POSITIVE: the advantages outweighs the challenges in running a library based publishing program according to this article insights.uksg.org/articles/10....

We are proud to have 4 of @lsepress.bsky.social's #DiamondOpenAccess journals in our catalogue incl the #JournalofLongTermCare. Find out how your library can support them + journals of 18 other #AHSS and #STEM publishers here: www.openjournalscollective.org #ChaosIsComing #TheFutureIsDiamond

Join us for our forthcoming #LSEEvent as we launch the new issue of #LSEPPR journal: 'Narratives in policy-making' 📅 Tuesday 17 February 2026 6.30pm - 8pm 📍 In-person and online (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building) ✅ Register here: https://bit.ly/4kkDa3K @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social#LSEEvent

Tomorrow is the final day to submit your optional scope check for the Collective Development Fund Call 2026. Full applications are due by March 7. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese.

Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, co-editor of Decentralised Governance, explores the book’s core ideas and reflects on fundamental issues that are rarely acknowledged in decentralisation literature. Read the full blog post: https://bit.ly/4bjFNka

Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse by @laurieparsons.bsky.social is out May 2026. This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing. @rgsibg.bsky.social

“A book to restore optimism, backed by courage and reason, a book that claims that we can still change the world.” — Teresa Ribera, First Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition of the European Commission 🖇️ https://bit.ly/4qu1BhR

"This is a book I will recommend to students for years to come and that colleagues should celebrate." — Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, Former President of the Social Science Research Council, US 🖇️ https://bit.ly/4otCVnG

To celebrate #WorldCaseTeachingDay, we’re giving you the chance to win a copy of Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management by Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper. 👉 To enter, sign up to our journal newsletter by 18 February: https://lnkd.in/shapt

A great role here at a fantastic #OpenAccess press for someone w production experience…

We are in the final technical stages of launching our institutional repository, KC Works. The idea is to provide a community-governed, academic-owned repository system with decent, open values. Here's some more info about it! katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Getting some nice press coverage for the launch of #OpenJournalsCollective last week @researchinfo.bsky.social #TheFutureIsDiamond www.researchinformation.info/news/open-jo...

"Reading Wars tells the astonishing history behind the wars on reading in a readable, clever style, underscoring the stakes of the current fights over censorship and book bans." — @leahlitman.bsky.social, New York Times bestselling author of Lawless ➡️Coming soon #OpenAccess doi.org/10.31389/lse...

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. 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/

Open Journals Collective is here! 🎉🎉🎉

This is how to convert from a for-profit Big Deal to an equitable, but professionalised, diamond OA system! @theblochian.bsky.social and I dreamed of this scale when we launched @openlibhums.org Now, she has done it. Consortial funding, at scale. Now over to the library community to support it.

Open Journals Collective Launches Global Investment Campaign to Provide #Libraries an “Exit Ramp” From Commercial Big Deals (via @ojcollective.bsky.social) drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf... #oa #diamond #publishers #funding

🎉 We’re proud to be members of the newly launched Open Journals Collective! At OLH, we believe in community-led, non-profit diamond open access publishing. OJC is a big step toward a more equitable future for journals and the wider scholarly publishing ecosystem Read more 👇

So pleased to be able to share this at last - @ojcollective.bsky.social is officially launched! And very glad that @lsepress.bsky.social journals are part of the launch collection. Read the press release 👇and then join the movement! #DiamondOpenAccess #TheFutureIsDiamond

Over 17 000 downloads - thanks @lsepress.bsky.social

Our committee is expanding! We are delighted to welcome: ⭐ Camilla Ridgewell (@camilla79.bsky.social) - Membership Secretary ⭐ John Atkinson - Advisory Board Secretary ⭐ Cath Dishman (@cathdishman.bsky.social) - Skills Group Lead ⭐ Dr Gaz J Johnson (@legionofllama.bsky.social) - Ordinary Member

The @ojcollective.bsky.social catalogue is live! The Open Library of Humanities is proud to be part of this collection, alongside many other community-led #diamondOA journals. Have a browse and support sustainable, fee-free publishing for authors and readers! 👇

"The London Consensus set out to rethink the foundations of economic policy for an era defined by inequality, climate risk, technological disruption, and political fragmentation, without pretending there could be a universal formula for success." 📖 Read more here: www.london.edu/news/the-lon...

Please join us in giving Camilla, Cath, Gaz & John a huge welcome! They will be joining Kate Petherbridge (Chair), Paula Kennedy (Co-Vice Chair; @paulakennedy.bsky.social), Philippa Grand (Co-Vice Chair; @philippagrand.bsky.social) & Rebecca Wojturska (Comms Group Lead; @beckywojturska.bsky.social)

Coming in May, "Doing Open Social Science", OA from @LSE Press press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3... "An essential guide for anyone working in social science, from doctoral candidates & early career researchers to experienced academics & practitioners, keen to engage more effectively with open research".

In light of Mark Carney’s excellent speech and it’s lessons for Keir Starmer and his advisors - here is a book that might come in handy - seriously. @lsepress.bsky.social @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

You can read about the Open Access publishers we support, as well as the wider Open Access services and communities, here: www.york.ac.uk/library/abou...

Cannot thank you enough @uoylibrary.bsky.social for supporting us via @openbookcollective.bsky.social. It’s so exciting to see our library supporter numbers grow allowing us to publish even more books w no #BPCs.

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, our Executive Director, Prof. Caroline Edwards, will speak at Open Access and the Commons, organised by the LSE Open Research Community

“We have to find significant non-pay budget savings so this was the obvious place to start,” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m...

Cover reveal 🔦 Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers ed. @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social and @twm.bsky.social. Out #OpenAccess May 2026. This book will be free to read and download: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @civica.bsky.social #OpenResearch #Research #SocialSciences

Together with @joedeville.bsky.social I will be giving the opening keynote at the @copim.bsky.social Conference 2026: What Next for Community-led Open Access Book Publishing?(26-27 February). Would be lovely to see you there, either in person or virtually: copim.pub/join-us-for-... #CopimConference

Thanks to the open scholarship team at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for inviting @copim.bsky.social to discuss the archiving and preservation of #OAbooks - we took the perspectives of a publisher, an author, and a repository manager. The recording is now available: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/OAMonographs

I’ve been involved in the organising committee for this year’s #Redux Conference and I’m very excited about what we’ve got planned. It’s going to be a great event— do sign up!

Justin has been doing stellar work developing the production offering at @lsepress.bsky.social & this webinar will be well worth signing up for👇

What's on this month at ALPSP? 📆 15 January | Seminar | ALPSP Berlin Seminar in Collaboration with Wiley 22 January | Webinar | AI, Automation and the Future of Production Workflows Find out more & book now👉 buff.ly/kv3m8OY

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/

Just finished correcting the page proofs for this. Very excited to see it in print shortly 🍾

🔦 Cover reveal! A nuanced analysis of the increasing quantification of human life - Marked: School Grades and the Quantified Life by Noëlle Rohde will be published as part of the LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology #OpenAccess 🔗 Coming soon doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lseanthropology.bsky.social

Many thanks from our authors to the 14,000 readers who downloaded a copy of our book "Australia's Evolving Democracy" or a chapter during 2025. It's open access here, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Australia holds so many positive lessons. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

I love that this paper has been viewed nearly 2000 times across more than 70 different countries 😀 Exploring Research Culture in Care Homes to Identify the Barriers and Facilitators to Research: A Rapid Review | Journal of Long-Term Care%20https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10.31389/jltc.277

New article in the peer reviewed Journal of Illicit Economies and Development by LSE press by @ceseduniandes.bsky.social members on the topic of regulating the Cannabis Market in Colombia 🤓 jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.... #regulation #apoyenocastigue #colombia #drugresearch #economy #development

"Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" economia.lse.ac.uk/articles/10.... Now out in Economía (the LACEA journal)

We are very pleased to now have @lsepress.bsky.social open access titles on @projectmuse.bsky.social

🔎 Coming soon Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power by Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social This book will be free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing and is published in collaboration with @rgsibg.bsky.social doi.org/10.31389/lse...

2025 in review – The culture of academic publishing blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

What are LSE Press's books to watch in 2026? Let's take a look.... 🔎 press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

We are shocked and saddened to share news of the death of Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice-Provost, UCL LCCOS and CEO of UCL Press. Paul will be hugely missed at UCL and beyond, and our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues. Read our tribute: uclpress.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

What a year it's been at @lsepress.bsky.social! Very proud indeed of our small but mighty team that make it all possible & huge thanks to our network of fantastic freelancers + our authors, editors, reviewers, @lselibrary.bsky.social & our dedicated Editorial Board 🎉