Save the date! Join our friends at @copim.bsky.social in 2026 for their Conference focusing on the future of community-led open access books. 📆 26-27 February 2026 📍 Loughbourough University, London campus ⏳ Registration opens soon! Give them a follow and find out more! copim.pub/join-us-for-...

Please do join us for the free OIPA Symposium during #OAWeek! @oipassoc.bsky.social You will learn all about the exciting and innovative things our members are doing to lead the way in #OpenAccess publishing 🔓 Find out more and register below 👇

Our member, LSHTM Press, has a new LinkedIn profile! Go give them a follow and get the latest in Open Access public and global health research. www.linkedin.com/company/lsht...

Interested in finding out more about non-profit #OpenAccess publishing in universities? Join us at our free, online @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium in Oct during #OAWeek! Find out more inc registration link below 👇

Join us for our online Symposium in October! We will explore the open publishing landscape and some of the ground-breaking projects shaping the future of open institutional publishing. 📆 Tuesday 21st October 2025 🕐 13:30-16:00 BST ❓Online via Zoom 🪙 Free Register now! oipauk.org/news-events-...

It was lovely to see fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members and allies at #ALPSP2025 last week! Congrats @thoth-metadata.bsky.social for your shortlisting in the Innovation awards 👏

Well, we may not have bagged an #ALPSP25 award but the opportunity to present as a finalist, talk all things #OABookPublishing and meet our @oipassoc.bsky.social colleagues made up for it! Thanks to everyone who dropped by & expressed interest in our commitment to #OpenMetadata🔓

Good to see the work of @oipassoc.bsky.social members as offering 'an ethical alternative to commercial publishers' based on collaboration, not competition, by @samuelmoore.org in this piece about his new book ⬇️ #OpenAccess #OABookPublishing

Don't miss out on this event for 'Screening the Fleet', recently published by @wrunipress.bsky.social! The event is free but booking is essential. Secure your spot before booking closes on Thursday, 11th September. universitypress.whiterose.ac.uk/announcements

Our member, @uolpress.bsky.social, has announced that their Head of Publishing, @paulakennedy.bsky.social, has been appointed to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) English Language and Literature sub-panel for @ref2029.bsky.social. Congratulations to Paula! 👏👏👏

Congratulations to our Head of Publishing @paulakennedy.bsky.social, who has been appointed to the The Research Excellence Framework (REF) English Language and Literature sub-panel for REF 2029! 👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

We love to see it! Dominique from @scotunipress.bsky.social and John from @uniwestpress.bsky.social show off the OIPA member’s catalogue at @meccsa2025.bsky.social! Pop over and say hi to chat about their fantastic books and about OIPA 💪 #MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25

We love to see it! Dominique from @scotunipress.bsky.social and John from @uniwestpress.bsky.social show off the OIPA member’s catalogue at @meccsa2025.bsky.social! Pop over and say hi to chat about their fantastic books and about OIPA 💪 #MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25

Delighted to see my team’s article published about our work on ‘Living with Machines’ in the @learnedpublishing.bsky.social journal 🎉 Particular thanks to our @uolpress.bsky.social Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for her work on this 👏 Read the article below 👇 #OABooks @oipassoc.bsky.social

We 💚 New #Research from @huddersfielduni.bsky.social students! 🤩 Such a diverse spectrum of subjects covered in our new Volume of #FIELDS the Journal of Huddersfield Student Research. All 10 articles are now available, free, online, #openaccess. www.fieldsjournal.org.uk @oaspa.bsky.social

"Pressed into action" We really enjoyed this interview with @scotunipress.bsky.social's Press Manager, Gillian Daly, in @cilip.bsky.social's Information Professional magazine. Wonderful to also see OIPA get a shout out! Read here (p. 26-28): content.yudu.com/web/43mce/0A... #OpenAccess

Calling all OIPA members 📢 Send us your news to widen your reach! We welcome submissions to our blog or news alerts using our website forms. Your responses are monitored by our Comms team, who will support your Press to celebrate our community's shared achievements. oipauk.org/news-events-...

"The practice and production of how digital scholarship is taught will have a profound impact on current and future generations of scholars." Read our new blog with Brown University Digital Publications below ⬇️ oipauk.org/2025/07/31/b... #OpenAccess #Community #Collaboration

Nice to read about one of our fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members! They’ve developed 3 multimodal monographs for publication with leading uni presses, and all 3 have been recognized with major national or international awards 👏

We recently launched the Open Accessibility Book on #CopimCompass 🧭 👉 buff.ly/tHokipg We want to know which parts you've found the most useful ☎️ @oaspa.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

🚨NEW BLOG ALERT🚨 Read our latest interview where Brown University Digital Publications – OIPA’s newest member – celebrates 10 years of digital scholarly publishing! oipauk.org/2025/07/31/b... #OpenAccess #InstitutionalPublishing #OpenPublishing

Pleased to see our member @uolpress.bsky.social benefitting from library funding via the @openbookcollective.bsky.social! 🤗 They have a variety of packages available for libraries to pledge funds to support #OpenAccess initiatives. openbookcollective.org/packages/

Who Owns Our Knowledge? 👁️‍🗨️ And how can communities reassert control over the knowledge they produce in the present moment? 📅 Get ready for this year's #OAWeek - October 20 - 26. 📖 Register for the OIPA newsletter for future info on OIPA community events: oipauk.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Well done to our member @uolpress.bsky.social who have received a 100% ASPIRE gold-rated score for the quality of their accessibility statement, demonstrating their efforts to actively embed accessibility into all aspects of their publishing work! Read more here: uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/embe...

Missed the news? Our ‪member @goldsmithspress.bsky.social is the second university press to join @mitpress.bsky.social's Direct to Open diamond open access scheme! Find out more here: mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-ad... #DirectToOpen #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #InstitutionalPublishing

Wonderful piece on skills development and career growth for librarians by @nickiclarkson.bsky.social in @uksg.bsky.social. And lovely to see OIPA mentioned! Read 'Bridging the gap: transferable skills and career growth in academic libraries' here: www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

📢Job Alert White Rose Libraries is looking for an Admin Assistant to support collaborative work across the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. This role is perfect for someone with strong organisational skills who enjoys coordinating activity in a dynamic, cross-institutional environment.

Have you applied for the @openlibhums.bsky.social Open Access Award 2025? Apps for funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or orgs & may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on open access. Hurry! Deadline is Mon 30th June. Full info: www.openlibhums.org/news/781/

It was lovely to spend the day with you all!

New podcast! Professor J. McKenzie Alexander featured on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's New Books in Critical Theory podcast 🎧 🔽 Listen below: newbooksnetwork.com/the-open-soc... 🔽 The Open Society as an Enemy is free to read and download: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lsephilosophy.bsky.social

This free training event is taking place tomorrow! You can still register if you'd like an overview of the whole process of academic book publishing. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #Authors #Publishing #AcademicSky #Researchers

We are thrilled to announce that Goldsmiths Press has partnered with @mitpress.bsky.social's Direct to Open platform! This partnership expands global access to our titles, through sustainable open access publishing. For more details, check out the link below - mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-ad...

Congratulations to Riitta Hänninen, Sakari Taipale and Laura Haapio-Kirk! Their #OpenAccess book Digital Repertoires published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/3GN0qbe #AnthropologyofAgeing #HCI #DigitalInclusion

Don’t miss your chance to apply for the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025! Funding of up to £500 is available to support events, projects, or activities related to #OpenAccess or with an #OA component. ⏰ Apply by 30/06! 🔗 Full details: www.openlibhums.org/...

Looking forward to running this free online #training session next week with my colleague Kat Nelson. This one offers an overview to the book publishing process - please share with any colleagues/networks who might find this useful ⬇️ @oipassoc.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #ECR #AcademicSky

Promoting your book or research paper requires different skills from those needed to produce it. ✍ @elinorpotts.bsky.social writes for Times Higher Education's Campus blog. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... @lseblogs.bsky.social #BookMarketing #AcademicWriting @oipassoc.bsky.social

Wonderful to see this statement from @n8research.bsky.social calling for more equitable models in scholarly publishing! We are very glad to see importance on "mission-driven scholarly societies and non-profit publishers who are already leading the way in developing new, more equitable models." 👏

Promoting your book or research paper requires different skills from those needed to produce it. ✍ @elinorpotts.bsky.social writes for Times Higher Education's Campus blog. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-p... @lseblogs.bsky.social #BookMarketing #AcademicWriting @oipassoc.bsky.social

Are you visiting for #Ceangal/Connect? Stop by the Sir Duncan Rice Library and pick up some bookmarks, book cords, or other info from our little display, and learn more about Clò Oilthigh Obar Dheathain!

Please do stop by the SUP stall at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) conference @bacls.bsky.social at the University of Stirling. Our Commissioning Editor, @paulmclarke.bsky.social, will be delighted to talk to you about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! 👋

UCL Press’s 10th Anniversary event is tomorrow! Our expert panel from the worlds of HE and scholarly publishing will discuss achievements in open access monograph publishing in the last 10 years. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-press-...

New free, online training session tomorrow on how to market your academic book from my colleagues @uolpress.bsky.social Details and sign up below - please share 👇 #AcademicPublishing #Marketing #PublishingTraining @oipassoc.bsky.social

Becky and @dominiquewalker.bsky.social are back at it again! This time we are promoting OIPA at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference. If you’re here, come say hi 👋

At the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference today. Great to hear from @kjsanders.bsky.social and @judithfathallah.bsky.social on the awesome @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and always enjoy seeing @oipassoc.bsky.social member logos on slides 😄

Check out this useful post and list of resources from @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social on managing third-party permissions in #OpenAccess books. We co-developed and co-hosted the original event, with our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social on the panel along with other expert speakers.

⏰ Less than a week to apply for our current vacancy of Production Manager in our team (deadline: Mon 9th June). Details below! ⬇️ #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing #production @oipassoc.bsky.social

A very helpful post and list of resources from @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social on managing third-party permissions in #OpenAccess books 👇

Congratulations to our fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social colleagues at @openbookpublish.bsky.social for *three* finalists in the @acls1919.bsky.social/ Arcadia #OpenAccess book prizes! 👏🎉 We were lucky enough to win one of the inaugural ACLS/Arcadia prizes last year for ‘Freedom Seekers’ 🏆

🚨 * VACANCY! * We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small and friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ⏰ Deadline: Mon 9th June Please share with your networks! #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing @oipassoc.bsky.social

The programme for the Festival has grown again! We are delighted to be able to invite you to join the 10th Anniversary of our friends @uclpress.bsky.social! They are hosting an amazing panel celebrating progress and considering the challenges to come - check it out! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...