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📣 We’re proud to announce the publication of Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative #History of International #Communication, a fascinating new #OpenAccess book published in association with @ihr.bsky.social.
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#Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social
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Postcards, Translators and Esperanto Pioneers - University of London Press
The early twentieth century was a time when steamships, international postal services and the telephone were setting the pace of an early wave of globalisation in Europe. In this increasingly internat...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
📣 We’re proud to announce the publication of Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative #History of International #Communication, a fascinating new #OpenAccess book published in association with @ihr.bsky.social.
uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar...
#Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar...
#Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social
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📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books
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🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference
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🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books
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🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference
Get your ticket now! 🎟️
🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
📍 Loughborough University | London and online
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#CopimConference
The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2025 Welcome to the 54th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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📢 Today we've published the latest #OpenAccess title in our popular #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org:
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social!
Read it now:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social!
Read it now:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
uolpress.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📢 Today we've published the latest #OpenAccess title in our popular #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org:
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social!
Read it now:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social!
Read it now:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History
The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025 Welcome to the 53rd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025 Welcome to the 52nd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
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🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...
Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective
Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing
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July 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...
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An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.
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New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
Understanding Video Activism on Social Media | Intellect
What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert them...
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July 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
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Friends, please share!
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Friends, please share!
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
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This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.
The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.
👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...
The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.
👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...
Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL
The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.
The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.
👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...
The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.
👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...
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NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
July 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
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At the Open Library of Humanities, we’re proud to stand alongside UK library directors on shared initiatives like the Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social). We believe research should serve communities, not corporate shareholders. (2/2)
July 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
At the Open Library of Humanities, we’re proud to stand alongside UK library directors on shared initiatives like the Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social). We believe research should serve communities, not corporate shareholders. (2/2)
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What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
#OABooks #FanStudies
#OABooks #FanStudies
International Journal of Communication
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June 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
#OABooks #FanStudies
#OABooks #FanStudies
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Here we have @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social y.social modelling the remarkably well adorned @copim.bsky.social community stand at D07! Come and talk to us about all things community-led, Diamond open access books #bibliocon25 :)
June 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Here we have @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social y.social modelling the remarkably well adorned @copim.bsky.social community stand at D07! Come and talk to us about all things community-led, Diamond open access books #bibliocon25 :)
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Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.
limn.press/issue/climat...
limn.press/issue/climat...
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Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards.
#OAbooks
#OAbooks
Enormous congratulations to them & to the other nominees for this wonderful recognition of their fine research & writing 👏
We're also delighted that through these nominations we're flying the flag for independent #OpenAccess presses: we're hugely proud to represent this growing community.
(5/end)
We're also delighted that through these nominations we're flying the flag for independent #OpenAccess presses: we're hugely proud to represent this growing community.
(5/end)
May 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards.
#OAbooks
#OAbooks
Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals
May 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals
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New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Vincent Mosco: Critical Communication: A Memoir, doi.org/10.16997/boo...
May 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Vincent Mosco: Critical Communication: A Memoir, doi.org/10.16997/boo...
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The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
CFP
Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…
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May 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
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mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series
Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
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Open Reader
www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-...
History of Media Studies
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Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
www.mediastudies.press/public-domai...
Open Reader
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History of Media Studies
www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series
Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
www.mediastudies.press/public-domai...
Open Reader
www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-...
History of Media Studies
www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...
Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
www.mediastudies.press/public-domai...
Open Reader
www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-...
History of Media Studies
www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...
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🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...
May 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...
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Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...
May 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...