OpeningTheFuture
openingthefuture.net is a funding model for open access books. Designed for small/med scholarly publishers, it is free to use by any Press seeking a low-risk move towards OA. Doesn't rely on BPCs, is equitable, sustainable, & part of the Copim Community.
@ianm70.bsky.social
computer geek, book person, Tolkien nerd, history researcher, science, occasional politics. He/Him.
@ifrank.bsky.social
I'm a reference librarian at a community college and UoPeople.edu and an instructor at UMGC.edu and I'm an excellent lurker
@mgrana.bsky.social
PhD. Visiting fellow (2024-2025) Centre for Early Modern Exchanges at UCL He/Him Political and legal cultures. Early Modern Iberian Worlds. Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social
@petehr.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern Languages @University of Leeds; Portuguese and Brazilian Culture Specialist.
@jamesethanbyrne.bsky.social
Director at Curriculum Press 📚 | Global Development & Economics at SOAS, University of London 🌳 | The SOAS Spirit Senior Staff 🗞️ | Chatham House Member 🌍
@lquilter.bsky.social
Public interest copyright & information policy lawyer & librarian. Anti-fascist, queer, tree-hugger. No gods, no masters. SF fannish wanna-be crafty catlady. Southern ex-pat in Western MA. Mom. wikipedia User:Lquilter, UMass Library, https://lquilter.net/
@bttnhg.bsky.social
University of Leeds. Profesora titular de español. Director of Routes into Languages Yorkshire & Humberside. Co-founder of the Language Journal. Interested in language education, authentic assessment and sociolinguistics. Boquerona ❤️.
@splasatleeds.bsky.social
Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at The University of Leeds
@drpetewatson.bsky.social
Academic focusing on Latin American sport and its interrelation with history, politics and society; cricket coach on the side. Find my book, articles, podcasts etc here: https://linktr.ee/drpetewatson.
@georgecoops.bsky.social
Scholarly comms @ F1000 / VeriXiv, PhD @ UCL Centre for Publishing, millennial dad-bro, erstwhile Geordie, writes about censorship, views mine etc. https://hamoyodotcom.wordpress.com/
@carolinemort.bsky.social
OA Journals Managing Editor @ UNC Press Communications @ Authors Alliance
@samnesbit.bsky.social
Research & Open Scholarship at University of Sussex; books; film; music; anything that brightens the dark times we live in, even momentarily. Oh and wine. All the wine.
@openaccess-sw.bsky.social
Sharing newly published Open Access Social Work research. Authors will be tagged where found. If I've missed you, please get in touch. Blame: @grahamainsley.bsky.social
@ojcollective.bsky.social
We are a not-for-profit collective of academics, libraries and university-based publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Launching in Jan. 2026. Join the movement: https://www.openjournalscollective.org/
@karen-jackson.bsky.social
Product Manager for Open Policy Finder, (Research Management team) at Jisc
@themodernpeer.com
the modern peer is a scientist-led blog dedicated to making academic publishing more transparent and accessible. Subscribe here: https://www.themodernpeer.com And reach out if you would like to contribute with a guest post!
@ebooksos.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account for the #ebookSOS campaign Campaign website: https://academicebookinvestigation.org/ Email: ebooksoscampaign@gmail.com
@punctumbooks.bsky.social
punctum is a queer-led and scholar-led #OpenAccess press dedicated to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library and funded by college and university libraries across the globe.
@abartell.bsky.social
Director of Membership @crossref.bsky.social. Good metadata and bad puns please.
@eudch.bsky.social
A collective that provides services for Diamond OA Publishers, Service Providers, Tools and Technology Providers.
@kathleenor.bsky.social
Academic, queer, digital culture, technoscience, science and media studies. Sea swimming. Based in the UK.
@cathdishman.bsky.social
Librarian who loves open access, open journals, repositories and running (not necessarily in that order). Also Content Officer for LIRG cilip special interest group
@jessicagardner.bsky.social
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
@tmorley24.bsky.social
Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University Library. UKSG eNews co-editor.
@meagan-g-phelan.bsky.social
Curious human. Communications Director at the Science family of journals. Interested in what makes good leaders—& good jokes.
@mupshall.bsky.social
I've been involved with, and writing about, the creation and manipulation of digital content for many years. Six years with UNSILO, an AI-startup. Before then, stints at Cambridge University Press, projects with the IET, CABI, JISC.
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@cca-reports.ca
A trusted voice at the intersection of research, society and public policy, convening expertise and assessing knowledge to advance evidence-informed decision-making in Canada and internationally 📬 https://bit.ly/cca-advance 💻 https://www.cca-reports.ca
@irishinstitute.bsky.social
Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
@colleencampbe11.bsky.social
Strategic Lead @OA2020 | #openaccess @Max Planck Digital Library Energizer⚡ & activator🔥 | Mother ❤️ | Immigrant 🌍 | Punk-rock singer 🤘 | Gardener 🌱 Use your voice! 🎤✨📢
@osullivanannie.bsky.social
Law Librarian with wanderlust living in Dublin @biall.org.uk @laibluesky.bsky.social @aslibraries.bsky.social #repealedthe8th #vitaminsea
@oaling.bsky.social
News and views on open access in linguistics. Blog: https://oaling.wordpress.com/ Posts by http://walkden.space/
@librarinista.bsky.social
rockstar librarian. libraries. museums. books. art. travel. cats. science. history. retro. academia. kitsch. diabetes. languages. wrestling. dunkin. geography. shopping. audiobooks. weather. airplanes. adhd. librarinista on all the socials. atlanta
@kst.bsky.social
Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
@rosuniofsussex.bsky.social
Posts from the library's research and open scholarship team at the University of Sussex. Make it open!
@clarepainter.bsky.social
Happily untangling copyright, digital & AI licensing, publishing rights. Practical contracts & permissions. Fluent Italian with a Milanese twang. Also cats.
@shawnaross.bsky.social
British modernism, Victorian literature, digital humanities, Anthropocene theory, Texas A&M. My specialty is turning play into work.
@dowdalln.bsky.social
(she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
@emmawilson.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Edinburgh working on evidence synthesis and research FAIR / open research; neurodivergent; she/they
@mgbilby.bsky.social
PhD RS/JCA virginia.edu | MSLIS drexel.edu | patreon.com/markgbilby | linkedin.com/in/markgbilby | orcid.org/0000-0003-0100-6634 | youtube.com/@vocesanticae | youtube.com/@patristica | posts ©2025 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 intl no AI ML LLM uses permitted
@odosbucket.bsky.social
Academic library director, adjunct professor, cat herder, parent, wife, bi, used to freeze-dry-taxidermy roadkill for a living. She/her.
@sad-librarian.bsky.social
#BillsMafia, #LetsGoBuffalo, #GirlDad. A librarian sad with the state of information and media literacy in the country. Oh, and #GoBills