mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Professor in Science and Technology Studies at Lancaster University. @COPIM #OpenBookFutures Project Lead. Managing Director @openbookcollect@mastodon.social. Director of CSS Lancaster. Editor at Mattering Press. Co-founder ScholarLed. #STS scholar and #OpenAccess #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure advocate
Very much appreciate @juancommander@mastodon.social's reminder to us, at the start of what promises to be a dynamic post-lunch panel at #OASPA2025 that @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social is, at root, a scholar and research led initiative. The academic system needs to take the work of building community-led, open source/access initiatives much more seriously as a valid and vital form of academic labour
Looking forward to my presentation on @openbookcollect@mastodon.social tomorrow at #Munin2025, here in lovely Tromsø. As well as introducing our work, I will be highlighting some examples from our interviews with librarians in Finland and Sweden, drawing on our recently published report on barriers to supporting #DiamondOA across 6 European contexts: https://zenodo.org/records/17339946 @MuninConf@mastodon.world
Happy to be here at the #OASPA2025 conference at the University of Leuven, to see Demmy Verbeke @viroviacum@hcommons.social from the university (and also an @openbookcollect@mastodon.social Steward/Trustee) open proceedings in the beautiful Irish College
The new UKRI funding model for #OAbooks has potentially major consequences for Diamond OA long form publishing, including for our work on building @openbookcollect@mastodon.social. In this post, my @copim@hcommons.social colleagues & I welcome its key principles while asking Qs about details of implementation https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/copim-response-to-ukri-funding-mechanism-for-diamond-open-access-book-models/release/1