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 🎉

Very interesting piece in @uksg.bsky.social Insights on the need for professional development interventions to support #DiamondOpenAccess publishing Thoughts on how scholar‑led publishing can overcome the effect of the prestige economy | Insights%20/articles/10.1629/uksg.699

"Nicholas Stern, economist and author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century, says the effects of climate change “are coming through faster, more severely and at lower temperature increases than we anticipated”." 👁️‍🗨️ Read more at @financialtimes.com https://on.ft.com/3K1QkoF

🎧 Tune in to #VoxTalksEconomics podcast to hear Andrés Velasco and Tim Besley with Tim Phillips exploring how policymakers can use their new publication. The London Consensus is free to download #OpenAccess doi.org/10.31389/lse... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social

Submitting a book proposal in 2026? Read the Chair of LSE Press, Professor Dame Sarah Worthington’s 5 tips to make your book proposal stand out: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2024/06/03/5-tips-to-make-your-book-proposal-stand-out/

Our new report📖 published today highlights a set of 12 recommendations which would strengthen the UK Government’s use of evidence in policymaking & delivery, with the purpose of improving outcomes for citizens. Find out more & download the report ➡️ acss.org.uk/news/new-aca...

Thanks @stephenpinfield.bsky.social for interviewing me about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/publishing-b...

LSE Press is delighted to share our partnership with the Open Journals Collective 📚 "An equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to corporate academic publishers." - Caroline Edwards 🔓 Read Caroline's article for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3MnRyvx

If You’re So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an informed, fair and feasible way. Available now via #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth

What makes a good edited volume? https://bit.ly/3BfLsVF University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

Colleagues, I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of LSE Press and have recently taken up the position. If you ever wish to publish your book OPEN ACCESS, please do send your book proposals our way. press.lse.ac.uk/about

Wishing all of our authors, contributors, editors and readers a happy holidays and a prosperous year ahead. We can't wait to share details about our incredible 2026 list, featuring books from @rgsibg.bsky.social and more: press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming... 👋 Until 2026 - the LSE Press Team

"A brilliant and powerful book that gives voice to ordinary Bangladeshi women." — Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane and Love Marriage Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox by Naila Kabeer is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing: https://bit.ly/4otCVnG

"The London Consensus offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis". New edited volume from @lsepress.bsky.social discussed in @newyorker.com ⬇️ buff.ly/NAYSmFi

We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.

"The book’s five core principles are highly relevant to all global efforts to renovate or reinvent economic policymaking." Read the full review of The London Consensus by Anne-Marie Slaughter for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/3Y4hu1E

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? 🪴 Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Read in full here: 🖇️ bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

🎓 Want to learn about today's technologies and infrastructures for open #ScholarlyPublishing? Open to all -- register by December 12th for your spot in this unique course -- PUB 604: Technologies and Infrastructures! www.sfu.ca/publishing/m... #ScholComm #OpenAccess #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market" doi.org/10.48550/arX... #ScholComm #AcademicSky

Our Exec Director, @theblochian.bsky.social, will be speaking at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025! She’ll join others to discuss the new @ojcollective.bsky.social, a community-led, no-APC #OA alternative to big deals and TAs. 📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/news/816/

The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC. 👇

Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We’re hiring! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

🌍 This #InternationalDayofPersonswithDisabilities we’re highlighting The Journal of Long-Term Care, an open access journal sharing research that covers a wide range of topics including disability, care and quality of life. Find out more here: https://journal.ilpnetwork.org/

The Center for Research Libraries & its NERL licensing program have announced their landmark partnership with @ojcollective.bsky.social. See here for more info: www.crl.edu/crl-nerl-joi... 1/2

The Open Journals Collective "This initiative replaces transformative agreements with a non-profit, community-led research infrastructure, collectively raising funds to support diamond journals." Caroline Edwards, Birkbeck & a director of the Open Journals Collective. * openjournalscollective.org

"Nicholas Stern, economist and author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century, says the effects of climate change “are coming through faster, more severely and at lower temperature increases than we anticipated”." 👁️‍🗨️ Read more at @financialtimes.com https://on.ft.com/3K1QkoF

Subscribe to our journal newsletter for the latest research from our open access journals! 📬 Including Economía LACEA, Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, Journal of Long-Term Care, LSE Public Policy Review and Philosophy of Physics. 🔗 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/48eULGh

"The clean economy is now cheaper than the dirty economy... that proportion is rising rapidly." Nick Stern writes in @theobserveruk.bsky.social around the publication The Growth Story of the 21st Century. @gsos-lse.bsky.social Free to read and download ➡️ https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs

🔓 New article from Philosophy of Physics Journal Read “Still No Peace on the Lattice” by Sébastien Rivat for free via #OpenAccess publishing: https://doi.org/10.31389/pop.187

"As a significant player on the international stage, the UK has both the opportunity and the responsibility to lead.” Professor Lord Nicholas Stern spoke with #RftW Magazine following the publication of The Growth Story of the 21st Century. 🩹 🌍 Read more here: www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

Drawing on a survey of over a thousand senior executives, this book explores beliefs about inequality, distributive justice and the responsibilities of business in a civilised society. 🔗If You're So Ethical Why Are You So Highly Paid? is available now: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress/eth

"The Growth Story of the 21st Century, offers a compelling and optimistic perspective that growth and climate action can be aligned, and that this approach is especially promising for developing countries." 🌍 Read the full review from The Daily Star: www.thedailystar.net/opinion/view...

What next for community-led open access book publishing? https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-next-for-community-led-open-access-book-publishing-tickets-1753736566279?aff=Bluesky

Can a new vision for growth drive climate action? 🪴 Gregory Casey reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern in @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Read in full here: 🖇️ bit.ly/3Lw96Fb @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Very pleased that Nicholas Stern’s new book “The Growth Story of the 21st Century” is one of Martin Wolf’s best books of the year. @financialtimes.com @gsos-lse.bsky.social You can read it #OpenAccess at press.lse.ac.uk

"The clean economy is now cheaper than the dirty economy... that proportion is rising rapidly." Nick Stern writes in @theobserveruk.bsky.social around the publication The Growth Story of the 21st Century. @gsos-lse.bsky.social Free to read and download ➡️ https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs

What’s it really like to work in academic publishing? For #WorkInPublishingWeek, the LSE Press team answer your questions, including what makes a strong applicant and the best part of working with authors. Read the full Q&A here: https://bit.ly/3LTLzy4

“His story is one of achievement, hope and danger.” Martin Wolf selects the best economics books of 2025 for @financialtimes.com, including The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern. Read the full list here: https://on.ft.com/4pkO0bv @granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

This #WorkInPublishingWeek, the LSE Press team answered your questions about what it’s really like to work in publishing. Read the full Q&A here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2025/11/19/work-in-publishing-week-advice-from-the-lse-press-team/

Missed the OIPA Symposium 2025 or want to watch it again? The full recording is now available: oipauk.org/news-events-... Featuring a keynote from @samuelmoore.org and lightning talks from @openlibhums.org, @lsepress.bsky.social & @uwpress.bsky.social, and more.

🥘 How Africa Eats was celebrated last week with a launch event in Switzerland, featuring an expert panel discussing one of Africa’s most pressing challenges: food security. How Africa Eats is available to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing: https://bit.ly/3XKMt2t @fes-uk.bsky.social#OpenAccess

"Nicholas Stern, economist and author of The Growth Story of the 21st Century, says the effects of climate change “are coming through faster, more severely and at lower temperature increases than we anticipated”." 👁️‍🗨️ Read more at @financialtimes.com https://on.ft.com/3K1QkoF

Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing. Another one of our most-read articles over the last week. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026... @laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/coming...

I’m very much looking forward to this conference - the last @copim.bsky.social event I attended was fantastic - bringing together all those working in nonprofit open access in a way no other event does.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) to explore the future of community-led open access book publishing 🔮 📍 Loughborough University | London or online 🥳 Registration is now open! 🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ #CopimConference

First up are @lsepress.bsky.social 👋 A non-profit, #OpenAccess publisher of #socialsciences research including monographs, edited collections, textbooks and journals Based at @lselibrary.bsky.social 🏠 🔗 buff.ly/ZLoaX6h #UPWeek 2/6

🔦 To celebrate #UPWeek we're shining a light on the institutional publishers you can support via @openbookcollective.bsky.social An international group of UPs, including publishers that are either 100% OA already or moving towards at least 75% #OA on new books 👉 buff.ly/vFVahp7 1/6