If you need some more inspiration, here's a charming Halloween poem by the great Iain Chrichton Smith / Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn abdn.site/IMAG who you can learn more about in our book 'Conversations with Scottish Poets' doi.org/10.57132/book7

We were delighted to get a shout-out from @joedeville.bsky.social recognising us as a scholar-led press working to improve the scholarly publishing landscape in today's #OAWeek webinar from @openlibhums.org on Mainstreaming Diamond Open Access

We really enjoyed seeing some of the multimedia 'books' other OIPA members are creating. If you're interested in publishing something with multimedia elements, come talk to us! While we're a small press, through our partnership with @michiganpublishing.bsky.social we can make it happen!

It's International #OAWeek, so we're looking forward to a great week of events all about building a more open scholarly publishing infrastructure. There are so many great events, but we're probably most looking forward to our friends' @oipassoc.bsky.social Online Symposium tomorrow. See you there!

Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read! This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs abdn.site/121

Did you know that when you order a print book or journal from us, your order will be hand packed by one of our dedicated staff, and then given a wee hug before being put in the mail? You'll also get your very own AUP bookmark, sure to be this season's hottest accessory?

As the Tall Ships make their way on to Norway we consider the other side of the Age of Sail, and how British Naval superiority allowed for human exploitation at unprecedented scale. Our scholars grappled with these issues in an issue of JISS on slavery and North-East Scotland abdn.site/JISS112

Who's excited for the Tall Ships Races this weekend? 🙋‍♀️ You can learn more about the shipwrights and coopers of Aberdeen, whose work helped make the Age of Sail possible, in our latest publication: The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, available here abdn.site/7Trade

We're extremely proud to have published @bydreamphd.bsky.social 's award winning article, and pleased to see this recognition of her excellent work. Congratulations for this award!🎉 Read the article here: doi.org/10.57132/jis...

📢 🎊We're pleased to announce our latest book is now available! This work was years in the making and documents the storied history of one of Aberdeen's most significant trade organisations. Order your copy of The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen today! www.abdn.ac.uk/aup/books/hi...

We had at great time sharing a table at #SCURL2025 with our new (formal) partner (but actually we've been benefiting from their advice and encouragement the whole time).

Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the end of chattel slavery in the United States, and the final end of the Atlantic Slave Trade, begun by Europeans in the 15th Century. You can learn more about Scotland's role in the slave trade in the current issue of JISS, available OA here abdn.site/196

We were pleased to be able to attend this excellent webinar from @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social There are a lot of challenges for scholars publishing monographs Open Access, but we're ready to support you at whatever stage you are on your journey 🥰

Are you visiting for #Ceangal/Connect? Stop by the Sir Duncan Rice Library and pick up some bookmarks, book cords, or other info from our little display, and learn more about Clò Oilthigh Obar Dheathain!

Happy Pride Month! It's a great time to read books about the LGBT+ experience, so we have compiled a list of Open Access books from scholarly presses: abdn.site/OAPride Unfortunately AUP has not published any LGBT+ studies, YET! Submissions are open aberdeenunipress.org

We're pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought, available #OpenAccess at jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/ This issue focuses on the Scottish Presbyterian minister and thinker, and American Founding Father, John Witherspoon

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day to raise understanding and awareness about digital access and inclusion. At AUP we believe that you can't have real Open Access without accessibility, so all our new ebooks are WCAG AA compliant.

If we may add a happy ending to this Limerick, with our own origin story: So those funny old scholars from ‘Deen who thought commercial publishers profits obscene so they made a free OA press with quality no less But with work that by all can be seen

Happy May Day! For a little seasonal reading, may we suggest our special issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies on the place of the strike in Irish and Scottish History jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/23/info/

Happy May Day! For a little seasonal reading, may we suggest our special issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies on the place of the strike in Irish and Scottish History jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/23/info/

Exciting to see! We'll be presenting a lightning talk on how #DiamondOpenAccess can help lower barriers for Early Career Researchers. See you all in Edinburgh!

Happy Absolute Unit Day to all who celebrate! The MERL is a brilliant museum on all things related to English Rural life, but if you've ever wanted to learn more about rural life in our own Aberdeenshire, may we suggest our #OpenAccessBook 'Footloose in the Farm Service' doi.org/10.57132/boo...

Wonderful to celebrate the launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social at @uksg.bsky.social! Swing by the OIPA stall (78) and grab a postcard. Find out more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Another sunny day in Brighton at #UKSG2025 and @abdnunipress.bsky.social colleague @varinajr.bsky.social has dropped by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand to say hello. Our promotional book cards and our Adam Ferguson book (doi.org/10.57132/boo...) are on display there!

Turns out @scholtom.bsky.social is an influencer ... in slide design Following his presentation at last year's event, #cats #pets featuring heavily in the #UKSG2025 presentation about #rightsretention at @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social

Great to see @michiganpublishing.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 - @abdnunipress.bsky.social's publishing partner 📘📖

Today is #WorldTheatreDay and to celebrate all things theatrical, we would like to recommend, from the Journal of Scottish Studies, a conversation with David Greig, dramaturg and playwright for the National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/id/1...

Happy #WorldPoetryDay! We have a number of great reads on Poetry, but for this year it seems only right to recognize the book by Scotland's current Makar, Peter Mackay//Pàdraig MacAoidh, written about the eminent Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean//Somhairle MacGill-Eain abdn.site/WPD

First published by @abdnunipress.bsky.social in 1977, Nan Shepherd’s 'The Living Mountain' traces her poetic encounter with the Cairngorm Mountains. Now, with publisher Scribner bringing out its first US edition, The Conversation examines the book’s continuing legacy abdn.site/zL5uY

Excellent article from @philippagrand.bsky.social about the value of open University presses. We're proud to be members of @oipassoc.bsky.social and committed to promoting the goals outlined in this piece

Happy #StPatricksDay! Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! Here at AUP we'll take any excuse to celebrate Irish culture. St. Patricks Day is the perfect time to sit down with a mug of Barry's (or Lyon's) gold label and read one of our Aberdeen Introductions to Irish (and Scottish) culture abdn.site/Ktjsl

Happy #WorldBookDay! Please tag us if you're child has dressed up as Adam Ferguson, Sorely Maclean, Patrick Gordon, or any of our iconic AUP subjects. (I think my kid kind of phoned it in with her costume!) and enjoy some of our completely free and #OpenAccessBooks www.fulcrum.org/aberdeenunip...

Fantastic work! What a milestone!

Feasgar math à h-uile duine! S' e #SeachdainNaGàidhlig anns an t-seachdain seo! It's Gaelic Week so we wanted to highlight Scottish Gaelic Studies, which our Gaelic department have edited for nearly a century. It's not among our digital OA offerings (yet), but you can read more at abdn.site/SGS

Tomorrow we'll be celebrating Burns Night, tucked up at hame as it's blawin a hoolie out there, so here's a Burns poem that should be perfect for this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPua...

Our last #openaccess book as part of our winter countdown: Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity https://buff.ly/3VviomR. 'Today the winter cries, I am the winter, Not the belted footman ushering the spring’ - Medbh McGuckian 'January'. Brrrr.

‘A week to Christmas, cards of snow and holly, Gimcracks in the shops, Wishes and memories wrapped in tissue paper, Trinkets, gadgets and lollipops’ from Autumn Journal (1939). “Louis MacNeice’s Irish and Scottish Pasts, 1935 – 9”, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 6(1) https://buff.ly/3VucSRJ

At number three in our countdown, a look at the networks of Scottish wine merchants in Madeira via Alistair Mutch's life of Patrick ‘Tiger’ Duff (1742–1803) #openaccess. Duff had family connections to the Gordons of Letterfourie who controlled the wine trade in Madeira.

Continuing our festive countdown: a nod to Christmas angels with this Journal of Scottish Thought #openaccess article by Elena Pasquini on “The Angel Creatures of George MacDonald’s Phantastes”, https://buff.ly/3D9HBgv .

Our countdown continues at number 6, with Colin Manlove’s Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure on the fantasy fiction pioneer @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social graduate George MacDonald. Read Colin's book for free here: https://buff.ly/3ZpFsVA

Our countdown continues at number 6, with Colin Manlove’s Scotland’s Forgotten Treasure on the fantasy fiction pioneer @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social graduate George MacDonald. Read Colin's book for free here: https://buff.ly/3ZpFsVA

At number 7 #openaccess Aberdeen Introductions book: James Boswell by @murrayp.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4fTNYTL. Spare a thought for Boswell who on Christmas Day 1762, went to Thomas Davies' bookshop in the hope of meeting Samuel Johnson, but had to make do with meeting Oliver Goldsmith instead!

We continue our festive feels with what Emma claims is the best Chrismas film EVER - The Muppet Christmas Carol. She's been humming the songs for about a month already. We need someone to tell her she is wrong before she goes the full Rizzo. Let us know your favourite film...

If you’d like a general introduction to Adam Ferguson, then look at our Aberdeen Introductions book by David Allan – number 8 in our festive countdown - which explores the deep Scottish and European roots of Ferguson’s thought

Delighted to say that @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social has landed! Great to see us join @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and @rluk.bsky.social colleagues and the two Aberdeen University Library services already well-established on BlueSky: @abdnunipress.bsky.social and @openresearchuoa.bsky.social

Adam Ferguson is number 9 in our countdown – continuing the Gaelic theme. A fluent Gaelic speaker and Enlightenment philosopher and historian. Jack Hill and Michael Brown bring together an #openaccess edited collection examining his legacy and influence

Our first recommendation for joy is food (it is often food). Our Open Access star ⭐Joanna ⭐wants to share the recipe she used for these beauties! She also took a totally profesh looking photo 😲 Link to the recipe 👇 www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/salt...

Today's shared joy is actually a miracle. Doyen of Data @lesleyjmacrae.bsky.social is a self confessed grinch and we didn't think she'd give us anything to work with. But she has! Lesley thinks one of the only reasonable things about Xmas is Jude Law in 'The holiday'. 🫶

The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community comes in at number 10 in our countdown. Providing contemporary data and analysis of the societal and spatial extent of Gaelic speakers and Gaelic speaking in Scotland, it has proven popular with our readers. Read it here for free

As our social media maven is away we have let our editorial standards slip and will be posting some festive nonsense purely to try and share some of the things that bring our team joy, in the hope they will bring joy to some of you. After all, what is Open if it isn't sharing!