Cover of the book What's a Company For?
“This is a distractingly easy read for such a weighty contribution to the debate. You are in safe hands and will learn a lot from it.”
— Eve Poole OBE, author of Capitalism's Toxic Assumptions
What’s a Company For? will be available June 2026 via #OpenAccess publishing.
🔗 doi.org/10.31389/lse...
Join @jofitz.bsky.social and delve into the essential but often challenging topic of accessibility!
OJC press release - University of Edinburgh Library joins the Open Journals Collective We are delighted to announce that University of Edinburgh Library has joined the Open Journals Collective. Edinburgh has joined us as a Silver supporter of our multidisciplinary collections, which represents a very significant investment. The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated, and the support of Edinburgh will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
OJC press release - University of Edinburgh Library joins the Open Journals Collective. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
Time to share details of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social member - we are delighted to announce that University of Edinburgh Library has joined us!
Edinburgh is a pioneer of open access and the home of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social. We are delighted to have their support!
The Growth Story of the 21st Century featured in @elpais.com
@lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @gsos-lse.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social #Sustainability #GreenEconomics
🌍 ❗ ♻️ 🌤️ Professor Lord Nicholas Stern's new book is free to read and download #OpenAccessbhttps://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tgs
Registration is now open for Edinburgh Open Research Conference (@edopenresearch.bsky.social) 2026!
📆 Thursday 18 June, 2026
📍 50 George Square, Edinburgh & Online
Register to attend in person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-...
Register to attend online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-...
Cover of book - text in dark red boxes, over a black and white photograph. Photograph is possibly a bird's eye view of a crowd.
Julian Brigstocke, Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power - LSE Press, March 2026 (print and open access)
press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social
“Yes we can.”
A review in @nature.com by Andrew Macintosh explores Nick Stern’s book - 'The Growth Story of the 21st Century' (@lsepress.bsky.social) making an optimistic case for climate action, economic growth and a cleaner more prosperous global economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Photo of Nonauthoritarian Authority
"If societies are to learn to practise authority better, we will need to learn how better to respond to the demands of a plurality of voices, practices and calls."
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores authority and attention in an everyday urban landscape for the LSE Press blog: https://bit.ly/3Ptglj6
We are a publisher member of OJC and can attest to how great this collective is!
If you’re in need of funding for your Diamond OA journals, consider applying to become a member.
New applications now welcome for new publishers wanting to join @ojcollective.bsky.social. You'll be in great company - alongside @lsepress.bsky.social journals 😊
We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]
Lovely to see @copim.bsky.social mentioned in this report on Switzerland's efforts to establish a national diamond open access consortium as "a paradigmatic example of scaling small": 0277.pubpub.org/pub/v2nne6u6...
#OAbooks #OpenInfrastructure
Yes we have seen this at @lsepress.bsky.social too
"Political theory, historical sense, worrisome texts, unheralded documents, and great storytelling join forces in Herzog’s virtuoso investigation of the brutal fighting over who gets to learn to read..."
— Mary G Dietz
doi.org/10.31389/lse... #ReadingWars #OpenAccess
Interested in experimental book publishing and its future?
The new blog from our Experimental Publishing Group discusses the Experimental Publishing Compendium
✅️ Developing governance
✅️ Building a community
✅️ Implementing a governance model
Read more 👉
"Exceptionally acute and warm-hearted, this book engages with a lived experience shared by us all and breaks new ground in urgent debates over the ethics of quantification today."
— Morgan Clarke, Professor of Social Anthropology, @ox.ac.uk
Coming soon #openacess @lseanthropology.bsky.social
Coming soon! 🗣️
Who gets access to books? And, to what extent does the act of reading shape our humanity?
Reading Wars by Don Herzog will be published on 23rd April.
This book will be free to read and download from the LSE Press website and affiliates.
doi.org/10.31389/lse... #OpenAccess
"Bangladesh needs to prioritise a gender-equitable knowledge economy that is built on the care and capabilities of its population."
Professor Naila Kabeer writes for The Daily Star following the regional publication of her book with University Press Limited. 👇
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Congratulations @standrewsopenres.bsky.social!
University of St Andrews logo: a red, blue and yellow shield with a book and a dragon within.
Congratulations to the University of St Andrews Journal Hosting Service (@standrewsopenres.bsky.social) who celebrate fifteen years this very month!
We spent five minutes with the team to ask them about their challenges and achievements in library hosting.
Read & share: oipauk.org/2026/04/14/5...
We can't believe our friends at @standrewsopenres.bsky.social Journal Hosting Service have turned 15 this month! (The service, not the people...)
Congratulations to the team, and long may Diamond OA library hosting reign!
How does #openaccess publishing improve a work's reach, visibility and impact, and what's it like to engage first-hand with publishers?
Join @philippagrand.bsky.social and David Luke, at the London Open Science and Scholarship festival next week @ucl.ac.uk
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
"In a period when optimism is hard to find, The Growth Story provides a positive vision of what the future could look like — if decision makers could take on the hard work needed to deliver it."
🌍 The Growth Story of the 21st Century reviewed in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This book will be launched at an LSE public event in collaboration with @lselaw.bsky.social for a conversation on the heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read.
Tuesday 9 June 2026, 6pm - 7.30pm
www.lse.ac.uk/events/futur...
Join ECLAC / CEPAL / ECLAC for an international seminar in dialogue with co-editor of The London Consensus, Professor Andres Velasco on The London Consensus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
21 Apr 2026, 09:00 - 18:00
🎟️ Register here: www.cepal.org/en/events/in... @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social
We are delighted to share that TU Delft Library has joined the Open Journals Collective. The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. TU Delft’s support for the OJC will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.
What better way to start the week than by sharing news of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we are delighted to welcome @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social, our first library member in continental Europe!
Calling all university presses! @aeup-eu.bsky.social launches survey mapping university presses and other institutional publishers. The aim is to build a structured, evidence-based picture of [...] publishing workflows, governance & funding models, and approaches to Open Access (partic. #DiamondOA)
⏰ There's still time to sign up for the events which form this year's London Open Science and Scholarship Festival! #LDNOpenFest26
Event details:
🔗 blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
🔓 Our #OpenAccess event on Thursday 23rd April at 10am can be booked here:
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
Join @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social at #LDNOpenFest26 to find out about their career in #OpenScience
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