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 👇

Great news that the first @scotunipress.bsky.social book will feature at #AyeWrite on 9 Nov. Hope to meet lots of SCURL colleagues at the event!

Join internationally renowned anthropologist Tim Ingold at Aye Write 2025! Date: 9th November Time: 4:15pm Venue: Mitchell Library, Glasgow We are delighted that our first book will feature at Glasgow's book festival #AyeWrite Find out more and book tickets 👇 www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-at-...

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

If you are at @meccsa2025.bsky.social, pop up to level 2 to speak to SUP Publishing Officer, Dominique Walker, about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! Great to be at one of our member institutions @edinburghnapier.bsky.social for the next couple of days! #MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25 #ENU

"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

👀 Check out this interview with SUP's Gillian Daly, published in @cilip.bsky.social's #InformationProfessional magazine! "Library publishing is an evolution of our role as we take forward the overarching library mission of making information accessible for all." 👇 content.yudu.com/web/43mce/0A...

📰 Read our Summer 2025 newsletter and catch up with all the latest SUP activity - including details of our forthcoming #OpenAccess books! 👉 mailchi.mp/eb6d8e14bae2... ✍ Sign up to our mailing list here: eepurl.com/i0AoJA

We had a great time at the Curious Minds Research Festival (and got a photo of @paulmclarke.bsky.social in action 😄)

😎 A beautiful sunny Friday at @robertgordonuni.bsky.social's Curious Minds Research Festival! Our commissioning editor @paulmclarke.bsky.social has enjoyed speaking to researchers and catching up with our #RGU authors 📝 Thanks @rgulibrary.bsky.social for the invite 😀

‪📚 "The Vow of Stability" by @robotforaday.bsky.social is out now and #OpenAccess via @scotunipress.bsky.social A deep dive into monastic life, community, and how religious institutions endure through time. #Anthropology #Ethnography 🔗 Read out more here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

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/...

I was thrilled to announce this today, at the @scurlscottish.bsky.social annual meeting, here @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24473?d...

We had at great time sharing a table at #SCURL2025 with our new (formal) partner (but actually we've been benefiting from their advice and encouragement the whole time).

📣 We are delighted to announce that the University of Aberdeen has joined SUP as a partner library! We are looking forward to collaborating with @simonjbains.bsky.social and the @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social team to provide free and equitable access to research. 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/univers...

Back in Stirling again today for @ecsssstir2025.bsky.social. If you’d like to discuss an #openaccess book project, come say hi or drop me a line. @scotunipress.bsky.social is open to UK academics working in any subject.

👏 This is fantastic to see from the @n8research.bsky.social on the urgent need to reform scholarly publishing models. Great to see them recognising the work of non-profit publishers who are 'already leading the way in developing new, more equitable models.' 👉 www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-...

‪📘 "The Vow of Stability" by @robotforaday.bsky.social is out now and #OpenAccess via @scotunipress.bsky.social! A deep dive into monastic life, community, and how religious institutions endure through time. #Anthropology #Ethnography #MonasticLife 🔗 Read it here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

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! 👋

If you’re at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week, stop by the @scotunipress.bsky.social stand to find out more about institutional Open Access publishing, and to chat about publishing with SUP

good to see the elegant @scotunipress.bsky.social table (with all those brand new books!) at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 www.sup.ac.uk #EORC25 @dominiquewalker.bsky.social

We spent the afternoon chatting to researchers at the @uniwestscotland.bsky.social 2025 Research Festival! The festival theme this year is 'A Better World', focusing on the impact of research - what better way to increase global impact than publishing #OpenAccess

Thanks to SLIC's Alison Nolan for mentioning how academic libraries are leading the way with innovative #OpenAccess publishing models in her keynote at #CILIPS25 - including a shout out for @scotunipress.bsky.social 😄

A fascinating insight into this new #openaccess book from @scotunipress.bsky.social

Watch the recording of our fireside chat with Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social marking the launch of 'The vow of stability'. Richard covers his experiences of life in a Benedictine monastery, his thoughts on stability and more challenging topics such as sexual abuse. 👉 youtu.be/DtjjP2k1DoU

We have a wee display for the latest @scotunipress.bsky.social publication in our reception

The recording of the fireside chat celebrating the launch of 'Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century' is now available! Thanks to Bridgette Wessels, Andrew Prescott and Michelle Doran for a great discussion and answering our questions 🙋 Watch it here 👇 youtu.be/Az9v6kDpp8M?...

"this continuity is not simply the comfort of familiarity; it is an unsettling of the ordinary and the everyday... Stability is a work of perseverance open to the unknown." My new book, The Vow of Stability, now published open access with @scotunipress.bsky.social books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

"Reading #ethnographies is a very important part of learning about #anthropology ... but there’s very uneven access to those books." Find out why @robotforaday.bsky.social chose to publish his book #OpenAccess and remove barriers to teaching and learning in this new blog post: 👉 bit.ly/3ZlKK52

🌟 It's publication day for 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'! 👏Congratulations to Dr Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social on his unique account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery. Download #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #SocialAnthropology

What does it mean to take flight from the world? Delve into the fascinating world of monastic life with Dr Richard Irvine to celebrate the publication of 'The vow of stability': 📅 22 May ⏰ 2pm BST 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/the-vow... @robotforaday.bsky.social #SocialAnthropology #ReligiousStudies

Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-first Century launched this morning: thanks to Bridgette Wessels, Andrew Prescott, and Michelle Doran for participating in the session hosted by @scotunipress.bsky.social. The book is #openaccess: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities

This is your reminder to sign up for a peek at the digital future of humanities! 👀 Tomorrow we'll be celebrating the launch of @scotunipress.bsky.social 'Digital Editing and Publishing in the 21st Century' - co-authored by Bridgette Wessels. Still time to register 👇

*Last chance to register* Explore the future of digital scholarly editing and publishing. Join our fireside chat tomorrow, 14 May at 11am! Register here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-fir... #DigitalHumanities #ScholarlyEditions #DigitalEditions

@scotunipress.bsky.social continues to grow and evolve, and you can now publish an #OpenAccess textbook via Scottish Universities Press, allowing your students to download and read teaching texts for free. You can find out more via our press release: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...

Chuffed to see that SUP are launching an #OpenAccess textbooks programme! Go take a look 👀

We are thrilled to announce that SUP is launching an #OpenAccess textbooks programme! We are seeking to address the significant need for more affordable and accessible educational resources across the UK higher education landscape. Read more here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis... #Textbooks #OERs

The Vow of Stability, my ethnography of an English Benedictine monastery, is published later this month. Please join this online launch event Scottish Universities Press have organised. Solitude is valuable for monastic life but not so good when it comes to Q&A sessions www.sup.ac.uk/news/the-vow...

Offering a unique anthropological account of life in a Catholic Benedictine monastery, 'The vow of stability' by Richard Irvine publishes on 20 May! Join Richard for a fireside chat to learn more: 📅 22 May ⏰ 2pm BST 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/the-vow... @robotforaday.bsky.social #SocialAnthropology

Happy to see ‘Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century’ published by @scotunipress.bsky.social, is out!! Open access: available in print, PDF, EPUB. I have an essay in it: “The Ludic Edition: Playful Futures for Digital Scholarly Editing”! books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century This collection offers a range of perspectives on the present and future of digital editing and publishing. Available open access and in print: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities #openaccess #digitaleditions #digitalpublishing

We are all set up at @uofgarc.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of our second book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century! Come and visit us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Download the book for free here: doi.org/10.62637/sup...

The second debut title by @scotunipress.bsky.social launches today!🎉 ‘Digital editing & publishing in the twenty-first century’ is a reimagining of scholarly publishing in the digital era. It is co-authored by Professor Bridgette Wessels. Come along to @uofgarc.bsky.social at 10am to learn more🧵

It's brilliant to see @scotunipress.bsky.social's second published book out in the wild! 'Digital Editing and Publishing in the Twenty-First Century' will be of interest to those working in Digital Humanities, scholarly editing and much more besides... Details here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

OUT NOW! Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century, edited by @jamesosullivan.bsky.social et al. is now published #OpenAccess 20 chapters reflecting on the current state and future of the scholarly edition 📖 Read and download free: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #DigitalHumanities

The Open University is a proud member of the Scottish Universities Press (SUP), a fully open access and not-for-profit press managed by Scotland's university libraries. The second title from SUP is launching soon... take a look 👇

How are new technologies transforming #DigitalEditions? Join us for the launch of our next book on 14 May and peek into the future of digital scholarly editing! #DigitalHumanities Find out more here 👉 www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-fir...

📰 In a new blog post, University of Stirling MLitt Publishing Studies student Emmanuel Momoh talks about his recent work placement with SUP. He shares the tasks he undertook, the skills he developed and key takeaways for his future career in publishing! 📚 www.sup.ac.uk/news/a-journ...

We had a fantastic time at #uksg2025 in Brighton 🌞 📘 It was great to see our first book 'Conversations with Tim Ingold' on display at the OIPA stand! @oipassoc.bsky.social 🎤 SUP's @gilliandaly.bsky.social spoke about the role of libraries in the open revolution! #OpenAccess #LibraryPublishing

It has been a pleasure spending three days shouting about all the amazing work OIPA have been doing to build a community for open institutional publishing 💪 Chuffed at how many people visited our stand and engaged with us. I'm all talked out! #UKSG2025 @oipassoc.bsky.social