Janneke Adema

Hello Bluesky. I am a cultural and media theorist working across the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture, researching the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production.

Join Cita's editorial director Jessi Haley for a virtual reading group on "New Life in the Public Domain," part of Bathers Library's fall reading group series. Mondays starting October 26, 5-7 pm PT. Open at anyone, anywhere; sign up now! tinyurl.com/citapress

We kick things off later today with the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop Join @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at 1pm 🔗 buff.ly/0OxaMdo #OAWeek 2/2

Can we reimagine scholarly communication? 🤔 That's the question being asked by @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop for #OAWeek 📆 Mon 19 October (1-3pm) 📍 www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Come along to this workshop (19 October 1-3pm BST) I am doing together with Simon Worthington for Open Access week ‘Experimental and computational publishing workshop - Can we reimagine scholarly communication?’ Hosted by LSE Open Research & CIVICA: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

We are very happy to share with you our schedule of events for the Michaelmas term! Find out more by clicking on the 'Programme' tab at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/future-of-open-knowledge/ Our first event with @lschiff.bsky.social at @defendresearch.bsky.social is coming up 15th October

A Poetics of Infrastructural Salvage is now published at FLL: fll.pubpub.org/pub/apois/re...

Coventry University drops from 70th to 96th in The Guardian University League table. The VC has investigated and identified the culprits: The data. The methodology. The subjects. The sector. The external environment. Good news, everyone: management has been completely exonerated by management.

Copies of the 2nd edition of The Care Manifesto have arrived! @lynne-segal.bsky.social @andreaschatzidakis.bsky.social Jamie Hakim Catherine Rottenberg Available here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social - & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for the endorsement

MAJOR NEWS! @ojcollective.bsky.social has been awarded $711,900 by the Gates Foundation to grow support infrastructure for community-governed journals! So pleased to share this news: it'll help nearly 300 journals in 2026 and brings OJC's fundraising total to £1,974,355 so far this year. #openaccess

"You wouldn't find them in Waterstones." The first piece in our new series on the people behind open books! Click below for a behind-the-scenes conversation with Ansgar Allen of Erratum Press, one of the OBC members who are publishing the kinds of books the commercial market tends to overlook.

Upcoming webinar on #OpenResearch, equity & how distributed knowledge cld affect the future of the university. Inspired by two recent #OpenAccess books by OBP: - Distributing Knowledge by Richard Heller - The Politics of Open Infrastructures ed. by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway

As a member of @citapress.bsky.social's Advisory Board, I’m proud to promote Cita’s new membership program, Book Friends: people who believe feminist publishing should be open, global, and sustainable. Grants fund projects, but friends keep the lights on. Sign up here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

What if defending study didn’t mean defending the university as it currently exists? Abolitionist University Studies asks us to put the institution itself back into question – and to separate study from the university’s claim to own it. Build the impossible. abolition.university/invitation/

A wonderful project featuring hundreds of audio resources, song notations, and storytelling. Published by @ualbertapress.bsky.social and hosted at University of Manitoba Libraries.

Yet another league table Coventry can add to its list of achievements....

You can read (in Dutch) an article I wrote for the IP trade journal for Information Professionals about work I've been doing with Tapestries: https://informatieprofessional.maglr.com/kb-onderzoekskroniek-over-tapestries #GLAM #Exhibitions #DigitalHumanities #WebArchives

NEW MORPHSS resource for qualitative researchers: Qualitative Data Sharing with Care: A Concise Guide Incorporating examples & case studies, this resource is informed by a series of interviews with qualitative researchers on decision-making processes around data sharing (doi.org/10.31222/osf...).

NEW MORPHSS PREPRINT on Mixed methods and ethnographic researchers’ perspectives on sharing qualitative research data in the social sciences doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenResearch #OpenQualData

'What If We Stopped Trying to Save the University?', the latest edition of the OHP newsletter is now available: openhumanities.substack.com/p/what-if-we... Includes The Insecure University, What Comes After the Liberal Institution, Learning to Work Differently, and The Violence of Not Belonging.

This new part time Head of Operations role at the OBC is a really important one for us. An opportunity to join a committed small team working collaboratively with others to help reshape the scholarly publishing landscape.

We are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us there for longer form content: linkedin.com/company/journal-of-electronic-publishing

⭐🎨 NOW LIVE: 2026 GOLDSMITHS UCU ART RAFFLE!! 🎨 ⭐ Raising money to support striking staff resisting savage redundancies at Goldsmiths Win art by Florence Peake Jeremy Deller Peckham Keffiyeh Louis Pohl Koseda Anna Higgins Eddie Peake &many more! Tickets £5, draw 26 July 🔥 www.gucu-raffle.com

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

Went to a great launch yesterday of Sy Taffel’s Postgrowth Digital Futures. Digital Technologies, Degrowth & Radical Abundance published by @brisunipress.bsky.social Not OA but hopefully you can find it via other channels. Looking forward to reading this: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/postgrowth-d...

Now available for direct order from Minor Compositions: Publishing as Collective Infrastructure. What if a book wasn’t an endpoint, but an infrastructure? A collective experiment in feminist servers, open-source tools, and autonomous knowledge production. www.minorcompositions.info?p=1918

We are over-the-freaking-moon excited to announce our VERY FIRST TITLE! ✨Animated Wor(l)ds✨ is a collection of creative & scholarly works on multispecies kinship, edited with care and dedication by Elizabeth Tavella & Eva Spiegelhofer. Read more & find the link here: radishpress.org/news/introdu...

📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions. Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...

'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...

In-depth discussion of the history of Black Cultural Studies in Britain and the more recent adoption of US 'Black Critical Thought' by younger scholars, through to the revival of Black Marxism in very recent years. culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/06/06/b...

[BLOG] Peer Review Under Review Conversation between author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy John Atkinson @uwpress.bsky.social & Julien McHardy (Experimental Publishing Group) around double-blind peer review & the recent peer review party 🔗

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

Framing the Internet: A conversation with James Louis Smith (aka me) https://copim.pub/framing-the-internet-a-conversation-with-james-louis-smith/ #ExperimentalPublishing #COPIM #OpenBookFutures #IIIF #IFrames

Join us in Brighton on 18th June for the 2026 @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium! Info ⬇️ Panels cover the importance of non-profit open access publishing in the financial HE context and advocacy featuring @theblochian.bsky.social, @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and others + member lightning talks

This is fun: Journal of Imaginary Research. abstract works of fiction // fictional abstracts: journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog

Celebrations & reflections! 🎉 @kjsanders.eurosky.social discusses the 3 experimental book pilot projects & what they have made possible 🔗 buff.ly/ZbPXGvI @openreflections.bsky.social @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @simonxix.com @chromatinfuel.bsky.social

How can a small, scholar-led press publish experimentally? Francois van Schalkwyk (African Minds) reflects on the ‘Database as Book’ pilot ☑️ Collaboration ☑️ Peer review ☑️ Rethinking publishing workflows 🔗

🚨 The programme for the 2026 OIPA Symposium is now live!🚨 Join us on 18th June in Brighton for panels, lightning talks, and workshops exploring open publishing and infrastructure. Register + programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oipa-sympo...

This looks great: 'Communities of Publishing and Printing'. Celebrate the online 'Spineless Wonders' exhibition with presentations exploring the printing, publishing, and communities surrounding ephemera, artists' books and pamphlets: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...