Copim 'Open Book Futures' Project. Helping presses flip to OA monographs through 'Opening the Future' 🔗openingthefuture.net Academic publishing, scholarly comms, HE, open access. @copim.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3meisl5niqc2wThis is so great to see - OtF beginning to grow to include v small presses that looking for a route to sustainable/reliable #openaccess book publishing. Hope to see libraries get behind this if they can - increasing their own local collections while simultaneously funding OA. Hat tip @eve.gd! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Feb 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3meisl5niqc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3m4sdf2ansk2t@eve.gd 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts. Great Scott! From this : https://eve.gd/2020/10/22/backlist-to-the-future-a-new-business-model-for-university-presses-and-open-access-books/ to this: https://bsky.app/profile/openingthefuture.bsky.social/post/3m4scnmqll22t [Backlist to the Future stickers COMING SOON to a conference near you 😆] [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Nov 2025 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4sdf2ansk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3m4632fp6z22oAnyone interesting in the future of OA books, come and attend our conference next year, join the conversation! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Oct 2025 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4632fp6z22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3m3s5vvfdhs2tCEU Press were the first press to take a chance on a new OA model in 2021 and they, and the member libraries, have made such a success of it since 😍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Oct 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3s5vvfdhs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3m2tjdqlxkk24Read wot we have wrote [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tjdqlxkk24https://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lwbgjtnfdk2mGreat article/primer on unintended consequences of the clumsy new 'online safety legislation'. What a clusterfuck. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Aug 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbgjtnfdk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lw55q7uuxs26A great job for someone and a great org to work for 👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Aug 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw55q7uuxs26https://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lu5sqhwfh22aCan't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2025 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu5sqhwfh22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lsghe6v62s2yI can't repost this enough times ❤️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jun 2025 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsghe6v62s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lrsmop5ies2aThis one has been in the works a while so I'm super pleased it's finally ready to go! Opening the Future is expanding with a 3rd publisher, Michigan State University Press 🥳🎉 with books on African & Diaspora studies. Any library interested in enhancing their coll in this field, pls do get in touch! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jun 2025 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrsmop5ies2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/scholtom.bsky.social/post/3lrfv3rilbs2rChris Pressler (Library Director at U of Manchester) really pulling no punches in his intro at this event "we need to walk away from exploitative publishing practices" @copim.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Jun 2025 12:06 +0000at://did:plc:gcwbsede5e7nl4afoc6magqk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrfv3rilbs2r