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.
👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
#OpenAccess #ScholComm
'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!
👉 copim.pub/exploring-th...
#OAbooks #OpenAccess
Call for Papers "The Far Right, Universities, and Counter-institutional Knowledge Places"
Conference, History of Education, @unicologne.bsky.social, March 10-12, 2027
Looking forward to your submissions!
Deadline May 1, 2026
#histuni #histedu #skystorians #history
it's giving Business Secrets of the Pharaohs
I for one am shocked that he didn't win a byelection in a 30% Muslim constituency
Any time I read a story like this, I immediately scroll down to see if my favourite true crime trope - the absurdly incriminating search history - gets featured. I can confirm that this one does not disappoint.
Group of men and women at the Copim conference
And here are some of our members who are here in person!
#CopimConference
Thanks @copim.bsky.social for such a great conference (so far!) and for providing a forum for helpful and informative conversations with such an engaged group of people.
#OpenAccessAdvocacy
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A giant billboard at London Book Fair announcing a forthcoming book from Mr Beast
to be clear when I say my mission is helping good people make good books, I mean the exact opposite of whatever this is x
We now have a presentation from @lauramswift.bsky.social from @openpress.bsky.social on 'Open educational resources as a chance to do things differently'!
openpress.sussex.ac.uk
#OERs #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OAWeek
'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
Gaza’s education system has collapsed under the weight of war. Nearly 658,000 school-aged children and 87,000 university students have been left without access to learning as classrooms and campuses lie in ruins.
🔗: aje.io/r00cl2
WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE
In the past few days, Israel has bombed Doha, struck Tunis over the humanitarian flotilla headed to Gaza and assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister.
These are clear violations of international law.
Which other state is allowed to commit such crimes without any consequences?
after merely 13 years living in Manchester I'm excited to finally set foot inside Beetham Tower tomorrow #alpsp2025
Shame on this whole government, may they never know peace. We'll see you in the Hague.
"I'm being as racist as I can" tearful Starmer tells voters
Even if you've never set foot in Oklahoma and likely never will, this is a hell of a read
@supitslois.bsky.social
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
This is centrism posing as radical utopianism: Let's redeem the university! Let's redeem our institutions! Let's redeem the state! I say: Let it all burn. May our gardens not be small and tended, but a flourishing sanctuary of invasive species, weeds, brain-eating fungi, ecosystem pirates, unleashed across the world.
works.hcommons.org/records/jg2a...
I wrote something for The Sunday Times's style section about how men have been undressing for over a hundred years. And how they should go further and show a little cleavage.
Link in the next post.
what a staggeringly strange thing to say out loud
NEW on Wonkhe: The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not buff.ly/D7hmHQP
The good news: I'm alive. The bad news: I'm in England.
