Open Press University of Sussex

We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

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Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!

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Been working with some of the people from @openbookcollective.bsky.social for our next open event and now it's here: Archiving and preservation for open access monographs, 13/01/26 14:00-15:00

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Book cover for "Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons" by Samuel A. Moore, featuring vintage printing blocks arranged in a drawer.

Planning your week? 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph as they explore PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & how collective, scholar-led publishing can reshape open access.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
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Come along on Thursday afternoon to hear from an exciting panel on the important history of radical periodicals and non-alignment, including Paul Gilbert and Danny Millum, @smithadrianpaul.bsky.social, Nimi Hoffman, and @laramonteco.bsky.social

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Six reasons why open institutional publishing matters A new wave of institutional publishers is changing the way we think about academic publishing. Here’s why they’re worth watching

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OPUS are delighted to be spotlighted alongside some fantastic education books in #UPWeek!

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

Team UP with Journals, University Press Week 2025, featuring 3 images: -Journal of Creative Methods Research -Teaching with Tricontinental: A Sourcebook for students working with radical periodicals -Scandinavian Studies, featuring the cover of the journal of the same name, as well as 4 book covers: Nordic Socialism, I Talk About It All the Time, As Legend Has It, and Visions and Victims

Spotlighting great journals & journal-focused works from @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social, @brisunipress.bsky.social, @sumingkhoo.bsky.social, @sophierwoodward.bsky.social, @drhelenkara.bsky.social, @openpress.bsky.social & @universityofwisconsinpress in the #TeamUP Gallery: https://bit.ly/4qwyDOI

YouTube video by Open Library of Humanities Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond Regional perspectives, Shared Futures

Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...

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Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social

Supporting and encouraging authors to publish OA monographs with no REF2029 mandate - UKSG As I sat through the presentations last December at the UKSG Forum – Our Profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future I wondered if the people attending the…

[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔

@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians

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A graphic displaying some of our total usage statistics: 3 years of publishing, 48,000 downloads and 150,000 visitors.

In the last three years our books have been read by over 150,000 people and downloaded more than 48,000 times!

Creating with uncertainty – Simple Book Publishing Engage students to work towards a more sustainable world, while incorporating creative uncertainty in your teaching practice

Congratulations to Perpetua Kirby, who has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for her work on climate education! You can read more of Dr Kirby's research in this area in her co-edited OPUS book, Creating with Uncertainty openpress.sussex.ac.uk/creatingwith...
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Small steps and big ideas: an open textbook pilot project - UKSG 22 April 2023 Bethany Logan University of Sussex The decision to work with colleagues in the School of Psychology to create an open textbook was an easy one to make. […]

We launched in 2022 as a 12-month pilot project to explore publishing OA textbooks and educational resources, and published our first titles in 2023. The library's Assistant Director reflects on our journey in this blog post for @uksg.bsky.social: www.uksg.org/newsletter/s...

Who Owns Our Knowledge? International Open Access Week 2025 - Copim International Open Access Week is organised by SPARC in partnership with the Open Access Week Advisory Committee. It was founded in 2008 by SPARC and partners…

We're halfway through International #OAWeek 2025! 😍

Have a look at our webpage which features a curated list of events we think will be of interest to the #CopimCommunity (plus interviews with the team!)

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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…

A joy to catch up with @oipassoc.bsky.social friends this afternoon and hear about the exciting work everyone is doing! oipauk.org/news-events-...

We now have a presentation from @lauramswift.bsky.social from @openpress.bsky.social on 'Open educational resources as a chance to do things differently'!

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#OERs #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OAWeek

Diamond Open Access means all of our books are completely free to read, and we don't charge authors to publish with us.

We're part of the Research & Open Scholarship team at University of Sussex Library (@rosuniofsussex.bsky.social), who offer a wide range of support for Sussex's vibrant Open Access and Open Research culture: www.sussex.ac.uk/library/open...

International Open Access Week International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open Acce...

Hello Bluesky! We're Open Press University of Sussex (OPUS), a library-based Diamond Open Access publisher. To celebrate International Open Access Week, we're launching our first social media account to tell you a little bit about us and spotlight some of our books.

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