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Open Journals Collective
@ojcollective.bsky.social
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026.
Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
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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!
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Two jobs in a great organisation!
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...

Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
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December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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OJC are hiring and you could be a part of the growth of Diamond Open Access publishing!
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...

Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The Open Journals Collective is growing! If you're interested in helping shape the future and sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing, then check out these roles at OJC.

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We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...

Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We're hiring! We have 2 jobs advertised: Library Engagement Lead and Operations Manager, deadline Tues 6 January 2026. Links:

openjournalscollective.org/static/engag...
openjournalscollective.org/static/opera...

Come work for a major new international organisation funding #openaccess publishing!
openjournalscollective.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The Center for Research Libraries & its NERL licensing program have announced their landmark partnership with @ojcollective.bsky.social. See here for more info: www.crl.edu/crl-nerl-joi... 1/2
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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A through-provoking piece from @theblochian.bsky.social, citing the @n8research.bsky.social Statement on Sustainable Scholarly Publishing and anticipating the launch of @ojcollective.bsky.social, non-profit/community-led research infrastructure to fund diamond OA journals 💎 🔓
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"Higher education wants new business models, not just a price cut."

Clear, useful information and ideas here. I'm excited for the possibilities @ojcollective.bsky.social and other efforts offer. Nice to have some hope during these difficult days.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Happening today!

@theblochian.bsky.social, Exec. Director of the Open Library of Humanities, will be speaking at today’s N8 event about the @ojcollective.bsky.social and OLH

OLH is proud to be a founding member of OJC, and to have helped inspire its scholar-led, community-owned publishing model.
June 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Really encouraging to see today’s landmark statement from the N8 Research Partnership urging fundamental reform to academic publishing. The current system is completely unsustainable. I’ll be speaking at today’s N8 event about @ojcollective.bsky.social. www.n8research.org.uk/n8-research-... #AcaSky
N8 Research Partnership calls for urgent reform of scholarly publishing models - N8 Research Partnership
The N8 Research Partnership – the collective body for the North of England’s eight research intensive universities – has released a landmark new statement urging fundamental reform in the way scholarl...
www.n8research.org.uk
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Listening to a hugely exciting talk from Dr Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social on the launch of the Open Journals Collective. Great to hear what is coming down the line with this new diamond OA publisher. #OA #DiamondOA #OJC
June 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Wonderful to see @theblochian.bsky.social speak about the @ojcollective.bsky.social earlier.

We are very proud to be a part of this exciting initiative.

Check it out! openjournalscollective.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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We were at the #DIAMAS conference in Brussels yesterday, sharing our work on scholar-led, community-owned open access!

OLH publishes 33 #DiamondOA journals, supports journal flips from commercial publishers, and co-founded @ojcollective.bsky.social to bring publishing back into the academy
June 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Our own @theblochian.bsky.social will speak at the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025! She’ll join others to discuss the new @ojcollective.bsky.social, a community-led, no-APC #OA alternative to big deals & transformative agreements.

📅 More info & registration: www.openlibhums.org/...
Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025
We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Francis Crick …
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May 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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There has been a lot of discussion over the years on the rising cost of academic journal subscriptions to libraries. While commercial publishers report growth in profits, how should libraries respond to the increasing subscription costs?

Well, there has been a response: @ojcollective.bsky.social...
Scaling up Diamond Open Access Journals

Join this free webinar about @ojcollective.bsky.social, a new non-profit collective of academics, libraries & university-based publishers replacing unaffordable Transformative Agreements with an equitable alternative:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-up...
May 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Scaling up Diamond Open Access Journals

Join this free webinar about @ojcollective.bsky.social, a new non-profit collective of academics, libraries & university-based publishers replacing unaffordable Transformative Agreements with an equitable alternative:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-up...
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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📣 April issue of the BL Scholarly Communications Newsletter is out! This issue features:
🔹@copim.bsky.social community updates
🔹Launch of the @ojcollective.bsky.social #OJC
🔹Heritage Science Data Service #HSDS
🔹Closing report from #ProjectRetain and more!
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British Library Scholarly Communications Newsletter: April 2025
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May 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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🔓 Caroline Edwards highlights the financial strain on UK universities from costly journal subscriptions & proposes the Open Journals Collective as a sustainable, community-led alternative for #OpenAccess publishing.

Read more: shorturl.at/GBeRz

#OpenScience #OpenKnowledge #OpenResearch #OpenData
April 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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If we truly want a sustainable, more equitable, and more bibliodiverse Diamond OA future, we cannot defer this to some theoretical optimal time. The @copim.bsky.social community (inc. @openbookcollective.bsky.social) and our expanding networks, including @ojcollective.bsky.social are here to help!
April 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Positive spin – things break down a little, but this undermines a slightly warping commercial logic that has dominated for too long, and we come out of this with creative, partnership approaches for future dissemination of scholarly content
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Scaling up – a lot of revenue-driven publishers told me that only they could offer the scale the sector needed, yet at the same conference @ojcollective.bsky.social was launched and @oipassoc.bsky.social and @copim.bsky.social were out in force
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals & transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers, is just launched... a viable path toward bringing publishing back in-house at universities

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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April 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Really important development in genuinely free open access journals, free for authors, Open Access for readers - the Open Journals Collective
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April 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Reclaiming Academic Publishing: The Launch of the Open Journals Collective - Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org/news/795/
Reclaiming Academic Publishing: The Launch of the Open Journals Collective
Earlier this week we launched the Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals and transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers. The OJC is …
www.openlibhums.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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[Veille] s'opposer, quitter les Accords "Transformants" (Read & Publish) : "Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements"; exemple avec Open Journals Collective => blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
#openaccess #publising #costofknowledge #openscience
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April 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Exciting news #openaccess
Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
April 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM