📣 Diamond Open Access publishers!
OJC are open for new publisher members. It’s a wonderful community-led collective seeking to strengthen the future of Diamond OA. Apply to become a part of it!
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I agree wholeheartedly with Sam. "if your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money"
The CRUK approach will badly harm their patient advocates.
I’ve written on how our recent genAI policy was made at @openlibhums.org Many open access publishers are waiting for clear global standards to be devised for the appropriate use and declaration of genAI in scholarly research and publishing. We’ve aimed to provide a flexible and extensible start.
Recording of the Comics Grid / @comicsgrid.com webinar: Do I have to draw a picture? Reframing comics scholarship, with @labarren.cpesr.fr, @ernestopriego.com & @wilkinsp.bsky.social. Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oHv...
Stop by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) and grab your free copy while they last.
Join the fight to make knowledge free! 🔥 #UKSG2026
Tomorrow! 👇
A vintage-style “Wanted” poster featuring Robin Hood–themed characters posing as a diverse band of archers and scholars. The text reads: “Join the fight to make knowledge free. Divest from commercial academic publishing and join the Open Library of Humanities.
I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent.
Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/
#UKSG2026
A must read on academic publishing and the growing power of major commercial publishers.
Join us to discuss past present and future of graphic scholarship! Feat @wilkinsp.bsky.social @labarren.cpesr.fr @ernestopriego.com @paulaclemente.bsky.social #ComicsStudies
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/
Fantastic work from Joe Muller, our @openlibhums.org Senior Publishing Technologies Developer! Joe explains how he integrated ROR into @janewayolh.bsky.social. Since Oct 2025, 74% of OLH articles & 43% of the backlist have ROR affiliations. This helps us link OLH articles to libraries #OpenAccess
A crowd of delegates, arranged in a rough semi circle, looking up at the camera, some cheering
Two delegates talking to each other during a coffee break, both smiling, other delegates in the background
Caroline Ball speaking, holding a lapel mic, with Fatimah Abduldayan, Martina Benz, and Sarah Thompson sitting alongside, with Martina looking up and back at a screen off camera
View from the back of a tiered lecture theatre, showing around 100 delegates seated in rows looking at a screen at the front, showing a remote delegate speaking, with four other speakers sitting below and to the left
1/ We did it.. the first ever Copim community conference ... done! Approx 250 people joining on and offline, over two days, with delegates representing every continent and 49 countries. Inevitably our discussions centred on the futures of #OAbooks...
Hello from the Janeway & OLH team at the COPIM conference! 👋
Great to catch up with colleagues across the diamond OA community.
So many important conversations: librarians supporting diamond OA, collective funding for OA books, accessibility, Thoth open metadata & more!
#CopimConference
🔥🔥 I need to get one of these!
Great to see many of our OIPA colleagues today at #CopimConference 👋
Innit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lo que es una salvajada es comprarle el marco teórico a la derecha para arañar un par de votos
Welcome to our new supporter, the University of Salzburg (@unisalzburg.bsky.social): www.openlibhums.org/news/925/
Consortial library funding for #DiamondOA makes our work possible. Huge thanks to all our member institutions!
Very pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture / @regenerationeac.bsky.social published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ): www.openlibhums.org/news/922/
Now the #OpenJournalsCollective catalogue is live time to revisit @theblochian.bsky.social's @lseimpactblog.bsky.social article abt why it matters, why #TheFutureIsDiamond & how you can join our movement
Read the blog & follow links to the #OJC website for more info
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Fantastic news! 👏 👏
If you care about the future of community-led diamond open access publishing, this is well worth a look. OJC is an important step towards mainstreaming #diamondOA and making it the norm rather than the exception.
And so it begins... 3 UK universities (Essex, Sussex & Kent) have just gone public about walking away from their Elsevier Read & Publish deals, despite Jisc's recently announced agreement. Expect to see more of these over the coming months. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-m... #OpenAccess
Well done @universityofessex.bsky.social
Glad you’re reconnecting with our rebellious past and finding alternatives.
The Open Library of Humanities welcomes "applications that further commitment to creating an open access scholarly environment within academia and beyond, and reflect our mission: to support & extend open access to scholarship in humanities – for free, for everyone, for ever"
www.openlibhums.org
It’s been a pleasure to have worked on our generative AI policy for the OLH for over a year. It’s been a fascinating, complex, but rewarding process. Our policy focuses on acceptable and responsible AI use, unacceptable use, and the transparent declaration of substantial and known genAI use.
Do take a moment to read the @openlibhums.org AI Publisher Policy. It's taken over a year to consult with editors of our 35 journals & get it right! Our Managing Editor
@simoneverett.bsky.social has stewarded this consultation & also published a report outlining the process itself. #OpenAccess
The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component.
📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/882/
The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open! We fund projects dedicated to building capacity, networks and infrastructure for OA book publishing. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese
obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...
N.B. this fund is not for BPCs
It's 2026, also known as the year chaos is coming for scholarly publishing!
If you missed our co-founder @theblochian.bsky.social's piece in Research Professional News then check it out and learn more about the OJC and what we aim to do.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
