Folks believing that public libraries should be neutral overlook the fact that they are inherently political. Public libraries were created with the belief that everyone no matter their class, status, age or income can freely gather and access materials to educate & entertain

It's #UKSG2026 day two! ⏰️ At 12.30 @rupertgatti.bsky.social will be presenting a @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social poster 🗣️ Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape Find out more about #Thoth 👉 thoth.pub

'The UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, the British Academy, has called for a joined-up strategy, a sustainable financial model and meaningful engagement with authors when it comes to developing long-form open access (OA).' Link to the report in next post. 1/2

🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign 🔓 @eifl.bsky.social Iryna Kuchma outlines steps we can take to make climate research accessible to all 🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/d...

Plenty of time to get yourself booked to attend our free webinar on 'How to Get Your Work Published as Open Access'! 📌28 May 2026, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, via Zoom 🗣️ With experts @emmagallon.bsky.social and Frances Pinter. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #OpenAccess #Publishing #ECRs #Training

'Springer Nature and Wiley both grew their article output by around 15% last year compared with 2024. Taylor & Francis and Elsevier grew by around 10%. [...]. The article market as a whole grew by about 7% last year.' Or how the old guard emulated the growth strategies of MDPI and Frontiers.

🌍 "The book is a magisterial and positive discussion of the biggest issue of our times." Kevin Gardiner reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century for the Society Of Professional Economists. 🔗 Read in full here: https://bit.ly/4bHW4z1

Here’s me hanging out at the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) at @uksg.bsky.social representing my brilliant @openlibhums.org team who designed this poster! We commissioned illustrator Joaquin Pereyra and designer Nicky Borowiec to make it for us. Join the fight to make knowledge free! #UKSG2026

In light of some of the talks at #uksg26 on open infrastructure, OA and similar - the following may be of interest ;) (And if you're talking new products are UKSG, maybe keep this in the back of your mind!)

The future is Diamond! Swing by the OIPA (67) and Copim (66) stands to learn more about how we are advancing Diamond Open Access through collective funding. #UKSG2026 @uksg.bsky.social

Come and stop by the @lsepress.bsky.social stand at #PSA26 to learn why we are the best option for your next #PoliticalScience book...

Tend to agree with this - publishing open access and digital-first gives us more flexibility on length.

New on the LSE Press blog! @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores examples of authority and attention in an everyday urban landscape. 💭 "Landscape, as a form of authority, is an unequal patterning of attention." Read the full post: https://bit.ly/3Ptglj6

Interesting. "Instead, we see authority briefly flickering in and out of existence, in response to ever-changing choreographies of bodies and materials and atmospheres ... Landscape, as a form of authority, is an unequal patterning of attention."

Just in time for #UKSG2026 the @openlibhums.org team have launched this blistering Robin Hood poster campaign. Divest from commercial publishing (the rich) & redirect your library budget into non-profit scholar-led publishing like @ojcollective.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! 💪🏼🔥💪🏼

Breakout sessions now at #UKSG2026 - and great to see an entire panel of @oipassoc.bsky.social members doing this panel on ‘Library-led hosting and publishing: How it started and how it’s going’

We are represented on both the OIPA and @copim.bsky.social stands at #UKSG2026! Come by and find out more about how we are collectively funding Diamond Open Access journals and bringing chaos to scholarly publishing 💎

If youre at #UKSG2026 come join me, @cathdishman.bsky.social, @tmorley24.bsky.social & @sarahhlib.bsky.social for ‘Library-led hosting and publishing: How it started and how it’s going.’ 💎 Monday 30th @ 1:30pm 💎 Tuesday 31st @ 11am See you there? @uksg.bsky.social

@rouhiroo.bsky.social now highlighting the important work being done by #DefendResearch @defendresearch.bsky.social and the need for mutual aid, collective actions and care across the ecosystem 👏#UKSG2026

At #UKSG2026 and want to be inspired/provoked into action to advance long-form #OA? This video is a terrific place to start thanks to @rosiehigman.bsky.social @davejago.bsky.social and Professor Geoffrey Khan: youtu.be/2e539CPBNTo?... @uksg.bsky.social

Have you booked any sessions at the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival yet? Check out the full programme & book events on #OpenAccess and #Rights, #Publishing, #Funding, #OpenResearch, #Gender and #Ethics & more! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/... #LDNOpenFest26 @uclopenscience.bsky.social

"Absolutely captivating, an inspirational message in a bottle for troubled times." — Chris Philo, author of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination @edinburghup.bsky.social 💬Nonauthoritarian Authority is out now - free to read/download doi.org/10.31389/lse... @rgs.org #openaccess

"The story here isn't that publishers profit from research. It is that they are quietly occupying the infrastructure around it. (...) Universities are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures." Great analysis by @openlibhums.org: www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

This is such an incredible quote 👏👏👏

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

Our Managing Director, @joedeville.bsky.social, and Community Engagement Lead, @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social, will both be at #UKSG2026 tomorrow! Find them at the COPIM stand (#66) or roaming around talking about all things OA books, OBC, and collective funding!

Next week Naila Kabeer, author of Renegotiating Patriarchy, will be speaking at WOW Athens. She will discuss the different forms of individual and collective agency exercised by women across diverse social, economic and cultural contexts. 📅 Monday 30 March 🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4lxO9HO

“different models are possible when libraries, consortia and publishers are understood as collaborators in building a more federated, equitable and publicly accountable scholarly communications landscape, rather than as customers and vendors locked into purely transactional relations”

V. pleased to announce this. We have been working together for some time, but the MoU helps formalise things. The divisions between books & journals in the scholarly system are ultimately arbitrary, so this kind of collaboration is vital to collectively argue for better ways of doing open publishing

New from our colleagues at OLH. A valuable contribution to ongoing conversations around publishing infrastructure and dependency in scholarly communication

Join us for the launch of Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers by Patrick Dunleavy and Timothy Monteath, taking place as part of the CIVICA Open Science Conference. 📅 Wednesday 20 May 📍 London School of Economics and Political Science & online Book your place: https://bit.ly/4sHaeGS

New “5 minutes with” blog featuring @uowpress.bsky.social Gareth J Johnson shares how University of Warwick Press has evolved into a modern #diamondOA publisher, and the opportunities and challenges ahead. Read more: oipauk.org/2026/03/26/5-minutes-with-university-of-warwick-press/

Our Head of Publishing (and new Chair of @oipassoc.bsky.social) @paulakennedy.bsky.social will be on the OIPA stand at UKSG! Come and say hi, there will be lots of books and catalogues from OIPA #OpenAccess member presses available! www.uksg.org/events/confe... #UKSG2026 @uksg.bsky.social

We should focus less on research impact and more on research value, a paradigm that genuinely nurtures research for societal benefit. Ruth O’Connor, Sejul Malde, Wendy Russell and Maya Haviland for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Incredibly excited to share the news that we will be working more closely with @openbookcollective.bsky.social!

Happy publication day to Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power by Julian Brigstocke 🎉 Read online or download for free via #OpenAccess publishing: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.noa @rgs.org @jbrigstocke.bsky.social#OpenAccess

I'll be at #PSA26 in Oxford next week. You can find the LSE Press stand in the Conference Hub in Examination Halls - happy to chat publishing, open access, and all things related. More information about publishing with us here: press.lse.ac.uk/publish

We're delighted to share that University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives have joined the Open Journals Collective! They are one of our founding members, and their support is hugely important to us. We look forward to working with them as we build a brighter future for academic publishing!

Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.

“With a rare focus on grades as they are experienced by students, Rohde examines how deeply grades mediate students’ sense of self, their futures, and the meanings of merit.” — Wendy Espeland, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Northwestern University ➡️ Coming soon: https://bit.ly/4d4pbOe

“This book offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis." Andrés Velasco spoke with John Cassidy for The New Yorker following the publication of The London Consensus 📖 Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/49KQhbt

We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨ Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO

📢 Almost time for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026! 📅 20–24 April 👀 We’re running a session on author experiences of #OpenAccess publishing on 23 April with several @oipassoc.bsky.social presses & there are loads of other great sessions too! 🔗 blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

Excited that @lsepress.bsky.social will be exhibiting at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social conf for the 1st time! Do visit the stand, meet our Publisher @alicecpark.bsky.social & learn abt the many benefits of publishing #OpenAccess w us. #PSA26

Great news from @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🎉 👉 @verfassungsblog.de are now a member

It was great to see @rluk.ac.uk's recent call for collective OA funding. We also need to ensure that the full diversity of HEIs and libraries can and do participate as a shared, collective commitment to help support a new publishing ecosystem, not just historic or 'research-led' HEIs and libraries.

'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference' In this post, @alittleroad.bsky.social summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here! 👉 copim.pub/exploring-th... #OAbooks #OpenAccess

We're going to be at @uksg.bsky.social 2026 in Glasgow! Please do get in touch if you are interested in @ojcollective.bsky.social or have any questions at all. Thomas Shaw and I would be delighted to chat with you. #OpenAccess

UNESCO has launched a consultation to explore "fair, inclusive ways to create, share, and access academic knowledge, and to address challenges in building more equitable systems." Deadline for contributions is April 13. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

Nonauthoritarian Authority by Julian Brigstocke is an attempt to reimagine the possibilities and potentials of authority in spaces of authoritarianism or violence.⚡ Publishing this month #OpenAccess from LSE Press and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). ➡️ https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.noa