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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · Sep 4

We love to see it!

Dominique from @scotunipress.bsky.social and John from @uniwestpress.bsky.social show off the OIPA member’s catalogue at @meccsa2025.bsky.social!

Pop over and say hi to chat about their fantastic books and about OIPA

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#MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25

Two people stand in front of a stall for University of Westminster Press. They hold an OIPA members catalogue.

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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you are at @meccsa2025.bsky.social, pop up to level 2 to speak to SUP Publishing Officer, Dominique Walker, about publishing your next book #OpenAccess!

Great to be at one of our member institutions @edinburghnapier.bsky.social for the next couple of days!

#MeCCSA2025 #MeCCSA25 #ENU

A photograph of Dominique Walker, SUP Publishing Officer, sitting on a chair next to the Scottish Universities stand at MeCCSA 2025.

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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Aug 5

👀 Check out this interview with SUP's Gillian Daly, published in @cilip.bsky.social's #InformationProfessional magazine!

"Library publishing is an evolution of our role as we take forward the overarching library mission of making information accessible for all."

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content.yudu.com/web/43mce/0A...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 21

Ridiculously light for 11.30pm!

A photo of the Monachyle Mhor garden at 11.30pm and it is still light!

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Paula Kennedy @paulakennedy.bsky.social · Jun 12

Looking forward to running this free online #training session next week with my colleague Kat Nelson.

This one offers an overview to the book publishing process - please share with any colleagues/networks who might find this useful ⬇️

@oipassoc.bsky.social
#AcademicPublishing #ECR #AcademicSky

University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Jun 12

Our next free training session, which anyone can register to join, is an overview of books publishing. It provides a comprehensive overview of the process of getting your academic book published.

📅 Weds 18th June, 2-3:30pm, online

Register for your place here:

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Overview of Books Publishing

This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of the process of getting your academic book published.

www.sas.ac.uk

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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please do stop by the SUP stall at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) conference @bacls.bsky.social at the University of Stirling.

Our Commissioning Editor, @paulmclarke.bsky.social, will be delighted to talk to you about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! 👋

A photograph of SUP Commissioning Editor, Paul Clarke, standing behind a table looking at a catalogue. The table contains Scottish University Press books and merchandise.

A photograph of the programme for the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies 2025 Conference.

A photograph of the exterior of the University of Stirling building.

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Paul Clarke @paulmclarke.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you’re at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week, stop by the @scotunipress.bsky.social stand to find out more about institutional Open Access publishing, and to chat about publishing with SUP

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 10

I love an excuse to visit the beautiful University of Stirling campus!

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Jun 8

What is a University Press?

On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are.

eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

What is a University Press?

I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate pub...

eve.gd

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jun 5

Congratulations to @uclpress.bsky.social on ten years of open access book publishing. I still think one of the biggest successes of the UK approach to OA has been the resurgence of the subsidised university press landscape.

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

UCL Press celebrates 10 years of award-winning open access publishing

This June, UCL Press marks a decade of open access publishing and over 19.5 million global downloads.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dave Provost @daveprovo.st · Jun 6

I suspect we lose far more access to content every year through publishers’ restrictive licensing of ebooks than we do from weeding print books.

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Jun 4

💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.

Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press

We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

uolpress.co.uk

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 4

Maybe you need some more artful positioning of your jacket. But also I think it causes just about the right amount of confusion!

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 4

Oh no! You could have joined me and Rebecca for a pre-train pub trip! Next time x

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 4

The hanging corpse was pretty visible during your talk I think!

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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Becky and @dominiquewalker.bsky.social are back at it again!

This time we are promoting OIPA at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference.

If you’re here, come say hi 👋

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Simon @simonxix.com · Jun 4

Some good discussion of openwashing from commercial publishers and their proprietary platforms in the Q&A. Redirect your money from commercial publishers to community-led open access publishers. #EORC25

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Pablo de Castro @pcastromartin.bsky.social · Jun 4

good to see the elegant @scotunipress.bsky.social table (with all those brand new books!) at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025
www.sup.ac.uk
#EORC25 @dominiquewalker.bsky.social

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 4

Enjoyed @judithfathallah.bsky.social's point that the citation advantage and openess of publishing #OpenAccess is more personally beneficial for researchers, particularly as publishing with "prestige" legacy publishers doesn't result in permanent contracts these days anyway!

Photograph of Judith Fatallah presenting at the Edinburgh Open Research conference

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 4

At the @edopenresearch.bsky.social conference today.

Great to hear from @kjsanders.bsky.social and @judithfathallah.bsky.social on the awesome @openbookcollective.bsky.social, and always enjoy seeing @oipassoc.bsky.social member logos on slides 😄

A photograph of Kevin Sanders presenting at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 3

I love getting to go to these events and learning about the awesome research projects at our member institutions.

Didn't so much enjoy carting the pop-up banner on the train 😂

More of the same tomorrow at the @edopenresearch.bsky.social festival!

Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · Jun 3

We spent the afternoon chatting to researchers at the @uniwestscotland.bsky.social 2025 Research Festival!

The festival theme this year is 'A Better World', focusing on the impact of research - what better way to increase global impact than publishing #OpenAccess

A photograph of SUP's display table at the UWS Research Festival including flyers, bookmarks and three of SUP's book on stands.

A photograph of attendees at the UWS Research Festival looking at the different stalls.

A photograph of the main entrance to the Paisley UWS Campus

Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Sorry Martina, I didn't notice you had your eyes shut 😂

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Great panel session with Gillian Daly from @scurlscottish.bsky.social along with @simonjbains.bsky.social, @martinamcc.bsky.social and Evelyn Kilmurry with useful examples of how we articulate the value of HE libraries and public libraries, and the skills we need as a profession!

#CILIPS25

A photograph of Gillian Daly standing at a lectern introducing Simon Bains, Martina McChrytsal and Evelyn Kilmurry for a panel session at the CILIPS 2025 conference

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Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks to SLIC's Alison Nolan for mentioning how academic libraries are leading the way with innovative #OpenAccess publishing models in her keynote at #CILIPS25 - including a shout out for @scotunipress.bsky.social 😄

A photograph of Alison Nolan presenting at the CILIPS 2025 conference

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