Open Book Publishers

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Leading Open Access publisher of high-quality academic books. Non-profit, scholar-led. Part of @copim.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social. Find us here: https://lnk.bio/openbookpublishers

NEW POST: 'Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim': copim.pub/wileys-acqui... The post explores issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing raised by the acquisition, heightened by the emphasis on the anticipated role of #AI. #Scale #AcademicPublishing

Wiley’s Acquisition of Emerald: Some observations from Copim - Copim

Copim reflects on Wiley’s acquisition of Emerald and the issues of scale and corporate consolidation in academic publishing.

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Catch up with this post from our senior editor and outreach coordinator @alittleroad.bsky.social on our membership of @operaseu.bsky.social and the potential of the new OPERAS UK Node to support engagement with the wider European network 👇

Anna Hughes@anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 3w ago

📣 Find out more about why @openbookpublish.bsky.social joined #OPERASUK How they hope to see the #NationalNode develop & support @operaseu.bsky.social become a #ERIC 🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/07/1... #Community

The book is all about how institutions structure certain kinds of teaching and how we push back. And it opens and closes with discussions of a similar teaching space at UVA. Fixed rooms and how to unbolt them.

Embedded Pedagogies has a cover! I liked this image of the ones that were shared because it shows someone reading a large music score alone in a rows of auditorium-style seating. The room is structured for a certain kind of interaction and a poor fit for what he is trying to do.

Cover of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure if Change. Shows a man reading a music score in an auditorium.

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences

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