📢 New subscribing member to @ceu-press.bsky.social Opening the Future programme!

Thanks for the library’s investment! @bulac.bsky.social (BULAC) 🤝

▶️ Staff & students now have unlimited AND concurrent access to nearly 250 different eBooks

Full announcement 👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/167/

Wishing all of our publishers and friends in the #OtF space a restful winter break and a very happy new year! 🎄

We're looking forward to 2026 when we'll have some exciting news to share!

👀 www.openingthefuture.net 👀

#OpenAccess #Books #BacklistToTheFuture

Reflections from 2025 💭

This year (you saved me from tears) #OtF has gone from strength to strength 💪

We welcomed two new presses to the programme 🤝

@michiganstateu.bsky.social
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

With another being announced in the New Year 🤫

👉 www.openingthefuture.net

🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk

They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social

This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing

👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/

The last of our spotlights on Opening the Future authors - we hope you've enjoyed them!

🗣️ Dr. Tess C. Rankin tessrankin.com
📚 Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction (2024) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔆

🗣️ Prof. @deanallbritton.bsky.social (Colby College)
📚 Feeling Sick: The Early Years of AIDS in Spain (2023) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/feeling-...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 📸

🗣️ Daniel Ferreira da Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College)
📚 Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures (2022) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/empire-f...

Shining a light on Opening the Future authors 🔦

🗣️ Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social (Visiting Fellow, UCL)
📚 Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/jurisdic...

First up is Peter Watson

🗣️ @drpetewatson.bsky.social (Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds)
📚 Football and Nation Building in Colombia (2010-2018) via @livunipress.bsky.social
🔗 copim.pubpub.org/pub/football...

#ColombianFootball #LatinAmericanFootball #football #soccer #footballhistory

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All this week we're shining a spotlight on authors who have published #OpenAccess thanks to Opening the Future 🔦

Five authors tell us

❓more about their books
❓why they published #OA and what the experience was like
❓whether they'd recommend the process to others and/or pursue it again

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New merch just dropped

Inspired

although this did make us snort our tea out of our noses
@kjsanders.bsky.social

It was nice for us to be able to acknowledge Graham's hard work in this blog post, but also was important to plot the evolution of his beard over time. Unclear on correlation/causation of beard getting shorter as workload increased over time. Perhaps some clever people can help.

Great to see the @ukri.org #ref2029 guidance for PCE has been published: 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/guidanc... slightly disappointing to see that 'Sharepoint' gets 4 x more mentions than 'open research' 😥 1/2

Dotty (in Christmas jumper) says hi

Our very own Tom Grady presenting at the Charleston Conference yesterday: Beyond the BPC: Collective Funding Model Experimentation & Challenges in Accelerating Sustainable #OpenAccess Books! (pictures taken from punctum books!)

Oh OK, thanks Dottie, I guess we have to get some more flyers now for Frankfurt Book Fair and the Charleston Conference 😆
#fmm24 #chsconf24