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A new community of practice supporting open access publishing within UK institutions – visit our ‘Membership‘ page to find out more about joining us.

The Open Institutional Publishing Association (OIPA) was founded to connect and encourage open access publishing within the UK. Our mission is to create a new source of support and advocacy for established and emerging university presses and institutionally-affiliated publishing operations striving for open access.

We run a biennial event aimed at members, librarians and those working within universities on open scholarship and open access publishing, funders, researchers interested in open access publishing, allied organisations and those looking to start open publishing initiatives in their universities. It is free to attend, and open to all. This year’s event will be on Thursday 18th June, in Sussex. Register to attend our 2026 symposium.