Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.
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#OpenAccess #ScholComm
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Our newest title publishes today! Packed with case studies and practical tips, Making Active Learning Happen for All provides a roadmap for embedding active learning at every level of your institution, from the classroom to the boardroom openpress.sussex.ac.uk/makingactive...
'Exploring the Future of Community-led Open Access Books: A Copim Conference'
In this post, @alittleroad.bsky.social summarises the recent #CopimConference and shares recordings and slides from all panels. Catch up here!
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#OAbooks #OpenAccess
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!
A poster for the event - All details can be found via the link
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
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...
@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
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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OPUS are delighted to be spotlighted alongside some fantastic education books in #UPWeek!
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
Recording now available - Mainstreaming Diamond: Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt...
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Chaired by @paulaclemente.bsky.social
[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!
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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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...
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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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...
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.
www.openaccessweek.org
