"There is so much good which comes from publishing research openly which we owe it to the movement to share - it furthers our cause and attracts new readers and writers to our collective endeavour."
oipauk.org/2026/04/21/o...
NEW BLOG: ‘Dare to boast: In defence of book marketing & celebrating wins.’
@elinorpotts.bsky.social invites us to celebrate achievement, "not for vanity, but for visibility & as an antidote to pessimistic academic publishing industry pressures."
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Red the full blog: oipauk.org/2026/04/21/o...
Get to know Lancaster University Open Journals! Our latest OIPA Symposium Spotlight explores the background, development, and implementation of their publishing platform, and the collaborative approach taken to support and meet the needs of the academic community.
oipauk.org/2026/04/16/o...
Thanks to OIPA for sharing the news about our journal hosting service and coordinating this blog post! Very glad to be part of this group. 🥳🥳🥳
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...
📣 Save the date!
We’re having our 2026 @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium on 18th June. More details to follow very soon - if you’re interested in #OpenAccess publishing in UK universities, do save the date…
SO looking forward to the 2026 OIPA Symposium!
Make sure you save the date and start making travel arrangements. Programme to follow shortly!
A cover image for 'In Our Own Words' (showing blue line drawings of people reading, writing, and running) on a blue banner with the text: A collective work that is at once research, art, and activism. Rooted in decolonial queer and trans* theories, it emerges from lived realities and centres the voices of queer and trans* Central Asians. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781836451518
Happy publication day to 'In Our Own Words: Documenting the Queer Everyday in Central Asia'!
Exceptionally proud to be the publishing partner for this collective work that is at once research, art, and activism.
Check it out!
#OpenAccess
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📆 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 fully support the move towards institutional alignment, transparency and non-profit models and infrastructures. We look forward to seeing these principles play out in practice.
We are pleased to see these new principles from @rluk.ac.uk, especially with the focus on working collectively and on non-profit initiatives, including our associate member @openbookcollective.bsky.social and our friends at @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social.
www.rluk.ac.uk/shared-princ...
Stop by the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) and grab your free copy while they last.
Join the fight to make knowledge free! 🔥 #UKSG2026
UKSG panel featuring four speakers from LJMU, Edinburgh, Oxford and Lancaster on library-led publishing,
Breakout sessions now at #UKSG2026 - and great to see an entire panel of @oipassoc.bsky.social members doing this panel on ‘Library-led hosting and publishing: How it started and how it’s going’
At #UKSG2026? Swing by stand 67 and chat to us about open institutional publishing!
We have swag and books to browse 😎
@uksg.bsky.social
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
New from our colleagues at OLH. A valuable contribution to ongoing conversations around publishing infrastructure and dependency in scholarly communication
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
I will be on Stand 66 with my @copim.bsky.social colleagues, popping by stand 67 (which is not next door as you would expect) to see @oipassoc.bsky.social folks, and at the Copim Corner at Finnieston Tap House on Monday evening #UKSG2026
New “5 minutes with” blog featuring @uowpress.bsky.social
Gareth J Johnson shares how University of Warwick Press has evolved into a modern #diamondOA publisher, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
Read more: oipauk.org/2026/03/26/5-minutes-with-university-of-warwick-press/
Getting ready for #UKSG2026 @uksg.bsky.social - we’ll have an OIPA stand so come by for a chat, find out more about us and our members! We’ll be in Hall 2, at stand 67.
#OpenAccess #publishing
📢 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/...
From User Stories to High-Quality Data: Implementing ROR on the Janeway Platform
In this case study, Joe Muller (OLH) explores how @janewayolh.bsky.social uses ROR to improve author affiliations, retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID and enabling institution search.
👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/926/
Graphic with photo of Naila Kabeer, text reads Naila Kabeer in conversation WOW Athens.
We’re excited to announce that Naila Kabeer, author of Renegotiating Patriarchy, will be speaking at WOW Athens.
📅 Monday 30 March
🔗 Find out more: www.snfcc.org/en/event/naila-kabeer-in...
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/
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 open access component.
📅 Deadline 30/06:
We were honoured to gather to celebrate the life and work of Dr Paul Ayris, Pro-Vice Provost, @ucllccos.bsky.social, and UCL Press founder, and to mark the launch of his book Thomas Cranmer’s Register.
Read more about the event and Paul’s extraordinary contributions: uclpress.co.uk/celebrating-...
🚨Event alert!🚨 Join us for a @comicsgrid.com webinar on Graphic Scholarship, a conversation about comics as a form of thinking, researching, and communicating knowledge.
📅 Wednesday 01 April 2026 (5-6:30pm GMT)
More info and registration here: www.openlibhums.org/news/928/
#ComicsStudies
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