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Janneke Adema

@openreflections.bsky.social

Cultural and media theorist ~ books, open access, critical theory, experimental publishing. She/her https://www.openreflections.org/

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covucu.bsky.social@covucu.bsky.social · last mo.

Coventry University drops from 70th to 96th in The Guardian University League table. The VC has investigated and identified the culprits: The data. The methodology. The subjects. The sector. The external environment. Good news, everyone: management has been completely exonerated by management.

Professor Caroline Edwards@theblochian.bsky.social · last mo.

MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess

Open Journals Collective@ojcollective.bsky.social · last mo.

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

Press Release Date: 3 September 2026 We’re delighted to announce that Open Journals Collective (OJC) has been awarded a $711,900 grant by the Gates Foundation. This grant will enable OJC to scale its operations in 2027 and 2028. Since launching on 29 January 2026, OJC has raised $2.6M in library investment for the first year of its programme. Funds raised will provide financial support to 278 diamond open access journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science, engineering, technology and mathematics. The 2-year grant will accelerate OJC’s development, including building core technical features that leverage current open infrastructure. These comprise usage dashboards for libraries and authors, financial reporting tools, and a community engagement hub for journals and publishers. It will also support the legal and financial groundwork needed to share raised library funds equitably and transparently across OJC’s journals collections. Professor Caroline Edwards, OJC Executive Director, said of the award: “It’s fantastic that this grant from the Gates Foundation will strengthen OJC’s potential to offer a fairer alternative to Article Processing Charges and Transformative Agreements. Supporting OJC at this critical early stage is a strong endorsement of OJC’s community-governed approach to building open publishing infrastructure. This is the way to address inequities in the current academic publishing landscape and encourage university libraries to transition their budgets away from exploitative commercial agreements.” Open Journals Collective is a Collective Community Interest Company (CIC) based in the UK. A CIC is a special type of limited company that exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders. OJC is currently in the process of setting up a UK-based Charity, the Open Journals Collective Foundation, which will oversee the running of the CIC from 2027 onwards.
Open Book Collective@openbookcollective.bsky.social · last mo.

"You wouldn't find them in Waterstones." The first piece in our new series on the people behind open books! Click below for a behind-the-scenes conversation with Ansgar Allen of Erratum Press, one of the OBC members who are publishing the kinds of books the commercial market tends to overlook.

Odd books, and the work of keeping them alive: in conversation with Ansgar Allen of Erratum Press

We sat down with Erratum Press founder, Ansgar Allen, to talk about defiant publishing, the state of the university, and why open access is anything but the easy option.

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

Upcoming webinar on #OpenResearch, equity & how distributed knowledge cld affect the future of the university. Inspired by two recent #OpenAccess books by OBP: - Distributing Knowledge by Richard Heller - The Politics of Open Infrastructures ed. by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway

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

WEBINAR | Distributing knowledge for equity: two new books and an evolving concept for Open Science WHEN: Monday 14 September, 2pm UTC (8am Mexico City, 3pm London and Abuja, 4pm Berlin, 5pm Kyiv) REGISTER (FREE): buff.ly/0LDJaey FIND OUT MORE: buff.ly/siHgezR

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minor compositions@minorcompositions.bsky.social · last mo.

What if defending study didn’t mean defending the university as it currently exists? Abolitionist University Studies asks us to put the institution itself back into question – and to separate study from the university’s claim to own it. Build the impossible. abolition.university/invitation/

Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation - Abolition University

Abolition offers the occasion for thinking about the university in ways that the institution itself might otherwise render impossible.

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Manifold Scholarship@manifoldscholar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A wonderful project featuring hundreds of audio resources, song notations, and storytelling. Published by @ualbertapress.bsky.social and hosted at University of Manitoba Libraries.

Dánı̨́ Dene Nenę́ Hǝjı̨ / How Our Land Sings | University of Manitoba eScholarship

This interactive digital book shares and examines the singing, dancing, and drumming traditions of Délı̨nę, a Dene community in the Sahtú region of the Northwest Territories. Central to the book are...

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MORPHSS@morphss.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing (doi.org/10.31222/osf...).

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Open Humanities Press@openhumanities.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'What If We Stopped Trying to Save the University?', the latest edition of the OHP newsletter is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/what-if-we... Includes The Insecure University, What Comes After the Liberal Institution, Learning to Work Differently, and The Violence of Not Belonging.

What If We Stopped Trying to Save the University?

Open Humanities is the newsletter of Open Humanities Press (OHP), a radical, scholar-led, open access publisher of critical and cultural theory.

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Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 2mo ago

It feels like we're moving past the idea of "open" as the sharing of everything by everyone to everyone. It's sad for COS, but I think the shift may allow us to foreground a better understanding of openness defined by practices/communities/relationships rather than whether a resource is open/closed.

OSF Changes | Center for Open Science

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

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Simon@simonxix.com · 2mo ago

You don't have to use Microsoft Word or Adobe InDesign to publish an academic book. It can be easier, more experimental, more fun.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 2mo ago

Completely agree with this thread. We see the same tendency to want to standardise diamond OA even though standardisation is the thing that prevents experimentation and leads to commercial capture.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The PRC [publish review curate] Alliance is a coordinating initiative established…to standardize and promote PRC workflows” Lots of reasons to rethink peer review in a post-preprint era, but I worry about that word “standardize” 1/n scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/07/g...

Simon@simonxix.com · 3mo ago

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.

A paperback book called Publishing as Collective Infrastructure
minor compositions@minorcompositions.bsky.social · 3mo 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