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📰 Read our Summer 2025 newsletter and catch up with all the latest SUP activity - including details of our forthcoming #OpenAccess books!

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

A photograph of a table displaying Scottish University Press (SUP) books and flyers next to an SUP pop-banner at the Robert Gordon University

A photograph of the atrium of the Sir Ian Wood building at Robert Gordon University

a photograph of Robert Gordon University Campus

😎 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/...

The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated …

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/...

It was lovely to spend the day with you all!

I was thrilled to announce this today, at the @scurlscottish.bsky.social annual meeting, here @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

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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).

University of Aberdeen joins SUP — Scottish Universities Press We are delighted to announce that the University of Aberdeen has joined Scottish Universities Press (SUP), bringing the total number of partner libraries to 20.

📣 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.

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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

In the UK the Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social has just launched, looking at this exact issue!

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

A photograph of SUP's display table at the UWS Research Festival including flyers, bookmarks and three of SUP's book on stands.

A photograph of attendees at the UWS Research Festival looking at the different stalls.

A photograph of the main entrance to the Paisley UWS Campus

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

A photograph of Alison Nolan presenting at the CILIPS 2025 conference

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

YouTube video by Scottish Universities Press SUP fireside chat: The vow of stability

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.

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

YouTube video by Scottish Universities Press SUP fireside chat: Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century

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 👇

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"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
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"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:

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fireside chat with Dr Richard Irvine on monastic life. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. We’d love to welcome you to our fireside chat with Dr Richard Irvine, the author of A vow of stability on Thursday 22 May 2025. Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of monastic life, explor...

Don't forget that you can join Richard for the online book launch 👉

📅 Thursday 22 May
⏰ 2pm BST

Register here and submit your questions in advance:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An infographic advertising the publication of 'The vow of stability: An ethnography of monastic life'. The front cover appears on the left hand side. On the right hand side is a book description reading: 'A close study of the rhythms and challenges of community life based on long-term fieldwork in an English Benedictine monastery, this book considers the importance of stability in a world of movement and fleeting interaction, and how religious institutions endure and change through time.' The link to download the book is included: https://doi.org/10.62637/sup.bilp1551. Contact details are info@sup.ac.uk and www.sup.ac.uk.

🌟 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

An advert for the book launch of the 'Vow of stability: an ethnography of monastic life' taking place on Thursday 22 May at 2pm UK time. Register at https://bit.ly/4jJYcH.

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 👇

SUP fireside chat: Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century - REGISTER NOW — Scottish Universities Press We are delighted to launch our next book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century , on 29 April 2025 and will be running a fireside chat on 14 May.  Find out more and r...

*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