BLOG POST READING: 'How Traditional Water Wisdom Could Solve Modern Problems'

Alice Battersby reflects on the new #OpenAccess textbook, 'Hydrology for Sustainability' by Stephanie Kampf & how people throughout history have managed to work with water in clever and surprising ways:

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'The Uprising' is released in the UK today — but its Robin Hood references take liberties with history 🏹

For a different take on the #PeasantsRevolt, try 'When Katherine Brewed' by O’Brien & Cresswell: a carefully sourced play about revolt & radicalism.

Read free: buff.ly/AzePEIZ

#TheUprising

Discover how water science can shape a more sustainable future in this new #OpenAccess textbook! 💧

'Hydrology for #Sustainability' combines modern science & Indigenous water knowledge to address climate change, scarcity & flooding.

Freely available for reading & teaching:

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NEW POST & VIDEO | 'Distributing knowledge for equity — An evolving concept and a call for action'

Recording of & reflections on our recent webinar to explore openness & equity in the distribution of knowledge -- plus a call to action!

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#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #HigherEd

Thanks so much @openbookpublish.bsky.social for helping spread the word about this -- the results will be available later this month, just in time for the midterms!

NEW POST & VIDEO | 'Distributing knowledge for equity — An evolving concept and a call for action'

Recording of & reflections on our recent webinar to explore openness & equity in the distribution of knowledge -- plus a call to action!

buff.ly/zWUc2tD

#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #HigherEd

NEW EVENT | 'Shaping the Future of Diamond Open Access for Books: Have Your Say'

Find out more about how you can feed in to the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) for books!

📍Online, free
📆 Monday 12 October
⏰ 10-11am BST / 11am-12pm CEST

us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW - @defendresearch.bsky.social campaign to raise money to conduct a rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the aggregated impact of U.S. government censorship:

donorbox.org/defendresearch

Lots of #CopimCommunity are also members of OPERAS

👋 @openbookcollective.bsky.social @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org

They share the benefits of membership via the blog series 'Voices of OPERAS UK'

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ICYMI—Mon, Oct. 5 virtual book launch for "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh of @scholarslab.bsky.social

Details: https://bit.ly/47uXauZ

@openbookpublish.bsky.social
@walshbr.bsky.social

#DH #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess

NEW BOOK | Nicaragua Azul: Natural History of Nicaragua’s Subaquatic Ecological Heritage

Discover the underwater life that inhabits the depths of Nicaragua's coastal waters & its rivers, lakes, lagoons & estuaries.

Read freely or buy online: buff.ly/ddZ0aUa

#OpenAccess #Nicaragua #MarineScience

How do you persuade your institution to fund open access? Join us on 22 October (11:00 CEST / 10:00 BST) for a free Open Access Week webinar with colleagues from the University of Essex and TU Delft, plus the Open Book Collective. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Have we mentioned... that we're 18 today? 🎉 📚️

We're celebrating this milestone by sharing a post with 18 thoughts on publishing as an #OpenAccess, scholar-led press — one for every year!

See you again for more celebrations when we publish our 500th book... 🔜

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#OAbooks

Happy 18th birthday @openbookpublish.bsky.social! 🎂 Below they share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years'. Particular nod to no. 12 'Infrastructure is essential': "One of Copim’s mottoes is ‘no open access without open infrastructure’ and we would agree wholeheartedly..."
@copim.bsky.social #OpenInfras

🎉 We are 18 today! 🎉

If you'd like to get us a birthday gift, we'd be thrilled if you'd join our Patreon. Tiers range from £1-50 a month w/various benefits, and you're directly supporting our #OA book publishing, making research free for everyone w/ no author fees.

Thank you! 🎁

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🎉 Open Book Publishers is 18 today! 🎉

To celebrate this milestone & reflect on 18 years of publishing Diamond #OpenAccess books, we share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years' on our experience as an independent, scholar-led #OA press

Enjoy & raise a glass of your drink of choice with us!

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THREAD 🧵 ⬇️

A very generous and engaged liveskeet by @roopikarisam.bsky.social exploring @walshbr.bsky.social's 'Embedded Pedagogies'

The book is #OpenAccess and can be read for free or you can buy a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

At least one person asked if the book launch event on 10/5 was open to the public. Yes! That's the whole reason I made it virtual. The press is international, and the majority of people who asked after a launch event were non-local. So join if you'd like.

cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296