The new university presses of @oipassoc.bsky.social all publish research under a free-to-publish free-to-read equitable #OpenAccess model and seek to bring abt change in academic publishing.

A Redux recap from our early-career colleagues A few weeks ago, Liverpool University Press were fortunate to co-host the 10th University Press Redux with ALPSP at the Spine in Liverpool. UP Redux started out in Liverpool back in 2016 so it was …

Following on from UP Redux last month, we asked a few of our early-career colleagues to share some thoughts on their experience attending an industry event like this for the first time. Read what they had to say on the LUP blog: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2026/04/07/a...

Cover of the book Nonauthoritarian Authority

Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power by Julian Brigstock will publish later this month #OpenAccess from LSE Press and @rgs.org.

🔗 Find out more: doi.org/10.31389/lse...

Cover of the book Reading Wars.

"Reading Wars tells the astonishing history behind the wars on reading in a readable, clever style, underscoring the stakes of many of the current fights over censorship and book bans."

— Leah Litman, New York Times bestselling author of Lawless

➡️ Coming soon from LSE Press: https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w

Cover of the book Nonauthoritarian Authority

ICYMI Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power by @jbrigstocke.bsky.social is out now! 🎉

From LSE Press and @rgs.org Nonauthoritarian Authority is free to read and download via #OpenAccess publishing: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.noa

Photo of the book Nonauthoritarian Authority.

"An exciting and compelling contribution to how we think about the nature and potential of authority in urban research."

— @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Department of Geography, Durham University

🔗Nonauthoritarian Authority is out now: doi.org/10.31389/lse...

@jbrigstocke.bsky.social @rgs.org

Did you catch any of the team at #UKSG2026

If you liked what you heard, and want to keep engaging with us after the Open Book Futures ends, join our new mailing list 📧

Subscribe to copim@jiscmail.ac.uk now 👉 buff.ly/Kij8Abw

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🎉 Aand, it's done! Thoth 1.0 is live! 🎉
🎉 And with it, our new website 🎉

(below a comparison of the old style (yellow)
vs. the new look - head over to
thoth.pub to see for yourself)

Cover of the book Doing Open Social Science

"By using the openness philosophy as a lens, it offers a range of state-of-the-art discussions of social science methods and practicalities."

— Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling

🔗 Doing Open Social Science will publish May 2026 https://bit.ly/4bKnowA

Cover of the book Doing Open Social Science

"The authors showcase a wealth of knowledge and practical tips to help turn quantitative and qualitative outputs into something truly open and reusable."

— Andy Tattersall, Consultant, Open Research Communications Expert

Doing Open Social Science will publish May 2026: https://bit.ly/4bKnowA

Cover of the book What's a Company For?

"Pepper provides new angles on the thorny question of corporate purpose in this engaging book."

— Ron Beadle, Professor of Organization and Business Ethics, Northumbria University

What’s a Company For? will be available June 2026: https://bit.ly/4sJ8T1X

Last day at #UKSG2026 - if you’re at the conference, drop by the @oipassoc.bsky.social (67) stand. We have books to give away…
@uksg.bsky.social

My new book is out!🍾Nonauthoritarian Authority: Cities, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Power. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

II argue that in shattered times, a radical, speculative reinvention of authority is needed. Open-access with @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org #geosky #socialtheory

Building the future of open access books: Reflections from the Copim conference - Copim This is a guest post by Emily Carter (Publications Officer, University of Southampton Press), a recipient of a bursary for the Copim Conference 2026.

Enjoyed this piece by Emily Carter @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Building the future of open access books: Reflections from the Copim conference - Copim copim.pub/building-the...

Folks believing that public libraries should be neutral overlook the fact that they are inherently political. Public libraries were created with the belief that everyone no matter their class, status, age or income can freely gather and access materials to educate & entertain

It's #UKSG2026 day two!

⏰️ At 12.30 @rupertgatti.bsky.social will be presenting a @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social poster

🗣️ Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape

Find out more about #Thoth 👉 thoth.pub

British Academy urges national long-form OA strategy - Research Information Report calls for institutions, publishers, policy makers, academic, libraries and funders to work together on a plan

'The UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, the British Academy, has called for a joined-up strategy, a sustainable financial model and meaningful engagement with authors when it comes to developing long-form open access (OA).'

Link to the report in next post. 1/2

Headshot of EIFL Open Access Programme Manager Iryna Kuchma

🌎Open Climate Campaign's work on #OpenAccess to research is being sustained by DOAJ's #OpenClimateCampaign
🔓 @eifl.bsky.social Iryna Kuchma outlines steps we can take to make climate research accessible to all
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/02/20/d...

Image with University of London Press logo and teal branding with details of the Introduction to Open Access publishing training session, plus a QR code to scan to register. Image of colourful books in the background.

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

How did the largest publishing companies perform in 2025? I read the annual reports of the commercial publishers so that you don't have to.

'Springer Nature and Wiley both grew their article output by around 15% last year compared with 2024. Taylor & Francis and Elsevier grew by around 10%. [...]. The article market as a whole grew by about 7% last year.'

Or how the old guard emulated the growth strategies of MDPI and Frontiers.

The Growth Story of the 21st Century | Book reviews | SPE

🌍 "The book is a magisterial and positive discussion of the biggest issue of our times."

Kevin Gardiner reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century for the Society Of Professional Economists.

🔗 Read in full here: https://bit.ly/4bHW4z1

Here’s me hanging out at the @oipassoc.bsky.social stand (67) at @uksg.bsky.social representing my brilliant @openlibhums.org team who designed this poster! We commissioned illustrator Joaquin Pereyra and designer Nicky Borowiec to make it for us. Join the fight to make knowledge free! #UKSG2026

In light of some of the talks at #uksg26 on open infrastructure, OA and similar - the following may be of interest ;)

(And if you're talking new products are UKSG, maybe keep this in the back of your mind!)

They do! We have frontlist and backlist on display 😊

The future is Diamond!

Swing by the OIPA (67) and Copim (66) stands to learn more about how we are advancing Diamond Open Access through collective funding.

#UKSG2026 @uksg.bsky.social

Picture of the LSE Press bookstand at the annual Political Studies Association conference in Oxford, March 2026

Come and stop by the @lsepress.bsky.social stand at #PSA26 to learn why we are the best option for your next #PoliticalScience book...

Tend to agree with this - publishing open access and digital-first gives us more flexibility on length.

Authority and Attention in an Everyday Urban Landscape Julian Brigstocke, author of Nonauthoritarian Authority, argues we need to stop to observe how authority works as a patterning of attention in everyday spaces.

New on the LSE Press blog! @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores examples of authority and attention in an everyday urban landscape.

💭 "Landscape, as a form of authority, is an unequal patterning of attention."

Read the full post: https://bit.ly/3Ptglj6

Interesting. "Instead, we see authority briefly flickering in and out of existence, in response to ever-changing choreographies of bodies and materials and atmospheres ... Landscape, as a form of authority, is an unequal patterning of attention."

Just in time for #UKSG2026 the @openlibhums.org team have launched this blistering Robin Hood poster campaign. Divest from commercial publishing (the rich) & redirect your library budget into non-profit scholar-led publishing like @ojcollective.bsky.social & @openbookcollective.bsky.social ! 💪🏼🔥💪🏼