Open Institutional Publishing Association

5 Minutes with University of London Press 5 Minutes with University of London Press We spent five minutes with Paula Kennedy, Head of Publishing at University of London Press and current Co-Vice Chair of OIPA! Tell us about University of L…

Get to know us! We have a new '5 minutes with' blog post, featuring @paulakennedy.bsky.social, Head of Publishing at @uolpress.bsky.social.

Paula tells us about the journey the University of London Press has been on and why she feels open institutional publishing matters:
oipauk.org/2025/12/03/5...

Free training being provided by one of our member presses for researchers on revising your PhD thesis for publication.

Sign up at the link below!

A large group of OIPA members and friends in a London pub

A great London OIPA meet up last night! With representatives from several of our member presses, associates & friends including @openbookpublish.bsky.social @openlibhums.org @uolpress.bsky.social
@uniwestpress.bsky.social
@lsepress.bsky.social @openpress.bsky.social
@openingthefuture.bsky.social

Today is #GivingTuesday, a global celebration of giving in all forms - donating, volunteering, sharing, campaigning, fundraising - and what is Open Access if not a form of giving?

So this Giving Tuesday, let’s celebrate the free & open sharing of knowledge, research, data, information, expertise!

The University of Warwick Press (@uowpress.bsky.social) is an evolving open access, digital, academic publisher across a wide range of academic disciplines, reflecting the diversity of research undertaken by the University.

publishing.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/uwp

The University of Southampton Press will be a not-for-profit, fully open access publisher of peer-reviewed research and diverse scholarly outputs.

The Press is set to launch in early 2026 to reflect the values and mission of the University by supporting inclusive and innovative publishing.

University of St Andrews Journal Hosting Service is managed by the Open Research team, part of the University’s Libraries & Museums. They use Open Journal Systems (OJS) to support the publishing process, including submission, peer review, and online publication.

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/sup...

Salford Open Journals is supported by the University of Salford Library. They offer fully Open Access Journal publishing for their community of students, academics and staff.

openjournals.salford.ac.uk

SHOx: Shortform Hosting at Oxford

SHOx (@bodleian.ox.ac.uk) is a service available to Oxford affiliated publications (e.g. journals) for the dissemination of scholarly works in an open access ‘diamond’ model, in which works are free to publish and to read.

www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox

A huge welcome to our newest members: SHOx, Salford Open Journals, University of St Andrews Journal Hosting Service, University of Southampton Press and University of Warwick Press (@uowpress.bsky.social).

We are so glad that OIPA continues to grow and thrive, together 💪

oipauk.org/membership/c...

Photo of Lucy Ashworth with large red quotation marks. Text reads “It is important to remember that there is no ‘right’ route into publishing. People enter through a range of different pathways and that diversity of experience is so valuable to the industry.”

What’s it really like to work in academic publishing?

For #WorkInPublishingWeek, the LSE Press team answer your questions, including what makes a strong applicant and the best part of working with authors.

Read the full Q&A here: https://bit.ly/3LTLzy4

Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 This page shares resources and information that came out of the online OIPA Symposium 2025, held on Tuesday 21st October 2025, 13:30-16:00 BST, online via Zoom. Video Rec…

Missed the OIPA Symposium 2025 or want to watch it again?

The full recording is now available: oipauk.org/news-events-...

Featuring a keynote from @samuelmoore.org and lightning talks from @openlibhums.org, @lsepress.bsky.social & @uwpress.bsky.social, and more.

Image of a text: a screenshot of the cover picture of the latest issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out! This one features two thematic sections—on Religion and Contemporary Crises and Boyle Lecture 2025 — Plus articles on green apocalypse, self-organizing systems, science and religion and more: Read now: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1771/i...

Cover of the book Covid-19 in Southeast Asia

"Empirically grounded yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.”

—Professor Roger H. Keil, York University, Canada

🔗 https://bit.ly/3LenGRu

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FREE ONLINE MAGAZINE: Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland

Explore the links between archaeology and wellbeing in the 2025 edition from Scotland's Archaeology Strategy, featuring our @digitscotland.bsky.social and @scarf-scot.bsky.social projects: archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/

#ScotArchStrat

Best books of 2025: Economics Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles

“His story is one of achievement, hope and danger.”

Martin Wolf selects the best economics books of 2025 for @financialtimes.com, including The Growth Story of the 21st Century by Nicholas Stern.

Read the full list here: https://on.ft.com/4pkO0bv

@granthamlse.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social

Bandung at 70: Tricontinental, NIEO and the Return of Non-Alignment A book launch and discussion, organised by the Radical Library in the Global Studies Resource Centre, and Open University Press Sussex.

Join us in Sussex next month to celebrate the launch of Teaching with Tricontinental and explore the exciting new Radical Library at the Global Studies Resource Centre! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bandung-at... @sussexfss.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social

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...

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

Revising Your PhD Thesis for Publication

📣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

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, ...

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

Shine bright like a diamond: what can library hosting services offer in the academic publishing market? | Insights

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....

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

Important reading from OIPA member @theblochian.bsky.social at @openlibhums.org!

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Read here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Important reading from OIPA member @theblochian.bsky.social at @openlibhums.org!

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Read here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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...

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.

Over-intelligibility Contemporary philosophers have argued that framing new concepts can bring about both moral and epistemic progress. In this paper, I argue that such intelligibility also has downsides. This paper introduces the phenomenon of ‘over-intelligibility,’ which obtains when a concept truly applies and facilitates understanding, yet hinders someone as a knower. This takes place when concepts normalize or detrimentally standardize our epistemic lives.

New article in Political Philosophy: Over-intelligibility by Maya Krishnan:

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.

🎉 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-...

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...

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

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...

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...