks #nonprofit #jobs #openinfra

Further info & contact 👇🏽

https://openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-access-engagement-lead/release/2

Some personal news: I'm really excited to share that as of today, and after having served @copim as Project Manager for more than three years, I'm now joining @Thoth_metadata as COO (apparently that is a thing?) & Product Manager 👋

In the coming months and years, we'll be working to bring fully open, #CC0-licensed #metadata for #OAbooks to more publishers, including those involved with the lovely folks over at Open Book Collective (@openbookcollect@twitter.com, who will also soon be joining the #fediverse, I hear), while also expanding our range of open #metadata output formats, further developing the Thoth Archiving Network (#archiving & #preservation), and working to further improve #accessibility and #bibliodiversity aspects of Thoth via our participation in the Open Book Futures project (aka. our next phase of COPIM) ... it's definitely not going to be boring! 😄

This has been a really fun conversation, thanks so much to Sarah for hosting us on the PubPub Community Spotlight!

Interested in hearing us talk about @copim 's work to imagine a community-led open ecosystem for #OAbooks, Scaling Small, metadata and @Thoth_metadata , the Open Book Collective, and COPIM's exciting next phase of Open Book Futures?

Adema, J., Deville, J., Steiner, T., & Gulliford (Kearns), S. (2023). Creating resilient publishing infrastructures. PubPub Community Spotlight https://help.pubpub.org/pub/n5lqcqb4

'Pre-call: Experimental Book Pilots' by Julien Hardy

In autumn 2023, we'll launch a call for 3 experimental publication projects. If you already have ideas for a potential book project, we’d love to learn more about it!

Find out more: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/pre-call-experimental-book-pilots/release/3

9/9

#OAbooks

'On patents & datebooks' by Julien McHardy

A conversation about the making of Performing Patents Otherwise, one of several experimental book pilot projects conducted by COPIM's experimental publishing group: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/on-patents-and-datebooks/release/7

7/9

#OAbooks #ExperimentalPublishing

'Experimenting with Workflows for Open Peer Review' by Janneke Adema

This post reflects on how we set up an open peer review workflow for the publication, and with that for the book series as a whole: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/experimenting-with-opr-workflows-post7/release/1

6/9

#OAbooks #ExperimentalPublishing

'Automating Exhibition Catalogue Creation' by Simon Worthington

We explore a prototype that creates exhibition catalogues, based on the earlier developed technical workflow for computational publishing: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/automating-exhibition-catalogue-creation/release/1

5/9

#OAbooks #ExperimentalPublishing

'Conversations on Archiving and Preserving Computational Books' by Janneke Adema

We discuss issues of archiving & preservation in relation to the computational prototypes we have created as part of our Computational Books Pilot Project: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/conversations-on-archiving-and-preserving-computational-books/release/1

4/9

#OAbooks

'Experimenting with Copyright Licences' by Gary Hall

For the first book in the Combinatorial Books Pilot Project, we discuss our rationale for choosing a CC-BY licence & its limitations & potentials for more collaborative scholarship: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-documentation-copyright-licences-post6/release/1

2/9

#OAbooks

NEW BLOG POSTS: here follows an epic series of toots about the recent blog posts published by COPIM's Experimental Publishing team!

They document the final phases of the #ExperimentalPublishing work of the last 3.5 years. Pour a tea or coffee & enjoy a Friday break with these writings... 1/9 #OAbooks

Booking is open for the National Acquisitions Group (NAG) Academic Libraries Collection Development Seminar in London on 25th May 2023!
https://nag.org.uk/event/seminar23/

#libraries #content #acquisitions #collections #collectiondevelopment #sustainability #openaccess #OABooks
#seminar #joinus

😍 at long last, the Experimental Publishing Compendium has been unveilled just earlier today as part of the WP6 panel of @copim 's end-of-project conference!

The Compendium is such a fantastic resource that does not want to only be a database of sorts ... More than that, and building on the research conducted by the Experimental Publishing group (aka. COPIM's WP6) comprising @openreflections, @simonxix, @hardyjuls@twitter.com, @garyhall, @Rebekka_Kie, the Compendium seeks to highlight the rhizomatic connections that exist between tools and platforms, practices such as collaborative writing, forking, annotating, remixing, etc., and numerous examples to showcase the interplay between practices and tools / platforms and outputs in the complex and ongoing adventure that experimental publishing can be #OAbooks #ScalingSmall #OpenInfra

Find out more at:

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

TODAY IS THE DAY! First day of our “Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books” conference is coming up later!

You can still sign up (there's no delegate fee and it's online): https://scalingsmall.pubpub.org

Join us!

#OAbooks #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure