This panel on experimental publishing futures which I co-chaired with @openreflections.bsky.social is now available to view in its entirety on the Internet Archive. #CopimConference archive.org/details/copi...
Our very own @simonxix.com now co-chairing a panel about experimental publishing at the @copim.bsky.social conference, something we’re very keen to do more of at Edinburgh Diamond!
Great to hear what other publishers are doing in this area.
#CopimConference
Library Publishing Showcase Week highlights how library publishing supports authors, students, researchers, and scholarly communities. Participants featured are from the LPC community, reflecting the breadth of innovative work in library publishing.
Find out more: librarypublishingcreates.org
Fundamentals of Music Theory was a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh Open Educational Resources team, Reid School of Music staff and students, and the Library. The book presents educational materials on the building blocks of musical stave notation.
books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
Fantastic to see our very first textbook, Fundamentals of Music Theory, highlighted in the Library Publishing Showcase Week, organised by the Library Publishing Coalition.
Check us out! 😎 🎶
librarypublishingcreates.org/edinburgh-di...
#libpubweek #libpubshowcase
What a brilliant first day at the @copim.bsky.social conference, with topics ranging from librarians as Diamond OA change makers to accessibility.
So glad to see Edinburgh Diamond represented alongside our fellow @oipassoc.bsky.social members!
#CopimConference
Group of men and women at the Copim conference
And here are some of our members who are here in person!
#CopimConference
Thanks @copim.bsky.social for such a great conference (so far!) and for providing a forum for helpful and informative conversations with such an engaged group of people.
#OpenAccessAdvocacy
Excited to be at the @copim.bsky.social conference!
👀 If you’re near the digital poster wall, check us out!
👋 Some of the OJC Directors and Exec. Group are also here – come say hi.
💎 Find out more about the Open Journals Collective: www.openjournalscollective.org
#CopimConference
Vol. 46 No. 1 of Scottish Studies is out!
This issue includes articles about: student singing and song books; sportsmen, the Great War & enlistment symbols; & the policing of land agitation in the Highlands & Islands; and more!
Download & share!
#OpenAccess
open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
Did you know we have a Bluesky starter pack where you can follow all of OJC's publisher members in just one click?
Take a look and give a click!
go.bsky.app/QvGSACZ
The inaugural Library Publishing Showcase Week, from the Library Publishing Coalition, is off with a bang!
Check out Library Publishing Creates, their new website that aims to support library publishers with advocacy.
librarypublishingcreates.org
Fantastic to see the OJC team grow, bringing on more diamonds to work on Diamond Open Access!
Welcome, Tom 💎🥳
6 days to go on the call for papers for volume 7 of the interdisciplinary Contemporary Challenges, an #OpenAccess journal hosted by @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social
I'm upgrading a bunch of OJS and OMP instances now I'm working as part of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social and SCURL Open Hosting. Upgrading these applications is fiddly as heck so I've written scripts to make my life easier and maybe anyone else who regularly works on OJS/OMP.
Exciting times for the Open Institutional Publishing Association!
We wrote about our activities in 2025 and plans for the future – including our symposiums, new committee members and Advisory Board, and member milestones – for UKSG eNews.
Give it a read and share!
www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...
Leviathan Journal cultivates the voices of a new generation, using academia to rewrite traditional conceptions of power. It is a forum where authors, editors and readers alike wrestle with challenging propositions, agreeing and disagreeing, in pursuit of reckoning with today's challenges.
The new issue of Leviathan is out!
2025 featured pushing of political boundaries, from authoritarian populists testing the limits of democracy to new generations of protesters demanding accountability.
'Beyond Power' presents new ways of thinking about power and politics.
doi.org/10.2218/nr8v...
How caring is Scotland’s approach to energy retrofit?
Our new insights paper, 'Towards a Retrofit of Care: Examining energy retrofitting in Scottish households through a care lens' - written by Dr. Iain Cairns et al. - explores just that.
#OpenAccess and ready to download!
doi.org/10.2218/ED.9...
Come speak at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2026 (18 Jun)!
We are looking for submissions associated with UNESCO’s Open Research recommendations, centred on one of the four quadrants of UNESCO’s Model.
Deadline: End of Fri 13 Feb
Find out more & submit:
library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
We are very happy to welcome our new editorial members! Chariklia Martalas is our new Co-managing Editor and Wushuang Tong is our new Assistant Editor. We are looking forward to working together on new projects in arts and interdisciplinary research! @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social
SO proud to be a founding publisher member of the @ojcollective.bsky.social!
If you want to support equitable publishing models that centre community-led publishing, then invest in the OJC!
Read 🔽 Share ➡️ Invest 🔄
I'm exceptionally proud to be a part of the @ojcollective.bsky.social & it's fantastic to see the investment campaign go live!
HUGE congratulations to @theblochian.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @rupertgatti.bsky.social for leading the charge.
The future is Diamond! 💎
The @ojcollective.bsky.social has officially launched and is now seeking investment! 💎
Know a librarian committed to equitable, sustainable, community-led Diamond Open Access publishing models? Maybe it's you!
📖 Read the Press Release and pass it on: drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
🔊 Help shape the EDCH Forum
Take our quick poll and tell us who you are, how you engage with Diamond OA, and what you’d like to see next!
➡️ Fill in our Poll: forum.diamas.org/t/who-s-here...
🗓 Deadline: end of January
Not on the Forum yet? Join here 👉 forum.diamas.org
#DiamondOpenAccess #EDCH
I'm pleased that you can now browse our @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social journals on @ojcollective.bsky.social's new catalogue. Nice to see this cool collection of community-led journals working collectively. www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/?q...
Some awesome news to end the week on: the inaugural @ojcollective.bsky.social journals catalogue is live, and you can see the eight Edinburgh Diamond journals included along many other Diamond Open Access journals.
Have a browse and support community-led Diamond Open Access publishing!
Love seeing copies of the Remediating Stevenson book series being posted to schools and educational groups across Scotland!
Access the Open Access digital editions:
books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
#OpenAccess #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS
Innovations in Linguistics Education is officially relaunched & open for submissions!
INNOVATIONS (@innovations-ling.bsky.social) provides a forum for linguists from around the world to exchange ideas & materials on linguistics teaching in higher education.
journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations
📚 We are proud to announce the release of "Teaching for Digital Futures": our guides and resources to help educators teach digital, data, and AI literacies in the classroom, in one Edinburgh Diamond-published book series ⬇️
@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
@morayhouse.bsky.social
We are starting off 2026 with a brand new book series from @dataschools.bsky.social!
Teaching for Digital Futures provides practical resources to help educators confidently teach digital, data & AI literacies.
There are currently four books for you to read & share!
books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-di...
