Special thanks to the organisers, the @openlibhums.org, @michiganpublishing.bsky.social and @dublincitylibs.bsky.social, for bringing together such an engaging and thoughtful event for the Janeway community.

Many thanks to everyone who joined #JanewayOA26 online and in person, and to all the speakers, for two wonderful days at Dublin City University discussing Janeway, open infrastructure, and community-led scholarly publishing.

Ready for Day 1 of The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing at Dublin City University! #JanewayOA26

📣 The first OIPA Newsletter is here! We’re excited to share OIPA's first newsletter. It's packed full of updates, member highlights and insights from across the community. 🔗 Read the newsletter: mailchi.mp/bf74d58f98df... ✉️ Sign up for future updates at oipauk.org/contact-us/

It’s been a big 24 hours for the UK’s fascists and racists. Lots of wins like this around the country. Labour has really fucking blown it with their neoliberal Tory-lite bullshit. It just encouraged people to choose the real Nazi thing.

🚨 Programme now live for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing 🚨 📅 21–22 May 2026 📍 Dublin City University Library 💻 Online registration open Join the Janeway community to discuss user experience, innovations, and more. thelowerdecks.janewa... #JanewayOA26

🚨 The programme for the 2026 OIPA Symposium is now live!🚨 Join us on 18th June in Brighton for panels, lightning talks, and workshops exploring open publishing and infrastructure. Register + programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

The Open Library of Humanities now has a merchandise store! Posters, tote bags, hoodies, mugs, t-shirts, and more featuring OLH and Janeway designs are now available via our new Teemill store: www.openlibhums.org/news/939/

🚨 Big announcement 🚨 @janewayolh.bsky.social launches new website and brand design! www.openlibhums.org/news/938/ The redesign reflects Janeway’s identity as an open-source, community-driven platform, combining academic expertise, accessibility, innovation, and a distinctive retro sci-fi aesthetic.

📣 Diamond Open Access publishers! OJC are open for new publisher members. It’s a wonderful community-led collective seeking to strengthen the future of Diamond OA. Apply to become a part of it! 💎

I agree wholeheartedly with Sam. "if your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money" The CRUK approach will badly harm their patient advocates.

I’ve written on how our recent genAI policy was made at @openlibhums.org Many open access publishers are waiting for clear global standards to be devised for the appropriate use and declaration of genAI in scholarly research and publishing. We’ve aimed to provide a flexible and extensible start.

Recording of the Comics Grid / @comicsgrid.com webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship, with @labarren.cpesr.fr, @ernestopriego.com & @wilkinsp.bsky.social. Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHv...

Stop by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) and grab your free copy while they last. Join the fight to make knowledge free! 🔥 #UKSG2026

Tomorrow! 👇

I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent. Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/ #UKSG2026

A must read on academic publishing and the growing power of major commercial publishers.

Join us to discuss past present and future of graphic scholarship! Feat @wilkinsp.bsky.social @labarren.cpesr.fr @ernestopriego.com @paulaclemente.bsky.social #ComicsStudies

We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

Fantastic work from Joe Muller, our @openlibhums.org Senior Publishing Technologies Developer! Joe explains how he integrated ROR into @janewayolh.bsky.social. Since Oct 2025, 74% of OLH articles & 43% of the backlist have ROR affiliations. This helps us link OLH articles to libraries #OpenAccess

1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...

Hello from the Janeway & OLH team at the COPIM conference! 👋 Great to catch up with colleagues across the diamond OA community. So many important conversations: librarians supporting diamond OA, collective funding for OA books, accessibility, Thoth open metadata & more! #CopimConference

🔥🔥 I need to get one of these!

Great to see many of our OIPA colleagues today at #CopimConference 👋

Innit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lo que es una salvajada es comprarle el marco teórico a la derecha para arañar un par de votos

Welcome to our new supporter, the University of Salzburg (@unisalzburg.bsky.social): www.openlibhums.org/news/925/ Consortial library funding for #DiamondOA makes our work possible. Huge thanks to all our member institutions!

Very pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture / @regenerationeac.bsky.social published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ): www.openlibhums.org/news/922/

Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Fantastic news! 👏 👏 If you care about the future of community-led diamond open access publishing, this is well worth a look. OJC is an important step towards mainstreaming #diamondOA and making it the norm rather than the exception.

And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess

Well done @universityofessex.bsky.social Glad you’re reconnecting with our rebellious past and finding alternatives.

The Open Library of Humanities welcomes "applications that further commitment to creating an open access scholarly environment within academia and beyond, and reflect our mission: to support & extend open access to scholarship in humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever" www.openlibhums.org

It’s been a pleasure to have worked on our generative AI policy for the OLH for over a year. It’s been a fascinating, complex, but rewarding process. Our policy focuses on acceptable and responsible AI use, unacceptable use, and the transparent declaration of substantial and known genAI use.

Do take a moment to read the @openlibhums.org AI Publisher Policy. It's taken over a year to consult with editors of our 35 journals & get it right! Our Managing Editor @simoneverett.bsky.social has stewarded this consultation & also published a report outlining the process itself. #OpenAccess

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/

The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open! We fund projects dedicated to building capacity, networks and infrastructure for OA book publishing. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti... N.B. this fund is not for BPCs

It's 2026, also known as the year chaos is coming for scholarly publishing! If you missed our co-founder @theblochian.bsky.social's piece in Research Professional News then check it out and learn more about the OJC and what we aim to do. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

La realidad superó hace ya tiempo al mejor Berlanga 🙈

🎄 Day 12 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the twelfth day of Christmas the OLH gave to us twelve sleepy humans, who are back at work doing it all again. Meet our team:

🎄 Day 7 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the seventh day of Christmas the OLH gave to us seven flips upcoming, six journals joining, diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC. Join the publishing revolution:

🎄 Day 1 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas On the first day, the OLH gave to us the launch of the OJC / @ojcollective.bsky.social. Open Journals Collective Homepage: openjournalscollecti...

If APCs and subscriptions fuelled their huge profits, how will they justify similar margins under a non-APC model? (I guess, prestige...). Are these large commercial publishers attempting to co-opt diamond OA rhetoric through ‘non-APC pilots’ to neutralise criticism?

'Beyond universities being unable to afford the new deals, [Caroline] Edwards warned that the financial pressure facing many institutions means the sector is “only starting to see the acceleration in redundancy announcements coming out of UK libraries, which will continue through 2026”.'

María Corina Machado alaba a Trump y alimenta desde Oslo la intervención estadounidense en Venezuela: "Vamos hasta el final" ✍️ Por Néstor Prieto Amador

“Os regalo mis canciones y me apuntan con el dedo mira por donde va el Robe para mí que ya está pedo. Me coge de la mano y yo me sueño con tu pelo para estar tan colgado hace falta echarle güevos.” Bribriblibli (En el más sucio rincón de mi negro corazón) - Extremoduro (1993)

Philosophical Logic has officially launched at the Open Library of Humanities! This comes after the mass resignation of the entire editorial board of the Journal of Philosophical Logic from Springer Nature. Their open letter is included in the announcement.

If you missed our 2025 symposium, want to share it or simply bask in its glory again, fear not! The video recording, presentation slides and summary blog are all now available! Please share to help spread the word and good deeds of open institutional publishing. oipauk.org/news-events-...

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!

Welcome to our new supporter, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) / @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: www.openlibhums.org/news/874/ Consortial library funding for #DiamondOA makes our work possible. Huge thanks to all our member institutions!