OSCU Weekly 25-2026: Summer Reading and Writing

This week, let's bring you some light reading while the temperature gets heavy. All open access, of course.

First, the The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager, Renée Ridgway recently published by Open Book Publishers.

Second, a newly released report from our friends at Library Futures: How to Publish Your Academic Paper without Publishers, Bosses, Gods, or Masters by Jessica Ferrell.

And if you dig those texts, I recommend you get involved in our OSCU Publishing initiative. We are developing some exciting open infrastructure with Julien Taquet, who recently deployed open publishing at the Louvre.

And to be published by this initiative, we're starting work on a collection of diverse perspectives, research, and provocations that illustrate a variety of understandings of Open Science. Our hope is to show how Utrecht perpetually redefines Open Science, ensuring its vitality in bringing about culture change at knowledge organisations. Have an idea for this publication? Give us a shout and get to writing!