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University of London Press@uolpress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📣 We’re proud to announce the publication of Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative #History of International #Communication, a fascinating new #OpenAccess book published in association with @ihr.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar... #Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social

Postcards, Translators and Esperanto Pioneers - University of London Press

The early twentieth century was a time when steamships, international postal services and the telephone were setting the pace of an early wave of globalisation in Europe. In this increasingly internat...

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University of London Press@uolpress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 Today we've published the latest #OpenAccess title in our popular #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org: Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social! Read it now: uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press

The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

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Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

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Dan Hassler-Forest@danhf.bsky.social · last yr.

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

Vinzenz Hediger@vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · last yr.

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Catherine Grant@filmstudiesff.bsky.social · last yr.

New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

Understanding Video Activism on Social Media | Intellect

What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert them...

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Jeroen Sondervan@jeroenson.bsky.social · last yr.

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is. Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out. mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Jeroen Sondervan@jeroenson.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network. The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models. 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL

The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

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Lucy Barnes@alittleroad.bsky.social · last yr.

Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards. #OAbooks

Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · last yr.

Enormous congratulations to them & to the other nominees for this wonderful recognition of their fine research & writing 👏 We're also delighted that through these nominations we're flying the flag for independent #OpenAccess presses: we're hugely proud to represent this growing community. (5/end)

Three books with vibrant, colourful covers standing upright, pictured on a blue background below the text '2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards: FInalists'. The orange open access logo is in the bottom right-hand corner and the open book OBP logo is in the bottom left corner.