Association of University Presses

Find & follow your favorite university presses on this platform with this handy starter pack of our members: go.bsky.app/7p95p7B And if you're looking for university presses that publish in a certain field, consult our Subject Area Grid: https://bit.ly/3C7ASUc. #ReadUP

Looking forward to exhibiting at the Charleston Conference 2026, Nov 3! Visit us at tables 85-86 to learn more about member presses @brisunipress.bsky.social, @columbiaup.bsky.social, @edinburghup.bsky.social, and @manchesterup.bsky.social. #charleston2026

ICYMI: you can stream this episode of the AUPresses/PBS Books digital series Uncovered *anytime* to discover a collection of outstanding university press books about popular science topics - from stars above to bugs below: https://bit.ly/484oUqx

This #InternationalOpenAccessWeek, we're spotlighting books on technology, borders, migration and gender. These featured titles are just a small selection from more than 340 books available free to read on manchesterhive. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/10...

"Commercial interest is not always in the interest of readers and the general public. We need to have work which is not behind paywalls and not confined to people with university affiliations" Professor Mike Savage reflects on the theme of #OAWeek 2026 🔓 @lseinequalities.bsky.social

As Open Access Week comes to an end, we are returning back to the belief that drives UCL Press: that knowledge belongs to everyone. With 475+ books and 17 journals published, there is so much for you to discover. Where will you start? 👉 https://uclpress.co.uk/ #UCLPress #OpenAccess #OAWeek

With so many academic publishers out there, how can you find one that aligns with your values? 📚 Katharine Nelson and Elinor Potts share what to consider when choosing a publisher. 🔗 www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/quest... @timeshighered.bsky.social @insidehighered.com @uolpress.bsky.social

Our chief transformation officer, Wendy Queen (@wendyqueen.bsky.social), gave a keynote at @silverchairnews.bsky.social’s Platform Strategies on how to understand AI’s implications for scholarly publishing. The @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social reports:

Looking for more OA reads from PSU Press journals? Check out “Home and Its Refusals: Tensions of Flesh and Place in the Racialized and Diasporic Subject” by Helen Ngo, Critical Philosophy of Race (4:1, 2026) https://ow.ly/sas550ZZjNE

Not quite in the halloween spirit yet? We can help with that! Ghosts, creepy traditions, witches, murderers, and more can all be found in UTP titles. 👻 Read about each spooky book in our newest blog post at UTPress.org/news ... if you dare! utpress.org/news/get-in-...

Open access can help research travel further, connecting ideas with the people and communities who can put them into practice. #OAWeek26 Explore #OA content from our Global Social Challenges collections. https://ow.ly/Czml50ZZl2N

We're so proud to see 7 UNM Press books on the 2026 list of New Mexico Book Awards Winners! We had winning titles in poetry, history, arts, and more. Which ones have you read? See the full list of winners and finalists at the @nmwriters.bsky.social website: nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #booksky

We are working with our authors, funders and institutional partners to create sustainable pathways that broaden participation in open access publishing and increase access to research around the world. Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4iBhv8m #OAWeek

👻👹 It's that time of year: our Ghosts and Monsters sale is on! www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m... What a great time to snag a 30% pre-order discount on Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's MONSTER THEORY RETURNS (Summer 2027)! #BookSale #GhostsAndMonsters #Mothra #Godzilla @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mournng, published in the On Seeing #openaccess book series by @brown.edu + @mitpress.bsky.social wins the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies! Congrats @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social #OAWeek @aupresses.bsky.social @oipassoc.bsky.social

Happy #OAWeek! Learn more about Penn Press's open access policies for journals and which of our journals are available open access on our website https://bit.ly/4iAYL8U

All are invited to this AUPresses Webinar, Beyond Ace by Daisy: Ensuring WCAG AA Compliance in epubs, Monday 10/26 at 2pm ET, hosted by the AUPresses Professional Development Committee. Learn more about evaluating & using results from current automated accessibility checkers. https://bit.ly/47jzJVE

Congratulations to Caki Wilkinson, recent winner of the 2026 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry! In celebration we offer a reading list of her contributions to The Sewanee Review, @yalereview, and @hopkinsreview over the years, all free to read thru 31 October tinyurl.com/4bshnnpa

We all agree that fully #OpenAccess publishing is necessary, but how do we speed up the transition to full #OA with a sustainable path to publishing research that provides equity and maintains bibliodiversity within the scholarly ecosystem? #OAWeek26 https://ow.ly/PVu550ZYSza

🗨️ "Open access offers a different model, one where educators can share, adapt and build on teaching resources without a paywall standing in the way." In a new #OAWeek blog Dr Dorottya Sallai evaluates the cost of knowledge in the context of management education. 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

We’re celebrating OA Week by highlighting some of the most read articles in our OA journals. Today’s selection is from PALESTINE/ISRAEL REVIEW. Read “Apartheid in South Africa and Israel/Palestine: A Case of Convergent Evolution?” from PALESTINE/ISRAEL REVIEW 1:2 (2024). https://ow.ly/zR4Q50ZZjKa

We’re committed to making high-quality research available to the people and communities who can use it. #OAWeek26 #OpenAccess Explore our growing collection of open access books, journals and other resources. https://ow.ly/XMUf50ZZkZi

What are the benefits of publishing #OpenAccess? Thinking of publishing your work open access, but unsure of the benefits? Let us introduce just some of the many positives of publishing your work open access. #OpenAccessWeek2026 https://ow.ly/90nI50ZYSrY

During 2026's Open Access Week, we want to highlight Manifold, our open-access platform! All twenty-four titles in the current CUP catalogue are freely accessible on Manifold: press.library.concordia.ca #OAWeek

We believe that books and journals are written for people to read – no matter who they are, where they are, or their financial means. That's why we are a fully Open Access press. Open Access also gives our authors greater visibility and impact. What will you discover? 👉 https://uclpress.co.uk/

We are proud to offer #OpenAccess publishing options for every one of our journals. Coming soon, NeuroNexus will integrate research and real-world applications in the psychology, neuroscience, and engineering of intelligence. mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-pres... #OpenAccessWeek

#OAWeek asks how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce. Led by Dr. Cheryl Thompson ArchiveBlack.ca brings together archival research, digital storytelling, and public engagement to create new pathways into Black history and cultural memory.

Its #OAWeek 2026! Today on the blog, we highlight Open Access Journals published by Duke University Press. Read the post here: buff.ly/bgoiafU

What does open access (OA) mean, and why does it matter? How much does it cost to make a book OA? Members of our journals, editorial, and leadership teams answer these questions for #OpenAccessWeek👇 uncpress.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Considering the theme of this years #OAWeek LSE Press author Sarah Marie Hall shared some reflections. Sarah's book Lives and Afterlives of Economic Change will publish as part of the @rgs.org Book Series early next year. 📚 Find out more: doi.org/10.31389/lse...

The winner of the 2026 Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History Prize is... www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/wi...

the book of sentences has won the 2026 Lampman Award! A huge congratulations to @robmclennan.bsky.social for this well-deserved honour.

During #OAWeek visit our Scholarly Podcasts page, or listen on your favourite platform to Secret Feminist Agenda, and Community of Praxis. Details at www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

Congratulations to Martha Langford for winning the 2026 UAAC-AAUC Book Award from the the Universities Art Association of Canada! A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 1: buff.ly/7bmQ8rI

Since its launch, our not-for-profit, #OpenAccess Global Social Challenges Journal has reached readers in 191 countries, and its articles have been downloaded over 228,000 times. #OAWeek26 #OpenAccessWeek2026 Find out more about the journal. https://ow.ly/jUyR50ZZp0l

New on the blog for #OAWeek: Join us and Penn Libraries as we take a moment to think about the benefits of offering our scholarly and creative works to the world for anyone to use, reuse, and remix without having to worry about barriers like copyright or cost. https://bit.ly/4eK0Z3o

Today is #NationalArchivesDay, so we wanted to highlight a blog post that dives into the process of sorting through the physical archives of one of our oldest journals, Journal of English and Germanic Philology. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social Check it out: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/je...

We’re celebrating OA Week by sharing popular articles from our OA journals. Read “Damascus, Syria, 1860: Clues and Lessons from the Scene of a Crime” from BUSTAN 16:1 (2025) https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/bustan/article/16/1/3/401165/Damascus-Syria-1860-Clues-and-Lessons-from-the

Discover OA chapters for selected books this International Open Access Week. Links at linktr.ee/wlupress #OAWeek

It's #OAWeek, and today happens to be the publication date for our latest Open Access book! Hanna Nieber's TACIT TEXTUALITY is an ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur’an as medicine in Zanzibar and "a marvelous meditation on the materiality of written texts" https://bit.ly/4k8XEhT

This #OAWeek2026 we're celebrating the power of Open Access to expand the reach of veterinary research. Publishing Open Access in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine means your work is immediately available to animal health professionals worldwide. oxford.ly/4jx0fSO

Considering the theme of this year's #OAWeek (October 19-25) – LSE Press Commissioning Editor for the Global School of Sustainability at LSE Series Jen McCall shared some reflections. 📕 Learn more about the series here: press.lse.ac.uk/gsos-series

This #OpenAccessWeek, MUP Publishing Director Emma Brennan reflects on the opportunities, challenges and future of open access publishing at Manchester University Press. Read the Q&A:https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/10/19/open-access-week-2026-emma-brennan-open-access-publishing/

At UCL Press, we believe that research should be accessible to everyone. Whether you're a student, practitioner or curious reader, Open Access means you can engage with scholarship that might otherwise be out of reach. What will you discover this Open Access Week? 👉 https://uclpress.co.uk/

Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620 available to read for free as open access 👉 buff.ly/G0ceew0 #OpenAccess #OAWeek

This #OAWeek Jen McCall considers how the cost of academic books has changed in recent years and asks, what steps are being taken to ensure that the research published in long-form is sustainable, and affordable for all? 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

There’s no single route to open access. That’s why we take a flexible approach to OA publishing, working with authors & editors to find solutions that work for different books, journals & research communities. #OAWeek26 Explore our #OpenAccess publishing options. https://ow.ly/HQkm50ZZkEZ

Celebrate OA Week with PSU Press journals! Check out “The Spy Story Behind The Third Man” from JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY (4:1-2, 2020). https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/austrian-american-history/article/4/1-2/1/273245/The-Spy-Story-Behind-The-Third-Man

Calling for proposals for our 2027 Virtual Annual Meeting, June 7-10! We welcome your ideas, questions & brainstorms for how to take up the ever-shifting issues and perennial growth areas that face scholarly publishers. Proposals are due by November 13. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4drarZ3

Thanks to @concordialib.bsky.social for featuring our 10th anniversary on the What's New page! library.concordia.ca/about/news/#...

PENELOPE AND HER MAIDS reconsiders the #Odyssey from Penelope's point of view. mily Shanahan investigates this characterization, and all of Penelope's decisions, in context, reading each one of her scenes diachronically. #OdysseyRetold #GreekMythology Learn more here: https://ow.ly/V2cG50ZSiYk