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Explore the latest publications from #ArchitecturalHistories: journal.eahn.org/articles/
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January 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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Two new articles published in @labphon.bsky.social / #LabPhon. Check them out at: www.journal-labphon....
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January 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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New ISSUE out! Theory and Social Inquiry, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2025) is now available: www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1815/i...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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New ASIANetwork Exchange issue! Vol. 29, No. 2 (2025), a fab new issue edited by Taku Suzuki: www.asianetworkexchange.org/issue/1745/i... #AsianStudies
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January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Four new articles published in Syntactic Theory and Research / @starlinguistics.bsky.social. Check them out at: star-linguistics.org...
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January 3, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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New ISSUE of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology #RHETM: Volume 2, Issue 2, featuring Winners of the 2025 RHETM Students' Work-in-Progress Competition: rhetm.org/issue/1767...
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January 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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🎄 Day 8 of #OLH12DaysOfChristmas
On the eighth day of Christmas the OLH claimed they ate bots a plenty, seven flips upcoming, six journals joining, diamond open access, four new journals, three open access awards, two new colleagues and the launch of the OJC.
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January 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Three new articles published in Marvell Studies! Check them out at: marvell.openlibhums.... #MarvellStudies
List of latest articles published in Marvell Studies
December 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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As 2025 comes to an end, we’ll be taking a short break over the holidays. Season’s greetings to all our readers, authors, supporters, and colleagues. We’ll be back in 2026 with more #DiamondOA.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New [in]Transition / @intransition.bsky.social Special Issue "Cinematic Bodies/Videographic Forms", Volume 12 Issue 4 featuring six video essays as well as a posthumous video from Isabelle McNeill
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#VideoEssays #FilmStudies
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December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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New special issue of Quaker Studies: "Spiritual Witness: The Ground of Quaker Social Action", guest-edited by Barbara Welling Hall and Cherice Bock: quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1331/i...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Check out the latest articles published in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social:www.glossa-journal.o...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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New ISSUE of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology #RHETM: Volume 2 • Issue 1 - "Including the Symposium 'Two Centuries On: Revisiting the Legacy of the 1825 Financial Crisis'"

Guest edited by Nesrine Bentemessek Kahia

🔗 rhetm.org/issue/1713/i...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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New issue of Studies in the Maternal
Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025

Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal Guest edited by Anna Argirò and Anna Brook
🔗 www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out! This one features two thematic sections—on Religion and Contemporary Crises and Boyle Lecture 2025 — Plus articles on green apocalypse, self-organizing systems, science and religion and more: Read now: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1771/i...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social: Journal of 21st-century Writings, Volume 12, Issue 2, is out now! Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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📣 The new Studies in the Maternal Special Issue is OUT!

Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2025
Special Issue: Affect, Creativity and the Maternal

Guest edited by Anna Argirò and Anna Brook

🔗 www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1741/i...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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New issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social out now!

"Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices", guest edited by Gülru Çakmak and Patricia Smyth, is now freely available at: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1292/i...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween
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October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🍂 Our Autumn Newsletter is OUT!
Catch up on the latest updates including our Annual Report 24/25, new journals, latest supporters, CFP Janeway Conference, tech updates, and more:
mailchi.mp/openlibhums/...

#OAweek / @janewayolh.bsky.social
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October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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#OAWeek is coming up!

Don’t miss our webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social & @joannaball.bsky.social

🗓️ 24 Oct | 🕐 1 pm BST
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October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX
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October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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New Issue Out Now!

Explore the Journal of Embodied Research (JER) 8.1, featuring new work in #videographic scholarship and embodied research.

Includes 4 #videoarticles and 1 #videoessay

jer.openlibhums.org/issue/1724/i...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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NEW ISSUE: [in]Transition / @intransition.bsky.social Vol 12.3
Features 11 video essays, including a special section on ecocriticism & animal studies.
Explore here: intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1672/i...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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📌 📆 Mark your calendars!

30 Oct 2025, 6–9pm, The Poetry Café, London:
Launch of Affect, Creativity & the Maternal + Anna Brook’s Motherhood: A Ghost Story.

Readings, performances, drinks & more.

Free (booking essential): visceralbodies.squarespace.com
Flyer for a journal and book launch event on October 30, 2025, at The Poetry Café in London, featuring Studies in the Maternal and Motherhood: A Ghost Story.
September 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM