Dominique Walker

📣CHAOS IS COMING FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING 📣

Watch out, there are radical publishing models about!

@theblochian.bsky.social's latest article on "working together to move to a non-profit, community-governed publishing system" is a vital read, especially in these uncertain times.

I do think you should all wear those en masse at UKSG next year!

Wish you were in Glasgow too!

Any Glasgow academic pals - please let your students know about this free 'Libraries that shaped me' event happening tonight at Kelvin Hall!

🎉 Thrilled that the first ever issue of the Scottish Journal of Open Research has published today, #DiamondOA of course!

This will be such a great venue to share good #OpenResearch practice.

Plus I had my first experience of editing a journal article!

👉https://doi.org/10.36399/f74t5k88

Calling all Glasgow and Central Belt folks - please do join us at the Mitchell Library on Sunday for our event with Tim Ingold. Tickets are only £8!

There may be a pub trip afterwards 🤔

Two people stand in front of a stall for University of Westminster Press. They hold an OIPA members catalogue.

We love to see it!

Dominique from @scotunipress.bsky.social and John from @uniwestpress.bsky.social show off the OIPA member’s catalogue at @meccsa2025.bsky.social!

Pop over and say hi to chat about their fantastic books and about OIPA

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#MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25

A photograph of Dominique Walker, SUP Publishing Officer, sitting on a chair next to the Scottish Universities stand at MeCCSA 2025.

If you are at @meccsa2025.bsky.social, pop up to level 2 to speak to SUP Publishing Officer, Dominique Walker, about publishing your next book #OpenAccess!

Great to be at one of our member institutions @edinburghnapier.bsky.social for the next couple of days!

#MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25 #ENU

👀 Check out this interview with SUP's Gillian Daly, published in @cilip.bsky.social's #InformationProfessional magazine!

"Library publishing is an evolution of our role as we take forward the overarching library mission of making information accessible for all."

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content.yudu.com/web/43mce/0A...

A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

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...

A photo of the Monachyle Mhor garden at 11.30pm and it is still light!

Ridiculously light for 11.30pm!

Looking forward to running this free online #training session next week with my colleague Kat Nelson.

This one offers an overview to the book publishing process - please share with any colleagues/networks who might find this useful ⬇️

@oipassoc.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #ECR #AcademicSky

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

I love an excuse to visit the beautiful University of Stirling campus!

What is a University Press? I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

UCL Press celebrates 10 years of award-winning open access publishing This June, UCL Press marks a decade of open access publishing and over 19.5 million global downloads.

Congratulations to @uclpress.bsky.social on ten years of open access book publishing. I still think one of the biggest successes of the UK approach to OA has been the resurgence of the subsidised university press landscape.

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

I suspect we lose far more access to content every year through publishers’ restrictive licensing of ebooks than we do from weeding print books.

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.

Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

Maybe you need some more artful positioning of your jacket. But also I think it causes just about the right amount of confusion!

Oh no! You could have joined me and Rebecca for a pre-train pub trip! Next time x

The hanging corpse was pretty visible during your talk I think!

Becky and @dominiquewalker.bsky.social are back at it again!

This time we are promoting OIPA at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference.

If you’re here, come say hi 👋

Some good discussion of openwashing from commercial publishers and their proprietary platforms in the Q&A. Redirect your money from commercial publishers to community-led open access publishers. #EORC25

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

Photograph of Judith Fatallah presenting at the Edinburgh Open Research conference

Enjoyed @judithfathallah.bsky.social's point that the citation advantage and openess of publishing #OpenAccess is more personally beneficial for researchers, particularly as publishing with "prestige" legacy publishers doesn't result in permanent contracts these days anyway!

A photograph of Kevin Sanders presenting at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference

At the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference today.

Great to hear from @kjsanders.bsky.social and @judithfathallah.bsky.social on the awesome @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and always enjoy seeing @oipassoc.bsky.social member logos on slides 😄

I love getting to go to these events and learning about the awesome research projects at our member institutions.

Didn't so much enjoy carting the pop-up banner on the train 😂

More of the same tomorrow at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social festival!

Sorry Martina, I didn't notice you had your eyes shut 😂

A photograph of Gillian Daly standing at a lectern introducing Simon Bains, Martina McChrytsal and Evelyn Kilmurry for a panel session at the CILIPS 2025 conference

Great panel session with Gillian Daly from @scurlscottish.bsky.social along with @simonjbains.bsky.social, @martinamcc.bsky.social and Evelyn Kilmurry with useful examples of how we articulate the value of HE libraries and public libraries, and the skills we need as a profession!

#CILIPS25