Join us in person or online for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing, happening 21–22 May 2026 at Dublin City University Library. Call for Papers now open! Deadline: 9 January 2026 More details: www.openlibhums.org/news/859/ @janewayolh.bsky.social

COME TO DUBLIN WITH US! On 21-22 May 2026 we'll be organising the 2nd Janeway Symposium for anyone working in #openaccess & #opensource publishing. There'll be @openlibhums.org & @janewayolh.bsky.social merch, prizes to win, conversations about the future of scholarly publishing, pub visits & more.

NEW ISSUE: [in]Transition / @intransition.bsky.social Vol 12.3 Features 11 video essays, including a special section on ecocriticism & animal studies. Explore here: intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1672/i...

Exciting collaboration alert! 🚨🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher @the87press.bsky.social to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review. Read all about it here: www.openlibhums.org/news/854/ #literature #londonpoetry #openaccess

Interview with Naomi Morris, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, on her creative-critical PhD, career path, and the challenges and rewards of working in open access publishing: www.openlibhums.org/news/855/ #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH (@openlibhums.org) is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review. More on The Hythe Review: www.openlibhums.org/journals/ #WritingCommunity #the87press #literature #londonpoetry

Huge congratulations to our Director, @theblochian.bsky.social, who has just been promoted to Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture! 🎉🎉

Huge thanks for all the support since I started working at OLH in 2018 — already! Here’s to advancing diamond open access together 💜

The first issue of Theory & Social Inquiry is out via @openlibhums.bsky.social! Successor to Springer’s Theory & Society, the journal is now #DiamondOA / no APCs, no paywalls. Scholar-led & free from commercialisation, at a time when academic freedom needs defending: www.openlibhums.org/news/844/

Over a year ago, the editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Wiley) resigned in protest. They launched Political Philosophy, a non-profit, #diamondOA journal now published by OLH. The Wiley journal is now ending. Another reason to ask your institution to support OLH

🚷Opinión | Lo de Torre Pacheco tiene un nombre: terrorismo supremacista blanco. ✍🏼Paula Cáceres. https://elsal.to/43253

@theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, was recently invited to an event hosted by the N8 Research Partnership, a collective of 8 northern UK research-intensive universities: www.openlibhums.org/news/839/ (1/2) 👇

The #OAWeek 2025 theme, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" challenges us to reflect on who has access to education & research, how knowledge is created & shared, where it has come from & whose voices are recognized. More here: sparcopen.org/news/2025/th... & resources on #OAWeek here: www.openaccessweek.org

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⏳There's still time to apply for @openlibhums.bsky.social Open Access Award 2025! 💰Get up to £500 to help support events, projects or activities on #OpenAcess. 📆 Applications deadline is Mon 30th June. For more info 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/781/

No solo se arrasó un pueblo, sino también su memoria y cosmovisión. Fue una operación colonial extractivista dirigida a borrar su existencia y justificar la ocupación. Canarias debe reconocer ese trauma desde la verdad, no desde el mito y la fantasia elmajado.radiopimienta.org/2025/06/24/g...

🚨 Deadline: 30 June 🚨 Last chance to apply for this year’s OLH OA Awards: small grants supporting #openaccess publishing!

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Interested in #Publishing #OpenAccess via @openingthefuture.bsky.social‬ Find out more via our author testimonials ‪Daniel Silva 👉 buff.ly/ladsz0B @mgrana.bsky.social‬ 👉 buff.ly/xl6dPvA @drpetewatson.bsky.social ‪ 👉

Deadline: 30 June — Last chance to apply for this year’s OLH OA Awards: small grants supporting #openaccess publishing!

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

On the part of many Western countries, there is a manifest will to lie, to falsify narratives, to be complicit in the commission of indescribable crimes. No word will ever be able to describe this genocide, which carries with it all the inhumanity of the white world open.substack.com/pub/jairofun...

The Open Library of Humanities (@paulaclemente.bsky.social) was there too, a privilege to be part of a community driving diamond OA for books and journals forward!

🚨 Last call! 🚨 We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Really enjoyed representing @openlibhums.bsky.social at the #DIAMAS conference in Brussels yesterday. Had some great conversations about diamond OA, journals flips from commercial publishers, and what scholar-led publishing can achieve

This is getting out of hand

If any of our Bsky followers are job-seeking in academic publishing (OA publishing in particular), then this role would be tremendous to consider if you have experience in production: a great press to work for and a super team 😍🙌

I will never forget the Global North's endless invocation of "Israel has the right to defend itself", while a genocide was taking place. There is no excuse for this hypocrisy. Shame on every leader who enabled it

Editorial Officer (2137), Open Library of Humanities. End of play: June 08, 2025 | Birkbeck, University of London https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/editorial-officer-586819.html

Massive protests today in the Canary Islands (“the Canary Islands have a limit”) against the negative impacts of overtourism, namely on housing affordability and environmental degradation. Video taken in Tenerife by @eldia.es . 🧵

We're hiring an Editorial Officer to start in August 2025. Deadline for applications 8 June 2025. If you're an academic who is passionate about open access publishing we encourage you to apply. Position is fully remote!

Ya en mis manos el nuevo libro del escritor Canario Zebensui Martín, ahora a leerlo 🤩

Canarias tiene un límite #18Mayo

The OLH is thrilled to welcome Energy Humanities, a field-defining journal in #energystudies, to our portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. The journal will begin publishing with the OLH in 2026. Read more: www.openlibhums.org/news/811/ / @energyhumanities.bsky.social

With the move of @ilr-rit.bsky.social from Wiley to OLH, Dr Katherine Parker-Hay explores ILR's publishing history. Find out how ILR is working with OLH's @janewayolh.bsky.social team to offer multilingual workflows on our publishing platform: www.openlibhums.org/news/804/ #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Max Romeo - Rest in power

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/

Just as the prophecy foretold (and we are already past the beautiful moment)

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/

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...

A serious effort actually to "transform" to OA publishing, as opposed to the failure of "transformative agreements". The idea is to reinvest cancelled library subscriptions into OA titles... at scale. Hundreds of journals at once, without APCs. Several publishers involved. #UKSG2025

We're absolutely thrilled at @openlibhums.bsky.social to be involved in this vital initiative 🔥

Welcome to our new Bronze super-supporter, University of the Arts London! www.openlibhums.org/news/794/ Consortial library funding for #DiamondOA in action! The OLH is collectively funded by its member institutions and wouldn't be able to operate without their generous support.

Our Winter-Spring Newsletter is OUT! Don't miss the latest updates: new journals, latest supporters, OLH #OA Award 2025 call for applications, UKSG Podcast with our Executive Director @theblochian.bsky.social and more! mailchi.mp/openlibhums/...

Full schedule now available for the Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference on 10 and 11 April 2025 (online and Cambridge University Library): radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/...

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/

Political Philosophy / @polphiljournal.bsky.social celebrates its first year at OLH! 🎉 PP was launched in Jan 2024 following the resignation of the entire editorial board of the Journal of Political Philosophy, published by Wiley. Read more here: 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/791/

Delighted to announce that the European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) is moving to the Open Library of Humanities in 2025! www.openlibhums.org/news/789/ EJP is the first of several new journals joining the OLH in 2025, with more announcements coming soon. Watch this space 👀

"Academic publishing could be facing a watershed moment" thoughtful article (as ever) from @tweeterbarr.bsky.social www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... (no paywall)