The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is. Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out. mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network. The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models. 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

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...

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

At the Open Library of Humanities, we’re proud to stand alongside UK library directors on shared initiatives like the Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social). We believe research should serve communities, not corporate shareholders. (2/2)

What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc #OABooks #FanStudies

Here we have @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social y.social modelling the remarkably well adorned @copim.bsky.social community stand at D07! Come and talk to us about all things community-led, Diamond open access books #bibliocon25 :)

Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review. limn.press/issue/climat...

Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards. #OAbooks

Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals

New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Vincent Mosco: Critical Communication: A Memoir, doi.org/10.16997/boo...

The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto. The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series Media Manifold www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo... Public Domain www.mediastudies.press/public-domai... Open Reader www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-... History of Media Studies www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...

🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...

Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...

22-23 May. Histories, Presents & Futures of Media & Communication camri.ac.uk/50-years-of-... (Marking 50yrs of Media at Westminster/Polytechnic of Central London) Keynotes: Payal Arora Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social

Any and all interested in book typesetting, please join our ninth ScholarLed Salon (next Thursday), where member presses gather for informal sharing around a rotating cast of topics—this time on typesetting. May 8, 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l50a1

We’re excited to announce that a Spanish translation of Gary Hall’s Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence will be published by Ediciones mimesis next year: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... edicionesmimesis.cl

NEW author profile 📣 We catch up with Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his #book "Empire Found" Published #OpenAccess by @livunipress.bsky.social in 2022 thanks to @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🤝 🔗

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

The April History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! https://buttondown.email/hms/archive/history-of-media-studies-newsletter-april-2025

We are all set up at @uofgarc.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of our second book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century! Come and visit us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Download the book for free here: doi.org/10.62637/sup...

Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM! WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/

📚 New member book! "Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation", edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer. This collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. iamcr.org/books-ribeir...

1/4 Following a busy event at #UKSG2025, we are delighted to be able to announce that @sidestone.bsky.social are the latest press to join the Open Book Collective! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/ye52vnsy/

We've added a couple of experimental publishing tools to @copim.bsky.social's Experimental Publishing Compendium: epublius (compendium.copim.ac.uk/tools/189) which generates a HTML site from an ePub and the Electric Zine Maker (compendium.copim.ac.uk/tools/188) which can be used to design zines.

Great to see the Open Journals Collective launched in this @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blog - forging an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications. 👏 @theblochian.bsky.social #OpenAccess #JournalPublishing

Exciting to see this up and running. At the @openbookcollective.bsky.social we have been in close conversation with Caroline and OJC colleagues and hope to collaborate as these two distinct but allied initiatives grow

At UKSG? Come visit us at stall 78! We have our brand new members catalogue plus loads of books published by our members! @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2025

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

It's out, free and open access: Thinking _with_ AI: Machine Learning the Humanities. 11 essay on AI and how to think with it – by Peli Grietzer (@peligrietzer.bsky.social), Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social), Mercedes Bunz (@mrsbunz.bsky.social), Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich…

Masked Media – Gary Hall explores surveillance, anonymity, AI and resistance in digital culture and beyond. www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... Radical ideas for a post-pandemic world—free to read, share and think with. www.openhumanitiespress.org

Since September, I've been working with @pkp.sfu.ca (check that off the bucket list) to review their Open Monograph Press platform and gave an update last week that's now available to watch. It's such a cool project, with such great people and huge potential. Check it out! youtu.be/-Bh5g8xeSxg

This is why I am so privileged to work the Open Book Collective. Fostering a coalition of librarians, publishers, and scholars is essential to building sustainable OA publishing capacity, with equity and bibliodiversity baked in. This further evidences that scaling small can scale out! ❤️✊

Collective funding for community-led Diamond open access books builds capacity! www.mediastudies.press/pub/2025-03-... We are very pleased that @mediastudiespress.bsky.social have been able to benefit from @nataschachtena.bsky.social's expertise. Our supporting libraries deserve all the gratitude!

The revival of university/institutionally based presses in the UK has been one of the most exciting developments in #scholcomms in recent times - @suzannetatham.bsky.social & I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about why this matters www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/six-r...

The press is thrilled to welcome @nataschachtena.bsky.social as our inaugural Publishing Project Manager!

Very excited to officially open up the Community Publishing Garden to you all! Working with @radical-reach.bsky.social is such a joy, I highly recommend it. Follow along, join the mailing list, and be a part of growing something special together 🌱

Our first title in the film|minutes series, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN by @shanedenson.bsky.social reactivates the familiar classic for contemporary audiences! Each volume divides films into one minute segments as an tool for analysis--and it's #OpenAccess! Out Sept. 2025 myumi.ch/xwpyA

OUT NOW: Bregt Lameris’s new open access monograph: Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #filmstudies #mediastudies #colourTheory #colourculture OpenBookPublish.bsky.social

Webinar announcement: Wayfinders 5: "Working collectively to open up access to books" on 25 March 2025, 4pm GMT with @alittleroad.bsky.social @emilyjfarrell.bsky.social @charleswatkinson.bsky.social, Dr Frances Pinter and Malavika Legge. Full details here: bit.ly/43qF7Fr #OA #openaccess #oabooks

Looking forward to giving an invited talk in the University of Chicago Mass Culture workshop on Wednesday, March 12th. voices.uchicago.edu/massculture/...

Please consider signing and sharing this declaration. All welcome irrespective of discipline. #DefendResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEd docs.google.com/forms/d/1hTI...

The first issue of History of Social Science (brand new journal with @pennpress.bsky.social) is published in free access. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54109

Clarivate's pivot away from perpetual access is "a troubling shift in the power dynamics between academic libraries and commercial providers" www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...