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A community of practice for open institutional publishers in the UK, driving change in academic publishing. Visit https://oipauk.org/
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Why do environmental policies stall?
As COP-30 unfolds, explore systemic barriers and solutions in this open-access book:
👉 uclpress.co.uk/book/obstacl...
#COP30 #ClimateAction #OpenAccess
Obstacles to Environmental Progress
Why, when so many people understand the severity of environmental problems, is progress so slow and sustainability such a distant goal? What gets in the way? Perhaps you have immediately thought of se...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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📣Transforming your PhD thesis into a monograph? Our next training session is 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication'.

🧑‍💻Session leaders: @drjoeford.bsky.social & @emmagallon.bsky.social

⏰Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30

🔗https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/revising-phd-thesis-publication-3
Revising Your PhD Thesis for Publication
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November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Universities can lead climate action.
Discover how higher education can transform teaching, research and governance in this open-access book:
👉 bit.ly/3GgRTNb
#COP30 #ClimateAction #OpenAccess #HigherEd
Universities and Climate Action
Universities and Climate Action explores how higher education can drive systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. It offers a practical framework for integrating climate engagement into teaching, ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Shine bright like a diamond!

Our wonderful members @beckywojturska.bsky.social and @cathdishman.bsky.social from @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and Liverpool John Moores University discuss the offer library hosting services bring to the academic publishing market

insights.uksg.org/articles/10....
Shine bright like a diamond: what can library hosting services offer in the academic publishing market? | Insights
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November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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If you run a new or established open access journal and want guidance, look no further than the OA Journals Toolkit from DOAJ and Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association.

The Toolkit has just had a refresh and includes new content and sections!

www.oajournals-toolkit.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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At UCL Press, we aim to be a global leader in Open Access publishing.

We publish cutting-edge research, support early career authors, uphold ethics, and champion EDI, sustainability & education.

📚 Learn more: uclpress.co.uk/about-us/who...
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We are delighted to announce the 2nd recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–26 - 'Knowledge Accessible to the Community: CLACSO as a Platform to Democratize Scholarly Publishing in Latin America and the Caribbean', led by @clacso.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🎉 The 2nd episode of Beautiful Minds, the new season of UCL Press Play, is out now!

Join Dr Michael Woodrow and Professor Philip Schofield as they discuss how dyslexia’s image-based, big-picture thinking fuels engineering creativity.

Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/why-...
Why People with Dyslexia Make Great Engineers
Dr Michael Woodrow joins Professor Philip Schofield to discuss how dyslexia’s image-based, big-picture thinking fuels engineering creativity.
uclpress.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Congratulations to Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf and and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Rent Strikes published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4nP7e8D #UrbanHistory #LabourHistory #HousingActivism #GlobalHistory
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Today we're excited to publish the 25th #OABook in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series w/ @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org, Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society.

Congratulations @latemedievalist.bsky.social!

Read it online, download or purchase it here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🥳 The Open Book Collective is delighted to announce the first recipient of our Collective Development Fund for 2025–2026! 🥳

The project is titled:
‘Empowering Ethiopian Research Universities: A Multifaceted Approach to Overcome Open Access Barriers in Scholarly Publishing’.
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Humanities & social sciences researchers, what's your take on #openaccess? Have your say in this very short Uni of London Press survey (only 4 questions!) www.surveymonkey.com/r/8RV273D @uolpress.bsky.social @cardiffunilib.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Brilliant to see so much great content from our member presses during #OpenAccessWeek celebrating OA #publishing!
📢 Open Access Week Spotlight
Dr Kusha Anand has published two books with @UCLpress.
Open access helped her connect with scholars, policy makers & communities.
📘 Teaching India–Pakistan Relations
📗 Delhi’s Education Revolution
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October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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For #OAWeek, the OABN & @uolpress.bsky.social bring you a resource focused on how to include material that you *don't* own in your #OA book.

'Frequently Asked Questions on Third-Party Materials in Open Access Books':

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/22/f...
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself.

We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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We really enjoyed seeing some of the multimedia 'books' other OIPA members are creating.

If you're interested in publishing something with multimedia elements, come talk to us! While we're a small press, through our partnership with @michiganpublishing.bsky.social we can make it happen!
October 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We're winding up now with closing remarks from Andrew Barker, Chair of our Advisory Board 🙏

Andrew reflected on the importance of #Community & putting #OpenAccess at the heart of HE: 'The growth and impact of OIPA has been huge...thanks to the significant work of the committee & members.'

#OAWeek
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The deadline is Friday 14 November ⏳

Find out more, apply and/or share with your networks 👇
JOB VACANCY: We’re looking for a proactive and organised Administrative Assistant to support OAPEN & @doabooks.bsky.social sky.social's finance, HR, and administrative operations.

Read full job details, requirements, and how to apply in the posting: oapen.org/article/admi... #OAbooks
Administrative Assistant position at OAPEN & DOAB | OAPEN
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October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books.

www.openaccessweek.org
International Open Access Week
International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...
www.openaccessweek.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Something that may be of interest to our members - the N8 statement on sustainable scholarly publishing:

www.n8research.org.uk/what-we-do/r...

(Thanks to @theblochian.bsky.social for sharing this!)

#OpenAccess #OAWeek #AcademicPublishing
N8 Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing - N8 Research Partnership
The N8 is calling for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models and our members commit to collaborating to drive efficiency and deliver value for money
www.n8research.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Up now is @tmorley24.bsky.social from @lancasteruni.bsky.social's library, sharing insights from his and his team's work on Lancaster University Open Journals 📚

🔗https://ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/

#OAweek #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress #InstitutionalPublishing
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October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Find out more about Deep Maps: Blue Humanities pilot project on our website, including our experimental technical process for open peer review using #GitHub

🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/deep-map...

#OAWeek
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM