📢 There's still time to register for your free spot on this #OpenAccess session, which includes a panel of authors and publishers sharing their advice and experiences.
Might be helpful for some @oipassoc.bsky.social members and authors!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
Rowan's new book, 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain
The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', is now available in free Open Access and p/back print editions bit.ly/4syLgIz.
Rowan's is the 26th title in the Society's OA book series: bit.ly/4sBmIyC with @uolpress.bsky.social
Just published! Another new title in our ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series with @royalhistsoc.org and @ihr.bsky.social 🎉
‘Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain’ by @rowan-thompson.bsky.social
Read it or download it for free (or buy the print editions) at the link below 👇
#Skystorians #OA
Join @bronwenmanby.bsky.social, Sharon Cowan, Ruvi Ziegler & me today at IALS for the launch of Devyani Prabhat’s fantastic new @uolpress.bsky.social book Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law. Chaired by IALS Director Carl Stychin. @ials.bsky.social
All welcome!
ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us on Thursday 23 April for a free online panel discussion on Open Access Publishing chaired by @paulakennedy.bsky.social, Head of Publishing at the @uolpress.bsky.social. The event is part of @ucl.ac.uk s 2026 London Open Science and Scholarship Festival:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-acces...
A student sits at a desk looking down at their laptop and typing on the keyboard. In the background are blurred bookshelves crammed with different coloured library books.
One week until this #LDNOpenFest session💡
Open Access Publishing in Practice: Author Experiences and Insights
🗓️ Thursday 23 April
🕑 10-11:15am
📍 Online
Panellists will share how publishing their work openly has shaped its reach, visibility, and impact.
Register: buff.ly/cElOCYQ
The first full-length study of militarism and militaristic associational culture in interwar Britain publishes on Thursday.
As part of our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series published with @ihr.bsky.social and @royalhistsoc.org, it's also #OpenAccess!
uolpress.co.uk/book/organis...
We are launching the latest book in our #OpenAccess 'Reimagining Law and Justice series' with @ials.bsky.social on Tuesday 21st April at 5pm (UK). This brilliant new book by Devyani Prabhat published in March.
Register:
ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Read the book:
uolpress.co.uk/book/migrati...
Front cover of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson.
Thursday is also publication day of 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire', by Rowan Thompson: bit.ly/474AbHq
Next in the RHS 'New Historical Perspectives' book series. Published free OA & in p/back @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
⏰ 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...
📆 SAVE THE DATE 📆
The 2026 OIPA symposium will take place on Thursday 18th June at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton.
Programme details to follow, but please mark it in your calendars and start making arrangements.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We are hiring! Join the ICS as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Roman Archaeology.
Are you interested in rethinking Roman frontiers through material culture, heritage practice, and public engagement? Full details here:
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Ever wanted to learn how those manuscripts you research were actually made? Give it a go yourself!
Bookings close 22nd May, bursary deadline 7th April.
buff.ly/GEkudq3
#palaeography #paleography #LIPS26
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Congratulations Anna! Very excited to publish this.
In case you missed it, our 2026 catalogue is now available! Check out all our new books by some brilliant authors and editors across the #Humanities.
We've pulled out some key titles to look out for as well as listed our new #OpenAccess series.
uolpress.co.uk/2026/03/anno...
If you're interested in watching recordings of any of our sessions, they are all hosted on our Training Hub, and summarised in this blog post:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...
The slides are also available to download.
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Plenty of time to get yourself booked to attend our free webinar on 'How to Get Your Work Published as Open Access'!
📌28 May 2026, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm, via Zoom
🗣️ With experts @emmagallon.bsky.social and Frances Pinter.
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#OpenAccess #Publishing #ECRs #Training
Published in association with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org, it was funded via @jisc.bsky.social #OpenAccess Community Framework. Thanks for the support!
It is the 26th book in a brilliant series supporting early-career researchers publishing their first book.
#OACF #Funding #History #ECRs
The next book we're publishing is Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain by @rowan-thompson.bsky.social.
Part of our #NewHistoricalPerspectives series, this #OpenAccess book 'calls for a major revision of standard understanding of interwar British history.'
uolpress.co.uk/book/organis...
If you’re attending #UKSG2026 this year, do come and find me and my @oipassoc.bsky.social colleagues on our stand (67) to find out more about university-based open access publishing!
@uksg.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social
#OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunications #We’reAFriendlyBunch #libraries #OA
Have you booked any sessions at the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival yet?
Check out the full programme & book events on #OpenAccess and #Rights, #Publishing, #Funding, #OpenResearch, #Gender and #Ethics & more!
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
#LDNOpenFest26 @uclopenscience.bsky.social
2 essays from Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship are nominated for the #DigitalHumanities Awards. Congrats @quinnanya.me & @arimare.bsky.social!👏
Read the book & essays and cast your vote by 17 April.
Vote: dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
The #OpenAccess book: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
Two of our brilliant contributors - @quinnanya.me and @arimare.bsky.social - have been nominated for this year's @dhawards.bsky.social! Please give them a vote!
@amsichani.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social
Exciting news today about this recent brilliant book, Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, ed by @amsichani.bsky.social & @mjdonnay.bsky.social - 2 of the essays are nominated in the Short Publication category for the annual #DigitalHumanities Awards.
Please vote! dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
📚 Our latest catalogue is now available! 📚
Showing our UOLP 2026 titles, it also lists our new series, all of which we're really excited about! We're commissioning some fantastic new books and authors... 👀
uolpress.co.uk#flipbook-df_...
#OpenAccess @sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social
Our Head of Publishing (and new Chair of @oipassoc.bsky.social) @paulakennedy.bsky.social will be on the OIPA stand at UKSG! Come and say hi, there will be lots of books and catalogues from OIPA #OpenAccess member presses available!
www.uksg.org/events/confe...
#UKSG2026 @uksg.bsky.social
Copies of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law book in a pile
Possibly the best part of the publishing process? Sending out author copies and getting a response.
Devyani Prabhat, author of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law, emailed with this photo:
'Just arrived and so v beautiful: thank you all once again 🎊🥳🙏🏾'
What a huge moment this is, congrats 🌟
📢 Almost time for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026!
📅 20–24 April
👀 We’re running a session on author experiences of #OpenAccess publishing on 23 April with several @oipassoc.bsky.social presses & there are loads of other great sessions too!
🔗 blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...
Congratulations to the team behind RESHAPED, SAS's online training platform, who have been recognised as runners up for the 2026 Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching sponsored by the Centre for Online and Distance Education, University of London.
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...