📣 Researchers of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Scottish Universities Press (@scotunipress.bsky.social) are looking for a UoE representative on their Editorial Board. This is an exciting opportunity to help steer SUP & contribute to #OpenAccess books! Full information: www.sup.ac.uk/news/editori...

Chuffed to announce we are now the publishing partner for the Edinburgh Student Literary Journal! Founded in conjunction with the UoE Literature Society, ESLJ provides a space for the publication of academic essays and book reviews produced by university students. open.journals.ed.ac.uk/eslj

Proud to see Edinburgh Diamond listed in The Open Access Directory's (OAD) list of major initiatives for diamond OA. Take a look – there are lots of wonderful initiatives in there! oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Majo...

🚨 The programme for the 2026 OIPA Symposium is now live!🚨 Join us on 18th June in Brighton for panels, lightning talks, and workshops exploring open publishing and infrastructure. Register + programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

Welcome to our latest edited collection – 'RECOUNT: ‘Kashfing’ Accounting with Visuals', edited by Wafa Khlif, Afshin Mehrpouya & Eleni Chatzivgeri. Born out of a creative dialogue between academics and artists as part of the Recount Photographic Agora project. books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Registration is now open for Edinburgh Open Research Conference (@edopenresearch.bsky.social) 2026! 📆 Thursday 18 June, 2026 📍 50 George Square, Edinburgh & Online Register to attend in person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-... Register to attend online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-...

We are a publisher member of OJC and can attest to how great this collective is! If you’re in need of funding for your Diamond OA journals, consider applying to become a member.

Welcome to the Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (TILT)! TILT is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to support educators, course designers, researchers, and learners engaged in interdisciplinary education. 🧵 books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

We can't believe our friends at @standrewsopenres.bsky.social Journal Hosting Service have turned 15 this month! (The service, not the people...) Congratulations to the team, and long may Diamond OA library hosting reign!

Happy publication day to 'In Our Own Words: Documenting the Queer Everyday in Central Asia'! Exceptionally proud to be the publishing partner for this collective work that is at once research, art, and activism. Check it out! #OpenAccess books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

A very special day: In Our Own Words: Documenting the Queer Everyday in Central Asia is now open access via @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di... Funded by AHRC and created through collective effort. My deepest thanks to all contributors.

The latest issue of Scottish Studies celebrates former editor John Shaw (also retired Senior Lecturer in Ethnology in the School of Scottish Studies at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social). 🧵 open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...

📣 Call for papers 📣 Contemporary Challenges Journal is looking for submissions that engage with issues of crime, justice, and security, particularly those with global, international, or transnational dimensions. 📅 Submission Deadline: 2 May, 2026 Find out more: journals.ed.ac.uk/ccj/about/su...

🚨 NEW JOURNAL 🚨 Delighted to announce we are the publishing partner for a brand new journal: Interdisciplinary Accounting Review! Led by Christine Cooper of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, IAR will publish robust research that sheds light on accounting practices, institutions and technologies. 🧵

Very proud to be the publishing partner for ‘A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations’! It’s completely Open Access, so check it out! 👇

In an Edinburgh Diamond triple whammy, @simonxix.com also presented at @uksg.bsky.social on the importance of opting for open source software instead of exploitative proprietary systems 💪 #UKSG2026

Catch Rebecca talking about Edinburgh Diamond at #UKSG2026 today!

Wonderful seeing our very own @earthowned.bsky.social at the @uksg.bsky.social plenary this morning, talking about the diversity of publishing models and how Edinburgh Diamond is approaching experimental publishing. Some wonderful shout outs for @oipassoc.bsky.social too! #UKSG2026

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 proud to be represented on the OIPA stand at #UKSG2026! If you’re interested in Diamond Open Access or Library Publishing, come chat to Rebecca at stand 67 💎

So proud to be a co-editor of this 'Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations' with colleagues from @thebinkshub.bsky.social, a creative, interactive guide to navigating meaningful + ethical collaborative relationships. Freely available to read and download here!

We’re delighted to share this collaborative resource designed to support more ethical and effective working relationships between academics and creatives ✨ Whether you're an artist, researcher or student, this guide offers practical insights for more thoughtful ways of working. Please share widely!

How can you ensure that collaborations involving academic researchers and creative practitioners are as ethical and effective as possible? Navigate this terrain in our latest book: 'A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations'! @thebinkshub.bsky.social books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...

Congratulations to @beckywojturska.bsky.social of Edinburgh Diamond, who is the new Co-Vice Chair of OIPA! 🥳

This panel on experimental publishing futures which I co-chaired with @openreflections.bsky.social is now available to view in its entirety on the Internet Archive. #CopimConference archive.org/details/copi...

Our very own @simonxix.com now co-chairing a panel about experimental publishing at the @copim.bsky.social conference, something we’re very keen to do more of at Edinburgh Diamond! Great to hear what other publishers are doing in this area. #CopimConference

Fantastic to see our very first textbook, Fundamentals of Music Theory, highlighted in the Library Publishing Showcase Week, organised by the Library Publishing Coalition. Check us out! 😎 🎶 librarypublishingcreates.org/edinburgh-di... #libpubweek #libpubshowcase

What a brilliant first day at the @copim.bsky.social conference, with topics ranging from librarians as Diamond OA change makers to accessibility. So glad to see Edinburgh Diamond represented alongside our fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members! #CopimConference

And here are some of our members who are here in person! #CopimConference Thanks @copim.bsky.social for such a great conference (so far!) and for providing a forum for helpful and informative conversations with such an engaged group of people. #OpenAccessAdvocacy

Excited to be at the @copim.bsky.social conference! 👀 If you’re near the digital poster wall, check us out! 👋 Some of the OJC Directors and Exec. Group are also here – come say hi. 💎 Find out more about the Open Journals Collective: www.openjournalscollective.org #CopimConference

Vol. 46 No. 1 of Scottish Studies is out! This issue includes articles about: student singing and song books; sportsmen, the Great War & enlistment symbols; & the policing of land agitation in the Highlands & Islands; and more! Download & share! #OpenAccess open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...

Did you know we have a Bluesky starter pack where you can follow all of OJC's publisher members in just one click? Take a look and give a click! go.bsky.app/QvGSACZ

The inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week, from the Library Publishing Coalition, is off with a bang! Check out Library Publishing Creates, their new website that aims to support library publishers with advocacy. librarypublishingcreates.org

Fantastic to see the OJC team grow, bringing on more diamonds to work on Diamond Open Access! Welcome, Tom 💎🥳

6 days to go on the call for papers for volume 7 of the interdisciplinary Contemporary Challenges, an #OpenAccess journal hosted by @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social

I'm upgrading a bunch of OJS and OMP instances now I'm working as part of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and SCURL Open Hosting. Upgrading these applications is fiddly as heck so I've written scripts to make my life easier and maybe anyone else who regularly works on OJS/OMP.

Exciting times for the Open Institutional Publishing Association! We wrote about our activities in 2025 and plans for the future – including our symposiums, new committee members and Advisory Board, and member milestones – for UKSG eNews. Give it a read and share! www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

The new issue of Leviathan is out! 2025 featured pushing of political boundaries, from authoritarian populists testing the limits of democracy to new generations of protesters demanding accountability. 'Beyond Power' presents new ways of thinking about power and politics. doi.org/10.2218/nr8v...

How caring is Scotland’s approach to energy retrofit? Our new insights paper, 'Towards a Retrofit of Care: Examining energy retrofitting in Scottish households through a care lens' - written by Dr. Iain Cairns et al. - explores just that. #OpenAccess and ready to download! doi.org/10.2218/ED.9...

Come speak at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 (18 Jun)! We are looking for submissions associated with UNESCO’s Open Research recommendations, centred on one of the four quadrants of UNESCO’s Model. Deadline: End of Fri 13 Feb Find out more & submit: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...

We are very happy to welcome our new editorial members! Chariklia Martalas is our new Co-managing Editor and Wushuang Tong is our new Assistant Editor. We are looking forward to working together on new projects in arts and interdisciplinary research! @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social

SO proud to be a founding publisher member of the @ojcollective.bsky.social! If you want to support equitable publishing models that centre community-led publishing, then invest in the OJC! Read 🔽 Share ➡️ Invest 🔄

I'm exceptionally proud to be a part of the @ojcollective.bsky.social & it's fantastic to see the investment campaign go live! HUGE congratulations to @theblochian.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @rupertgatti.bsky.social for leading the charge. The future is Diamond! 💎

The @ojcollective.bsky.social has officially launched and is now seeking investment! 💎 Know a librarian committed to equitable, sustainable, community-led Diamond Open Access publishing models? Maybe it's you! 📖 Read the Press Release and pass it on: drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

🔊 Help shape the EDCH Forum Take our quick poll and tell us who you are, how you engage with Diamond OA, and what you’d like to see next! ➡️ Fill in our Poll: forum.diamas.org/t/who-s-here... 🗓 Deadline: end of January Not on the Forum yet? Join here 👉 forum.diamas.org #DiamondOpenAccess #EDCH

I'm pleased that you can now browse our @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social journals on @ojcollective.bsky.social's new catalogue. Nice to see this cool collection of community-led journals working collectively. www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/?q...

Some awesome news to end the week on: the inaugural @ojcollective.bsky.social journals catalogue is live, and you can see the eight Edinburgh Diamond journals included along many other Diamond Open Access journals. Have a browse and support community-led Diamond Open Access publishing!

Love seeing copies of the Remediating Stevenson book series being posted to schools and educational groups across Scotland! Access the Open Access digital editions: books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di... #OpenAccess #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS

Innovations in Linguistics Education is officially relaunched & open for submissions! INNOVATIONS (@innovations-ling.bsky.social) provides a forum for linguists from around the world to exchange ideas & materials on linguistics teaching in higher education. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

📚 We are proud to announce the release of "Teaching for Digital Futures": our guides and resources to help educators teach digital, data, and AI literacies in the classroom, in one Edinburgh Diamond-published book series ⬇️ @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @morayhouse.bsky.social