A screenshot of a slide featuring a variety of logos of scholar presses: OpenBook Publishers, Meson Press, Punctum books, African Minds, media studies press, Mattering Press, UCT press, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Bookhub Platform, SciElo Books, Aberdeen University Press, langiage science press, University of Westminister Press, MayFly, Open Humanities Press, OpenEdition Books
We were delighted to get a shout-out from @joedeville.bsky.social recognising us as a scholar-led press working to improve the scholarly publishing landscape in today's #OAWeek webinar from @openlibhums.org on Mainstreaming Diamond Open Access
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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!
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A graphic, on the left side a person stands outside on a dark night looking at the night sky full of stars, in the background is an open access lock logo, on the right it reads 'International Open Access week' then 'Who owns our knowledge' in several world languages, then 'October 20-26, 2025' #OAWeek
It's International #OAWeek, so we're looking forward to a great week of events all about building a more open scholarly publishing infrastructure.
There are so many great events, but we're probably most looking forward to our friends' @oipassoc.bsky.social Online Symposium tomorrow. See you there!
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Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies |
Issue: Issue: 1(12) (2025)
Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read!
This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
abdn.site/121
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A lady with short, brown hair wearing clear glasses gently hugs a padded brown envelope
Did you know that when you order a print book or journal from us, your order will be hand packed by one of our dedicated staff, and then given a wee hug before being put in the mail?
You'll also get your very own AUP bookmark, sure to be this season's hottest accessory?
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Image of the plan of a ship for transporting enslaved people, labelled 'Stowage of the slave ship Brooks under the Regulated Slave Trade act of 1788', image is public domain via Wikimedia Commons
As the Tall Ships make their way on to Norway we consider the other side of the Age of Sail, and how British Naval superiority allowed for human exploitation at unprecedented scale.
Our scholars grappled with these issues in an issue of JISS on slavery and North-East Scotland abdn.site/JISS112
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A graphic reading 'University of Aberdeen a proud sponsor of the tall ships races Aberdeen 2025' with a cartoon of a skipper looking through a telescope on the right side
Who's excited for the Tall Ships Races this weekend? πββοΈ
You can learn more about the shipwrights and coopers of Aberdeen, whose work helped make the Age of Sail possible, in our latest publication: The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, available here abdn.site/7Trade
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We're extremely proud to have published @bydreamphd.bsky.social 's award winning article, and pleased to see this recognition of her excellent work. Congratulations for this award!π
Read the article here: doi.org/10.57132/jis...
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Book cover with an image of a building at night, it has brightly lit coloured stain glass windows, each window lit in a different color, teal, green, yellow, pink, and purple. It says 'The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen'
π’ πWe're pleased to announce our latest book is now available!
This work was years in the making and documents the storied history of one of Aberdeen's most significant trade organisations. Order your copy of The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen today!
www.abdn.ac.uk/aup/books/hi...
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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).
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A black woman with braided hair is dancing in the foreground. She wears a red t-shirt with green and yellow letters reading: Juneteenth: Breaking Every Chain Since 1865, image provided by the US Army Garrison - Humphreys, via Flickr, under a CC BY license
Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the end of chattel slavery in the United States, and the final end of the Atlantic Slave Trade, begun by Europeans in the 15th Century. You can learn more about Scotland's role in the slave trade in the current issue of JISS, available OA here abdn.site/196
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We were pleased to be able to attend this excellent webinar from @academiclibsnorth.bsky.social
There are a lot of challenges for scholars publishing monographs Open Access, but we're ready to support you at whatever stage you are on your journey π₯°
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A posterboard with posters and flyers advertising AUP publications, with a table in front full of bookmarks, flyers, and book cards for people to take
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 ClΓ² Oilthigh Obar Dheathain!
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A black dog wearing a rainbow feather boa collar. Photo by Rosemary Ketchum via: https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-dog-wearing-fur-decor-2306831/
Happy Pride Month! It's a great time to read books about the LGBT+ experience, so we have compiled a list of Open Access books from scholarly presses: abdn.site/OAPride
Unfortunately AUP has not published any LGBT+ studies, YET! Submissions are open aberdeenunipress.org
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A 2001 verdigris bronze sculpture of former Princeton president John Witherspoon, by Alexander Stoddart, outside East Pyne Hall. By Joe Shlabotnik via Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA
We're pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought, available #OpenAccess at jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/
This issue focuses on the Scottish Presbyterian minister and thinker, and American Founding Father, John Witherspoon
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The logo for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which is GAAD encircled by a keyboard with cord, in dark turquoise on a white background
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day to raise understanding and awareness about digital access and inclusion.
At AUP we believe that you can't have real Open Access without accessibility, so all our new ebooks are WCAG AA compliant.
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Our JISS colleagues might want us to note that limericks have nothing in particular to do with Irish city.
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If we may add a happy ending to this Limerick, with our own origin story:
So those funny old scholars from βDeen
who thought commercial publishers profits obscene
so they made a free OA press
with quality no less
But with work that by all can be seen
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This bronze statue of James Connolly be sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty is to be found at Beresford Place across the street Liberty Hall. Behind "the statue is the Starry plough and the flag of the Irish Citizen Army which was founded as a workers' defence force. Engraved in the memorial is his quote - "The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland - the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour"." Via Flickr, by William Murphy. CC BY-SA
Happy May Day! For a little seasonal reading, may we suggest our special issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies on the place of the strike in Irish and Scottish History
jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/23/info/
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This bronze statue of James Connolly be sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty is to be found at Beresford Place across the street Liberty Hall. Behind "the statue is the Starry plough and the flag of the Irish Citizen Army which was founded as a workers' defence force. Engraved in the memorial is his quote - "The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland - the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour"." Via Flickr, by William Murphy. CC BY-SA
Happy May Day! For a little seasonal reading, may we suggest our special issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies on the place of the strike in Irish and Scottish History
jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/23/info/
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Exciting to see! We'll be presenting a lightning talk on how #DiamondOpenAccess can help lower barriers for Early Career Researchers. See you all in Edinburgh!
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Happy Absolute Unit Day to all who celebrate!
The MERL is a brilliant museum on all things related to English Rural life, but if you've ever wanted to learn more about rural life in our own Aberdeenshire, may we suggest our #OpenAccessBook 'Footloose in the Farm Service'
doi.org/10.57132/boo...
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Wonderful to celebrate the launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social at @uksg.bsky.social!
Swing by the OIPA stall (78) and grab a postcard.
Find out more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Table at Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) stand at UKSG conference 2025 - Background features AUP book on Adam Ferguson with AUP promotional book cards in foreground alongside flyers from Open Journals Collective, Open Book Publishers and LSE Press
Another sunny day in Brighton at #UKSG2025 and @abdnunipress.bsky.social colleague @varinajr.bsky.social has dropped by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand to say hello. Our promotional book cards and our Adam Ferguson book (doi.org/10.57132/boo...) are on display there!
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Turns out @scholtom.bsky.social is an influencer ... in slide design
Following his presentation at last year's event, #cats #pets featuring heavily in the #UKSG2025 presentation about #rightsretention at @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social
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Michigan Publishing Services stand at UKSG 2025, showing recent publications and Fulcrum pen merch
Great to see @michiganpublishing.bsky.social at #UKSG2025 - @abdnunipress.bsky.social's publishing partner ππ
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View of his Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, byMichal Lewi, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Today is #WorldTheatreDay and to celebrate all things theatrical, we would like to recommend, from the Journal of Scottish Studies, a conversation with David Greig, dramaturg and playwright for the National Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social
jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/id/1...
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Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (1911-1996) was the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th Century and one of the leading figures in the Scottish literary Renaissance. He is best known for his love poetry, for poems written...
Happy #WorldPoetryDay! We have a number of great reads on Poetry, but for this year it seems only right to recognize the book by Scotland's current Makar, Peter Mackay//PΓ draig MacAoidh, written about the eminent Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean//Somhairle MacGill-Eain
abdn.site/WPD
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@uk.theconversation.com - thanks for an interesting article on our part of the world!
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Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot
Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the arts and humanities across Scotland. πβ¨
Director: @clairesquires.bsky.social
Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape
Music. Politics. Celtic. Lotus. Science. Art.
Senior Content Manager, Academic Journals, Cambridge University Press | PhD, University of Edinburgh | Historian of Religion in Mediterranean Antiquity & Production Editor for Humanities Research | She/Her
Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
Sociolinguist, language policy, Gaeilge, Cymraeg, language revitalisation, multilingualism, media, archives, politics. Posts/reposts in GA/CY/ES/CA/GL/EN. See @pirate.ie for radio history project.
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Aberdeen.
Early modern British art, graphic satire and caricature, works on paper.
Welsh heart, Scottish home.
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/h.pierce
We work to increase investment in + adoption of open infrastructure to further equitable participation in research. Mastodon: investinopen@indieweb.social
The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
We support Arab research communities and institutions in their journey towards a more open world of knowledge.
forumforopen.org
forumforopenresearch.com
Education Scotland, Lead Specialist, Professional Learning and Leadership Team, Leading Professional Learning National Programme. Views are my own.
Open Data advocate. Charity founder & trustee. Wikimedia UK trainer. Data scientist. Tinkerer with Python, LLMs etc. Enthusiastic reader. #Jazz lover. Drawer, painter, photographer. Whisky afficionado. #FRSA #FIoL Burgess of Guild of #Aberdeen, OSS Taisho.
Lecturer/Assistant Professor - Politics/IR π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπ΅πΈ ~ Based at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ and researching Climate Displacement, Land Dispossession, and Cultural Violence ~ Proud Buffalonian π¦¬
Engagement Librarian at the University of Southampton, lover of cats, cake, coffee, knitting & Board Meeting Bingo, embarrassing parent. Please block me if you are a transphobe. Views: my own. She/her
Open access, research culture and communication, academic life, US politics.
I post to #Mastodon more than #Bluesky. But see my bridge account for the M posts.
https://bsky.app/profile/petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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