Live at @cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures conference right now ... @thoth-metadata.bsky.social
▶️ Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books
🗣️ Hannah Hillen @rupertgatti.bsky.social @emmabooth.bsky.social
Photo: Yuanpei Hua on Unsplash
Members of our Archiving & Digital Preservation Group are taking to the stage at @cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures conference shortly!
▶️ What should open archiving look like for open access publications?
🗣️ Gareth Cole Jenny Mitcham @rupertgatti.bsky.social
Photo: Anna Auza via Unsplash
Members of our Archiving & Digital Preservation Group are taking to the stage at @cilipmdg.bsky.social #MetaFutures conference shortly!
▶️ What should open archiving look like for open access publications?
🗣️ Gareth Cole Jenny Mitcham @rupertgatti.bsky.social
Photo: Anna Auza via Unsplash
Join @morphss.bsky.social for their catalogue launch event and panel discussion next week!
The panel of experts features @openreflections.bsky.social from our Experimental Publishing Group!
📆 Thurs, 19 March
⏲️ 3-4:30 pm GMT
📍 Online
Register now! buff.ly/q3tc1UH
#OpenResearch #AHSS
Update from @clacso.bsky.social who received a #CDF grant in 2025 ⬇️
Read @heroicendeavour.bsky.social's editorial on the vulnerability of long-form scholarship and the importance of collective funding models in the latest CILIP Buyers' Guide. 👇
oh wait, got a bit excited there and didn't attach the right flyer whoops: Monday 30th a nice alt for anyone not doing the conference quiz but who'd like to chat to other attendees. 7.30pm onwards, informal, at Finnieston Taphouse (same venue as last time in Glasgow) on Argyle Street. All welcome.
The People™️ have spoken ... #CopimCorner is back for #UKSG2026 🥳
So if you're not going to the official quiz and fancy some informal chat (doesn't have to be work related!) and drinks, join us!
📆 Monday 30 March
⏰️ 1930 onwards
📍 buff.ly/XbGyQsL
@oipassoc.bsky.social @uksg.bsky.social
WE'RE GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT 😆
🔎 Keeping track of research & publishing tools
New research and #PublishingTools appear all the time, making it hard to keep track. A recent EDCH Forum discussion highlights catalogues that help map the landscape.
🔷 Join the discussion and help build a shared list of resources: bit.ly/3P19Cg9
Tagging @emmabooth.bsky.social properly!
Then ...
▶️ Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books
🗣️@emmabooth.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social Hannah Hillen @thoth-metadata.bsky.social
🕰️ 16:00-16:40
Photo by David Kimmel Ossa on Unsplash
Members of team @copim.bsky.social are speaking on Thurs, 12 March
First up is ...
▶️ What should open archiving look like for open access publications?
🗣️ Gareth Cole, Jenny Mitcham @rupertgatti.bsky.social
🕰️ 13:55 - 14:30
Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash
The @cilipmdg.bsky.social conference starts today!
📆 11-13 March
📍 Bristol, UK
The theme #MetaFutures is inspired by the legacy of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
More info, including full programme, on the conference website
👉 buff.ly/yeRwQ4o
Photo by Jarred Kyle on Unsplash
Patience ... all will be revealed!
Tune in at 1230 tomorrow ⏰
The @openbookcollective.bsky.social welcomes @newcastleuni.bsky.social as a supporting member 🩷
To learn more about how your institution can support the #OBC, head over to their website 👉 buff.ly/3jywr2b
#OpenAccess #Books #CollectiveInfrastructure
We're getting excited too!!
You can find the team on exhibition stand no. 66 and lots of us are speaking too!
Full programme 👉 www.uksg.org/events/confe...
We're pleased to announce that registration is LIVE! 🎉
Head over to Eventbrite now to bag yourselves a ticket 🎫
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/practicing...
FYI one ticket covers both days!
@openreflections.bsky.social @simonxix.com
[WORKSHOP] Benefits and Barriers - Open Metadata for Books in Latin America
Join @openbookcollective.bsky.social for a multilingual interactive event chaired by @amandaramalho.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @books.scielo.org
📆 11 March
Find out more and register!
🔗
Nice to see @copim.bsky.social's blog being linked to from here: council.science/blog/open-sc... @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @verfassungsblog.de @pkp.sfu.ca etc.
A call to arms from for all #Copimconference attendees to keep engaging with us via our new mailing list 💪
Feed into what's next for #openaccess and #openinfrastructures
Subscribe to copim@jiscmail.ac.uk 👉 buff.ly/Kij8Abw
Photo credit: Philip Oroni via Unsplash
Looking forward to joining @oipassoc.bsky.social tomorrow!
Janneke Adema @openreflections.bsky.social & Rebekka Kiesewetter join Terence Smyre to discuss the theoretical & practical aspects of experimental & enhanced publishing
Find out about our Experimental Publishing Group 👉
For those that missed it - videos of all sessions at the @copim.bsky.social conference last week are now available on the Internet Archive.
Lots of enthusiasm and stimulating discussion around community-led publishing of #openaccessbooks ....
archive.org/details/copi...
🚨A reminder that the 2026 call closes TOMORROW!
📝 Get your application in now!
🚨 SAVE THE DATE!
Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce a two-day online conference on Experimental Publishing Practices
Join us next month to celebrate 3 fantastic experimental book pilot projects!
📆 8–9 April 2026
👉 buff.ly/5J80AJO
We'll be sending out requests for feedback on #CopimConference shortly 📩
As this is coming from within Eventbrite it MAY go to your Junk folder ...
Please keep an eye out for it and spare 10 mins to complete the form 🙏
[BLOG] Thoth Open Metadata and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)
Join @thoth-metadata.bsky.social on their deep dive into the results of a recently conducted self-assessment against v2.0 of #POSI
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Love the new look 👏😍
What a line up! 👏
There's still time to register 👉 www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
Two people standing at a lectern at Oxford University delivering a brilliant talk
Brilliant discussion rethinking governance in publishing and research from @kirahopkins.bsky.social and @kjsanders.bsky.social at The Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship #OXFOS26
