We're delighted to share news in the attached press release that the Open Journals Collective has received a major award of $711,900 from the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! Want to know more about OJC? Visit www.openjournalscollective.org
Philippa Grand
@philippagrand.bsky.social
Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
🗣️"We tend to picture publishing as something done by large commercial companies, big learned societies or a handful of famous university presses. But universities also publish at scale, across disciplines and in many languages." #AcademicPublishing
University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact
Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.
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Out now & free to download by chapters or whole text, my @LSEPress book with Tim Monteath, Denisa Kostovicova and Hannah Boroudjou *Doing Open Social Science* press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... helps qualitative & quantitative researchers make their work more reproducible & robust
"Deeply personal, warm and often humorous, Breen provides unprecedented insights into a global, eclectic, and dynamic Chinese Christianity." — Gerda Wielander, author of Christian Values in Communist China Available 10 September #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @lseanthropology.bsky.social
🌍 Lord Nicholas Stern tells Bloomberg's Akshat Rathi why he is optimistic about our ability to tackle climate change and what makes those actions the growth story of the 21st century. 🎧 Listen to the full episode of Zero: The Climate Race: open.spotify.com/episode/0ezx...
More than AI, this century’s growth story is climate action
Zero: The Climate Race · Episode
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🌟 "Doing Open Social Science stands as a pivotal contribution to enhancing research quality and accessibility in the social sciences." Nafees Alam reviews Doing Open Social Science by @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social and Timothy Monteath for Research on Social Work Practice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1049...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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"To experience the kind of support and care for my work that I have at LSE Press is such a privilege - especially as a first-time author." ❓ Read the full Q&A with Noëlle Rohde, author of Marked: School Grades and the Quantified Life: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/articles/the...
From Thesis to Book
Noëlle Rohde winner of the Professor David Parkin Prize for the use of ethnographic methods.
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🌍 "Pushback on climate action is a sign we are making progress on net zero" Lord Nicholas Stern speaks to Nick Ferris for The Independent about how climate impacts and green technology are both accelerating faster than anticipated. 🔗 Read the full article: www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
‘Pushback on climate action is a sign we are making progress on net zero’
Lord Nicholas Stern speaks to Nick Ferris about how climate impacts and green technology are both accelerating faster than anticipated - as he suggests that the UK can still drive the green developmen...
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"This book succeeds in providing a vital, multifaceted account of Ron’s enduring legacy." — Julie MacLeavy, Professor of Economic Geography, University of Bristol Geography and a Geographer is free to read and download #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.31389/lse... @rgs.org
🌍 Steve Dawe reviews The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern for West England Bylines. Read the full review: westenglandbylines.co.uk/society/book...
Book review: The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Nicholas Stern
In The Growth Story, Nicholas Stern sets out the large-scale change required to shape a path to future sustainable growth
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The Open Journals Collective has appointed @dqprogramming.bsky.social to develop its Impact Dashboard! This is a joint project with @openbookcollective.bsky.social and the OJC dashboard will provide data and metrics about the impact of OJC journals - we look forward to launching it soon!
"An original and insightful contribution to the anthropology of religion." — Nanlai Cao, author of Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou Sublime Sociality by Gareth Breen is out 10 September #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.31389/lse...
"An insightful and wide-ranging collection" — Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, @newcastleuni.bsky.social Geography and a Geographer, edited by Richard Harris, David Manley and Robert Mayhew is out now, published as part of the @rgs.org book series. 🔗 doi.org/10.31389/lse...
"A thoughtful distillation of decades of experience giving rise to a conviction that the best negotiations are ones that have a fair result." — John Young, formerly Senior Partner, Lovells, and insurance industry transactional lawyer 🔗 Publishing #OpenAccess September 2026: doi.org/10.31389/lse...
This is a major milestone for @lsepress.bsky.social - we have been accepted as a member of @aupresses.bsky.social. We're so proud to join this global community dedicated to advancing scholarly publishing and look forward to connecting with our fellow members.
Join us in welcoming our 2 newest members: Regular Member @lsepress.bsky.social and Introductory Member George Washington University Press!
Join us in welcoming our 2 newest members: Regular Member @lsepress.bsky.social and Introductory Member George Washington University Press!
AUPresses Welcomes New Members - Association of University Presses
LSE Press joins the Association as a Regular Member and George Washington University Press joins as an Introductory Member.
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La révolution climatique est arrivée⚡ The French edition of Nicholas Stern's The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action is out now from Frémeaux et Associés 🌟 Repost for a chance to win 1 of 3 copies @gsos-lse.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
How is Open Access expanding the public reach of humanistic scholarship? 🔎 @acls1919.bsky.social Prize finalist, Professor Naila Kabeer, discussed her experiences of publishing and the benefits of OA for expanding research reach with represented global communities. ➡️ www.acls.org/news/how-ope...
Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social & @twm.bsky.social published by @lsepress.bsky.social Open access here: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
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📣 Book event! 📣 Join us for the launch of Noëlle Rohde's Marked: School Grades and the Quantified Life in conversation with Andrea Mennicken and Cris Shore, followed by drinks 📅 Thur, Oct 8 🕝 5PM - 7PM 📍 Old Anthropology Library @lseanthropology.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: Marked (Noëlle Rohde)
Numbers are a crucial mediator of how we perceive and understand the world.
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🔥 "It's crucial to respond quickly... Climate action drives growth." Professor Lord Nicholas Stern discusses The Growth Story of the 21st Century on Monocle Radio's The Briefing with @guydelauney.bsky.social - from 5:29. 🎧 Listen here: monocle.com/radio/shows/... @gsos-lse.bsky.social
The latest from Bangkok and ‘The Growth Story of the 21st Century’
As a second shooting in less than a week rocks Thailand, we head to Bangkok for the latest. Then: what...
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📚Our latest book is now out! 'Geography and a Geographer' reflects on the contribution of Professor Ron Johnston to the discipline of geography as we know it today. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/society-publication-on-work-of-professor-ron-johnston-released
"This book powerfully blends theory and practice, helping social scientists improve their research." — Brian Nosek, Professor, University of Virginia, and Executive Director, Center for Open Science Doing Open Social Science is available via #OpenAccess publishing: https://bit.ly/4bKnowA
"The bloodshed may have lessened, but we are still fighting, and Herzog shows the deeper stakes involved in reading’s relation to equality and personhood." — Mary G Dietz, John Evans Professor Emerita of Political Theory, Northwestern University 🔗 Available via #OpenAccess: https://bit.ly/4ue0C7w
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 “An outstanding discussion of the role of business in contemporary society." – Colin Mayer, Emeritus Professor of Management Studies, @ox.ac.uk 👉 What's a Company For? is free to read and download #OpenAccess @jstor.bsky.social press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
NEW: How the language of climate change obscures responsibility and limits action @wafarasheeq.bsky.social reviews Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of the Environmental Impasse by @laurieparsons.bsky.social @lsepress.bsky.social @rgs.org @devgeogsrg.bsky.social
How the language of climate change obscures responsibility and limits action - LSE Review of Books
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons explains why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis, & how to drive change
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“A hopeful work that redefines growth for a sustainable age." — @peterfrankopan.bsky.social, Professor of Global History, Oxford University 🔗 The Growth Story of the 21st Century is available via #OpenAccess publishing: https://bit.ly/4qu1BhR
Great piece by @philippagrand.bsky.social of @lsepress.bsky.social - how collective funding models can deliver real change! blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...
How collective funding supports sustainable publishing
Diamond open access publishing brings benefits for social science scholarship through increased usage, higher citations and global reach. How does funding help?
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