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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 28d
📢 Our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' calls for urgent, coordinated action to make academic publishing more open, equitable, and sustainable.

🎥 Learn more in our short video: https://cup.org/4qemvBy
Cambridge University Press calls for radical reform and collective action
Our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' calls for urgent, collective action to ensure academic publishing becomes more open, equitable, and sustainable. The report found that without urgent,...
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This #UPWeek 🎉 read our community-led 'Publishing futures' report and find out how the academic community, including university presses, can #TeamUP to deliver radical change in scholarly publishing.

Access the report here 🔗 https://cup.org/3KSaUrR
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November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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“It’s time for the ‘publish more’ mindset to perish.”

Mandy Hill, writing in the Financial Times, calls for reform in academic publishing:

Read the full letter (paywall) 🔗 https://cup.org/3WRVlDm
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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It’s been another year of transformation in academic publishing, and our commitment to quality and innovation remains unwavering. We continue to embrace change, champion excellence, and push boundaries to serve our communities and partners.

Read more in the @cambridge.org 2024–25 Annual Report ⬇️
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In a rapidly changing world, we’re inspired by incredible teachers, learners and researchers every single day. 💜🌍

Our new Annual Report celebrates these stories and highlights @cambridge.org’s global impact.

📖 Explore the #AnnualReport, published today: https://cambrid.ge/47QZYSW

#WeAreCambridge
Our year 2024-2025
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November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It's #UPWeek 🎉 and we're celebrating how university presses #TeamUP to explore, engage, and promote bold new ideas.

This year, 'Self-Made' by Pamela Walker Laird is featured in the @aupresses.bsky.social #ReadUP gallery. 📚🎉

Discover more here 🔗 https://cup.org/3JKPLQ7
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November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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In an interview with The Colorado Sun, historian Pamela Walker Laird discusses her new book 'Self-Made', which explores the myths and realities behind success stories.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4hOEydY
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November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been chosen as the Hay Festival Book Club Book of the Month! 📚

Join authors Sarah Churchwell and James L. W. West III in conversation with Shahidha Bari as they explore the classic tale of desire, illusions, and lost dreams.

🔗 https://cup.org/43gDf1r
Promotional image for "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring the book cover with a stylized depiction of a mansion at twilight on top. Below is text stating "In conversation with Sarah Churchwell and James L. W. West III." Promotional graphic for an online event by Hay Festival Book Club on Thursday, 20 November 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM GMT, featuring a stack of colorful books on a dark background.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Our 2025 #OA highlights include:

📄 over 70% of research publishing #OA each month
🌏 publishing our radical, community-led review
📖 new routes to fund #OABooks and article publishing
✅ success of our Cambridge Open Equity Initiative

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/3LLtD8I
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November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The global academic publishing ecosystem is under growing strain and not equipped to meet future challenges without urgent, sector-wide reforms.

Our new report advocates for collective action to establish a more sustainable and equitable future. 🔗 https://cup.org/47YivxZ
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November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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'Designing the New Open Article Economy' at the Charleston Conference.

Join Monica Westin and Doug Way as they explore the gap between OA’s promise and the present reality and lay out a practical blueprint for a new open article economy.

Read more in our recent report 🔗 https://cup.org/47DOEcG
Promotional image for an event titled 'Designing the New Open Article Economy' on 5 November 2025 at Salon 1, Gaillard Center. Features two speakers: Monica Westin, Director, Open Policy Development, and Doug Way, Dean of Libraries.
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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New research, published in 'The Historical Journal', examines how philosopher Friedrich Engels may have exaggerated, or perhaps took “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century.

Read more in @theguardian.com 🔗 https://cup.org/3X26KAm

Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester
Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated
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November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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From a fun yet complex connection between law and beer to thrilling stories of escaping justice, and from the era of Christology to the legacy of Ernest Hemingway, our newest titles have something for every reader! ✨

Explore our list of new releases 🔗 https://cup.org/4nuAFfm
Graphic titled 'Publishing Highlights' for October 2025 with text and an arrow on a Cambridge blue background. Book cover titled "Beer Law," featuring names of authors Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, William van Caenegem, Anthea Gerrard, Radim Polčák, Alain Strowel, and Andreas Wiebe, with a background resembling a beer with bubbles. Cover of the fifth edition of the book "Evolutionary Psychology" by Lance Workman and Will Reader, featuring a close-up photo of an animal against a dark background. Book cover of "An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present" by Karl Gunnar Persson, Paul Sharp, and Markus Lampe. The cover features an illustration of power lines against a cloudy sky. Book cover of "Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book," edited by Ilan Stavans, featuring an intricate, colorful illustration of various objects and figures intertwined. Cover of 'The Cambridge Introduction to Ernest Hemingway', featuring a black and white photo of Ernest Hemingway writing at a desk. Book cover of "The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Brain" edited by Edna Andrews and Swathi Kiran, featuring a pink-toned abstract design. Cover of the book 'The Cambridge Companion to Christology,' featuring an artwork of a crucifix with a figure on it, edited by Timothy J. Pawl and Michael L. Peterson. Cover of the book 'Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability' by Cyanne E. Loyle, featuring an illustration of barbed wire on a pale background. Cover art for 'The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration,' edited by David Coogan, featuring a silhouette of a person standing in front of a large, swirling tunnel leading to a bright light.
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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As the nights grow longer and shadows stretch across our bookshelves, we’ve handpicked eight haunting highlights from our books and Cambridge Elements to enchant you this Halloween. 🎃

Read our spooktacular titles 👻 🔗 https://cup.org/4oiLnXJ

#HalloweenReads #SpookyBooks #GothicReads #GothicFiction
Silhouettes of two bats flying in front of a full moon that is partially obscured by a translucent shield shape. Book covers collage featuring "The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein" by Andrew Smith, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" by Marissa A. Harrison, and "Silence of the Gods' by Francis Young. Book covers collage featuring 'Love Spells and Lost Treasure' by Tabitha Stanmore, 'African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter' by Maisha Wester and 'The Cambridge Companion to American Horror' by Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey. Book covers collage featuring 'Staging Witchcraft Before the Law' by Julie Stone Peters and 'The Cambridge History of the Gothic 3 Volume Hardback Set' by Angela Wright, Dale Townshend and Catherine Spooner.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🎧 Hot off the Press

Host and author Jen Manion talks with fellow authors Caroline Gonda and Simon Goldhill about how studying the past reveals very different ways people have understood and expressed LGBTQ identity and why that matters today. 🌈

Listen to the full episode 🔗 https://cup.org/4qQ8udV
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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📚 From rethinking the Atlantic slave trades to exploring the constraints on Black political expression, explore five books that challenge assumptions and deepen understanding of racial justice and history.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/43npcXI
Graphic featuring the text "5 Black History suggested reads" on a dark background with an orange and red shield outline. Book cover of "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" by Ian Smith, featuring a detailed illustration of a person with facial markings. Book cover of 'Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice' by By Elan C. Hope, Laura S. Abrams and Laura Wray-Lake. The cover features a person holding a 'RACISM' sign with the 'No' symbol over it. ook cover of "Atlantic Cataclysm" by David Eltis, depicting an illustration of individuals working in a field with trees in the background. Book cover of "The Anger Rule" by Antoine J. Banks & Ismail K. White featuring a black and red silhouette of a profile against a black background, addressing racial inequality and constraints on Black politicians. Cover of "The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism" edited by Jon A. Krosnick, Tobias H. Stark and Amanda L. Scott. The cover features a grid of watercolor squares in muted, varied colors.
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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🚨 Radical reform is needed to safeguard the future of academic publishing.

We are calling on the global research community to come together to develop new, sustainable and open models.

Find out how we can work together 🔗 https://cup.org/43uLE1a
October 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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For the research ecosystem to thrive and meet future needs, change is essential.

Our new report sets out recommendations to drive systemic change across the ecosystem and ensure a successful transition to open access publishing.

Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/43CqqOQ

#AcademicResearch #OpenAccess
October 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Join author Andrea Brady in conversation with John Wilkinson about her book 'Poetry and Bondage', which recently won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

📅 Thursday, Oct 30 | 18:30
📍 @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social

🎟 Book now 🔗 https://cup.org/3JrOLQE
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October 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Our new report highlights four interconnected themes that threaten the future of research and accessibility, along with recommendations for collaborative and systemic reform.

💡 Read the key findings 🔗 https://cup.org/4njQZzu
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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“Academic publishing is at a critical juncture. It is not breaking yet, but will without major change.” - Mandy Hill

Read more about our new report 'Publishing futures: Working together to deliver radical change in academic publishing' 🔗 https://cup.org/4qq7igY

#OpenAccessWeek #OpenResearch
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Major Academic Press Calls for ‘Publish or Perish’ Reform

Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from @cambridge.org. https://bit.ly/3WiBjS8

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
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October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.
Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes
Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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📢 Our response to the National Institutes of Health's call for public comment on limiting allowable publishing costs 📢

"We believe the answer lies ... in rethinking how all research outputs ... are incentivised, funded, and disseminated."

Read our full response 🔗 https://cup.org/3La4K6p
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October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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We have #OpenAccess funding options available for every author 📄

Find out how to fund OA publication of your research, and benefit from...

🌍 broader access
📝 more citations
💻 more downloads

Find out more 🔗 https://cup.org/3WgQ6Na

#OpenAccessWeek
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October 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Join Dr Grace Huckins, neuroscientist and @ninedotsprize.org winner, for an insight into their new book at an online seminar, 'The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science'.

📅 Thursday 23rd Oct 2025 | 17:00-18:00
🎟️ Register to attend 🔗 https://cup.org/43sxTA3
The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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October 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Our #OpenAccess book programme, Flip it Open, is growing! 🌍📚
The expansion will increase equitable access to research, with new content especially relevant to readers in low- and middle-income countries and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 🔗 https://cup.org/4hoIp1d
#OpenAccessWeek
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October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM