On the 8th day before break, the Open Access community in 2025 gave to us: the launch of Open Journals Collective! 🎉 With the mission of expanding community funded open access journals @ojcollective.bsky.social is an important project for future of scholarly publishing www.openjournalscollective.org

We are delighted to be part of @ojcollective.bsky.social, and proud to be a #DiamondOpenAccess publisher. 💎 This is the only open access model which guarantees our content is available at no cost to either author or reader. Join the movement: www.openjournalscollective.org

Two great jobs - leading development of sustaiable funding for Diamond #OA journals ...

Excellent opportunities to work at @ojcollective.bsky.social #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OJC

Two jobs in a great organisation!

OJC are hiring and you could be a part of the growth of Diamond Open Access publishing!

The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC. 👇

We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links: openjournalscollective.org/static/engag... openjournalscollective.org/static/opera... Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!

The Center for Research Libraries & its NERL licensing program have announced their landmark partnership with @ojcollective.bsky.social. See here for more info: www.crl.edu/crl-nerl-joi... 1/2

A through-provoking piece from @theblochian.bsky.social, citing the @n8research.bsky.social Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing and anticipating the launch of @ojcollective.bsky.social, non-profit/community-led research infrastructure to fund diamond OA journals 💎 🔓

"Higher education wants new business models, not just a price cut." Clear, useful information and ideas here. I'm excited for the possibilities @ojcollective.bsky.social and other efforts offer. Nice to have some hope during these difficult days.

Happening today! @theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, will be speaking at today’s N8 event about the @ojcollective.bsky.social and OLH OLH is proud to be a founding member of OJC, and to have helped inspire its scholar-led, community-owned publishing model.

Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky

Listening to a hugely exciting talk from Dr Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social on the launch of the Open Journals Collective. Great to hear what is coming down the line with this new diamond OA publisher. #OA #DiamondOA #OJC

Wonderful to see @theblochian.bsky.social speak about the @ojcollective.bsky.social earlier. We are very proud to be a part of this exciting initiative. Check it out! openjournalscollective.org

We were at the #DIAMAS conference in Brussels yesterday, sharing our work on scholar-led, community-owned open access! OLH publishes 33 #DiamondOA journals, supports journal flips from commercial publishers, and co-founded @ojcollective.bsky.social to bring publishing back into the academy

Our own @theblochian.bsky.social will speak at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025! She’ll join others to discuss the new @ojcollective.bsky.social, a community-led, no-APC #OA alternative to big deals & transformative agreements. 📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/...

There has been a lot of discussion over the years on the rising cost of academic journal subscriptions to libraries. While commercial publishers report growth in profits, how should libraries respond to the increasing subscription costs? Well, there has been a response: @ojcollective.bsky.social...

Scaling up Diamond Open Access Journals Join this free webinar about @ojcollective.bsky.social, a new non-profit collective of academics, libraries & university-based publishers replacing unaffordable Transformative Agreements with an equitable alternative: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-up...

📣 April issue of the BL Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! This issue features: 🔹@copim.bsky.social community updates 🔹Launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social #OJC 🔹Heritage Science Data Service #HSDS 🔹Closing report from #ProjectRetain and more! us18.campaign-archive.com?u=03d177e620...

🔓 Caroline Edwards highlights the financial strain on UK universities from costly journal subscriptions & proposes the Open Journals Collective as a sustainable, community-led alternative for #OpenAccess publishing. Read more: shorturl.at/GBeRz #OpenScience #OpenKnowledge #OpenResearch #OpenData

If we truly want a sustainable, more equitable, and more bibliodiverse Diamond OA future, we cannot defer this to some theoretical optimal time. The @copim.bsky.social community (inc. @openbookcollective.bsky.social) and our expanding networks, including @ojcollective.bsky.social are here to help!

Positive spin – things break down a little, but this undermines a slightly warping commercial logic that has dominated for too long, and we come out of this with creative, partnership approaches for future dissemination of scholarly content

Scaling up – a lot of revenue-driven publishers told me that only they could offer the scale the sector needed, yet at the same conference @ojcollective.bsky.social was launched and @oipassoc.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social were out in force

The Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals & transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers, is just launched... a viable path toward bringing publishing back in-house at universities blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Really important development in genuinely free open access journals, free for authors, Open Access for readers - the Open Journals Collective www.openjournalscollective.org

Reclaiming Academic Publishing: The Launch of the Open Journals Collective - Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org/news/795/

[Veille] s'opposer, quitter les Accords "Transformants" (Read & Publish) : "Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements"; exemple avec Open Journals Collective => blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openaccess #publising #costofknowledge #openscience

Exciting news #openaccess

👏 What an exciting initiative! As an #OpenAccess publisher, we understand the importance of accelerating the advancement of academic #research while removing barriers for authors. OJC is a big step toward sustainable, equitable #OA, and we look forward to seeing its impact 🎉 #OpenScience

This is amazing work which all academics (especially in the humanities), university administrators and policy makers should read @rhul-cvs.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

Some context here from my years of work on the Open Library of Humanities. Open Journals Collective is the opportunity we need to spread no-APC OA widely. Cancel Transformative Agreements (which aren't working). Use that money to fund this package of hundreds of OA journals. eve.gd/2025/04/02/o...

The funding crisis in #UK #HigherEd is forcing academic #libraries to make cuts. The @ojcollective.bsky.social is a viable alternative to commercial models for scaling #OpenAccess to journals, writes Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 👇

Reclaiming academic publishing: @ojcollective.bsky.social is a community-led, no-APC #openaccess alternative to corporate publishers + transformative agreements/ big deals. Fund #diamondOA. Cancel TAs & big deals. Let’s build something better, together: www.openlibhums.org/news/795/

Great to see the Open Journals Collective launched in this @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blog - forging an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications. 👏 @theblochian.bsky.social #OpenAccess #JournalPublishing

From @lseimpactblog.bsky.social the UK uni funding crisis (and the effect on #AcademicLibraries) and the Open Journals Collective as an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications - I would argue for this type of initiative in Australia also 💡 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

We cannot emphasise enough how proud we are to be involved with the new Open Journals Collection! @ojcollective.bsky.social will work on flipping and retaining Diamond OA journals, providing a much needed alternative to transformative agreements. Watch this space!

I’m happy to see the Open Journals Collective being launched. Our own @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social is part of this fantastic collective. Please do follow, like and subscribe (as the kids say these days!)

The launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social will transform the OA journals landscape and I'm thrilled @uclpress.bsky.social's Ian Caswell is leading our participation in this initiative 🥳 Follow on @ojcollective.bsky.social and take a look at the new website for more info openjournalscollective.org

Wonderful to celebrate the launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social at @uksg.bsky.social! Swing by the OIPA stall (78) and grab a postcard. Find out more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I’m proud to be involved with @ojcollective.bsky.social - an innovative opportunity for libraries to invest in equitable and community-led open access at scale

I am enormously excited about the potential of the Open Journals Collective, and very much looking forward to seeing how it develops!

@theblochian.bsky.social launching the @ojcollective.bsky.social at #UKSG2025, building on a decade of @openlibhums.bsky.social experience supporting AHSS journals via a diamond model 👏

Very excited to see this new initiative focused on equitable open access!

So thrilled @lsepress.bsky.social is part of this new initiative for journals - being launched by @theblochian.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 today @ojcollective.bsky.social

Find flyers at #UKSG2025 stands 33 (us) and 78 @oipassoc.bsky.social Please share the news 📣

Really happy to be involved with this exciting initiative ...

Today we launch the Open Journals Collective, an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers. Proud to be part of it! 🙌 🔗 www.openjournalscollective.org 📖 Read the accompanying blog post: shorturl.at/H6p0M #openaccess #scholcomm

We're delighted to be a part of this exciting new initiative! bsky.app/profile/ojco...

We're delighted to welcome @ojcollective.bsky.social to Bluesky. Take a look at their website www.openjournalscollective.org, which soft launches today. There is also a blog post blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #scholcomm #AcademicChatter #libraries #openaccess