Also cool: @c21literature.bsky.social runs on the software I co-created with the mighty @ajrbyers.bsky.social and uses the funding/business model I co-designed and built with the excellent @theblochian.bsky.social, making it all free for readers to access, thanks to 300+ global libraries.

If anyone wants to know how my week is going I just stood on an upturned plug.

Feeling quite emotional today - it's the OFFICIAL LAUNCH of @ojcollective.bsky.social! It's taken 14 months of hard work to get here & I'm incredibly proud of our brilliant team. This is just the beginning - more announcements coming soon from the collective! drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

This is hilarious. Don’t people realise the floppy part is inside? The outside isn’t disk shaped.

We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.

Our annual report 2024–2025 is OUT! It highlights collaborations, journal flips, latest dev work from @janewayolh.bsky.social, new staff and more! Library memberships grew by 25%, an incredible achievement at such a difficult time for higher education!

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️ Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access! The zombie poster is back! #DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

@aggrend.bsky.social any chance you know if they plan to fix the issue with the phase 8 weapon enchant procs?

The Lower Decks returns. We've launched our CFP for The Lower Decks 2.0. Check it out here: www.openlibhums.org/news/859/ @openlibhums.org @janewayolh.bsky.social

A Late Summer Secondment in the World of OLH Tech / @janewayolh.bsky.social: Read the blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern: www.openlibhums.org/news/856/

@aggrend.bsky.social I know Blizzard have dropped SoD... but please can someone allow us to reactivate the SE buff? It can't be that hard to add.

We’re tearing down the paywalls! 🚀🔓 The International Labour Review is going Open Access—100+ years of world-of-work research, now free for all. No barriers 🚧, no limits 🚀, just knowledge 📚✨ Proud to team up with @openlibhums.bsky.social to make this happen! 👀 More: ow.ly/e41850VuqAV

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

So. Texas Republicans are actively trying to have Democrats arrested. Where have we seen that before?

New publication in Digital Studies/Le champ numérique > “Remediation and Spectral Bibliography: Ghost Hunting in Early Modern Books” by Laura DeLuca (@laurasdeluca.bsky.social): doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

@aggrend.bsky.social what are the chances we might get SoD server merges?

To celebrate this (urp 🤢) exciting new journal series, we made a mini game! Can YOU guess which journals are Discover, MDPI, or both? No cheating! There's even the challenge mode "APC Ladder." Share your high score with the hashtag #ResearchIntegrity pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ FUN!! 🤮 6/n

@gwynnefitz.bsky.social and Ben Fractenberg capture vignettes all day from the check-in at an ICE office in Manhattan.

@aggrend.bsky.social thanks to you and the team for SoD, dude. It brought me back to WoW and may be the last version of it I play but it was really fun.

We're HIRING an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025! 📅 Deadline for applications: 8 June 2025. If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

@aggrend.bsky.social Got Mantle of Faith from Naxx last night (yay) but the light effect is super weird viewed from the back... is this a bug?

This is what I have to do in order to find time to write software these days.

And 10000000 Harvard Popes.

Hoy destacamos la Open Library of Humanities Journal, un recurso electrónico de interés en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. Accede a través de nuestra Biblioteca Virtual. ▶️ https://olh.openlibhums.org/ #recursosdeinformación

Open Press Editorial Manager at the University of Sussex www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS310/o...

Nobody expects the Scarlet Crusade!

Pleased to announce that the International Labour Review / @ilr-rit.bsky.social, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to #diamondOA with the Open Library of Humanities: www.openlibhums.org/news/797/

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/

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...

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

Great to see @michiganpublishing.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 - @abdnunipress.bsky.social's publishing partner 📘📖

💥 New: Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements 👩‍💻 @theblochian.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #ScholComm

How do I know that @uksg.bsky.social is on? I haven't received an email since 0800 this morning.

"Today, Monday 31st March 2025, is therefore a timely moment to be launching the Open Journals Collective (OJC) – an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers." blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Read more about the OJC here: www.openjournalscollective.org

We at @LSEPress are delighted to be part of this game changing initiative.

Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

Busted!!

y’all are wild

In further University of Greater Manchester news: We’ve been hearing that a campus lift has been out of order since the beginning of this year. Last week, an unknown satirist placed a plaque next to the broken lift, saying it was actually an art installation called 'Ascenseur'.

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

The latest issue of PubTech Radar Scan is out now covering Alchemist Review, zero-click journeys, Disentis Roadmap, new IOI Fund, openRxiv, CCC AI License, EasyJournal, AI Scientist-v2, YesNoError, ... open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...

Our colleague, @siobhanh.bsky.social, analyses Clarivate’s attempt to restrict libraries from securing perpetual access to content. This prioritises profit over preservation and raises major concerns about sustainability, equity, and access to knowledge. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/792/

We at @jepub.bsky.social are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our new special issue, On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (editor: @katinalynn.bsky.social)! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/33... [1/n]

Political Philosophy (@polphiljournal.bsky.social) celebrates its first year at OLH! 🎉 Read more: www.openlibhums.org/...

Starmer cosying up to Trump with his letter from the King is aging like milk now.

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social