Charles Watkinson

The Future is Diamond - image showing a Black man browsing a bookshelf, the Open Journals Collective logo, and this text: Join a growing international movement to build community-led research infrastructure for journals. Call for investment – join our international collective of libraries, scholarly societies, and non-profit publishers.

From ACME (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/jo...) to Zygon (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/jo...).

Publishing Beyond the Market Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

Sam Moore and I have never properly met until the #oaspa2025 meeting in Leuven. But today I got to meet the force behind this new #openaccess book, a new framework for our thinkng about openness & community: Publishing Beyond the Market | University of Michigan Press press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ...

Curator, Papyrology, position is posted. A full-time unionized librarian position at umichlibrary.bsky.social‬. Apply by July 8. Find details on the scsclassics.bsky.social placement service: https://www.classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/39103/curator-papyrology-collection

"Brilliant and accomplished"? I'm having that mug painted now 😀

Thx, Terri. Being in MSP reminded me of that lovely visit to Macalester and your gracious hosting.

Katina Strauch appears on a big banner to advertise her book Doing the Charleston. Liz Lorbeer is seen holding the book in front of the poster.

@lizlorbeer.bsky.social was ##doingthecharleston today at #acrl2025. It's not the same without Katina here in person but we've got a big banner at booth #935. The book is a free Kindle download here: a.co/d/dv7YVGC

I'm #doingthecharleston at #acrl2025. Come join me at booth 935 in Minneapolis! Let's see if the banner stays up.

Kate McCready @bigtenacademic.bsky.social and I @michiganpublishing.bsky.social are proud to have a paper accepted for the @ala-acrl.bsky.social 2025 meeting. "Look to the Champions of Freedom for All: How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access" can be downloaded here: doi.org/pd79

Fun to look back at the surge in usage that @uofmpress.bsky.social books experienced in 2024 as our "Fund to Mission" #openaccess program gains momentum - 10,000 accesses per OA book on average, but human reader stories are the best. ebc.press.umich.edu/stories/2025...

Greenland in Arctic Security: (De)securitization Dynamics under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. <I>Greenland in Arctic Security</I> delivers a ...

Part of the problem with Trump stunts is that it elicits a cycle of underthought overreactions—social media hot-takes included.
As an antidote, I warmly recommend this deeply researched book by my Danish colleagues—in open access no less.

www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Greenland in Arctic Security Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a compreh...

Want to know the truth about Greenland and arctic security? @UofMPress has a free, new #openaccess book for that, press.umich.edu/Books/G/Gree...

White logos (aka colophons) on black field for all 69 member presses in the Association of American University Presses (now Association of University Presses) in 1949. Each logo is framed in a white box of the 7 x 10 grid. Bottom right box is reserved for the poster title "University Press Colophons" and a copyright statement and address for AUP.

Throwback colophons! @charleswatkinson.bsky.social at @uofmpress.bsky.social shared this 1949 poster of the logos (aka colophons) of the 69 @aupresses.bsky.social members. Our @uscpress colophon is, well, curious. @ohiostatepress might have the best, futuristic look!

Hi Bluesky!👋 We're the University of Michigan Press and we publish in a wide range of humanities and social science disciplines. Did we mention we're a leading #OpenAccess publisher? Stay tuned for more UMP books, scholarship, & author news! Check out our titles here: press.umich.edu/Books