@latemedievalist.bsky.social's new book (@royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @uolpress.bsky.social) is a ground-breaking feat of research that weaves one local #medieval institution into the very fabric of society - read this blogpost, then read the book! blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/11/06/f...

Great to see the 25th book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @royalhistsoc.org and @ihr.bsky.social published today! 🎉

You can pre-order the book in print, or the #OpenAccess PDF and 'read online' Manifold edition will both be available later this week! uolpress.co.uk/book/forging... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

'Rachael Harkes achieves a tremendous blend of analysis and insight through meticulous document research' Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow by @latemedievalist.bsky.social is out this Thursday! #OpenAccess #NewHistoricalPerspectives #Skystorians #History

Today we're celebrating History Day in Senate House w/ @senatehouselib.bsky.social & @ihr.bsky.social! For #HistDay25 we're also celebrating 25 titles in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series (with the 25th #OpenAccess title publishing tomorrow!). Explore the series: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

30% of respondents to our #OpenAccess survey said they only feel 'somewhat confident' about their knowledge of OA, & 5% said 'not at all confident'. Our 'Open Access in the Humanities' course on RESHAPED is a great free resource for anyone wanting to learn more: reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view....

📖 It's publication day for our colleague Gareth Roddy's (@grod.bsky.social) new book, 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940.' You can buy your copy from @uolpress.bsky.social via the link below! Congratulations, Gareth! uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

📢 Today we've published the latest #OpenAccess title in our popular #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org: Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social! Read it now: uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History

Some more thoughts on 'Who owns our knowledge?', the theme of this year's #OpenAccessWeek, from @nicholasmaple.bsky.social at the @rli-sas.bsky.social and author of recent #OABook Refugee Reception in Southern Africa. uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl... #Publishing #ResearchCulture #Academic

Dr Attar's journey beautifully captures OA's transformative power! Personal testimonies like this demonstrate how Open Access democratizes knowledge, reshaping research culture toward greater accessibility and impact. Thank you for sharing! 🔓📚

I love this quote from an author interview we featured last week during #OpenAccessWeek - libraries as the ‘beating heart of humanities research’ and open access 👍

Very proud of our book and experiment on open peer review. And grateful to all who have contributed!

This is a great resource for researchers! #AcademicPublishing #Author #OABooks #OAWeek2025 #OpenAccess

💭 'What surprised me most was the change of my attitude between the traditional print model and open access.' Why has Dr Karen Attar @senatehouselib.bsky.social changed her stance on #OpenAccess #publishing? Find out in our latest author blog for #OAWeek2025. 👉 uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl...

This year's #OpenAccessWeek theme is 'Who owns our knowledge?' We put this, alongside some other questions about publishing and research culture, to a selection of our authors. First up is Devyani Prabhat, author of a forthcoming #OA book on borders and citizenship: uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/refl...

Really brilliant today hearing from @samuelmoore.org about the @morphss.bsky.social project and all the @oipassoc.bsky.social members discussing their work for the half-day online OIPA Symposium 👏 Thanks to all the speakers for their time and contributions, and attendees for the discussion! 🎉

Please share with your networks! It’s a *very* short survey, I promise…

New post! We thought it would be fitting for #OpenAccessWeek to publish two new chapters of our exciting forthcoming #OpenAccess title Living with Machines, along with some learnings from this project so far. The final book will publish next year. Read more: 👉 uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/univ...

We're very excited for this book to publish in November and it will be #OpenAccess! #OAWeek #OpenAccessWeek #AcademicPublishing #DigitalHumanities

We're very excited to publish both of these brilliant books! The two new titles by @grod.bsky.social and @latemedievalist.bsky.social will take us to 25 published #OpenAccess titles in the New Historical Perspectives series! The full series can be viewed here: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/...

📣 There’s still time to sign up for our @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium on Tues 21st Oct… Featuring a keynote from @samuelmoore.org and lightning talks from OIPA members inc @openlibhums.org, @lsepress.bsky.social, find out more and sign up below ⬇️ oipauk.org/news-events-... #OpenAccessWeek

#OAWeek is coming up! Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social 🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/...

We've two new titles forthcoming in our New Historical Perspectives book series: > Gareth Roddy's 'Atlantic Isles' is published on 30 October bit.ly/3WFhpRg > Rachael Harkes's 'Forging Fraternity' is available from 6 November bit.ly/4ogSm2H Full details from @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

For anyone heading to the Frankfurt book fair this year, you can find out details about @oipassoc.bsky.social at the @thoth-metadata.bsky.social stand (Hall 4.0 / E67)! OIPA was founded to connect and encourage #OpenAccess publishing. #InstitutionalPublishing #UniversityPress #FBF25 #Academic

Tomorrow is #BookshopDay!📚 It's a great time to support our friends in independent bookselling by buying a book or two from your local shop... independently published of course😉 There's lots going on and all the info can be found here booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/... @booksaremybag.bsky.social

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

The latest #OA book supported by the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award is now available! "British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700" (@uolpress.bsky.social) is a collection of essays examining the intersection of British working-class and radical writing: bit.ly/4pRkSK4

We’re delighted that the first volume in our new series of short monographs on policy-relevant historical topics has been published @uolpress.bsky.social. Warmest congratulations to its author Dr Harry Bennett @plymuni.bsky.social. You can read it now on open access. uolpress.co.uk/book/the-192...

The agenda includes lightning talks from @oipassoc.bsky.social members covering topics including experimental publishing, funding and business models, approaches to marketing, open textbooks, open journals publishing and governance 🙌

As a proud member of @oipassoc.bsky.social we are excited to join colleagues and collaborators at this year’s symposium during #OpenAccessWeek2025! There's still time to register, details here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/oipa... #OAWeek #UniversityPress #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess

RECORDING: the recording of our recent webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors', organised with the kind support of the ERC Executive Agency, is now available to view and share: 📺 youtu.be/vVf9GspOs8g?... #OAbooks #OpenAccess @operaseu.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

It's less than one month until our free online Symposium - see you there? Celebrating #OAWeek2025, join us for engaging talks, networking, and the chance to share your thoughts 📆 Tuesday 21st October 2025 🕐 13:30-16:00 BST ❓Online via Zoom 🪙 Free Register: oipauk.org/news-events-...

We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social! Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social. Read more: uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

I’ve been looking forward to seeing this one publish for a while… Brilliant to see our latest #OpenAccess book out, featuring a fantastic range of contributors 🎉 With thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social and Arcadia’s prize funding, which helped support its publishing costs 👏 Find out more 👇

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website: uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla... #OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

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!