News

New updates relating to activity by the Open Institutional Publishing Association and its members, alongside industry news updates.

2026 OIPA SYMPOSIUM

We are running a symposium on Thursday 18th June at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex. For more details, and to book to attend, visit our Eventbrite page:

University of Huddersfield Press latest news

• A Manifesto for Expanded Magic
• Exploring student and staff experiences of belonging in a UK university using LEGO ® SERIOUS PLAY ®.
• Mediating Students’ Empathy Development Through Play

University of Westminster Press latest Journal News

• Westminster and Michigan Publishing Services announce an extended partnership, and a new UWP website
• UWP JOINS THE OPEN BOOK COLLECTIVE
• Q&A with Avis Whyte on why the law is still the most powerful weapon in the fight against racial discrimination

Scottish Universities Press latest news

• Editorial Board Vacancy – University of Edinburgh
• Journal Publishing Coordinator Opportunity
• Introducing journal publishing

University of London Press latest news

• Open Access Publishing in Practice – Author experiences and insights from the London Open Science and Scholarship Festival
• Supporting library workflows: MARC records for our books available from Thoth
• Announcing the University of London Press 2026 catalogue!
• Stop press! Taking a moment to reflect on 2025…
• 2025 in books

News from Association of University Presses

• Responding to the Current Political Moment in the United States
• AUPresses Welcomes New Members
• 2026 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Debuts
• AUPresses Responds to State Legislative Overreach into School Libraries 

News from SPARC Europe

• Open Education in European Institutions of Higher Education
• Six major European organisations call to strengthen Open Science policy and practice
• Connecting the opens: A shared future for open knowledge in higher education
• Launch of the AEGIS-OA Project

News from the Open Library Foundation

• VuFind® 11.0 Released
• VuFind® 10.2 Released
• The BitCurator Consortium Joins The Open Library Foundation

News from Publishers Weekly

• Elle Kennedy on Off Campus and Making Her YA Debut
• Book of the Month Club Keeps It 100
• ULC Launches Public Library Journalism Initiative
• Fonograf Editions Reinvents Bunny Presse

News from STM Publishing

• F1000 preprint server introduces trust marker badges to support transparency and credibility of research
• AIP Publishing Partners with Hum to Strengthen Quality Control for AIP Conference Proceedings
• STM responds to proposed revisions to U.S. federal funding regulations affecting publication and dissemination of federally funded research
• SPARC – Financial Landscape Analysis 2026: Scholarly Publishing & Research Analytics Companies

News from Publishing Perspectives

• ‘The Correspondent’ and ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ Win The Women’s Prize
• Editing for the Ear: What I Learned Producing My Own Audiobook
• At London Reception, the 2026 Jhalak Prize Winners Are Celebrated as ‘Towering Works of Literature’
• Developments in the U.K. and Germany Target Google’s AI-Generated Summaries