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OUT NOW | 'The Khan’s Pifferi: Reading about the Musics of Asia in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy' by Tim Shephard & Chenxi Xiao Find out how travel books shaped the Italian understanding of Asian sound worlds. Read freely online or buy a copy: buff.ly/H2YsvP5 #OpenAccess #musicology #Renaissance
NEW BOOK | The Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood: Imperfect Antithesis by Alison Stone Learn more about overlooked nineteenth-century philosopher Julia Wedgwood in this #OpenAccess study 📚️ Read freely online or buy a copy: buff.ly/rrCLpzo
NEW TITLE | Rethinking Social Justice: Theory and Action in an Age of Transition by Michael Karlberg and Derik Smith A compelling & original rethinking of #SocialJustice at a moment of global uncertainty. Read freely or buy online: buff.ly/I1RjHWj #OpenAccess
OUT NOW | 'Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages', ed. Victoria Fendel The latest book in the Papers of the Philological Society sheds new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages incl. Greek, Latin & Egyptian Read freely or buy online: buff.ly/6LnRrZn #Linguistics
Catch up with this post from our senior editor and outreach coordinator @alittleroad.bsky.social on our membership of @operaseu.bsky.social and the potential of the new OPERAS UK Node to support engagement with the wider European network 👇
Anna Hughes📣 Find out more about why @openbookpublish.bsky.social joined #OPERASUK How they hope to see the #NationalNode develop & support @operaseu.bsky.social become a #ERIC 🔗 research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/07/1... #Community
NEW BOOKS | We're delighted to announce two new #OpenAccess titles to support students exploring Aeneid 4: Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary: buff.ly/QsT4r1j Teaching Dido: Critical Perspectives on Aeneid 4: buff.ly/6Ylvl26 #Classics #TeachingSky #Latin
NEW BOOK | 'After the Before Times: Teachers’ Experiences of Pandemic Pedagogy' by Sarah Barrett Delve into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on teachers in Canada. Read freely online or buy a copy: buff.ly/kI3DRpZ #OAbooks #TeachingSky #OpenAccess #EducationSky
NEW TITLE | The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices, edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway Read freely or buy a copy: buff.ly/vI0ZShM #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructures #OpenAccess
We're thrilled to have three books shortlisted for these awards. Huge congratulations to their authors! They are... 🧵 (1/5)
American Council of Learned SocietiesAnnouncing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD
What role did colour play in the long 19thC? Find out with 'Colour Matters: Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long 19th Century (1798-1914)' ed. by Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol & Matthew Winterbottom Read freely online or buy a copy: buff.ly/NDKFoXO #OpenAccess #19thCentury
NEW BOOK | 'The Sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): The "Authentic" Jewish Protocols of the Trial of Jesus' by Gideon Bohak A rich and insightful #OpenAccess study of an ancient Jewish narrative describing the trial and execution of Jesus. Read for free or buy a copy: buff.ly/p4oV0sC
How can we reform Higher Education to promote knowledge equity & fulfil the public mission of universities? Richard Heller offers one solution in this #OpenAccess volume: 'Distributing Knowledge: Openness, Equity, and Higher Education Transformation' Read freely or buy a copy: buff.ly/eEjbIvh
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a phonetician? New in #OpenAccess by Gary German, a trailblazing exploration of Franklin’s linguistic legacy: a phonetically-based modernization of the English spelling system Read freely online / buy a copy Vol. 1: buff.ly/wrFfc7D Vol. 2: buff.ly/tr9Tk5j
It's true! 👀 NEW BOOK | A Multipolar Approach to Early Christian Arabic: Vatican Arabic Ms 13 in the Linguistic Landscape of Early Islam by @phillipwstokes.bsky.social Read freely online or buy a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #OAbooks #SemiticSeries #OpenAccess
Phillip W. StokesMy new book is officially out! It's published Open Access with Cambridge's Semitic Languages and Cultures series, and can be freely downloaded here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
NEW BOOK | From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity edited by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk #OA The much-anticipated vol. 2 following Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (2023). It can be freely accessed online or purchased here: buff.ly/9JOWr69
NEW BOOK | 'Harvesting the Sea in Southeastern Arabia, Vol. 2' by Miranda J. Morris, Erik Anonby and Janet C.E. Watson The latest book in the Semitic Languages and Cultures series can be purchased or freely read and downloaded here: buff.ly/KnN93Xf #OAbooks #SemiticLanguages
NEW BOOK | The American Archipelago: A New Edition of Oscar Handlin’s Classic Anthology, 'This Was America', edited by Kenneth Weisbrode Read the new edition of this classic text freely online in #OpenAccess or buy a copy: buff.ly/pV17FHg #OAbooks #ImmigrationHistory
NEW BOOK | 'Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition' translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley Freely available to read online or download, and available to buy in paperback, hardback or EPUB: buff.ly/y24lLbi #OpenAccess #OAbooks #Enlightenment