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Charles Watkinson

@charleswatkinson.bsky.social
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Associate University Librarian for Publishing at University of Michigan and Director of University of Michigan Press. Opinions my own. Cats shown also their own animals.

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Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
From ACME (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/jo...) to Zygon (www.openjournalscollective.org/catalogue/jo...).
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.
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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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...
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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: www.classicalstudies.org/placement-…
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Curator, Papyrology Collection | Society for Classical Studies
The Curator, Papyrology Collection, is primarily responsible for overseeing the cataloging, conservation, and digital photography of collection material; preparing and delivering course-related instru...
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"Brilliant and accomplished"? I'm having that mug painted now 😀
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@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
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.
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I'm #doingthecharleston at #acrl2025. Come join me at booth 935 in Minneapolis! Let's see if the banner stays up.
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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
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“Look to the Champions of Freedom for All” How Libraries Can Advance Democracy Through Opening Access
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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So How Did UMP Books Do in 2024?
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Fabrizio Tassinari @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Charles Watkinson @charleswatkinson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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...
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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...
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Michael J. McGandy @mjmcgandy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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!
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.
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University of Michigan Press @uofmpress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
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