This is now an ongoing thread of why research assessment reform is, above all, a labour issue.

We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us there for longer form content: linkedin.com/company/journal-of-electronic-publishing

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Journal of Electronic Publishing | 57 followers on LinkedIn. A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. | The Journal of Electronic Publish...

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⭐🎨 NOW LIVE: 2026 GOLDSMITHS UCU ART RAFFLE!! 🎨 ⭐ Raising money to support striking staff resisting savage redundancies at Goldsmiths Win art by Florence Peake Jeremy Deller Peckham Keffiyeh Louis Pohl Koseda Anna Higgins Eddie Peake &many more! Tickets £5, draw 26 July 🔥 www.gucu-raffle.com

I was pleased to contribute to this collectively-authored book and to receive my physical copy earlier this week! The book was published using an experimental technical infrastructure and was one of the pilot projects that we nurtured over the course of the Open Book Futures project.

minor compositions@minorcompositions.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Went to a great launch yesterday of Sy Taffel’s Postgrowth Digital Futures. Digital Technologies, Degrowth & Radical Abundance published by @brisunipress.bsky.social Not OA but hopefully you can find it via other channels. Looking forward to reading this: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postgrowth-d...

Postgrowth Digital Futures

Postgrowth Digital Futures - Digital Technologies, Degrowth, and Radical Abundance; What if digital technology worked for the planet and people? This book proposes a future where ecological sustainabi...

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Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

We are over-the-freaking-moon excited to announce our VERY FIRST TITLE! ✨Animated Wor(l)ds✨ is a collection of creative & scholarly works on multispecies kinship, edited with care and dedication by Elizabeth Tavella & Eva Spiegelhofer. Read more & find the link here: radishpress.org/news/introdu...

Introducing Animated Wor(l)ds, Radish Press’ First Release — Radish Press

Radish Press is overjoyed to announce the publication of our very first title, Animated Wor(l)ds: Language and Relationality for Multispecies Kinship , edited by Elizabeth Tavella and Eva Spieg...

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#OER26 panel discussing feeling betrayed by our broken institutions and the promises of openness they have failed to uphold. Resonances with the Radical Open Access Conference last year and their publication, Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University.

📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...

In-depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/06/b...

Black Theory in Britain

In this episode Jem is joined by Dhanveer Singh Brar and Ashwani Sharma to discuss their 2019 article ‘What is This ‘Black ‘in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Blac…

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[BLOG] Peer Review Under Review Conversation between author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy John Atkinson @uwpress.bsky.social & Julien McHardy (Experimental Publishing Group) around double-blind peer review & the recent peer review party 🔗

Peer Review Under Review - Copim

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New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

Framing the Internet: A conversation with James Louis Smith (aka me) https://copim.pub/framing-the-internet-a-conversation-with-james-louis-smith/ #ExperimentalPublishing #COPIM #OpenBookFutures #IIIF #IFrames

Framing the Internet : A conversation with James Louis Smith - Copim

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Join us in Brighton on 18th June for the 2026 @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium! Info ⬇️ Panels cover the importance of non-profit open access publishing in the financial HE context and advocacy featuring @theblochian.bsky.social, @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and others + member lightning talks

Open Institutional Publishing Association@oipassoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 The programme for the 2026 OIPA Symposium is now live!🚨 Join us on 18th June in Brighton for panels, lightning talks, and workshops exploring open publishing and infrastructure. Register + programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

This is fun: Journal of Imaginary Research. abstract works of fiction // fictional abstracts: journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog

Journal of Imaginary Research

abstract works of fiction // fictional abstracts

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This is going to be a great event! Online and In-Person. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-print-...

The Print Revolution then and now

A one-day event consisting of panel discussions and presentations on various aspects of printing history and heritage in the 21st century.

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Celebrations & reflections! 🎉 @kjsanders.eurosky.social discusses the 3 experimental book pilot projects & what they have made possible 🔗 buff.ly/ZbPXGvI @openreflections.bsky.social @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @simonxix.com @chromatinfuel.bsky.social

What Experimental Books Make Possible: Reflections from the Experimental Publishing Group 2026 Retreat - Copim

At the beginning of April 2026, the Copim Experimental Publishing Group (EPG) had arranged a seaside retreat and a concurrent online conference to celebrate and critically reflect on the three…

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How can a small, scholar-led press publish experimentally? Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds) reflects on the ‘Database as Book’ pilot ☑️ Collaboration ☑️ Peer review ☑️ Rethinking publishing workflows 🔗

Publishing Experimentally: African Minds and the Making of ‘Database as Book’ - Copim

How can a small, scholar-led press publish experimentally? African Mind’s Francois van Schalkwyk reflects on collaboration, peer review, and rethinking publis…

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🚨 The programme for the 2026 OIPA Symposium is now live!🚨 Join us on 18th June in Brighton for panels, lightning talks, and workshops exploring open publishing and infrastructure. Register + programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

OIPA Symposium 2026

Following on from the success of the 2024 OIPA Symposium, this year's event will feature panels, lightning talks and workshops.

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This looks great: 'Communities of Publishing and Printing'. Celebrate the online 'Spineless Wonders' exhibition with presentations exploring the printing, publishing, and communities surrounding ephemera, artists' books and pamphlets: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Communities of Publishing and Printing

Join us online for three presentations on printing, publishing, and communities of material including ephemera, artists' books and pamphlets.

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Technical infrastructure does not just persist. It needs maintenance and, crucially, people to perform that maintenance. Servers need to be updated, SSL certificates need to be renewed, domains need to be paid for.

Sharon Howard@sharonhoward.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

[BLOG] After the Pilot: What ‘ServPub’ Makes Available ⛓️‍💥 What might publishing look like if there were more collaborative, processual, and horizontal modes of writing, editing, design, hosting, and sharing? We explored these ideas via the 'ServPub' pilot 👉

After the Pilot: What ‘ServPub’ Makes Available - Copim

Looking back on the ‘ServPub’ pilot and the resulting book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, this post reflects on their becoming and on what they make…

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Reading @kjsanders.eurosky.social's reflections on the Open Book Futures Experimental Publishing Retreat and Conference. Some really interesting thoughts on the experimental publishing work that our group did over the last three years. copim.pub/what-experim...

@copim @kjsanders Resources from the event here: https://copim.pub/online-conference-practicing-experimental-books-celebrating-copims-book-pilots/. Content on @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/@centre_for_postdigital_cultures

Online Conference: Practicing Experimental Books: Celebrating Copim’s Book Pilots - Copim

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Introducing Deep Maps: Blue Humanities. Coming soon from University of Westminster Press https://archive.org/details/deep-maps-trailer-1 #ExperimentalPublishing #DeepMaps #Monograph #COPIM #OpenBookFutures

Deep Maps Trailer : Copim Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Walkthrough video of the # Deep Maps Blue Humanities experimental book. Intro:Deep MapsBlue HumanitiesBy James Louis SmithA deep mapping bathymetric descent...

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A podcast featuring Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska and Gary Hall from Open Humanities Press, titled 'Friendship, and Other Ways of Producing Knowledge', is now available on the Scholē IRL website. www.scholeirl.org And on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu...

New on the blog from @browncds.bsky.social! Brown University Digital Publications expand on their 2025 OIPA symposium presentation: 'New Approaches to Collaboration'. 🧵 oipauk.org/2026/04/28/o...

So proud that @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social and I were able to publish this special issue of @jepub.bsky.social, which is very close to our heart. Huge congratulations to the co-editors @jenniad.bsky.social, @mirandab-oa.bsky.social and @samuelmoore.org!

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]