Proud to be repping some @openlibhums.org merch this Hallowe’en! I’m a huge advocate for what @theblochian.bsky.social & the whole team do to sustainably grow Diamond Open Access academic publishing. P.s. commercial publishers really are eating your journal’s brains! Let’s keep horror in fiction 🧟‍♂️

Interested in a non commercial, academy owned publishing solution? We work with our friends at @michiganpublishing.bsky.social to offer Janeway and Fulcrum together. janewayfulcrum.olh.pub

Join us in person or online for The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing / @janewayolh.bsky.social 21–22 May 2026 Dublin City University Library Free |Open to all Call for Papers now open! 📅 Deadline: 9 January 2026 Full info here:

Join us for #OAWeek! Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social 🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST 🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

A great job has opened up at the California Digital Library at the University of California-- the Technical Team Manager for Discovery and Delivery! #Jobs #libraries #TechManagers cdlib.org/about/job-op...

Dear Gods of all that is stupid... IT'S REAL.

One of our hosted sites is under constant attack from scraper bots. We've implemented the open source tech Anubis and now the site is much more stable. pubs.lib.uiowa.edu

Read this interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair / @maddiesinclair.bsky.social (Editorial Officer, Open Library of Humanities) about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the day-to-day realities of editorial work: www.openlibhums.org/news/858/ #OA #AcademicPublishing

Janeway version 1.8 is available rolling out onto our hosted installations now. Checkout some of the awesome features including work on @researchorgs.bsky.social and CRediT by @joemull.bsky.social. github.com/openlibhums/...

📣 The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing / @janewayolh.bsky.social 📅 21–22 May 2026 Dublin City University Library Free | In person & online | Open to all CFP deadline: 9 Jan 2026 🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/859/

Seeing as I'm praising publishers today, I sent out some decisions for our special issue on open research for HSS and @janewayolh.bsky.social is really excellent to work with.

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.org

Check out something we've been working on with the awesome team @carbonplan.org

We wanted @cdrxiv.org to have a distinctive design built on a reliable, open source publishing software. Getting both required collaboration with @janewayolh.bsky.social to overcome technical challenges. Here's how we did it: carbonplan.org/blog/cdrxiv-...

Introducing CDRXIV, a central hub for preprints and data on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Our goal is to make it easier for CDR research to be shared and discovered by researchers in academia and industry. CDRXIV was built by @carbonplan.org. Read more about it here: carbonplan.org/blog/cdrxiv-...

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

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/

Really exciting to see another preprint archive launch. In this case the CDRXIV site is backed by Janeway with content being pulled from our API.

New @comicsgrid.com! Ecofeminism, Trauma, and Visual Metamorphosis in Una’s Becoming Unbecoming doi.org/10.16995/cg.... Thank you to @openlibhums.bsky.social @janewayolh.bsky.social @siliconchips.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

The Lower Decks returns. We will be gathering in Dublin to talk all things open access. Come and join us!

We’re also closing in on an end ti version 1.8 development. This version has been expanded to include core implementations of CRediT and @researchorgs.bsky.social.

The Janeway core development team had a great couple of days of in person meetings last week working on our goals for the next 12 months. More details coming very soon!

For any of my @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social students not already convinced of the wisdom of OCR-ing the columns of their patent separately, I hope that this will do the trick. :-D

Really good stuff from @siobhanh.bsky.social on the absolutely bleak Clarivate announcement.

I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp#OATP and the open-source software on which it runs. Details in this Google doc: https://bit.ly/TransferOATP Contact me <[email protected]> if you have any questions or […]

Was comparing notes with an editor of Political Philosophy the other day, who confirmed our editors’ experience at Free & Equal: what a joy to work with a publisher @openlibhums.bsky.social who is *on your side*, whose interests are aligned with you, and not an adversary like in the bad old days

3 more #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social.See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by @janewayolh.bsky.social, copy-edited and typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

Very pleased to announce the publication of the first two articles of @freeandequal.bsky.social / Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs! Check them out: freeandequaljournal.org/articles/

3 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by the @janewayolh.bsky.social platform, copy-edited & typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

Happy New Year! 2 new #DiamondOpenAccess papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by @janewayolh.bsky.social, copy-edited and typeset by @siliconchipsuk, financially supported and published by the scholar-owned @openlibhums.bsky.social

A total of 110 #DiamondOA papers published in @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social in 2024. See glossa-journal.org/articles/ Powered by @janewayolh.bsky.social, copy-edited and typeset by @siliconchipsuk, & financially supported by the scholar-owned consortial library model of @openlibhums.bsky.social

Here's a quick roundup of our activity over the past year. www.openlibhums.org/news/775/ It's not quite spotify wrapped but it is something... 😀

Huzzah! Thanks @janewayolh.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social #OpenAccess FTW

This is how excited @eve.gd was about Janeway seven years ago.

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

Timely insights on OLH support from Astrid van Wesenbeeck, OA Advisor at the KB:'Especially these days when budget cuts are massive in Dutch higher education, a sustainable and open scholarly publishing culture is most relevant for the academic community and for society as a whole.' #diamondOA 🙌

Glossa on Bsky!

Yeah! The core of the OA Switchboard plugin for @janewayolh.bsky.social is done. ROR and CRediT support are coming soon to Janeway, too - just making their way through the review and merge pipeline. Exciting. github.com/openlibhums/...

This awesome new feature was developed by @joemull.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy!

I meant to post this from here.... its been one of those mornings...

Another great addition to the Open Book Collective ... supporting, publishing and dissemination #OABooks

Glad to have you with us. As long as you don’t use camelCase for functions.

Martin co-founded both @janewayolh.bsky.social and @openlibhums.bsky.social, and he’s one of the smartest and most talented people I know. We used to work together at OLH, and I owe him so much. He’s now looking for a job, and anyone would be lucky to have him on their team

Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.

Martin cofounded @janewayolh.bsky.social with me and is a talented software engineer. We’d have him at OLH in a heartbeat if it was possible.