We recently said au revoir to our OIPA Secretary – @dominiquewalker.bsky.social! Dominique was instrumental in the smooth running of OIPA – we miss her and wish her all the best in her new adventure with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). Thank you for everything, Dominique!

📣CHAOS IS COMING FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 📣 Watch out, there are radical publishing models about! @theblochian.bsky.social's latest article on "working together to move to a non-profit, community-governed publishing system" is a vital read, especially in these uncertain times.

Any Glasgow academic pals - please let your students know about this free 'Libraries that shaped me' event happening tonight at Kelvin Hall!

🎉 Thrilled that the first ever issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research has published today, #DiamondOA of course! This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice. Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article! 👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88

Calling all Glasgow and Central Belt folks - please do join us at the Mitchell Library on Sunday for our event with Tim Ingold. Tickets are only £8! There may be a pub trip afterwards 🤔

We love to see it! Dominique from @scotunipress.bsky.social and John from @uniwestpress.bsky.social show off the OIPA member’s catalogue at @meccsa2025.bsky.social! Pop over and say hi to chat about their fantastic books and about OIPA 💪 #MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25

If you are at @meccsa2025.bsky.social, pop up to level 2 to speak to SUP Publishing Officer, Dominique Walker, about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! Great to be at one of our member institutions @edinburghnapier.bsky.social for the next couple of days! #MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25 #ENU

👀 Check out this interview with SUP's Gillian Daly, published in @cilip.bsky.social's #InformationProfessional magazine! "Library publishing is an evolution of our role as we take forward the overarching library mission of making information accessible for all." 👇 content.yudu.com/web/43mce/0A...

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?' Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

Ridiculously light for 11.30pm!

Looking forward to running this free online #training session next week with my colleague Kat Nelson. This one offers an overview to the book publishing process - please share with any colleagues/networks who might find this useful ⬇️ @oipassoc.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #ECR #AcademicSky

Please do stop by the SUP stall at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) conference @bacls.bsky.social at the University of Stirling. Our Commissioning Editor, @paulmclarke.bsky.social, will be delighted to talk to you about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! 👋

If you’re at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week, stop by the @scotunipress.bsky.social stand to find out more about institutional Open Access publishing, and to chat about publishing with SUP

I love an excuse to visit the beautiful University of Stirling campus!

What is a University Press? On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are. eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

Congratulations to @uclpress.bsky.social on ten years of open access book publishing. I still think one of the biggest successes of the UK approach to OA has been the resurgence of the subsidised university press landscape. www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

I suspect we lose far more access to content every year through publishers’ restrictive licensing of ebooks than we do from weeding print books.

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social. Details here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

Becky and @dominiquewalker.bsky.social are back at it again! This time we are promoting OIPA at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference. If you’re here, come say hi 👋

Some good discussion of openwashing from commercial publishers and their proprietary platforms in the Q&A. Redirect your money from commercial publishers to community-led open access publishers. #EORC25

good to see the elegant @scotunipress.bsky.social table (with all those brand new books!) at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 www.sup.ac.uk #EORC25 @dominiquewalker.bsky.social

At the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference today. Great to hear from @kjsanders.bsky.social and @judithfathallah.bsky.social on the awesome @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and always enjoy seeing @oipassoc.bsky.social member logos on slides 😄

I love getting to go to these events and learning about the awesome research projects at our member institutions. Didn't so much enjoy carting the pop-up banner on the train 😂 More of the same tomorrow at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social festival!

Great panel session with Gillian Daly from @scurlscottish.bsky.social along with @simonjbains.bsky.social, @martinamcc.bsky.social and Evelyn Kilmurry with useful examples of how we articulate the value of HE libraries and public libraries, and the skills we need as a profession! #CILIPS25

Thanks to SLIC's Alison Nolan for mentioning how academic libraries are leading the way with innovative #OpenAccess publishing models in her keynote at #CILIPS25 - including a shout out for @scotunipress.bsky.social 😄

Watch the recording of our fireside chat with Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social marking the launch of 'The vow of stability'. Richard covers his experiences of life in a Benedictine monastery, his thoughts on stability and more challenging topics such as sexual abuse. 👉 youtu.be/DtjjP2k1DoU

The recording of the fireside chat celebrating the launch of 'Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century' is now available! Thanks to Bridgette Wessels, Andrew Prescott and Michelle Doran for a great discussion and answering our questions 🙋 Watch it here 👇 youtu.be/Az9v6kDpp8M?...

This is a great blog post from Richard Irvine about his latest book, published today with @scotunipress.bsky.social! Especially the part about being a huge fan of libraries 😄 It was great working with @robotforaday.bsky.social on this title!

🌟 It's publication day for 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'! 👏Congratulations to Dr Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social on his unique account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery. Download #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #SocialAnthropology

Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-first Century launched this morning: thanks to Bridgette Wessels, Andrew Prescott, and Michelle Doran for participating in the session hosted by @scotunipress.bsky.social. The book is #openaccess: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities

Little day trip to Edinburgh for the @publishingscotland.bsky.social Scottish Book Trade Conference. Looking forward to learning more about the current publishing landscape in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚

We are thrilled to announce that SUP is launching an #OpenAccess textbooks programme! We are seeking to address the significant need for more affordable and accessible educational resources across the UK higher education landscape. Read more here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis... #Textbooks #OERs

Offering a unique anthropological account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery, 'The vow of stability' by Richard Irvine publishes on 20 May! Join Richard for a fireside chat to learn more: 📅 22 May ⏰ 2pm BST 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/the-vow... @robotforaday.bsky.social #SocialAnthropology

We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass 🧭 This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks 🛠️ Learn more & get started today! 🚀 🔗 buff.ly/evuQYdn #OA #Monographs #LaunchDay

Anyone at @uofglasgow.bsky.social today, pop over to the ARC to chat to me about #OpenAccess publishing, and take a look at our latest book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century! Available for free here: doi.org/10.62637/sup...

OUT NOW! Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century, edited by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social et al. is now published #OpenAccess 20 chapters reflecting on the current state and future of the scholarly edition 📖 Read and download free: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #DigitalHumanities

It’s conference week for me this week - now at #REDUX2025 hosted by OUP. Great to see @oipassoc.bsky.social Chair, Kate Petherbridge, talking about the work of @whiteroselibraries.bsky.social UP and OIPA (Open Institutional Publishing Association) in this morning’s plenary 👏

It has been a pleasure spending three days shouting about all the amazing work OIPA have been doing to build a community for open institutional publishing 💪 Chuffed at how many people visited our stand and engaged with us. I'm all talked out! #UKSG2025 @oipassoc.bsky.social

Having a blast at #UKSG2025 with my OIPA and COPIM buddies!

Great to see the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand at #UKSG25. Books & flyers from members such as @lsepress.bsky.social @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social & even some new @ojcollective.bsky.social flyers! #OpenAccess

If you are at #UKSG2025 I'll be hanging around stand 78 with fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members! 👋 Come and have a look at some of our books and journals, steal some lovely OIPA merch and chat to us about #OpenAccess institutional publishing!

I'm looking forward to chatting about @scotunipress.bsky.social and #OpenAccess books for the Open University next week! Take a look at the full line up of talks, some really interesting stuff happening in the world of open research: research.open.ac.uk/events/open-...

At least Springer Nature is doing well while higher education is collapsing all over the place. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

To celebrate #WorldBookDay we are announcing our third book 📚 'The vow of stability' by Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social is a close study of the rhythms and challenges of community life in an English Benedictine monastery. Publishes #OpenAccess in May! www.sup.ac.uk/forthcoming-...

SCURL Executive Officer, Gillian Daly, has joined the IFLA Library Publishing group to represent the work going on in academic libraries in Scotland through @scotunipress.bsky.social Follow @ifla-libpub.bsky.social for an international perspective on #LibraryPublishing

We are delighted that Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is joining the SUP Editorial Board! 👋 Brianna is passionate about #OpenAccess and represents small specialist institutions. www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-wel... @breerob-kirk.bsky.social @rcsofficial.bsky.social

Want to learn about metadata for #OpenAccess books but not sure where to start? Join us for the Good Metadata Practice for Open Access Books webinar – hosted by OIPA & @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social. 📆 20 March 2025 🕙 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 11:00 EDT Sign up for free: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The absolute coup de grace of universities scrambling to find the money for 20K+ OUP BPCs is that the surplus ultimately gets funnelled to one of the richest universities in the world at a time when higher ed is on fire.

We are delighted that @rhonabrown.bsky.social from @uofglasgow.bsky.social has recently taken on the role of Chair of the SUP Editorial Board! Read our new blog where Rhona talks about her role, open access in the humanities and her aspirations for SUP #OpenAccess 📚 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/qanda-w...

📢 Editorial Board vacancy! We have a vacancy for an editorial board member to represent @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social, @rcsofficial.bsky.social and @srucnews.bsky.social. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the direction of SUP! Learn more about the role here: www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-edi...