Open Institutional Publishing Association

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  • Event Reflection: ALPSP Redux Conference 2026

    Event Reflection: ALPSP Redux Conference 2026 By Gareth J Johnson, University of Warwick Press This year I was able to attend The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publisher’s (ALPSP) annual REDUX conference, where the focus was squarely on university presses (UPs) of all sizes and shapes. Hosted at the University of Liverpool, I was…

  • Event Reflection: UKSG 2026

    Event Reflection: UKSG 2026 By Cath Dishman (Liverpool John Moores University) & Rebecca Wojturska (Edinburgh Diamond, University of Edinburgh) UKSG Conference is the conference for the organisation UKSG which started life as the United Kingdom Serials Group conference and was very much focused on purchasing and E-Resources. Now more than a third of the membership…

  • OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Brown University Digital Publications: New Approaches to Collaboration’

    OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Brown University Digital Publications: New Approaches to Collaboration’ Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications , builds upon their lightning talk at the 2025 OIPA Symposium. Brown University Digital Publications, launched in 2015 with generous support from the Mellon Foundation, creates exciting new conditions for the production and sharing of knowledge by…

  • OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Dare to boast: In defence of book marketing and celebrating wins’

    OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Dare to boast: In defence of book marketing and celebrating wins’ Elinor Potts, Marketing and Communications Officer at LSE Press, builds upon their lightning talk at the 2025 OIPA Symposium. Celebrating success should not be perceived as radical, or boastful — and yet somehow, it can be perceived as such. British…

  • OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Lancaster University Open Journals’

    OIPA Symposium Spotlight – ‘Lancaster University Open Journals’ Tom Morley, Research Culture and Open Monographs Lead at Lancaster University, builds upon their lightning talk at the 2025 OIPA Symposium. Introduction Lancaster University Open Journals is a platform for hosting a distributing scholar-led Open Access Journals. The service reflects the institution’s commitment to fostering a more…

  • 5 Minutes with University of St Andrews Journal Hosting Service

    5 Minutes with University of St Andrews Journal Hosting Service We spent five minutes with Matt Kingcroft from St Andrews Journal Hosting Service. Read on to find out about library hosting services and how they are important to the institutional publishing landscape! Tell us about your press/service/platformOur Journal Hosting Service officially launched 15 years ago,…

  • 5 Minutes with University of Warwick Press

    5 Minutes with University of Warwick Press We spent five minutes with Gareth J Johnson, Press Manager at University of Warwick Press! Tell us about your press/service/platform University of Warwick Press has ‘technically’ been around since the mid-60s, but in our current incarnation as an online, diamond, new university press we’re more of a new kid…

  • 5 Minutes with University of London Press

    5 Minutes with University of London Press We spent five minutes with Paula Kennedy, Head of Publishing at University of London Press and current Co-Vice Chair of OIPA! Tell us about University of London PressThe University of London Press is part of the School of Advanced Study (SAS) at the University of London, a national…

  • Five minutes with Coventry Open Press

    Coventry Open Press is a new library-led project at Coventry University. Here, John Atkinson, the University Press Manager, reflects on his first few months in post. You’re new to open access publishing – what are your first impressions? I’ve come to OA institutional publishing via a career in more traditional scholarly and educational publishing, including…