Interested in finding out more about non-profit #OpenAccess publishing in universities? Join us at our free, online @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium in Oct during #OAWeek! Find out more inc registration link below 👇

It was lovely to see fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members and allies at #ALPSP2025 last week! Congrats @thoth-metadata.bsky.social for your shortlisting in the Innovation awards 👏

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

Thank you @eicathomefinn.bsky.social - much appreciated! 🙏

First in-person session chairing done! There are more lights and mics in a non-webinar setting... The role was made very easy by brilliant panellists @paulakennedy.bsky.social and @rbnmyr.bsky.social, and also the excellent support from Kate Petherbridge and the #ALPSP2025 team 👏

Enjoyed doing this panel this morning on enabling #OA book publishing for learned societies at #ALPSP2025 @ALPSP ⬇️

A reminder about our new Digital Cultural Heritage series. We're working on the design for this exciting new short-form #OpenAccess series. See the details incl the full editorial advisory board: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #DigitalHumanities #Publishing #OpenResearch #DigitalCulturalHeritage

Travelling up to Manchester for #ALPSP2025, where I'll be chairing a session on 'Enabling Open Access Book Publishing for Scholarly Societies' featuring @paulakennedy.bsky.social & @rbnmyr.bsky.social. Looking forward to talking about innovative approaches to society #OA book publishing!

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors' 📆 Tuesday 30 September ⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p... #OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

AHRC seeks "humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit putting humanities insights... at the heart of artificial intelligence (AI)". "Post-hoc ethical analysis of AI" is out of scope. Wants "measurable improvements in AI systems’ interpretive capabilities". www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Delighted and privileged to have been appointed for the #REF2029 UoA 27: English Language and Literature! @ref2029.bsky.social Looking forward to working with my fellow sub-panel members to champion English research 🎉

If anyone missed our talk at #OpenFest25 but would like to find out more about MORPHSS - our new project to surface & support open research in the arts, humanities & social science, do take a look at our webpages, including planned project deliverables: morphss.hcommons.org/project-deli...

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

Delighted to see my team’s article published about our work on ‘Living with Machines’ in the @learnedpublishing.bsky.social journal 🎉 Particular thanks to our @uolpress.bsky.social Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for her work on this 👏 Read the article below 👇 #OABooks @oipassoc.bsky.social

Waterscapes by Andrew McTominey publishes tomorrow! This #OpenAccess title is part of the #NewHistoricalPerspectives series published with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org. uolpress.co.uk/book/watersc... Thank you to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for the funding which helped to support its publication!

The @uolpress.bsky.social ‘Training Hub’ on our website has lots of free info and recordings of sessions on publishing topics, including #OpenAccess, peer review and marketing your book. More info below - and please share! 👇 #PublishingTraining #ECR #humanities

Back from hols and wanted to repost this ⬇️ We’re so grateful for the support from libraries via @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🙏 📚 It makes a big difference to what we can do @uolpress.bsky.social and supports non-profit, no-fee #OpenAccess publishing 👏

The new journal is published by... @openlibhums.bsky.social. This rarely gets mentioned in these press releases, but if you ever subscribed to Journal of Political Philosophy and appreciate the move away from for-profit publishers to an OA model, then your institution should support OLH.

We've been making some updates to our website and you can now see which of our books have a Manifold version, meaning they can be read online, and which have an accessible version (an EPUB which meets WCAG Level 2.2 AA). Search away! uolpress.co.uk/books/

New cover reveal! For the first book in our brand new History & Policy Shorts series... 'The 1922 General Election Reconsidered: High Politics and the Birth of the Modern British Election' by G.H. Bennett. Published #OpenAccess in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/the-192...

Join us for the launch of Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out on 26th Sept. The book is publishing in August, will be #OpenAccess and is published in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/democra... Launch details 👇

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...

🥳 Officially out in the world in November! A great collection of reflections on what failure means for people who digital research-type things.

Who Owns Our Knowledge? 👁️‍🗨️ And how can communities reassert control over the knowledge they produce in the present moment? 📅 Get ready for this year's #OAWeek - October 20 - 26. 📖 Register for the OIPA newsletter for future info on OIPA community events: oipauk.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Thank you! Digital Cultural Heritage is a new #OpenAccess series, a forum for exploring the past, present and future of digital cultural heritage, both digitised and born-digital. More info here: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

Well done to our member @uolpress.bsky.social who have received a 100% ASPIRE gold-rated score for the quality of their accessibility statement, demonstrating their efforts to actively embed accessibility into all aspects of their publishing work! Read more here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/embe...

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November... Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... #OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

The humanities are not a luxury—they are where a society’s ethical and imaginative life takes shape. They won’t give us all the answers, but they keep us asking the right questions—and without that, no future worth having can be built. wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...

Wonderful piece on skills development and career growth for librarians by @nickiclarkson.bsky.social in @uksg.bsky.social. And lovely to see OIPA mentioned! Read 'Bridging the gap: transferable skills and career growth in academic libraries' here: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

"It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services... more to the point, the idea that only science really matters has been enormously destructive." There is no research infrastructure without a full research infrastructure.

‘an overdue corrective…Shipp’s book should be praised for its deft handling of diverse historical & literary sources, from financial accounts to panegyric forms, & for its style, especially its humour.’ — History: Journal of the Historical Association uolpress.co.uk/book/the-poe... @ihr.bsky.social

We're so pleased to share this from @choicereviews.bsky.social on @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social's #OpenAccess book: ‘Backed by impeccable research, including analysis of troves of archived letters… Summing Up: *** Highly recommended.’ —S. W. Moss, independent scholar uolpress.co.uk/book/giving-...

“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme

For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social. Available here: uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...

Very proud of my team at @uolpress.bsky.social for our 100% ASPIRE gold rating for our accessibility statement, which outlines all our work and approach to accessibility for our books 👏 Read more below 👇

This free training event is taking place tomorrow! You can still register if you'd like an overview of the whole process of academic book publishing. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #Authors #Publishing #AcademicSky #Researchers

I've consistently found these open/free/online training sessions from the School of Advanced Study at the University of London absolutely fantastic. Been to training on peer review, narrative cvs, and more! Just grateful you all share your expertise for the rest of us to learn!

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

It should go without saying, but apparently it needs to be said: if you are peer reviewing a ms for a scholarly press, DO NOT feed that ms into an AI machine to write your reader report for you. DO NOT.

New free, online training session tomorrow on how to market your academic book from my colleagues @uolpress.bsky.social Details and sign up below - please share 👇 #AcademicPublishing #Marketing #PublishingTraining @oipassoc.bsky.social

🚨 Last day to apply for our Production Manager vacancy! (Deadline: midnight Mon 9th June). Details about the job and how to apply below ⬇️ Please share with any publishing colleagues… #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess @ipgbook.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social

@artsemergency.bsky.social do such important work - I’m v happy to support them with monthly donations. Please do consider supporting them for a small amount…

🚨 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...

I am so glad this exists. Many of us have said for years educating researchers on OA publishing is essential- merely mandating misses important points. This is a welcome development.

The course offers an introduction to open access publishing for humanities researchers at all career stages, as well as students, librarians and research support staff. Many thanks to our Publisher & course author @emmagallon.bsky.social! May be of interest to other @oipassoc.bsky.social members 🤗

Really pleased to see this new free training course on #OpenAccess launched, developed by @uolpress.bsky.social for the new RESHAPED platform 🎉 🙌 For humanities students, researchers, research office staff and anyone who wants to find out more about OA - please share and find out more below ⬇️

⏰ Less than a week to apply for our current vacancy of Production Manager in our team (deadline: Mon 9th June). Details below! ⬇️ #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing #production @oipassoc.bsky.social

* Vacancy * Come and join our team at the @uolpress.bsky.social as our new Production Manager ⬇️ Deadline: Mon 9th June Please share! #PublishingJobs #Publishing

Check out this useful post and list of resources from @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social on managing third-party permissions in #OpenAccess books. We co-developed and co-hosted the original event, with our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social on the panel along with other expert speakers.

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 😍🙌