Open Institutional Publishing Association

An advert for the Scottish Universities Press webinar 'A practical guide to open research'. Date: Wednesday 22 October Time: 09:30am to 12:30pm Register: https://bit.ly/4q6n2pl

Calling library and professional services staff! Do you want to learn more about open research and how it impacts on your role?

Join us during #OAWeek for 'A Practical Guide to Open Research'!

Find out more and register: www.sup.ac.uk/news/upcomin...

@scurlscottish.bsky.social

We're also excited to take part in this year's symposium during #OpenAccessWeek2025!

We'll be joining with a lightning talk on the Open Library of Humanities and the Open Journal Collective, presented by @paulaclemente.bsky.social and @theblochian.bsky.social

The agenda includes lightning talks from @oipassoc.bsky.social members covering topics including experimental publishing, funding and business models, approaches to marketing, open textbooks, open journals publishing and governance 🙌

OIPA Symposium 2025 - University of London Press As a proud member of the Open Institutional Publishing Association, we are excited to join colleagues and collaborators at this year’s symposium. The event will be a great space for sharing ideas, cha...

As a proud member of @oipassoc.bsky.social we are excited to join colleagues and collaborators at this year’s symposium during #OpenAccessWeek2025!

There's still time to register, details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/oipa...

#OAWeek #UniversityPress #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess

Joe Deville at a podium, in front of a slide with a banner reading 'No open access without open infrastructure'

#NoOpenAccessWithoutOpenInfrastructure. OBC's @joedeville.bsky.social making the case for open, interoperable digital infrastructures for #OAbooks at the National Open Access Stakeholders
Summit in Nigeria. Presenting on 'Open access books: If not now, when'. Slides at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

It's less than one month until our free online Symposium - see you there?

Celebrating #OAWeek2025, join us for engaging talks, networking, and the chance to share your thoughts

📆 Tuesday 21st October 2025
🕐 13:30-16:00 BST
❓Online via Zoom
🪙 Free

Register: oipauk.org/news-events-...

Collective Development Fund Update: Learning From Our Second Assessment Process In this update, we reflect on the decision-making process in the second round of Collective Development Fund, and the lessons we learned for next time.

The OBC shares some reflections on the assesment process for the 2025-26 round of our Collective Development Fund. Grant awardees will be announced on our blog in due course:
openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/collecti...

Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

"Navigating the 21st Century Business World is an excellent example of how academics can flip their approach to ensure more equitable access to educational content."

@niamhtumelty.bsky.social writes for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social 📚

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

LSE Press Communications Coordinator selected for 2 rising star awards - LSE Press We are delighted to announce that LSE Press's Communications Coordinator, Ellie Potts, has won two Rising Star Awards from The Bookseller and ALPSP for her work

New blog!

LSE Press's Ellie Potts @elinorpotts.bsky.social wins 2 Rising Star Awards @alpsp.bsky.social @thebookseller.com 🏆

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202... #Awards #Publishing

Space, Affect, Memory Space, Affect, Memory highlights the centrality of space in modern and contemporary culture, both as an object of study and as a concept that underpins research and creative practice. In so doing, thi...

Congratulations to Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera! Their #OpenAccess book Space, Affect, Memory published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4gw8U4c #ComparativeLiterature #Memory

We too are very excited for the publication of the latest #OpenAccess book in our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, Atlantic Isles by @grod.bsky.social!

Published with the @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org with funding from @jisc.bsky.social.

Read more:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

September brought a new academic year and new open access books from UCL Press! Explore museum studies, urban childhoods, Victorian collecting, and more - all free to read and download!

📚 Start reading: bit.ly/4nUCUcz

#OpenAccess #UCLPress #AcademicPublishing

Photo of Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper.

Cover of the book Navigating the 21st Century Business World.

Last night we celebrated the launch of Navigating the 21st Century Business World, a new #OpenAccess collection of case studies in management.

Edited by Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper, the book is now available to read and download for free: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.nbw

Read reflections on #OASPA2025 by @drachiarelli.bsky.social in Italian and with an English translation.
Multilingualism is just one of the many important considerations raised at the conference. Do share your own reflections #inyourownwords

www.linkedin.com/posts/oaspa_...

OIPA Online Symposium 2025 The Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) will hold its Online Symposium 2025 on Tuesday, 21st October, 13:30–16:00 BST via Zoom. Building on the 2024 in-person Symposium, the event will…

🔸 21 Oct
@oipassoc.bsky.social Online Symposium 2025: buff.ly/y8sX0LZ

Tackling difficult histories with (museum) objects What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring...

What can a museum object reveal about colonialism, extinction and genocide?
Thomas Kador’s latest blog post explores how collections help us confront difficult histories and rethink the role of museums in education.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4n92tX9
#ObjectBasedLearning

Interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair: A Journey into Open Access and Editorial Work at OLH In this interview, we speak with Dr Maddie Sinclair, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the …

Read this interview with Dr Maddie Sinclair / @maddiesinclair.bsky.social (Editorial Officer, Open Library of Humanities) about her journey into scholarly publishing, her thoughts on open access, and the day-to-day realities of editorial work: www.openlibhums.org/news/858/ #OA #AcademicPublishing

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing Theme: Users and Community Location: Dublin City University Library, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, & hybrid streaming online Dates: 21st – 22nd May 2026 Cost: Free Sign-up to attend Janeway is an …

📣 The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing / @janewayolh.bsky.social
📅 21–22 May 2026
Dublin City University Library
Free | In person & online | Open to all

CFP deadline: 9 Jan 2026
🔗 www.openlibhums.org/news/859/

It's less than one month until our free online Symposium - see you there?

Celebrating #OAWeek2025, join us for engaging talks, networking, and the chance to share your thoughts

📆 Tuesday 21st October 2025
🕐 13:30-16:00 BST
❓Online via Zoom
🪙 Free

Register: oipauk.org/news-events-...

Logo of the Accessible Publishing Charter featuring a large blue checkmark within a square, positioned above the text.

📢 UCL Press has signed the PAAG Charter for Accessible Publishing, joining a growing movement to make digital content more inclusive for readers with print disabilities. Find out more: 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/ucl-press-si...
#Accessibility #UCLPres

Promotional image featuring a book titled 'Object Learning' by Thomas Eadmer and published by UCL Press, lying next to a human skull on a desk, with logos for Open Access eTextbooks and UCL Press visible. Text overlay describes the book as 'An invaluable resource for engaging with material culture.'

📘 New from UCL Press: Object-Based Learning by Thomas Kador — a free, open access textbook for teaching with objects in HE.

Perfect for museum studies, history, anthropology & more.

📥 Download: t.co/5bEU2cpAU3
#OpenAccess #HigherEd #Twitterstorians #anthrotwitter t.co/HMCuUqMvds

Photo of a large group of people in waterproof clothing gathered around a speaker at an outdoor archaeological site

For over 240 years, our Fellows have used the post-nominals FSAScot to identify themselves as part of Scotland's oldest antiquarian society.

If you would like to become a Fellow in 2025 and help play an active role in safeguarding Scotland’s past, apply before 30 September: www.socantscot.org/join/

Book Launch: Case Teaching in the Era of AI Celebrate the publication of a new open access book from LSE Press - Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.

Join Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper for the launch of the #OpenAccess case studies Navigating the 21st Century Business World 📖 📅

Thur 2nd Oct | 6 - 8:30 pm | LSE Alumni Centre

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-case-teaching-in-the-era-of-ai-tickets-1375702817159?aff=oddtdtcreator

An orange poster with white and black text announcing the Copim conference in 2026. The top left corner has the "Copim" logo. Below it, the capitalised black text reads: "CONFERENCE IN PERSON AND ONLINE. WHAT NEXT FOR COMMUNITY-LED OPEN ACCESS BOOKS? 26–27 FEBRUARY 2026. LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN LONDON." The right side of the poster has large white text that says "SAVE THE DATE.

Save the date! Join our friends at @copim.bsky.social in 2026 for their Conference focusing on the future of community-led open access books.

📆 26-27 February 2026
📍 Loughbourough University, London campus
⏳ Registration opens soon!

Give them a follow and find out more!

copim.pub/join-us-for-...

Please do join us for the free OIPA Symposium during #OAWeek! @oipassoc.bsky.social

You will learn all about the exciting and innovative things our members are doing to lead the way in #OpenAccess publishing 🔓

Find out more and register below 👇

LSHTM Press | LinkedIn LSHTM Press | 33 followers on LinkedIn. Open access publisher in public and global health. Based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. | LSHTM Press is an open access publisher of p...

Our member, LSHTM Press, has a new LinkedIn profile!

Go give them a follow and get the latest in Open Access public and global health research.

www.linkedin.com/company/lsht...

Interested in finding out more about non-profit #OpenAccess publishing in universities? Join us at our free, online @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium in Oct during #OAWeek!

Find out more inc registration link below 👇

Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 Event: OIPA Symposium 2025 Join the Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) for our Online Symposium in October! Following our inaugural in-person Symposium in 2024, we are delighted to be…

Join us for our online Symposium in October!

We will explore the open publishing landscape and some of the ground-breaking projects shaping the future of open institutional publishing.

📆 Tuesday 21st October 2025
🕐 13:30-16:00 BST
❓Online via Zoom
🪙 Free

Register now!

oipauk.org/news-events-...

It was lovely to see fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members and allies at #ALPSP2025 last week! Congrats @thoth-metadata.bsky.social for your shortlisting in the Innovation awards 👏