Items tagged by Susanne_van_Rijn in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/user/Susanne_van_Rijn TagTeam social RSS aggregrator In a range of academic scholarship communities, the debate over the efficacy and impact of open access publishing has intensified. This discourse is strong in [language education and applied linguistics], where the divide between research and practical application (the “teaching-research nexus”) has gained increased attention in scholarly discussions. The prominent argument is that teachers do not engage with research due to its inaccessibility. This study builds on the existing literature by examining the potential effects of open access and accessible summaries (developed through the OASIS initiative) on engagement metrics and citation counts for the journal System. It partially replicates the earlier study by Shepperd et al. (2023. OASIS potential impact on journal article engagement. Report downloaded from: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-file-manager/file/651439a9c0bea335021ff64b/OASIS-summaries-impact-report-final-16-August-2023.pdf), which included 34 matched article pairs, by expanding the sample to 72 pairs and applying similar design and analysis procedures. Findings show that published research articles with open access plain language summaries have more downloads and citations, indicating increased engagement and scholarly impact. However, questions remain concerning the true mechanisms driving this relationship, and further research is needed to validate and explain these patterns. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:49:00 -0400 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/applirev-2024-0269/html oa.impact oa.citations oa.downloads oa.jif oa.metrics oa.usage oa.pls oa.lay From DeepL's English: With the new Purchase-to-Open (P2O) platform, established intermediaries in the professional book trade, a publisher and an IT service provider aim to make the acquisition of academic open-access monographs (OA monographs) and anthologies simpler and less risky. P2O is an open model for the entire market. Thu, 07 May 2026 02:56:00 -0400 https://www.b-i-t-online.de/heft/2026-02-nachrichtenbeitrag-muench.pdf oa.new oa.books oa.germany oa.europe oa.business_models oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.german Today we published the 2026-2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area. This blogpost provides an overview of the plan, describing our vision and objectives for advancing the uptake of open research information in the coming years. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:52:00 -0400 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/advancing-open-research-information-the-next-three-years-of-the-information-openness-focal-area oa.new oa.policy oa.strategies oa.data oa.metadata oa.impact oa.cris oa.universities oa.netherlands oa.europe Are our universities still fit for purpose? While academia struggles to meet expectations in times of rapid political and technological change, the “ivory tower” critique sadly still hits home. Also internally, universities are under immense strain: the publication model is cracking, the academic funding landscape has become a rat race that leads to more losers than winners, and systemic inequalities profoundly restrict access to higher education. Fixing Academia (VU University Press) is a timely and provocative collection of essays by ten young scholars. In a series of sharp, evidence-based, and constructive reflections on a selection of pressing themes, they diagnose some of the structural flaws in 21st-century Dutch universities. They also offer the tools for repair – tackling everything from the influence of Big Pharma on scientific integrity to the urgent need for better work-life balance for academic parents. Actionable yet visionary, this book hopes to stimulate conversations on how to “fix” academia and help universities strengthen their bonds with society. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:16:00 -0400 https://fixingacademia.wordpress.com/chapter-9/ oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.publishers oa.profits oa.business_models From DeepL's English: Dutch universities are too dependent on a handful of commercial publishers. Achieving greater ‘digital sovereignty’ is easier said than done. But there are some inspiring initiatives to be found. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:11:00 -0400 https://www.groene.nl/artikel/de-universiteit-als-melkkoe oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.publishers oa.profits oa.fees oa.monopoly oa.dutch "As a researcher, I grew up in a very competitive field. I didn't feel like passing this on to a new generation" Turning the Tide: Stories of Open Science features seven people with different roles in academia. They talk about their journey to working more openly, and their personal turning points and motivation. This film aims to empower others to also start their journey, which might be feeling like going against the tide. But maybe you are riding a new wave, together with more and more of your peers? Feel free to share! A big thank you to all who shared their story: Iris Smal, Sander Bosch, Ana Martinovici, Thamyres Choji, Yunhai Yi-Twisk, Lukas Struck and Chris Hartgerink This short film was created during the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl, the Netherlands, March 2026. It was amazing to be able to create this in just three days! The team: Arthur Thives Mello, Jazelle Maira Carillo,Nami Sunami, Mathijs van Woerkum, Melanie Imming and Zafer Ozturk The Open Science Retreat was organised by the Open Science Communities NL, the Digital Research Academy and Imming Impact. We thank Open Science NL and Zon MW for funding this event! This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license: Turning the Tide Team Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:32:00 -0400 https://video.edu.nl/w/2xfukHs4FUbM7U71MttgQ3 oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.attitudes oa.universities oa.open_science oa.anecdotes oa.video From DeepL's English: Documentation and data collected as part of the project ‘From baseline measurement to embedding: Recognising & Valuing Open Science within Dutch religious universities’. The aim of the project is to produce policy advice and an implementation plan for incorporating Open Science (OS) into recruitment and development policy, whilst allowing scope for individual interpretation within the separate institutions. The project includes, amongst other things, an assessment of the current situation within these institutions and of proven practical examples. (16 April 2026). Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:25:00 -0400 https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34894/84EJGH oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.open_science oa.universities oa.religion oa.attitudes oa.surveys oa.dutch From DeepL's English: Presentation of the findings of the project ‘From baseline assessment to embedding: Recognising & Valuing Open Science within the Dutch philosophical universities’ at the second Open Science afternoon organised by the Dutch philosophical universities (NLU) in Utrecht on 16 April 2026. The aim of the project was to develop policy advice and an implementation plan for incorporating Open Science (OS) into the recruitment and development policies of the four institutions. The presentation includes an assessment of the current situation within these institutions and a recommendation of five best practices. The project was funded by NWO, as part of the research programme ‘Recognising and Valuing Open Science’, file number 500.070.2410 and Grant ID https://doi.org/10.61686/RKZCN04980. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:22:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/19705858 oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.universities oa.policy oa.open_science oa.presentations oa.religion oa.dutch Two research assessment frameworks in the Netherlands are moving towards open research information indicators in line with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:35:00 -0400 https://upstream.force11.org/research-evaluation-in-the-netherlands-to-embrace-open-research-information-2/ oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.assessment oa.p&t oa.policies oa.ori oa.barcelona_declaration Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness? Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:52:00 -0400 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y?_bhlid=56bebc146e1ce0d86eb85cf8d36f8c74b2312716 oa.new oa.ai oa.risks Generative AI in peer review raises ethical and environmental concerns and risks deepening existing inequities in scholarly publishing. Celebrated gains in speed often mask declines in quality and accountability. Training and deploying large models impose environmental costs. In editorial workflows, AI can privilege technical fixes over structural reform, and evidence shows it reproduces human biases while being cast as neutral. We call for a renewed commitment to open-science principles anchored in human oversight, deep sustainability, and broader justice. The paper concludes by interrogating sustainability’s absence from green-economy debates and mapping the values likely to shape the future of peer review. Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:14:00 -0400 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29731 oa.new oa.ai oa.sustainability oa.ethics oa.quality oa.dei oa.peer_review Academic libraries support the mission and vision of their institution; in the case of most universities, this means providing a variety of services and resources in support of the research enterprise. This case study documents one library’s support for open access publishing to explore how it directly supports the research mission of a Carnegie Research 2 university. By leveraging relationships and investing existing collections resources and workflows—the sequence of decisions and labor through which librarians make scholarly and artistic works discoverable, accessible, and support their preservation—in open access publishing, the library has materially increased the visibility of locally produced scholarship and become a more visible campus collaborator. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:36:00 -0400 https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/14/1/10 oa.new oa.libraries oa.universities oa.advocacy oa.implementation oa.policies oa.policies.universities This article is based on a keynote speech given at the OASPA conference in Leuven on 22 September 2025 critically analyzing the power relations surrounding open knowledge. The central thesis is that what matters is not who owns knowledge, but who can use, produce and evaluate it – depending on social, cultural and financial capital. Without these resources, open knowledge remains available but not equally usable. The core problems lie in knowledge production and evaluation: peer review processes, database indexing and ranking systems determine the visibility and recognition of knowledge. However, the effectiveness of these procedures is the subject of intense debate, as is the inadequate implementation of standards, the indexing of dubious journals and systematic distortions in favor of the Global North, renowned institutions and established publishers. It is therefore less a question of ownership and more a question of power: who can produce knowledge, and who decides on its credibility and dissemination? Political developments are manifesting themselves in cuts to open access budgets, restrictions on access to research data and even the suppression of undesirable knowledge production. In response, ‘dark archives’ (e. g., for arXiv at the TIB; Tobschall et al. 2025) or data backups (e. g., of PubMed by ZB MED) are being created to preserve scientific autonomy. AI also jeopardises open access principles by failing to cite sources when processing open content, which undermines copyright laws. One possible, albeit unrealistic, solution would be for publishers to voluntarily commit to only granting access to AI systems that cite sources correctly. Technical access restrictions for AI would run counter to the very idea of open knowledge. This reveals a fundamental dilemma between regulation and openness. Community-supported frameworks are proposed as a solution, such as a ‘Trusted Open Knowledge’ label that guarantees source references, establishes transparent evaluation and addresses structural inequalities. The central question remains: Who does science serve, and who determines what counts as knowledge? Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:48:00 -0400 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/iwp-2026-2002/html oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.presentations oa.ai oa.dei oa.guerrilla oa.publishing oa.business_models oa.peer_review oa.credibility oa.prestige oa.preservation oa.censorship oa.academic_led oa.communities This position paper Vision on Publication Culture brings together ongoing initiatives aimed at promoting a new culture of scholarly publishing. The paper emphasises the importance of establishing institution-wide principles and guidelines as a foundation for a new publication culture, while allowing flexibility to account for contextual and disciplinary differences.  Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:57:00 -0400 https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/publications/UNL-21066-01-Position%20paper%20-%20Vision%20on%20Publication%20Culture_v4.pdf oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.culture oa.universities oa.publishing oa.profits oa.incentives oa.policies English from Google Translate: In this blog post, we comment from the perspective of the Task Force on Financing of the Service Point Diamond Open Access (SeDOA) the concept Germany Fund for Diamond Open Access (DeFDOA), in which SeDOA is explicitly mentioned and intended for certain tasks. We will not go into all the details at this point, but rather on some points that we consider to be particularly important. The article does not represent an official statement of the project on DeFDOA. The concept of DeFDOA was originally developed by Bernhard Mittermaier and is being discussed in various contexts, including in the Task Force "Establishment of Science-Led Open Access Infrastructures" in the focus area "Digitality in science" of the Alliance of Science Organisations. SeDOA is involved in these discussions and contributes its statements there. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:33:00 -0400 https://open-access.network/blog/sedoa-taskforce-finanzierung oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.funding oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.journals Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) has received much attention in recent years as a possible answer to some of the toughest questions in scholarly publishing. But what do researchers themselves actually think about it? As part of the Strengthening Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands program, we found that while many researchers welcome the principle of Diamond OA, awareness remains uneven and actual publishing choices continue to be shaped by career incentives, reputation, and visibility rather than a deliberate commitment to community-owned infrastructures or long-term sustainability. This misalignment highlights the need for stronger institutional recognition of Diamond venues, clearer guidance for researchers, and incentives that meaningfully reward publishing in scholar-led, non-APC venues. Placing the findings into the context of what is sometimes called the ‘monograph crisis’ allows us to ask a sharper question: Can Diamond OA serve as a genuine lifeline for the scholarly monograph? Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:14:00 -0400 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/02/guest-post-diamond-open-access-a-lifeline-for-the-monograph/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.nonprofit oa.no-fee oa.books oa.universities oa.awareness oa.assessment oa.impact Open licensing and copyright are important aspects of publishing research, but what do they mean in practice? Creative Commons (CC) licences offer a standardised framework for sharing research outputs, with open access being increasingly mandated by international funders. However, growing concern about research outputs being used to train generative AI tools has led some authors to seek more restrictive licences. Yet the question remains: Does a more restrictive licence stop AI from using your work, or does it simply limit the collaborations driving innovation? Europe PMC, partners of EMBL-EBI, and KR21 invite you to a joint webinar tackling this pressing question. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:07:00 -0400 https://knowledgerights21.org/news-story/webinar-closed-licences-closed-doors/ oa.new oa.events oa.europe oa.ai oa.creative_commons oa.reuse oa.licensing oa.publishers Does open access mean accessible to all? This free webinar will delve into the essential but often challenging topic of accessibility, with a particular focus on how smaller publishers can make their open access books more accessible to users of assistive technology. Highlighting the practical resources available to inform and help publishers seeking to make their books more accessible for all readers, and featuring a publisher who will explain how they have taken on this challenge step by step, this webinar offers essential, practical advice to make accessibility more achievable, and ensure that open access truly means accessible to everyone. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:46:00 -0400 https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/meeting/register/qpnL-2wxTbuB9abb8-qmww oa.new oa.books oa.events oa.publishers oa.accessibility Join this free online webinar from OAPEN, in cooperation with the Open Access Books Network, to learn what it is like to publish an EU funded open access book. The session brings together EU funded researchers to share first hand experiences of OA book publishing, including the decisions they made, the routes they navigated, and the challenges involved. Speakers include: - Dr Jochen Hung, Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University and editor of The European Experience - Dr Imre Keserü, Associate Professor of Urban Mobility at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and editor of Strengthening European Mobility Policy. The webinar will also introduce the OAPEN‑EU project and explain how EU funded books and chapters can be deposited in the OAPEN Library to meet funding requirements. In addition, participants will hear a short overview of the European Open Research book collection on Zenodo, highlighting how it supports the open dissemination, discoverability, and long term preservation of scholarly books. There will be plenty of time for audience questions throughout. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:43:00 -0400 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9OLk88UzT6CiW9W19pqJmA oa.new oa.books oa.events oa.europe oa.funding oa.oapen oa.authors "Open Research Europe (ORE) is the European Commission’s open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes. Launched in 2021 to promote innovative, no-fee open access publishing, the platform is now preparing to enter a new phase.   Backed by a nearly €17 million budget for the period 2026-2031 and co-funded by the European Commission by up to €10 million, the new phase of ORE is set to begin operations as a collectively supported publishing service in the autumn of 2026, with CERN operating the platform. Leveraging on its success, the publishing service will be driven by national research organisations from 11 countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland). In addition to researchers benefiting from EU grants, collective funding will also enable researchers from participating countries to publish without fees, thus expanding significantly author eligibility. ORE was conceived within the European Research Area (ERA)’s policy framework with the objective of ensuring open access to high-quality EU-funded research results, strengthening the free circulation of knowledge and maximising the impact of publicly funded research. In the five years since its launch, the platform has seen a steady growth and uptake among the research community, with more than 1,200 articles published and over 6,300 authors from more than 3,000 institutions worldwide." Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:14:00 -0400 https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/new-era-open-research-europe-2026-03-26_en oa.new oa.europe oa.preprints oa.funders oa.infrastructure oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.versions oa.ore oa.repositories oa.platforms In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)[1], the initiative is a community-led alternative to traditional academic publishing. When the new ORE platform is launched later this year, authorship eligibility will be expanded to include researchers affiliated with institutions in the countries that participate in the consortium. Publishing will remain completely free for both European Commission-funded researchers and authors from participating countries. The aim is to promote equity, diversity and transparency in scholarly communication while maintaining high standards of quality and integrity. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:22:00 -0400 https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform oa.new oa.europe oa.cern oa.publishing oa.preprints oa.funders oa.nonprofit oa.infrastructure oa.versions oa.ore oa.repositories oa.no-fee oa.floss AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guidance and Incentives for Sustainable Open Access publishing), an EU-funded project under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, kicked off on 19-20 March 2026 in Brussels. The project aims to establish a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by leveraging and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH). It focuses on integrating open access books alongside journals, upskilling publishing professionals through training programs, and coordinating a network of National Capacity Centres to align national efforts and initiatives across disciplines and borders. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:36:00 -0400 https://edch.eu/new-shield-diamond-open-access-europe-launching-aegis-oa-project oa.new oa.europe oa.books oa.journals oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.universities oa.no-fee oa.aegis-oa Student-run academic journals represent an important but underexplored dimension of scholarly communication, offering early-career scholars opportunities to engage with editorial processes, peer review, and academic publishing. While existing research has documented the pedagogical and professional benefits of student publishing in North American and UK contexts, the landscape of student-led journals in European higher education remains largely unmapped. This thesis addresses this gap by providing the first systematic examination of student-run publications in the Netherlands. Drawing on desk research, institutional outreach, and twenty-five qualitative interviews with student editors and faculty supervisors, this study maps the ecosystem of Dutch student journals and analyses how they operate, what purposes they serve, and what challenges they face. The research reveals a highly diverse landscape in which publications range from rigorously peer-reviewed academic journals to hybrid formats combining scholarly and creative content, to student magazines focused on community engagement. Despite this heterogeneity, common patterns emerge: nearly all journals operate on volunteer student labour with minimal institutional support, creating shared vulnerabilities around funding, continuity, and technical capacity. The findings demonstrate that Dutch student journals serve multiple overlapping purposes (pedagogical, social, platform-related, and professional) simultaneously, with participants gaining valuable skills in editing, peer review, and scholarly communication. However, journals face continuous challenges including financial uncertainty, knowledge loss through editorial turnover, recruitment difficulties, and limited institutional recognition. This thesis contributes to scholarship on student publishing by documenting a national ecosystem previously absent from academic literature and developing a typology that captures diverse publication models. The research concludes that while student publishing in the Netherlands thrives through student enthusiasm and commitment, its long-term sustainability requires greater institutional recognition and support. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:33:00 -0400 https://studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/4295875 oa.new oa.students oa.journals oa.ecr oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.surveys oa.teaching oa.education oa.training A reading list that may interest the Copim community. It contains resources from the Copim Conference 2026, either discussed in panel sessions, as well as presenter publications and information about the initiatives they support. Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:28:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/19096475 oa.new oa.publishing oa.books oa.copim oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.academic_led oa.collective_action The introductory responsible research assessment (RRA)  course aims to empower anyone to challenge existing assumptions around research quality and impact, by introducing them to the concept of responsible research assessment, its foundational principles, and how RRA aims to improve evaluation practices. This course is free, self-paced, and designed for you to pick and choose which lessons are most relevant and useful. Each lesson includes a glossary of key terms and an annotated bibliography to help guide you if you wish to dive more deeply into different topics touched on during the lesson. Who is this course for? This is an introductory course open to anyone, regardless of career level or discipline, seeking to learn about RRA. This course is designed for anyone working in research, research administration or leadership, research funding or policy, scholarly publishing or communication, or metrics providers who seek to drive positive change in the research system. Given that this topic is focused on those in the academic space, a familiarity with academia or higher education, research policy, and/or academic publishing is highly recommended. What will you gain? Build a foundational understanding of RRA, gain insights into innovative tools and approaches such as Narrative CVs, and be inspired from real-world examples of successful RRA implementation from institutions worldwide. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:35:00 -0400 https://sfdora.org/courses/introductory-course-to-responsible-research-assessment/ oa.new oa.training oa.coara oa.ethics oa.assessment oa.impact oa.dora Quantitative approaches have proven highly effective in studying the structure and dynamics of science, but their success depends on the availability of reliable and comprehensive data. In the humanities, existing data sources remain fragmented and limited, hindering systematic research. In this paper, we introduce SOPHIS, an open-access database specifically designed for the quantitative study of contemporary philosophy of science. The current version of SOPHIS covers eight core journals in philosophy of science over the period 2005–2019. SOPHIS integrates information on epistemic contents, their material carriers, and the individual and collective actors involved in their production and dissemination, thereby offering a unified framework for mapping the epistemic and social landscape of the field. We illustrate its potential through three exploratory applications: (i) identifying key actors and analyzing the distribution of prestige, (ii) examining the factors of prestige accumulation, and (iii) uncovering the fine-grained community structure of the discipline. SOPHIS represents a step toward building a richer data infrastructure for the humanities, enabling transparent, large-scale, and evidence-based analyses of their social and epistemic dynamics. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:54:00 -0400 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-026-05591-4 oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.data oa.philosophy oa.journals oa.impact oa.humanities Over the past few decades, several reform movements have emerged across scholarly communication and academia. Open science, open access, efforts to reshape research culture, research assessment reform and growing discussions around trust in science are all trying to address genuine problems in how research is produced, evaluated, and communicated. Yet despite their shared goals, these movements operate in parallel rather than in concert. The result is fragmentation, confusion and growing frustration among the very researchers these efforts are supposed to help. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:30:00 -0400 https://upstream.force11.org/connecting-reform-movements-linking-research-culture-trust-and-open-research-publishing/ oa.new oa.open_science oa.incentives oa.obstacles oa.p&t oa.assessment oa.infrastructure oa.advocacy oa.culture oa.publishing oa.trust From DeepL's English: This article provides insights into the work of the DFG-funded infrastructure project EthnOA – Open Access in the Ethnological Disciplines, which bridges the gap between the ethnological disciplines and library- and infrastructure-oriented open access. The article discusses subject-specific approaches to and challenges of open-access publishing and traces how these are reflected in the project work at the Subject Information Service for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Using three key examples, it highlights how specific research and publication cultures influence open-access publishing, and outlines the measures being taken within the project to address subject-specific perspectives and needs. Reservations regarding Creative Commons licences illustrate how access and openness must be viewed in relation to one another. Using the example of dealing with legal issues in the context of secondary publication and Green Open Access, the article addresses the increase and shift in tasks and activities within Open Access publishing as a challenge and a hurdle. Finally, it explains how the involvement of researchers in the assignment of metadata creates new scope for ethical publishing in Open Access whilst simultaneously exploring its limits. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:53:00 -0400 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1633 oa.new oa.culture oa.germany oa.europe oa.ssh oa.case oa.publishing oa.creative_commons oa.german Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship (OxFOS) Theme: Who owns our knowledge? Monday 2 March – Friday 6 March 2026 Now in its fourth year, the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship is a University-wide conference for researchers, students, staff, and anyone else interested in making research more open and trustworthy. OxFOS is a chance to share ideas, learn, showcase your work, and interact with others passionate about the importance of making research more open, transparent and accessible. It is organised by the Bodleian Libraries in partnership with the Research Practice team and the grassroots researcher group, Reproducible Research Oxford. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:00:00 -0500 https://openaccess.ox.ac.uk/oxfos oa.new oa.events oa.rights-retention oa.open_science oa.universities oa.uk oa.copyright oa.humanities oa.ai oa.ssh In the first research seminar at CWTS of 2026, Samuel Moore argued that Open Access publishing took the wrong path and proposed alternatives with a new ‘commons’ approach. As PhD candidates studying scholarly communication, we expand his view to broader research infrastructure and culture. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:32:00 -0500 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/reclaiming-the-scholarly-ecosystem-reflections-on-the-first-cwts-research-seminar-in-2026 oa.new oa.revenues oa.monopoly oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.prices oa.profits oa.publishing oa.academic_led oa.commons oa.business_models I discuss why diamond open access is necessary to reduce perverse incentives in science, and to improve the outputs of Gen AI. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:58:00 -0500 https://crowdid.hypotheses.org/2144 oa.new oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.profits oa.publishers oa.sustainability oa.ethics oa.economics_of oa.incentives oa.ai oa.dei Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:05:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1884 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.publishing oa.ssh oa.german From DeepL's English: Open-access publication formats are regarded as key building blocks of open science. Whilst many models are based on established publishing systems or rely on institutional repositories, little is known to date about collaborative, student-led publication projects. This article analyses the open-access journal kommunikation.medien, which has been published since 2011 as part of a master’s project in communication studies at the University of Salzburg. The journal combines editorial practice with academic training and offers early-career researchers in particular a platform for publishing their final theses as academic articles. Through its continuous development, kommunikation.medien has established itself as a distinct model within the open-access spectrum, fulfilling both educational and scientific communication functions. The article examines the development, structure and working methods of the project and employs the perspective of care ethics to theoretically conceptualise practices of coordination, shared responsibility and care. It becomes clear that academic publishing requires not only technical and institutional prerequisites, but also relational processes, situational negotiation and ongoing care work. kommunikation.medien thus emerges as an example of an alternative publishing practice that transcends market-driven and performance-oriented paradigms, and as an invitation to understand academic communication as a process that is both formative and collaborative. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:01:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1864 oa.new oa.journals oa.students oa.germany oa.europe oa.publishing oa.german oa.ecr oa.infrastructure This article examines the cultural shift in academic publishing practices towards open access. The aim of the study is to analyse the effectiveness of various newly implemented measures against the backdrop of the Collective Readiness for Change model. The measures implemented are intended to promote the transition to an open academic publishing culture at institutional, disciplinary and individual levels. To this end, a comparative analysis of German universities, a quantitative survey and various measures to raise awareness of Open Access were carried out. The survey initially identifies insufficient dissemination of information and a lack of a culture of debate within the university and between academic status groups. Furthermore, additional obstacles include disciplinary publication traditions, inadequate infrastructure, and the academic evaluation systems still prevalent in many disciplines, such as the use of impact factors of established closed-access journals as a criterion for assessing the value of academic work. Although awareness of Open Access has grown in recent decades thanks to funding bodies and academic progress, this study shows that a genuine cultural shift has not yet been achieved. Rather, a kind of hybrid culture can be observed, which has become established in the course of the ongoing transformation process, relying on existing publishing structures and mechanisms. To strive for a sustainable cultural shift, not only technical and information policy measures are required, but also a profound understanding of cultural changes within the academic system.  Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:51:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1624 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.attitudes oa.culture oa.universities oa.policies oa.surveys oa.surveys oa.jif oa.obstacles oa.german oa.unfamiliarity From DeepL's English: The open-access transformation – the shift in academic publishing towards (as far as possible) barrier-free and open access on the internet – requires the commitment of a broad community. The open-access.network project offers various stakeholders the opportunity to exchange ideas and network, and supports researchers with specialist information. This practice report highlights, among other things, the role of professional societies and academic publishers in the transition of academic publishing to Open Access. Examples and lessons learnt are presented based on workshops that have been held. Drawing on the principle of ‘scaling small’ – a form of (self-)organisation that pools resources whilst taking diversity into account – the report outlines how collective action and the involvement of various stakeholders enable a cultural shift towards greater openness in academia. In this context, the open-access.network association will assume a central role once project funding has ended. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:45:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1867 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.redirection oa.infrastructure oa.collective_action oa.networking oa.german From DeepL's English: This chapter examines the role of lay abstracts in the context of open science and science communication. It presents the ‘SciComOA – Science Communication for a Lay Audience’ project, which develops and tests lay abstracts as a strategic communication format in open-access journals. The authors analyse theoretical foundations (open access and science communication), define relevant lay target groups and describe the methodological approach using quantitative and qualitative surveys with editorial teams and authors. Results show a high level of motivation to participate in lay abstracts, but also structural barriers such as lack of time, lack of recognition and inconsistent editorial processes. The article discusses transdisciplinary collaboration, AI-supported tools and the institutional embedding of lay communication as potential solutions. Lay abstracts are not understood as trivial simplifications, but as a culturally and communicatively significant building block of an inclusive, participatory scientific culture. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:23:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1636 oa.new oa.journals oa.citizen_science oa.lay oa.ai oa.scholcomm oa.abstracts From DeepL's English: Digital sovereignty is a conceptually open term in digital policy that addresses issues of regulation and control of digital data and infrastructures, whilst refocusing attention on the state as an actor. Within the academic system, digital sovereignty is being addressed, amongst other things, in the field of information and publication infrastructures. In light of rising costs, increasing publication numbers and the shift by major academic publishers towards data-driven business models, there is growing consideration of utilising publicly owned academic publication infrastructures to publish research findings in open access. This paper develops a hegemonic theory-based interpretation of digital sovereignty, which understands the associated debates not as purely technical or administrative-political processes, but as hegemonic struggles for control over academic public spheres. At its core is an analysis of the tension between academic autonomy and state control, which becomes apparent in the course of the reorganisation of digital publication infrastructures. The article advocates a power-critical perspective on digital sovereignty that takes questions of institutional embedding and political influence seriously and reflects on the conditions for a democratically legitimised, community-based infrastructure policy. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:18:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1627 oa.new oa.infrastructure oa.funding oa.policies oa.policies.funders oa.funders oa.german From DeepL's English: This text examines certain aspects of ‘science tracking’, understood as the systematic and widespread digital surveillance of science and scientists by former major publishers, who dominate the publishing market as an oligopoly. In the context of digitalisation and the open-access transformation, they have evolved into data analytics corporations with business models based on the continuous harvesting of data from their platforms and applications. In doing so, they are introducing tracking practices into science – under the guise of ‘improving their products’ and ‘legitimate interests’, with unnamed business partners and one-sided text-and-data-mining rules in open-access transformation contracts. In addition to direct risks of scientific espionage and concrete threats to researchers, these practices also pose more subtle problems for scientific integrity. At stake here is the relevance of privacy to scientific work. On the other hand, this takes the commodification of science to a new level, as the mechanisms of the web economy find their way into scientific institutions and processes, eroding the conditions for independent science. At the same time, as further applications from market-dominating corporations are implemented, so too does their influence on institutions grow. Through their presence in the research cycle, research management and with every ‘big deal’ in the publishing sector, they determine the evolution of Open Access and Open Science towards a lock-in of the scientific community. Following an examination of how tracking practices have become embedded in the ad tech industry, I discuss tracking specifically within the scientific sector as an inherent feature of products and platforms, one that also permeates the current implementation of Open Access in the form of transformation agreements. An analytical distinction between science tracking and Open Access requires a differentiation between commercial and non-commercial supporting organisations and the infrastructures they determine.     Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:12:00 -0500 https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/kommges/article/view/1643 oa.new oa.elsevier oa.data oa.monopoly oa.profits oa.publishers oa.mining oa.monitoring oa.german oa.offsets oa.platforms We analyse focus group discussions and free-text survey responses from a multi-stakeholder consultation conducted after the October 2023 publication of the proposal Towards Responsible Publishing by cOAlition S. The proposal calls for a systemic reform of scholarly communication by reducing barriers to knowledge dissemination, promoting early sharing of outputs through preprints, and shifting peer review to an open, post-publication model. We focus on how different stakeholder groups –such as researchers, infrastructure providers, academic institutions, and publishers –perceive obstacles to the large-scale, coordinated reform envisioned in the proposal. We interpret these accounts as articulations of collective action problems, shaped by entrenchment of many actors in existing academic reward systems and established commercial revenue models that make transitions toward a more economically sustainable scholarly communication system difficult, even where many actors see the principal need for change. This approach highlights the extent to which stakeholder perspectives align or conflict. It also underscores the performative nature of discourse about collective action problems in scholarly communication: by articulating challenges to reform, participants simultaneously construct, reinforce, or contest their own roles within the system, which directly influences their collective capacity to act.We analyse focus group discussions and free-text survey responses from a multi-stakeholder consultation conducted after the October 2023 publication of the proposal Towards Responsible Publishing by cOAlition S. The proposal calls for a systemic reform of scholarly communication by reducing barriers to knowledge dissemination, promoting early sharing of outputs through preprints, and shifting peer review to an open, post-publication model. We focus on how different stakeholder groups –such as researchers, infrastructure providers, academic institutions, and publishers –perceive obstacles to the large-scale, coordinated reform envisioned in the proposal. We interpret these accounts as articulations of collective action problems, shaped by entrenchment of many actors in existing academic reward systems and established commercial revenue models that make transitions toward a more economically sustainable scholarly communication system difficult, even where many actors see the principal need for change. This approach highlights the extent to which stakeholder perspectives align or conflict. It also underscores the performative nature of discourse about collective action problems in scholarly communication: by articulating challenges to reform, participants simultaneously construct, reinforce, or contest their own roles within the system, which directly influences their collective capacity to act.We analyse focus group discussions and free-text survey responses from a multi-stakeholder consultation conducted after the October 2023 publication of the proposal Towards Responsible Publishing by cOAlition S. The proposal calls for a systemic reform of scholarly communication by reducing barriers to knowledge dissemination, promoting early sharing of outputs through preprints, and shifting peer review to an open, post-publication model. We focus on how different stakeholder groups – such as researchers, infrastructure providers, academic institutions, and publishers – perceive obstacles to the large-scale, coordinated reform envisioned in the proposal. We interpret these accounts as articulations of collective action problems, shaped by entrenchment of many actors in existing academic reward systems and established commercial revenue models that make transitions toward a more economically sustainable scholarly communication system difficult, even where many actors see the principal neor contest their own roles within the system, which directly influences their collective capacity to act.We analyse focus group discussions and free-text survey responses from a multi-stakeholder consultation conducted after the October 2023 publication of the proposal Towards Responsible Publishing by cOAlition S. The proposal calls for a systemic reform of scholarly communication by reducing barriers to knowledge dissemination, promoting early sharing of outputs through preprints, and shifting peer review to an open, post-publication model. We focus on how different stakeholder groups – such as researchers, infrastructure providers, academic institutions, and publishers – perceive obstacles to the large-scale, coordinated reform envisioned in the proposal. We interpret these accounts as articulations of collective action problems, shaped by entrenchment of many actors in existing ac Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:16:00 -0500 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/p9vrt_v1 oa.new oa.open_science oa.obstacles oa.culture We carried out research into nineteen century Dutch logbooks, especially a series of naval logbooks kept at the National Archive in the Hague. It is voluminous archive, with its 500 metres containing an enormous amount of data. Our initial concern was meteorological data recorded in logbooks. We have digitized part of the archive, for six ships with a duration of about one hundred months, in order to reconstruct the climate of the past. Also in the process of this archival research, we became gradually aware of much wider and various implications this archive has as historical material. We decided to make our preliminary digitization open-access at the JCDP (Japan-Asia Climate Database Program) website. We hope that this will be more widely used by those who have historical concerns about maritime history, the history of environment in Asia and around Japanese seas, Dutch-Japanese relationships, and Dutch overseas history. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:39:00 -0500 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario/article/archive-research-into-dutch-naval-logbooks-and-preliminal-open-access-of-its-digitization/F340DCA62915B04FF16C1617FA5B4097 oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.glam oa.digitization A survey conducted in 2022 amongst members of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (n = 633) about preprints and open access journals included qualitative data from free-response answers (n = 161). Analysis of the free-form responses suggests that researchers believe that peer review of papers is the foundation for ensuring the credibility of research content. The trust-building mechanism achieved through peer review shapes the research community. For this reason, researchers are extremely cautious about preprints that have not undergone peer review within their own fields. This foundation has fostered a sense of responsibility within the community, and this sense of responsibility, which is being fulfilled by ensuring the quality of research, is a mixture of both a sense of responsibility towards the community itself and a sense of responsibility towards the outside world, namely the relationship between researchers and society. Researchers also appear to view the rise in Article Processing Charges (APCs) as a problem for the entire community, rather than simply an issue for individual researchers. In the field of molecular biology, where collaborative research between universities and companies is common, differences in normative awareness based on position are reflected in the various attitudes towards preprints and open access. Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:33:00 -0500 https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.eur.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1002/leap.2039 oa.new oa.paywalled oa.japan oa.asia oa.journals oa.peer_review oa.credibility oa.preprints oa.fees oa.versions oa.surveys oa.attitudes   This talk will outline the argument in my new book Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). The book explores the evolution of the open access landscape looking at commercial models, governmental policies and radical scholar-led publishing experiments, arguing 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 scholarly communication. The talk will situate these ideas within debates on the commons and will argue for a route forward that nurtures an alternative, scholar-led open access landscape.    About the speaker Dr. Samuel A. Moore is the Scholarly Communication Specialist at Cambridge University Library and Principal Investigator of Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (funded by Wellcome Trust, AHRC and the Research England Development Fund). He is also an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge Digital Humanities and a College Research Associate at King’s College Cambridge.  Dr. Moore’s research sits within the digital humanities and focuses on topics relating to academic publishing, research practices in the humanities and social sciences, and critical issues relating to research communication. He has a Ph.D in Digital Humanities from King’s College London and is also one of the organisers of the Radical Open Access Collective.   Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:17:00 -0500 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2026/01/publishing-beyond-the-market oa.new oa.events oa.strategies oa.prices oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.universities oa.markets Universities have been an instrumental part of the scholarly publishing landscape dating back several centuries, but comprehensive mapping of the presence of universities' involvement in publishing of journals is lacking. Using Ulrichsweb as the primary source and complementing it with data from Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ and OpenAlex, we compiled a dataset of 19,414 active, peer-reviewed university journals from 148 countries using a multilingual identification method. The results reveal significant disparities in coverage: nearly three-quarters of the journals are indexed in OpenAlex, almost half in DOAJ, fewer than a quarter in Scopus, and fewer than a fifth on the Web of Science Core Collection. From a global perspective, university journals are heavily clustered to a few countries, notably the United States, Indonesia and Brazil. University journals are characterized by strong linguistic diversity, with more than a third publishing exclusively in non-English languages. The social sciences and humanities dominate the disciplinary profile. This study establishes a baseline for further research into bibliodiversity, equity and the role of universities in scholarly communication. Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:10:00 -0500 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05535-4 oa.new oa.journals oa.impact oa.academic_led oa.libraries oa.nonprofit oa.bibliodiversity oa.dei oa.universities oa.scholcomm oa.libpub oa.publishers Open access (OA) has expanded scholarly publishing, yet concerns remain about the sustainability of journals indexed in selective databases. This study analyzes editorial predictors of discontinuation among 8730 journals simultaneously registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and indexed in Scopus, including 58 (0.66%) discontinued titles as of June 2025 (latest available update at the time of data extraction). The analyses revealed that a journal’s history of prior discontinuation was the strongest and most consistent predictor of future instability, confirming that discontinuation follows a path-dependent pattern rather than isolated events. Financial structure also played a decisive role: journals applying other editorial fees beyond standard article processing charges (APCs) were nearly four times more likely to experience discontinuation (IRR = 3.877, p = 0.048), while those following standardized APC models showed a protective but non-significant tendency (IRR = 0.378, p = 0.084). Journal age exhibited a modest yet significant positive effect (IRR = 1.032, p = 0.031), suggesting that older titles face a gradual accumulation of risk over time. By contrast, editorial practices such as plagiarism detection, waiver policies, and turnaround time showed no significant association. Overall, the findings indicate that discontinuation in Scopus-indexed OA journals is statistically associated with historical trajectories, financial transparency, and governance capacity, rather than by routine editorial procedures. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:32:00 -0500 https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/14/1/2 oa.new oa.doaj oa.journals oa.scopus oa.takedowns oa.predictions From DeepLs English: Scientific publishing is in a disastrous state. Even those who have been eagerly promoting open access (OA) for years no longer dispute this. The key issues are well known: misguided incentives due to bibliometric rankings, a dramatic increase in the number of publications, fewer and fewer readers for individual papers, a collapse in quality assurance due to overworked reviewers, plagiarism, pseudo-forums (‘predatory journals’, ‘paper mills’) and even entire broker networks. And behind it all is an oligopoly of just a few publishers. They dictate terms and prices to the public sector. As data traders, they no longer primarily market the ‘content’ published by them, but rather data on scientific behaviour. Generative AI is further driving the degree of automation of over- and under-productivity, which is ruinous for the public science system, as well as the exploitation carousel. At the same time, science writers are losing their freedom to choose publication forms and formats or to influence contract terms at all. Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:48:00 -0500 https://www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/shining-diamond-a-mr-80-1-20/ oa.new oa.europe oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.misconduct oa.predatory oa.publishers oa.germany oa.german oa.libraries In this piece I draw on my experiences as a neuroqueer editor of the peer-reviewed, intersectional, and intermedia independent journal Feral Feminisms and on disability justice to hone a short manifestx on crip publishing. While peer-reviewed journals often demand free, invisible, and feminized labor along with high-speed efficiency, I imagine crip approaches to publishing as necessitating such principles as slowness, anti-fascism, recognition, care, failure, multiple mediums for knowledge-making, and community building. The piece begins with a reflection from the “Bed Sorbonne” or academic’s bed office, and moves into a consideration of how thinking sustainable publishing with lichen can enliven our publishing praxes. Finally, I outline the nine part manifestx as a starting point for imagining crip informed publication models. The hybrid and art-based piece engages with the theme of sustainable publishing by thinking about how to make publishing sustainable—as in doable, feasible, possible, limitless— both for crip authors/creators and crip journal editors. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:19:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29734 oa.new oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.sustainability This issue began with the question of what constitutes sustainability within scholarly publishing. Looking back over the gestation of this special issue, we had to grapple with increasingly existential variants of this question. What does sustainability look like when forest fires are approaching your home? When your university is facing cutbacks and programs are at risk of being closed down? When government agents are arresting people in their homes and on college campuses? When political extremism is rising? When so-called generative artificial intelligence is intensifying water and energy usage, while pumping out fever-dream irrealities, endless affirmations, and race-to-the-average information? When…? When…? When…? How many crucial issues hang on this one concept, sustainability? What might it mean to reconsider this term in contemporary editing and publishing practice? In an effort to rethink our work as academics, editors, and readers of published material, we came together to collaborate on this experimental issue hosted by The Goose and Imaginations. The Goose is the official, open-access publication of the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada (ALECC). Straddling academic and creative genres, The Goose publishes long-form academic articles alongside creative nonfiction, poetry, multimedia, and visual arts. Imaginations is an online, open-access journal of cross-cultural image studies. The journal publishes work that thinks about, with, and through images broadly construed. Together, members of our editorial teams have been thinking collaboratively about what we call sustainable publishing. In this context, sustainability names the terrain of both its resonance as a social and ecological concept and its capture by corporate and institutional branding campaigns that paint a green façade over otherwise categorically damaging operations—including the defunding of education in the service of fiscal “sustainability” and fantasies of “green” AI. This special co-published issue represents a snapshot of some of those conversations as well as a place for others to join the discussion about publishing practices for the 21st century. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:11:00 -0500 https://minube.io/imaginationsjournal.ca/vol16_1_2025-SustainablePublishing/p508_bellamy_et_al/p508_bellamy_et_al.html oa.new oa.publishing oa.journals oa.business_models oa.debates oa.sustainability In this piece Anne Pasek and Aksel Biørn-Hansen interview each other on their respective experiments in zine-based experimental research exchange: DIY Methods, an annual conference-by-postal-mail, and Liminal Excavations, a zine-based intervention at ICT4S (Information and Communication Studies for Sustainability) 2024. They reflect on practical lessons they’ve learned in facilitating alternative publishing for academic research as well as some of the ways print helps make the environmental, cultural, and emotional character of scholarly norms both easier to analyze and contest. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:04:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29733 oa.new oa.publishing oa.scholcomm As a librarian, I am on the frontlines of scholarship. I support the development of scholars by assisting and instructing undergraduate and graduate students at my mid-sized Canadian university, I support faculty research and conduct my own, and I disseminate scholarly outputs by building our collections and performing outreach to promote them. Additionally, I work as a co-editor for a journal in the library and information sciences (LIS). Scholarly communication underpins every aspect of my various roles, and I see how generative AI is impacting its sustainability every day. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:00:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29743 oa.new oa.ai oa.misunderstandings oa.libraries oa.universities oa.sustainability oa.publishing As the director of a diamond open access press in the United States, I am constantly made aware of how relationships are key to the sustainability of our small and—at least in the US context—unique publishing model. Amherst College Press is not alone in this. As a community of publishers within the academy, we have at least begun the hard work of starting to grapple with longstanding power inequities in our field in order to work towards more equitable relational practices. One area we have yet to grapple with in any sort of systematic way is what constitutes ethical practices when publishing work by and about Native and Indigenous communities. We need to think more critically about those relationships in order to make them sustainable. Good work is being done in pockets of our field, but there hasn’t been a forum for people to contemplate, discuss, and share on this topic. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:57:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29741 oa.new oa.usa oa.dei oa.indigenous oa.publishing oa.up I originally joined the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) in 2014. I was in the third year of my doctorate program, when I was offered the position of social media editor. Although I was excited about the opportunity, I had no idea at that time how much this chance moment would change the trajectory of my career. Over the past decade, I found my passion: public scholarship and digital knowledge dissemination. When I finished my PhD in 2019, I made the conscious choice to leave formal academia to better focus on this passion and work adjacent to the academic institutions that no longer served me. Today, I am a NiCHE executive member and editor-in-chief of our blog, The Otter, and the rest of our website where our team of over twenty editors publish nearly every weekday. Although I hold other contracts, NiCHE is, as Rachel Jekanowski describes in “Editing the Environmental Humanities” (this issue), my personal “labour of love.” Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:53:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29739 oa.new oa.academic_led oa.publishing oa.scholcomm Place-based university presses are committed to disseminating knowledge generated in, about, or of particular relevance to the lands and waters surrounding them. They invariably work in close and creative relation with adjacent academic and non-academic communities in order to cultivate and spread ideas. Despite their deep intellectual and ethical commitments, the vital work undertaken by place-based scholarly publishers is not always sufficiently acknowledged. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:50:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29744 oa.new oa.universities oa.impact oa.publishing oa.scholcomm Margot Mellet and I are co-managing editors at Imaginations. We have both confessed a feeling of needing to do more in our work at the journal. In one of our regular Imaginations managing editor meetings, Margot uttered a truism that resonated: “We are doing enough.” This phrase made me laugh. It made Margot laugh. It hit a nerve in a good way. The sentiment draws on a kind of cognitive dissonance I have as an academic, as a colleague, as an editor: I think I’m not doing enough. To put it more precisely, I know I could be doing more and doing better with more attention, care, and time. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:40:00 -0500 https://minube.io/imaginationsjournal.ca/vol16_1_2025-SustainablePublishing/p499_bellamy/p499_bellamy.html oa.new oa.journals oa.academic_led oa.no-fee The University of Alberta Library partners with Canadian organizations, editorial boards, and researchers to publish more than 70 fully open access scholarly journals. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:37:00 -0500 https://imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/imaginations/en/article/view/29742 oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.canada oa.publishers oa.sustainability oa.interviews oa.people The UNL-programme Strengthening Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands is thrilled to announce it has been awarded a generous €1.5 million grant from NWO Open Science NL!  This fund will enable us to set up a high-quality and future-ready national infrastructure for diamond open access publishing. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:40:00 -0500 https://www.openaccess.nl/en/events/grant-for-national-academic-led-publication-platform oa.new oa.europe oa.netherlands oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.infrastructure oa.platforms oa.academic_led oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.libpub From DeepLs English: From mid-November 2024 to mid-February 2025, the state initiative openaccess.nrw conducted a survey on quality aspects of seven publishers (Elsevier, MDPI, Springer Nature, Wiley, Frontiers, Taylor and Francis, De Gruyter). This blog article highlights the results of the survey, key publications and the impact of the discussion of the survey results. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:26:00 -0500 https://openaccess.nrw/index.php/ergebnisse-der-landesweiten-umfrage-von-oa-nrw-zu-qualitaetsaspekten-von-verlagen-521-antworten-von-wissenschaftlerinnen-aus-nrw/ oa.new oa.publishers oa.journals oa.books oa.surveys oa.germany oa.europe oa.quality Will AI stop new curation-led publishing models thriving before they've even had a chance to grow? Scholarly Futures looks into the Publish, Read, Curate model and the potential impact of AI. Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:14:00 -0500 https://scholarlyfutures.substack.com/p/ai-calls-time-on-curation oa.new oa.ai oa.arxiv oa.elife oa.misconduct oa.preprints oa.versions On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organizations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pisa, Italy, for a workshop aimed at identifying and advancing joint actions to strengthen both movements. Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:31:00 -0500 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/12/international-community-convenes-in-pisa-to-advance-coordinated-reform-in-publishing-and-research-assessment oa.new oa.impact oa.publishing oa.asapbio oa.cwts oa.isc oa.assessment oa.asns oa.europe oa.events Universities are taking steps toward open access, but knowledge is still often seen as a commodity. Tilburg University shows that there is another way: the library is building a fairer, more accessible system for sharing knowledge. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:56:00 -0500 https://universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/11/25/from-collections-to-connections-the-university-library-journey-towards-open-access/ oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.libraries oa.libpub oa.funding oa.publishing oa.books oa.universities From DeepL's English: The following guide is based on an online workshop entitled Consortium Funding of Diamond Open Access. Opportunities for Participation for Specialised Information Services, which was organised by the Competence Centre for Licensing (KfL) project, the Licensing Sub-Working Group (U-AG) of the FID network and the KOALA-AV (Consortial Open Access Solutions Development – Expansion and Anchoring, 2023–2025) on 7 July 2025 for the specialist information services (FID).1 In this workshop, the satellite project EthnOA – Open Access in the Ethnological Subjects of the FID Social and Cultural Anthropology, the FID Communication and Media Studies (FID Media), the FID Sociology and the joint project edu_consort_oa of the FID Education and Educational Research opportunities for participation in the consortium financing of APC-free open access publications. In addition, there was an introduction to the KOALA model for consortium financing of quality-assured APC-free open access publications, developed by the Technical Information Library (TIB) in Hanover and the Communication, Information and Media Centre (KIM) at the University of Konstanz, which the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden since 2024. KOALA-SLUB provided its expertise to support the workshop. The guide compiles and answers questions from participants that were asked and discussed in breakout sessions during the workshop. Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:59:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/records/16944456 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.business_models oa.no-fee oa.german The academic publishing system has arrived at an impasse. Our universities continue to funnel money towards profit-driven commercial publishers, that obtain revenues higher than any other sector, with profit margins sometimes exceeding 30%-40%. This is possible only because in academic publishing the bulk of the work is shouldered by researchers for free, so the costs of publishing are kept at a minimum while the prices for reading and publishing are stretched to the maximum. This impacts the quality of research, for example with some journals using special issues and sister journals as a growth strategy, and puts researchers from less wealthy universities at a clear disadvantage. Given this toxic landscape, it is time that we as researchers re-orient ourselves to more sustainable publishing models. Hence during the 2-day event "Towards new Horizons of Scholarly Publishing", happening on the 5th and 6th of February 2026, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, we will explore together what Diamond Open Access (DOA) has to offer, which is a fully open publishing model where no fees are asked for publishing or reading. The purpose of this meeting will be to familiarize you with DOA and create a bridge between already existing publisher initiatives and researchers. Our speakers will address a breadth of topics concerning DOA, such as: the national and European infrastructure of DOA, challenges in transitioning to such a system, starting and managing a DOA journal or flipping a journal, and many more. At the end of the conference our goal is to form a national committee of scientists interested in continuing the work of making this transition towards DOA happen. Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:01:00 -0500 https://www.horizondiamond.nl/ oa.new oa.events oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.journals oa.libpub oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.publishers oa.policies With its second work programme, Open Science NL takes another major step towards making open science the norm in the Netherlands. On 14 November, the Steering Board approved the programme for 2026 and 2027. It outlines thirteen funding instruments covering the full spectrum of open science, ranging from citizen science hubs, AI, replication studies, to open science infrastructure. ‘We are proud to have been able to translate input from many in the community into this new work programme. It is an ambitious package, but also achievable over the next two years. It gives a strong boost to our shared mission to strengthen open science, reflecting the Netherlands’ position as a frontrunner in open science,’ says Hans de Jonge, director of Open Science NL. Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:04:00 -0500 https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/work-programme-2026-2027-the-netherlands-takes-the-next-step-towards-open-science oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.open_science oa.mandates oa.policies oa.strategies oa.principles From DeepL's English: The list of academic publishers that produce and distribute open access books was compiled at Bielefeld University Library as part of the joint project open-access.network. It formed the basis and prerequisite for expanding the oa.finder search tool to include the option of searching for academic publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH region). Various sources were evaluated and the results compiled in this list. It contains 148 names of academic publishers that operate as independent publishing houses, publishing companies, or imprints/brands/editions, as well as 37 publishers sponsored by academic institutions.   Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:50:00 -0500 https://zenodo.org/records/17176591 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.books oa.german In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case that academics should publish in more accessible media to help the public be well-educated and well-informed. [Directed by Jeff Le Bars, JetPropulsion.space, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio]. Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:48:00 -0500 https://www.ted.com/talks/erica_stone_academic_research_is_publicly_funded_why_isn_t_it_publicly_available_nov_2025 oa.new oa.video oa.advocacy oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.funders oa.universities At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher. In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures. In our next post in the series, we talk to Laura Carter and Freddy Foks, two of the editors of Democratising History: Modern British History Inside and Out. Laura Carter is an historian of modern Britain whose work focuses on histories of education, gender, and social change. Her first book, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (2021) was nominated for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize, 2022. She is now working on a project about secondary education and social change in the United Kingdom since 1945. Freddy Foks is an historian of modern Britain and the British Empire with research interests in migration history and the history of the social sciences. His book Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (2023) was awarded the Constance Blackwell Prize by the International Society for Intellectual History. He is currently working on a book about emigration and thinking about a new project about ships. Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:28:00 -0500 https://uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/reflecting-on-publishing-and-research-culture-during-open-access-week-2025-with-laura-carter-and-freddy-foks/ oa.new oa.books oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.benefits oa.academic_led oa.interviews oa.people oa.oa_week Abstract: This study investigates the use of OA resources among faculty members and research scholars at IITs in North India and explores the factors influencing their engagement with OA resources. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to participants from selected departments across four IITs in North India, resulting in 814 respondents. The study’s conceptual framework is based on the Social Exchange Theory (SET) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The findings indicate that while the majority of participants were aware of OA resources, their actual use was limited. Critical determinants for using OA resources were identified, including internet self-efficacy, awareness and attitude toward OA, accessibility, trustworthiness, professional recognition, academic reward, altruism, mandates and culture, and individual traits. Copyright concerns were found to negatively influence OA resource use, while additional time, effort and cost had no significant impact. The study emphasizes the importance of formulating OA policies, promoting awareness and understanding, and addressing copyright concerns to facilitate the effective use of OA resources, thereby benefiting knowledge dissemination and scholarly communication. Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:34:00 -0500 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09610006231207658 oa.india oa.asia oa.discoverability oa.south oa.attitudes oa.copyright oa.obstacles oa.unfamiliarity oa.paywalled The Diamond Open Access (OA) model—characterized by the absence of fees for both authors and readers—has gained increasing attention in recent years. A wide range of scholarly journals are using this model, as emerged while mapping the Diamond OA landscape worldwide; however, some still depend on hybrid revenue streams such as print sales, subscriptions, and marginal APCs. A number of recent initiatives underlined the need to increase quality assurance, sustainability, and cooperation within the Diamond OA ecosystem. Among them, the Diamond OA Standard (DOAS), a framework comprising detailed guidelines and a self-assessment tool to facilitate Diamond OA publishing practices, was created by the DIAMAS project, sponsored by the European Commission. Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità, the official journal of the Italian leading public health research institution, is a Diamond OA journal. To improve transparency and quality, the editorial team used the DOAS self-assessment tool to evaluate its compliance with the standards proposed by DIAMAS and to identify potential areas for improvement. This article presents the process and findings of the DOAS self-assessment tool conducted on Annali ISS, with the aim of sharing insights and support with other journals seeking to align with the DOAS framework. Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:25:00 -0400 https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/53 oa.new oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.quality oa.credibility oa.europe oa.italy oa.diamas oa.case oa.case.journals In this blog, we mark Open Access Week 2025 by speaking to LSE Press author Naila Kabeer. In this conversation with Professor Kabeer, the blog explores how the model of open access publishing maximises global impact, and how it has informed the reception of her research in the case study of her 2024 publication, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency, and the Bangladesh Paradox. Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:20:00 -0400 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/2025/10/20/who-owns-knowledge-an-interview-with-naila-kabeer/ oa.new oa.impact oa.benefits oa.books oa.publishing oa.interviews oa.people oa.oa_week Translated with Deepl: The blueprint for scientific publishing developed as part of the ELADOAH project focuses on a collaborative and value-orientated vision of Diamond Open Access. It shows how Diamond Open Access can be designed as a joint project involving six different stakeholder groups and what specific expertise each of these groups brings to the table. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:13:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/17240865 oa.new oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.libraries oa.funders oa.publishers oa.germany oa.europe oa.academic_led oa.authors oa.german oa.no-fee Five scientific journals have received a grant from NWO to switch from a subscription model. They will adopt the diamond open access model: a form of open access in which not only is the content freely available to readers, but authors also do not have to pay to publish their articles. The NWO executive board has allocated a total of over 187,000 euros for this. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:03:00 -0400 https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/five-dutch-journals-flip-to-diamond-open-access oa.new oa.funding oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.nonprofit oa.funders oa.conversions At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher. In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures. In our next post in the series, we talk to Devyani Prabhat, author of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law: Scales, Locales, Themes and Practices. Devyani Prabhat is Professor in Law at University of Bristol Law School, UK, with legal practice experience in Constitutional law. She has an LLM and a PhD from New York University and is an enrolled Attorney at Law, NY. She researches and teaches Migration, Citizenship and Nationality from a socio-legal and comparative perspective. Her first monograph Unleashing the Force of Law (Palgrave/Springer) won the Society of Legal Scholars (UK and Ireland) best book award in 2017. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:32:00 -0400 https://uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/reflecting-on-publishing-and-research-culture-during-open-access-week-2025-with-professor-devyani-prabhat/ oa.new oa.books oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.academic_led oa.impact oa.authors oa.interviews oa.people oa.oa_week At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher. In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures. In our next post in the series, we talk to Nicholas Maple, author of Refugee Reception in Southern Africa: National and Local Policies in Zambia and South Africa. Nicholas Maple is a Lecturer in Refugee Studies at the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study. Prior to taking on this position, he undertook a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand. He is also the Co-Editor in Chief at the Refugee Survey Quarterly journal (Oxford University Press). Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:30:00 -0400 https://uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/reflecting-on-publishing-and-research-culture-during-open-access-week-2025-with-dr-nicholas-maple/ oa.new oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.authors oa.academic_led oa.books oa.impact oa.benefits oa.interviews oa.people oa.oa_week At the University of London Press, we have been reflecting on recent conversations in the sector about research culture, what this means for the humanities, the potential benefits of open access, the role of publishing and our own role as a publisher. In this series of blog posts, recent UoL Press authors share their own publishing experiences and words of advice and support for new authors, along with their views on open access and what more publishers can do to work with the research community to help build supportive, collaborative and open research and publishing cultures.     In our next post in the series, we talk to Karen Attar, co-editor of Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction. Karen Attar is the Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and a former Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She edited among other works the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Facet, 2016). She has published widely on aspects of library history. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:25:00 -0400 https://uolpress.co.uk/2025/10/reflecting-on-publishing-and-research-culture-during-open-access-week-2025-with-dr-karen-attar/ oa.new oa.books oa.publishing oa.authors oa.publishers oa.benefits oa.interviews oa.people oa.oa_week Community Feedback Needed How do we make research infrastructure work for creative practice, multimodal research, and community-engaged scholarship? The Research Data Alliance Europe is reviewing our (Jenny Evans, Andrew S. Hoffman 🟥🍉, Robin Burgess, myself) proposal for an "Infrastructure for Non-Traditional Research Outputs" Interest Group, and we need your input. Traditional research infrastructure was built around journal articles and datasets. But what about performance documentation, practice research portfolios, community-engaged scholarship, creative installations, and collaborative knowledge products? These outputs often fall through infrastructure gaps or get forced into categories that don't reflect their actual nature. We've been working on this challenge through research and RDA community engagement over many years. Now we're seeking feedback on our response to technical review before final submission. Why this matters: → Researchers in creative fields deserve infrastructure that reflects their ways of working → Repository managers need guidance for complex, multimodal outputs → Current citation and attribution models don't handle collaborative creative processes well → FAIR principles need adaptation for outputs that can't always be "open" but should be findable and reusable We want to hear from: -Repository developers and managers -Researchers working with practice-based methodologies -Digital preservation specialists -Anyone interested in inclusive research infrastructure -Standards and policy communities Read our draft response and add comments: https://lnkd.in/ehckwsmM This is about more than just supporting creative research - it's about building infrastructure that recognizes the full spectrum of how knowledge is created and shared globally. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:22:00 -0400 https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/infrastructure-for-non-traditional-research-outputs-and-processes-infra4ntros/posts/?post=196771 oa.new oa.data oa.repositories oa.standards oa.infrastructure oa.genres The CoDOA project is an initiative led by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries with ten partner institutions (EPFL, ETH Zurich, Lib4RI, Graduate Institute Geneva, University of Basel, Université de Fribourg, Université de Genève, University of Lucerne, Université de Neuchâtel, University of Zurich/Zentralbibliothek Zürich), co-funded by swissuniversities. Its objective is to devise a collaborative process to establish a sustainable, consortial funding scheme for Diamond Open Access through institutional collaboration in Switzerland – with the aim to support scholar-led journals in maintaining high-quality operations. During this event, we will present the aims and structure of the CoDOA project and invite feedback and input from the broader community. Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:55:00 -0400 https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c3b43478-28fb-47f4-bbdf-25442b6e2f56@3b234df4-f2b0-4b8c-9a2a-061c07df650c oa.new oa.events oa.switzerland oa.europe oa.nonprofit oa.universities oa.journals oa.funding oa.no-fee oa.codoa In alignment with Open Science principles, OpenAIRE is launching a call for Institutional Publishing Service Providers and community-driven Diamond Open Access platforms to participate as pilot users of the new Publisher Dashboard, a dedicated service developed under the CRAFT-OA project and embedded in the OpenAIRE MONITOR platform. Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:45:00 -0400 https://www.craft-oa.eu/become-a-pilot-in-the-openaire-publisher-dashboard/ oa.new oa.openaire oa.metadata oa.journals oa.infrastructure oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.universities oa.no-fee oa.monitoring After an exhaustive, international search, the openRxiv Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Tracy Teal as the organization’s inaugural CEO. Dr Teal has served as interim COO of openRxiv since its launch as an independent non-profit in March of this year, playing a central role in launching the organization and establishing its stewardship of bioRxiv and medRxiv, two of the world’s most widely used preprint servers.  Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:56:00 -0400 https://openrxiv.org/announcing-ceo/ oa.new oa.openrxiv oa.nonprofit oa.preprints oa.versions oa.people Let’s pause and consider what’s best for human understanding, learning, and the progress of knowledge. When search just leads to AI summaries and users do not click through to original sources, and when the simple act of reading for pleasure is declining precipitously, how do we avoid a future in which we author and publish content for machine consumption only?    Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:53:00 -0400 https://council.science/blog/open-science-round-up-july-august-2025/ oa.new oa.mit_press oa.ethics oa.risks oa.publishing oa.open_science This criteria catalogue and the accompanying assessment questions were developed by a working group of KEMÖ (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium). They are intended to support research institutions and organisations in the evaluation of Open Science Infrastructures. The 20 criteria outlined in the catalogue provide a structured basis for making informed decisions regarding the financial support of these infrastructures. The assessment questions are intended to be completed by Open Science Infrastructures and can be shared with them accordingly. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:47:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15269364 oa.new oa.austria oa.europe oa.funding oa.collective_action oa.infrastructure oa.open_science oa.quality We are pleased to announce a significant milestone in the development of European Heart Journal—Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (EHJ-CVP): the Journal's transition to an open access publication model. Since the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy launched EHJ-CVP in 2015, its editors, reviewers, and authors have worked together to bring the latest developments in clinical cardiovascular pharmacotherapy to clinicians, physicians, researchers, and policy makers worldwide. Moving to fully open access publishing will help us further this mission. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:26:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvae051 oa.journals oa.conversions oa.benefits oa.stem oa.medicine oa.oup oa.up This poster showcases the development and implementation of a new collection development strategy for the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD), with a particular focus on fostering open scholarship and supporting the shift from traditional publishing models to open access. This assumes collection development as an integral part of scholarly communication, recognizing that investing in open access is central to library collections and contributing to a more inclusive and equitable publishing landscape. The collection strategy aims to gradually shifting funding away from ‘closed’ content towards open access models. This is aligned with the newly adopted Tilburg University Open Science Framework, which expects publications to be open and encourages academics to participate in publishing activities not driven by profit motives. In the short term, the strategy focuses on open access book publishing, due to the collection needs of TSHD, an institution rooted in humanities and social science research, but also where there has been an underrepresentation of open access publishing. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:31:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15913035 oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.libraries oa.policies oa.books oa.redirection oa.budgets "From 16 to 18 October 2025, the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference will convene policymakers, IGO representatives, researchers, scholars, librarians, publishers, and civil society, both online and in person at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo, Japan. The Conference will serve as an urgent call to accelerate transformations in science and scholarship in alignment with the Pact for the Future, to map progress in national and international efforts towards opening the record of science, and to inspire collaborative actions and coalitions to expedite progress ensuring no country, community, or individual is left behind...." Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:40:00 -0400 https://www.un.org/en/library/OS25 oa.japan oa.asia oa.new oa.open_science oa.events oa.policies oa.un We live in interesting times with significant challenges, the unpredictable geopolitical landscape, declining trust in science and the fast rise of AI are all impacting our research. The world of academic publishing is no exception. And we see now some worrying trends, with significant challenges for academic autonomy if we do not act quickly. Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:31:00 -0400 https://library-collections.tudl.tudelft.nl/2025/06/they-are-coming-for-your-academic-sovereignty-under-the-guise-of-protection/ oa.new oa.licensing oa.creative_commons oa.copyright oa.reuse oa.libraries oa.netherlands oa.europe   LIBER Annual Conference 2025 - Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech Speaker: Frédéric Kaplan Video: https://youtu.be/74NpKhx_mbg?si=81hhMkJlqkSPFvlL For practical and legal reasons, Large Language Models are primarily trained on contemporary, web-based texts and not on the vast array of content found in published books. As a consequence, their competence does not capture the rich diversity of knowledge that libraries have worked to preserve and make accessible. Because of this epistemic gap, libraries can potentially play a crucial role in the development of future versions of these models. In this presentation, I will discuss a computational strategy designed to effectively quantify and utilize the knowledge contained within books, addressing the opportunities and challenges for libraries in this process. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:55:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/16098038 oa.new oa.books oa.ai oa.libraries Open Access (OA) has become the standard model for academic publishing, yet many researchers still face challenges in accessing comprehensive, up-to-date and reliable information on their OA options. Disparities in OA conditions across publishers, journals and article types, along with changes over time, such as quota applications or journal flipping, complicate the discovery process. While libraries have implemented new systems to address these issues, they often create additional channels of information, which can confuse rather than streamline access for researchers. The Lib4RI Search Tool tackles this issue by integrating OA-related information directly into the library’s discovery system, providing a centralised and user-friendly interface. This tool aggregates search results from multiple scholarly sources and additionally provides researchers with institution-specific information on OA publishing options. A key feature of the Lib4RI Search Tool is its dedicated journal tab, which not only displays journal accessibility but also provides detailed, up-to-date OA publishing information for individual journals. This includes (a) customized data on institutional Read&Publish agreements, (b) information on Gold OA journals, including APCs and possible funding options and (c) filtered options for Green OA relevant to our local institutional repository. The tool strives for a balance between showing the most relevant information directly while also providing links to further details. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:26:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/16035072 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.discoverability oa.search oa.libraries oa.journals oa.authors oa.fees There are a number of initiatives aimed at addressing the issue of accessibility to research literature, particularly targeting researchers from disadvantaged socio-economic settings. However, fewer mechanisms exist to support these researchers in publishing their contributions, effectively positioning them as consumers rather than creators of knowledge. This lack of diversity in scholarly publishing serves as a clear manifestation of epistemic injustice. In October 2024, the TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology launched the IDAHO project, a groundbreaking effort to identify and describe barriers to open access publishing faced by researchers with weak institutional ties. In the frame of the IDAHO project, the term “weakly affiliated” encompasses a diverse group of researchers that may not have strong ties to academia but still engages in research and produces publications. The project adopts a comprehensive, multi-part exploratory methodology, combining both qualitative and quantitative methods to gain deeper insights into the research problem and focuses specifically on: independent researchers, citizens science, retired researchers, refugee scientists, researchers working for civil societies, industry enterprises, hospitals, non-profit and governmental organizations. In our presentation, we will share synthesized findings from ten qualitative interviews with targeted researchers, complemented by a global quantitative survey, uncovering the unique challenges researchers with weak institutional ties face in disseminating their research OA. We will also present the findings from 13 qualitative interviews with academic publishers and journal editors, highlighting their awareness of identified obstacles, as well as the initiatives and strategies they employ to promote equality, inclusion, and the diversification of authors within their venues. Finally, as the ultimate goal of the IDAHO project is to design evidence-based recommendations to eliminate or mitigate identified obstacles, audience participation and feedback will be encouraged to inform the development of these recommendations. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:18:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15827806 oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.dei oa.surveys oa.universities oa.authors oa.fees oa.obstacles At Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, research support is offered in researchers’ faculties, that is, the research-performing units, and at a central level across different divisions, such as the University Library, IT, financial services , grants advice, and the legal department. For researchers, it is often unclear where they should go with questions, who, or what resources, can help them to comply with various requirements, or even why a step is necessary, useful, or good for Open Science. This is why, in 2021, the University Library took the initiative to create an overview of each research-support-related step that a researcher can take throughout the research process. The University Library is uniquely positioned to create this overview, because it coordinates the university-wide support network for Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science, it hosts and supports several research applications, and it is the host of the Research Data Management Support Desk, the central helpdesk for all the university’s researchers. The Library therefore plays a central role in engaging researchers and research support staff with RDM, Open Science and other research policies, and fostering collaboration between these colleagues. The research process overview divides the research process into steps, starting before a grant proposal is written, and ending after the research has been published and data have been deposited in a repository. For each step, the overview shows why, how, where and when a particular step can or must be taken and where a researcher can find support for that step. The steps range from asking for grants advice to publishing data, and from arranging insurance for research participants to setting up a version control system for writing research software; some steps also refer users to other steps. For these reasons, the resulting document is overwhelming, fear-inducing and hard to navigate. Yet, it is useful. For as far as we know, it is the only document in the university that systematically describes all the research steps and the available support. It is not only helpful for researchers, but also for research support staff who may not be familiar with all the services in the institution. Since 2021, the document has also seen several updates to reflect changes in the support infrastructure, and was used as a source for a project that aims to connect several ‘moments’ of research support, to ease the researcher’s path. In this presentation, I will show not only the document itself, but also how I went about building it, how I applied Open Science principles to both the creation process and the eventual result, the projects for which the overview was used, how we tried to communicate about the existence of the overview, and what plans we have to work it out more towards a resource that is easier to use. All in all, this document is also a testimony to the unique position of the University Library and the crucial role that it can occupy in (shaping) the research support process. Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:09:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/16036684 oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.open_science oa.data oa.policies oa.hei The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs). The aim of this funding is to strengthen collaboration, coordination, and knowledge-sharing within the network. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:13:00 -0400 https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/grant-for-strengthening-collaboration-between-dutch-university-open-access-publishers oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.funding oa.policies oa.funders oa.nonprofit oa.no-fee oa.libraries oa.publishers oa.publishing oa.universities oa.collaboration The academic publishing system today has three major problems that render it increasingly untenable for modern academic research. First, the metric problem: the lack of accurate metrics on scientific contributions causes nepotistic citations and marginalization of certain demographics from career advancement opportunities. Second, the curation problem: the lack of well-designed incentives for peer review leads to poor quality peer review, which reinforces academia’s dependency on proxy signals of quality like journal prestige. Third, the replication crisis: the lack of any incentives for replicating a study causes most scientific findings to have only a single study backing them. As a result, retraction rates have been steadily on the rise. This leads to mistrust of scientific literature by academia and the general public. Creative solutions are needed in order to improve fairness, equity and trustworthiness in the academic publishing system. Liberata aims to simultaneously solve these three issues using game-theory-designed incentive structures inspired by the most successful financial instruments and marketplaces devised in human history. Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:36:00 -0400 https://bassconnections.duke.edu/project/liberata-open-source-academic-publishing-incentive-structures-peer-review-and-replications/ oa.new oa.publishing oa.infrastructure oa.arxiv oa.peer_review oa.preprints oa.credit oa.versions oa.floss oa.platforms oa.incentives oa.reproducibility A major scientific publisher, Taylor & Francis, said yesterday it has paused submissions to its journal Bioengineered so editors there can investigate some 1000 of its papers that bear signs they contain manipulated results or came from shady enterprises known as paper mills Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:04:00 -0400 https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-plagued-problematic-papers-likely-paper-mills-pauses-submissions oa.new oa.misconduct oa.negative oa.gold oa.taylor&francis oa.journals oa.quality oa.scholcomm Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced, published by Springer Nature in April.  Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors. Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:23:00 -0400 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/ oa.new oa.misconduct oa.ai oa.springer_nature From DeepL's English: In 2022, MDPI became the fourth largest publisher by total number of articles indexed and the largest publisher by number of open access articles indexed per year. This analysis looks at the distribution of MDPI articles in Web of Science and Scopus by country and year. Scientists from Romania and Poland preferred to publish in MDPI journals to a greater extent than those from other countries. The contribution of publications in MDPI journals was also abnormally high in the other former Eastern bloc countries, while authors from the United States and England showed a moderate interest in MDPI publications. The proportion of MDPI articles per year in all countries increased linearly in recent years, but the patterns in certain countries were very different. In Germany, France and Japan, a ‘saturation’ was observed; the number of MDPI articles in 2022 was only slightly higher than in 2021, while in South Korea, Spain and Poland the trend was reversed in 2022, i.e. fewer MDPI articles were published in 2022 than in 2021. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:23:00 -0400 http://rev-ib.unam.mx/ib/index.php/ib/article/view/59009 oa.new oa.publishers oa.mdpi oa.gold oa.surveys oa.growth oa.spanish Annual Reviews today announced that it has signed an agreement with Wiley that enables Knowledge Unlatched (KU) – most recently owned and operated by Wiley – to move to a new home within the Annual Reviews organization. The move supports one of the most recognized initiatives in open access publishing and marks KU’s return to nonprofit stewardship. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:05:00 -0400 https://www.annualreviews.org/pb-assets/assets/documents/press-release/ar_knowledge_unlatched_6_26_25.pdf oa.new oa.business_models oa.funding oa.knowledge_unlatched oa.annual_reviews oa.nonprofit oa.books oa.journals oa.no-fee oa.wiley On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:33:00 -0400 https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/?_bhlid=a71af01dcf247fa4a32c35c6f9bdfa47e2e4a0fd oa.new oa.ai oa.digitization oa.business oa.ethics oa.negative oa.copyright oa.fair_use The introduction of workflow management systems (WFMS) can make a significant contribution to the professionalisation of publication processes in open access university presses. This report describes a procedure for developing a generic specification sheet that serves university publishers as a practical basis for system selection and implementation. Based on theoretical principles for creating an individual workflow model and analysing processes and requirements, a methodological framework is developed that systematically records the specific requirements of open access publishers. The focus is on linking actual processes with a structured, generically applicable catalogue of requirements. The resulting requirements specification is divided into a static part with constant information about the publisher and a generic part that can be adapted to individual publishing situations. The approach is supplemented by a collection of work aids and templates that support the analysis and documentation process. An exemplary application example, the fictitious university publisher OAUNI-PRESS, illustrates the practical implementation and validation of the developed procedure. The results show that a modular specification sheet can make a key contribution to the structured introduction of WFMS, and at the same time offers a transferable standard for different publishing situations. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:48:00 -0400 https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/67936 oa.new oa.academic_led oa.infrastructure oa.libpub oa.libraries oa.quality oa.nonprofit oa.germany oa.europe oa.publishing oa.universities oa.german oa.up From DeepL English: Researchers are working on a just, “Dutch ChatGPT”, and that requires a lot of data. They don't want to pluck that from the internet without permission, but obtain it in a decent way. Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:05:00 -0400 https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/taalmodel-zoekt-datadonoren/ oa.new oa.ai oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.fair_use oa.digitization oa.dutch oa.data oa.copyright This book is the tenth full study of serious gold open access: open access articles in open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. This and previous editions are available as free PDF ebooks or paperbacks priced to cover production costs. Thanks to SPARC’s continued support, I was able to update the database to include all journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals as of very early January 1, 2025 (UMT) and to add 2024 counts and earlier counts as needed. Diamond OA 2025: The World of No-Fee Open Access Journals should appear in July or very late June 2025  Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:15:00 -0400 https://waltcrawford.name/goa25.pdf oa.monitoring oa.gold oa.journals oa.publishing oa.empirical oa.new Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a Multi-Disciplinary Publishing Institute (MDPI) trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants). if you don’t believe us, you can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game.  Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certinly not the authors. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:09:00 -0400 https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/ oa.new oa.business_models oa.journals oa.quality oa.peer_review oa.revenues oa.profits oa.publishers oa.springer_nature oa.mdpi This poster shows how open infrastructures interoperate to support Diamond OA book publishing. Scholarly book publishing has seen an accelerated transformation towards open access publishing and business models over the past couple of years, and particularly to Diamond OA publishing. Some presses have swiftly adapted and adopted the models of this new reality, while most have been wondering or even questioning how to get started. Existing revenue streams, systems, and workflows don’t translate well to Diamond OA book publishing which is a roadblock to emerging initiatives. New solutions are needed for funding, editorial and metadata management, distribution, archiving, and usage monitoring of open access books. In the era of open scholarship, publishers must change their workflows and practices which can be difficult and challenging. The good news is, that robust, efficient, and Diamond open infrastructure solutions exist that support publishers throughout the publishing process and that these solutions are collaborating to ensure interoperability and provide a smooth and coherent workflow to meet individual publisher needs: For funding (Open Book Collective), For editorial and peer-review management (Public Knowledge Project – OMP), For metadata management and dissemination (Thoth Open Metadata), For file hosting and distribution (OAPEN) For discoverability (DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books),  For archiving (CLOCKSS and Portico via OAPEN; Thoth Open Archiving Network via Thoth Open Metadata), For usage monitoring (OPERAS &  COKI). The poster visualises how the above infrastructures connect and support Diamond OA book publishing. It exemplifies this support through a concrete use case: Netherlands University Presses (https://nups.nl/). These Dutch university presses are jointly developing workflows and practices based on support from the Diamond open infrastructures. The use case may inspire other publishers or publishing partnerships in Diamond OA book publishing. To learn more, scan the QR code in the poster or visit linktr.ee/oapenbooks. Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:24:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15490314 oa.new oa.books oa.no-fee oa.libpub oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.tools From DeepL's English: Many university publishers and institutional publication services offer journal services to enable researchers to publish quality-assured scientific journals. In order to gain an overview of the journals operated by the members of the University Presses Working Group, the OJS Journals Working Group conducted a survey among all members of the Working Group between 28 June 2023 and 19 September 2023. In addition to the number of journals in operation, the survey is intended to determine the services provided by university publishers and the conditions under which they operate. The results are analysed in this publication. The survey data on which it is based is provided in anonymised form. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:17:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15607538 oa.new oa.journals oa.publishers oa.no-fee oa.libpub oa.multilingualism oa.germany oa.europe oa.german oa.up Poster for the DIAMAS converence 'The Future of Diamond OA Publishing in Europe and Beyond' on the 3rd of June 2025 giving an overview of the current developments in the Dutch project Strenghtening Diamond Open Access and future programmes to support diamond open access as a sustainable publishing model.  Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:41:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15387145 oa.no-fee oa.new oa.policies oa.funders oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.libraries oa.collective_action oa.universities Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Jordy Findanis and Niels Stern. Jordy is Project Manager at OAPEN and the Directory of Open Access Books and also works on the Copim Open Book Futures Project. Niels is Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and has worked in scholarly publishing for more than 20 years. Part 2 of the post will be available tomorrow. While awareness of predatory journals is growing, the risks posed by untrustworthy book publishers remain less well known. Some open access (OA) book publishers charge authors a Book Processing Charge (BPC), which — when handled by a reputable publisher — covers vital services such as peer review, editorial oversight, and wide dissemination. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:21:00 -0400 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/03/guest-post-trust-and-transparency-in-open-access-book-publishing-part-1/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz oa.new oa.books oa.trust oa.predatory oa.quality oa.publishing oa.doab oa.tools This is a time of upheaval for many libraries: budgets are shrinking amid a financial crisis in HE while large commercial vendors are unilaterally changing the terms on which content can be purchased, putting libraries in the position of continually paying for resources they will never own. In an unstable time, what are the opportunities for libraries to respond? Does open access offer an alternative to closed content, and can we sustain and develop equitable models to achieve it? This webinar is a much-needed opportunity to explore open access for books by asking whether—and how—it might be possible to start transitioning library spend from ‘acquiring’ content (a closed-access system) to ‘enabling’ access for all by supporting Diamond open access (OA) models for books. These are models whereby a publisher makes books OA without charging the reader and without charging the author, instead supporting their operations with other funding streams e.g. small payments from a large number of libraries to open the books for everyone. In conversation with the developers of Diamond OA programmes for books such as Opening the Future and the Open Book Collective, librarians from a range of institutions will explore issues including: What do Diamond models for books (as opposed to journals) actually look like, and do they work? Can OA interlink with other priorities for the library, e.g. providing access to textbooks? What are the connections between problems caused by closed-access content and potential OA solutions? Can we articulate them meaningfully? Given all the other pressures on library budgets, what arguments might be used to justify spend on OA that will persuade senior management? What are the practical steps we can take now? We will explore these questions from the perspectives of different institutions, acknowledging that there is no single solution that will fit all libraries. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of how Diamond OA for books can work, how OA can be more than either a ‘nice-to-have’ or an additional financial burden, and how they might begin making changes at their institution to move from expensive and opaque fees for closed-access content, to greater levels of sustainable support for equitable Diamond OA. Speakers: Andrew Knight, Imperial Matt Cox, Anglia Ruskin University Sharon Stevens, University of Worcester with Kevin Sanders (OBC/Copim) This webinar is free of charge for everyone to join and a recording will be available afterwards open access on the NAG website.  You do not need to sign up to the webinar to gain access to the recording. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:16:00 -0400 https://nag.org.uk/event/rethinking/ oa.new oa.events oa.books oa.libraries oa.nonprofit oa.costs oa.redirection oa.copim oa.economics_of Join us for a timely discussion on the future of Open Access. While the movement has seen remarkable growth over the past decade, recent financial, political, and global challenges are threatening its progress. How can we keep the momentum going? Hear from two leading voices in the OA space as they share insights and strategies for navigating these turbulent times. Don’t miss this essential conversation for anyone invested in the future of open knowledge. This webinar belongs to the series "Challenging the Status Quo: Taking Libraries into the Future". Wed, 28 May 2025 08:05:00 -0400 https://marketing.degruyterbrill.com/Webinar_OpenAccess_MaintainingtheMomentum oa.new oa.events oa.strategies oa.publishing oa.de_gruyter_brill Introduction: In this article, we discuss the results of our research over the spring and summer of 2023. During this study, we conducted an environmental scan of 377 journals in the field of librarianship to gather information on open access publishing practices. Methods: We used a mixed methods framework as a starting point for our research, collecting data on selected journals’ publishing practices. We selected journals based on the following criteria: 1) peer reviewed, 2) written in English or abstracted in English, 3) actively published at the time of analysis, and 4) scoped to librarianship. Data we collected included the journals’ open access policies, peer review processes, and data sharing policies. Results: With a dataset of 133 of the initial 377 journals meeting our criteria, we observed variations in the journals’ open access practices, peer review processes, and data sharing policies. We noted more journals allowed diamond open access than any other publishing option, and a low number of journals are toll access. Discussion: Within our study sample, open access policies are varied and in flux. Ascertaining the openness of individual peer-reviewed journals was challenging. Within the 133 journals examined, the state of open publishing practice is clearly evolving quickly, but with varying levels of transparency and consistency. Conclusion: Even though there are myriad challenges associated with open access publishing, the field of librarianship must continue moving toward an open access model. Academic librarians can advocate for scholars to critically analyze and challenge the scholarly communication system. In addition, journals should provide publishing transparency and guidance for those looking to publish. Tue, 27 May 2025 09:22:00 -0400 https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/17778/ oa.new oa.predatory oa.journals oa.policies oa.ssh oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.practices oa.lis oa.gold On 5 June, the European University Association will publish a new briefing on ‘Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system: Challenges and opportunities for universities’. During this launch event from 15.00-16.00 CEST, speakers will present insights and key considerations from the briefing, setting the stage for an open discussion with the audience to explore pathways toward a just scholarly publishing ecosystem, as envisioned in the EUA Open Science Agenda 2025. Sharing and publishing research results is a fundamental part of the research process and knowledge production, and it relies on the critical examination and discussion of each other's findings. Historically, the primary goals of scholarly communication were to disseminate, exchange and preserve knowledge, through the publication of academic journals and books. However, today’s scholarly communication system has increasingly diverged from these original purposes. It now presents significant flaws and inefficiencies. It imposes high costs for researchers and research performing organisations, restricts the rapid and wide dissemination of research results and, through its structure and operation, threatens core academic values such as trust and integrity. To support institutional leaders in navigating these complex dynamics, EUA’s forthcoming briefing describes the current status of academic publishing, highlighting the main factors shaping the system and the key challenges faced by the academic community. It will also identify the opportunities for universities to play a leading role in shaping the future of scholarly communication. Fri, 23 May 2025 05:20:00 -0400 https://www.eua.eu/events/eua-events/reclaiming-academic-ownership-of-the-scholarly-communication-system.html oa.publishing oa.copyright oa.events oa.europe oa.new oa.scholcomm oa.academic_led The data from the German Library Statistics (DBS) reveals a clear trend: while spending on Closed Access content in university libraries in Germany has remained relatively stable, investments in Open Access have surged dramatically. Please note that not all universities reported all values consistently, making it impossible to quantify the trends with complete precision. However, clear trends can still be identified. Fri, 23 May 2025 02:01:00 -0400 https://pulse49.com/2025/05/23/library-spending-in-transition-open-access-surges-closed-access-remains-steady/ oa.new oa.germany oa.europe oa.costs oa.libraries oa.fees oa.gold oa.offsets Under Horizon Europe, the European Commission will support efforts to reform the EU R&I system by implementing structural changes, improving access to excellence and deepening the European Research Area. The successful proposal will deliver on the following impacts: “Sustainable high quality institutional non-profit open access publishing services indexed in research information systems adhering to national research assessment standards” and “Increased capacity in the EU R&I system to conduct open science and establishing it as the prevailing approach in modern research approaches”. Fri, 23 May 2025 00:55:00 -0400 https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06-ERA-02?isExactMatch=true&status=31094501,31094502,31094503&callIdentifier=HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-06&order=DESC&pageNumber=1&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate oa.europe oa.nonprofit oa.publishing oa.funders oa.cft oa.new oa.funding Following a public call to tender, Science Europe has selected CWTS (Leiden, the Netherlands) and the Know Center (Graz, Austria) for a study into the links between open science and research cultures. Science Europe's Working Groups on Open Science and Research Culture work together to investigate strategic approaches to, and research assessment of, open science. Their goal is to provide foresight for policy discussions and enhance mutual learning between Science Europe's Member Organisations. This will lay a foundation for the development of strategic recommendations on open science and the evolution of research cultures. In October 2024, during International Open Access Week, they presented the outcomes of a survey among Science Europe members. They will explore the key findings in a three-part series of internal workshops during 2025, covering topics from ‘open access to research outputs’ to ‘opening the research process’, and from ‘open science policy orientations’ to ‘levers for research culture change’. Fri, 23 May 2025 00:38:00 -0400 https://scienceeurope.org/news/collaboration-cwts-know-center-open-science-research-cultures/ oa.open_science oa.netherlands oa.austria oa.europe oa.strategies oa.policies oa.science_europe oa.cwts oa.culture oa.new The Diamond Open Access Workshop Day is an event for the community of institutional publishing service providers and scholar-led journals in Switzerland to share knowledge and experiences on the latest developments as well as technical and non-technical standards in Diamond Open Access publishing. This event will feature eleven practice-oriented workshops and a poster session, dedicated to tools and services for Diamond Open Access publishing. This workshop day is all about implementation, providing practical insights, strategies, and solutions for those working in the field. Fri, 23 May 2025 00:30:00 -0400 https://www.openscience.uzh.ch/en/scholarly-publishing-and-open-access/publishing-at-uzh/scholar-led-publishing/plato/News/DOA_WorkshopDay.html oa.events oa.nonprofit oa.switzerland oa.new oa.no-fee This study investigates the awareness and perceptions of Diamond Open Access (DOA) among library professionals in Pakistan, addressing a critical gap in scholarly communication practices within developing countries. Using a quantitative research design, data were collected through a structured questionnaire distributed to library professionals. The perceived benefits of DOA included enhanced dissemination of research, reduced financial barriers for developing countries, and increased citations. Concerns over sustainability and visibility emerged as significant issues. These findings emphasize the role of libraries in promoting equitable access to research and highlight the need for ongoing discussions on the adoption of DOA in Pakistan. Thu, 22 May 2025 06:05:00 -0400 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1941126X.2025.2500216 oa.new oa.pakistan oa.librarians oa.benefits oa.risks oa.paywalled oa.no-fee oa.asia Abstract: As new areas of academic research proliferate (and cross-pollinate), scholarly digital publishing makes it possible to grow online networks around research interests without relying on the slow, gate-keeping procedures of traditional print publishing. In this way, advances in digital technology continue to offer scholars a wider readership and more meaningful peer networks, but these benefits come at a cost. Without a reliable economic model, the labor of peer-reviewing, editing, formatting, distributing and marketing scholarly writing and research is, in many cases, taken on by the scholars themselves. Digital tools make publishing workflows considerably more efficient and faster, but the unpaid labor involved is still a hindrance to any sustainable models for publishing scholarly work.    Wed, 21 May 2025 02:51:00 -0400 https://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/book/sup-9781917341073/chapter/14 oa.ai oa.publishing oa.tools oa.collaboration oa.standards oa.new "Last October, we circulated an Open letter to academic organizations in the hope of stabilizing our fundraising. Unfortunately, this has not been successful. Our financial situation has not improved. In fact, it has deteriorated." Wed, 21 May 2025 00:15:00 -0400 https://jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/13/scipost-at-a-crossroads/ oa.new oa.business_models oa.scipost oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.economics_of oa.negative oa.fundraising oa.sustainability oa.infrastructure The UKB working group Open Access provides an knowledge hub for open access specialists from all over the Netherlands. In its bimonthly meetings, this group discusses the major developments in the field of open access all over the country, hence playing an important role in shaping the open access publishing policies for all Dutch universities. This poster provides an overview of activities.  Tue, 20 May 2025 23:05:00 -0400 https://ukb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_UKB-Poster_WGOA_A0.pdf oa.netherlands oa.policies oa.people oa.scn oa.new The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding situation and navigate its potential impacts, we provide an overview of five types of threats, each supported by links to documented sources. We also propose a simple resilience framework and use it to interpret the multitude of actions of many different stakeholders that help to counter the threats and attacks. Finally, we explore the particular case of open science: does its openness make it more susceptible to these threats, or could it, in fact, be a source of greater resilience? Tue, 20 May 2025 11:17:00 -0400 https://upstream.force11.org/the-resilience-of-open-science-in-times-of-crisis/ oa.netherlands oa.obstacles oa.open_science oa.foi oa.new The European Commission (EC), governments, and funders have been pushing researchers to publish Open Access (OA). The EC, for instance, has made open access mandatory for all Horizon projects, which includes making any peer-reviewed journal article openly accessible and free of charge, and is conducting a pilot on OA for research data.1 In parallel, or perhaps because of such developments, discussions about OA publishing have been ongoing in academic circles. Understanding the empirical effects, both positive and negative, of OA publishing can aid decision-making at various levels, from editorial policies to individual author choices.2 This editorial explores the types, trends, and effects of OA publishing. Unlike other editorials, this editorial is not very opinionated. Instead, it primarily aims to provide information to form an opinion and assist in making informed decisions regarding becoming or remaining OA journals and whether to publish OA. Tue, 20 May 2025 07:10:00 -0400 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1023263X251338075 oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.benefits oa.risks oa.gold oa.green oa.implementation oa.policies oa.funders The European Commission (EC), governments, and funders have been pushing researchers to publish Open Access (OA). The EC, for instance, has made open access mandatory for all Horizon projects, which includes making any peer-reviewed journal article openly accessible and free of charge, and is conducting a pilot on OA for research data. In parallel, or perhaps because of such developments, discussions about OA publishing have been ongoing in academic circles. Understanding the empirical effects, both positive and negative, of OA publishing can aid decision-making at various levels, from editorial policies to individual author choices. This editorial explores the types, trends, and effects of OA publishing. Unlike other editorials, this editorial is not very opinionated. Instead, it primarily aims to provide information to form an opinion and assist in making informed decisions regarding becoming or remaining OA journals and whether to publish OA. Tue, 20 May 2025 04:47:00 -0400 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1023263X251338075 oa.new oa.journals oa.gold oa.green oa.no-fee oa.policies When you publish a preprint or article, you generally remain the copyright holder of your research and can decide how to license it. This guide explores the benefits of the CC BY license for research publications. Mon, 19 May 2025 09:29:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15413052 oa.new oa.licensing oa.creative_commons Diamond Open Access (OA) is a publishing model that eliminates fees for both authors and readers, promoting equitable access to scholarly content. In Europe, Diamond OA is gaining attention as a sustainable approach to Open Access publishing. Various initiatives support its growth, including EC-funded projects like CRAFT-OA and DIAMAS, national and institutional commitments, and international efforts such as the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance launched by UNESCO. Despite its potential, Diamond OA faces challenges like under-funding, technological gaps, and undervaluation in research assessments. The CRAFT-OA project and OpenAIRE, a non-profit European partnership, are developing services to advance Diamond OA publishers technologically. These include: Open Journal Systems (OJS) Plugin for OpenAIRE Guidelines: This plugin helps integrate diamond journals into the OpenAIRE Graph, ensuring compliance with metadata standards and improving discoverability and interoperability. OJS Plugin for the OpenAIRE Broker: The Broker notifies journals about enrichments that OpenAIRE added to their metadata records - such as funding information or related datasets - enhancing the quality and completeness of bibliographic records. MONITOR Dashboard for Diamond OA Publishers: This platform offers analytics and reporting capabilities, tracking key performance indicators like citation metrics, FAIRness indicators, impact on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The MONITOR dashboard is also available to research-performing organizations like universities and university alliances. Combined with the OpenAIRE CONNECT service, RPOs enhance the visibility and discoverability of their various research outputs, including theses, reports, datasets, and software. These innovations collectively enhance the visibility, robustness, and inclusivity of the Diamond OA and grey literature publishing landscape. Wed, 14 May 2025 09:32:00 -0400 https://zenodo.org/records/15412238 oa.new oa.no-fee oa.tools oa.europe oa.impact oa.metrics oa.interoperability oa.discoverability Open access (OA) publishing has transformed the dissemination of scientific knowledge by removing paywalls and increasing access to research outputs globally. This proposal has the potential to induce research equity, particularly benefiting researchers from low- and middle-income countries who often suffer from financial and infrastructural disadvantages. The real question is whether OA has a real impact on reducing the disparity of access to knowledge production and participation in it. Otolaryngology serves as a useful framework to investigate these dynamics by its worldwide clinical significance and heterogeneous input (1-5). This study investigates whether OA publishing is associated with greater global representation and equity in research output, authorship characteristics, and citation impact by comparing articles authored from high- and low-income countries published in the top otolaryngology journals. Open access (OA) publishing has transformed the dissemination of scientific knowledge by removing paywalls and increasing access to research outputs globally. This proposal has the potential to induce research equity, particularly benefiting researchers from low- and middle-income countries who often suffer from financial and infrastructural disadvantages. The real question is whether OA has a real impact on reducing the disparity of access to knowledge production and participation in it. Otolaryngology serves as a useful framework to investigate these dynamics by its worldwide clinical significance and heterogeneous input (1-5). This study investigates whether OA publishing is associated with greater global representation and equity in research output, authorship characteristics, and citation impact by comparing articles authored from high- and low-income countries published in the top otolaryngology journals   Wed, 14 May 2025 02:32:00 -0400 https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14293/EASE.2025.014 oa.new oa.dei oa.impact oa.citations oa.journals oa.usage oa.comparisons oa.south oa.medicine "OA is intended to democratize access to knowledge, but the burden of APCs, often unaffordable for many, creates insurmountable barriers that hinder the equitable access OA aims to achieve." Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:45:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf095 oa.new oa.fees oa.dei oa.objections oa.paywalled oa.obstacles oa.economics_of From DeepL's English: Through the Dutch UKB consortium deals, over 16,000 articles have become open access in 2024. The attached analysis details a number of trends, including the number of publications in hybrid and full open access journals, cost trends and the use of Creative Commons licences. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:24:00 -0400 https://ukb.nl/nieuws/open-access-trends-ukb-consortium-deals-2024/ oa.new oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.licensing oa.gold oa.hybrid oa.creative_commons oa.collective_action oa.costs oa.trends The development of open access (OA) journals in mainland China, like other non-English-speaking countries, have been studied extensively in recent years. Existing studies may have failed to strictly differentiate between OA journals and free access journals, resulting in a much larger number of OA journals surveyed than the number of China’s OA journals included in DOAJ. This study investigates and analyzes the current status of OA publishing of academic journals indexed by CSCD and CSSCI in mainland China. The results revealed that academic journals in mainland China have a high degree of complexity in OA publishing, with a small number of strict OA journals that make a clear OA statement coexisting with a large number of free-access journals that “doing without saying”, indicating that most journals remain hesitant to fully embrace OA publishing. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:37:00 -0400 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2025.2490309 oa.new oa.china oa.asia oa.journals oa.trends oa.gold oa.gratis oa.publishing As we launch Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, it is essential to outline our vision and goals for the future. We draw inspiration from recently launched diamond open access (DOA) journals established by the geoscience community, which have introduced a new, inclusive, and community-driven publishing model (Farquharson & Wadsworth, 2018; Rowe et al., 2022; Thomas et al., 2023; Fernández-Blanco et al., 2023). Here, we detail the ethos of Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, and how we aim to provide an alternative to the dominance of commercial publishers by fostering open access without financial barriers to authors. Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:12:00 -0400 https://journals.uu.se/AGC/article/view/770/654 oa.new oa.journals oa.fees oa.no-fee oa.business_models oa.dei oa.nonprofit oa.collective_action oa.academic_led oa.chemistry oa.geo "Since moving to an open access model, the popularity of NAR [Nucleic Acids Research] has increased over the years and the quality of the journal has steadily risen. Today, we are considered one of the very best journals in which to publish research findings in the molecular and cellular life sciences with a focus on nucleic acids." Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:25:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf203 oa.new oa.journals oa.history_of oa.stem oa.gold oa.case.journals oa.case Background: As open-access (OA) publishing continues to reshape scholarly communication, two primary models—gold and diamond OA—have gained prominence. While the gold model charges authors through Article Processing Charges (APCs), the diamond model offers free access for both authors and readers. Understanding global researchers' perceptions of these models is essential to addressing issues of equity, accessibility, and sustainability. Purpose: This study investigates researchers' perceptions of gold and diamond OA models, particularly in terms of visibility, financial implications, institutional support, and equity, with a comparative lens on developed and developing country contexts. Research Design: A quantitative, cross-sectional survey design was employed to capture researchers' experiences and attitudes toward OA publishing. Study Sample: The study targeted authors who had published in MDPI gold open-access journals with an impact factor of 5 or higher during 2022–2023. A random sample of 1,000 researchers was contacted, yielding 152 completed responses. Data Collection and/or Analysis: Data were collected via structured questionnaires administered through Google Forms. Descriptive statistics were applied using SPSS v29 to analyze demographic data and Likert-scale responses concerning perceptions of OA models. Results: Respondents from developed countries favored gold OA for its visibility and citation potential, but concerns over APC affordability and institutional support were evident, especially among those from developing regions. Diamond OA was perceived as more equitable and inclusive due to its no-fee structure, although sustainability concerns persisted. Institutional support for OA publishing was limited, with few institutions offering financial backing or APC subsidies. Conclusions: While gold OA offers benefits in visibility and impact, its cost structure poses barriers for underfunded researchers. Diamond OA aligns more closely with equitable publishing ideals but requires sustainable funding mechanisms. Strengthened institutional support and adaptive funding policies are critical to advancing inclusive and sustainable OA publishing. Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:02:00 -0400 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09557490251335952 oa.new oa.gold oa.no-fee oa.paywalled oa.fees oa.dei oa.incentives oa.attitudes oa.publishing oa.business_models oa.comparisons oa.surveys The editors and managing editors of MLQ reported that the attitudes and procedures of Wiley have changed considerably in the last few years and that commercial and profit-oriented interests are now influencing the editorial process negatively. On the basis of this changed situation, the members of DVMLG decided not to continue the publishing agreement with Wiley after it ends on 31 December 2025 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:45:00 -0400 https://www.dvmlg.de/documents/dvmlg_wiley_openletter.pdf oa.new oa.journals oa.resignations oa.wiley oa.misconduct oa.quality oa.profits oa.publishers oa.germany oa.europe oa.editors oa.societies oa.declarations_of_independence "Join us for “Developing a Diamond Open Access Discovery Kit”, a one-day event organized by the Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre in collaboration with Utrecht University Library, Erasmus University Library and Vrije Universiteit Library. The event aims to bring together librarians and researchers to co-create and develop a national kit that librarians and faculty liaisons, policy advisors, and research support officers can adapt and use to promote awareness of Diamond Open Access options locally. During the day, we will discuss and develop the Diamond OA Discovery Kit elements, such as, for instance, training and information materials for librarians and faculty, tips and tricks on how to evaluate and support Diamond Open Access initiatives, case studies and success stories, strategies to engage with researchers and their needs, tools for advocacy and policy development, Diamond OA journal lists, and templates for institutional use." Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:07:00 -0400 https://bookings.uu.nl/event/4355683 oa.netherlands oa.no-fee oa.events oa.new "Unsurprisingly, an increasing number of predatory journals now seek to exploit unknowing researchers and researchers seeing no other way out. The logical question, then, appears: ‘Is there an excess of OA?’" Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:52:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf092 oa.new oa.predatory oa.fees oa.dei oa.paywalls oa.access Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a special issue of Q Open on open access and open science that presents papers from a session at the 2023 European Association of Agricultural Economists Congress. We briefly discuss some of the emerging issues confronting applied economists regarding open access and open science. We also consider how the growth in open access is changing the publication landscape, as well as ongoing efforts to promote open science. As the papers published in the special issue show, there remain unresolved questions regarding the costs and benefits associated with implementing open access and open science. Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:00:00 -0500 https://doi.org/10.1093/qopen/qoaf009 oa.new oa.tjs oa.business_models oa.policies oa.funding oa.open_science oa.agriculture oa.economics oa.ssh A growing movement of researcher-driven publishing projects has emerged in response to several challenges and shifts within the academic publishing landscape. One publishing initiative in this area are what we term community-led publishing projects (CPPs), which are produced entirely by academics, librarians and students without any involvement of the commercial publishing industry. CPPs are part of a growing global movement but their values and practices remain underexplored. This article presents findings on the landscape of CPPs at the University of Cambridge.  Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:19:00 -0500 https://f1000research.com/articles/14-266/v1 oa.new oa.academic_led oa.journals oa.publishing oa.universities oa.uk oa.u.cambridge As we mark the end of our third year as editors of European Societies, we witness a significant transition: the journal has now changed publishers, moving from Taylor & Francis to MIT Press. This moment of change provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the journal’s development and achievements over the past three years, considering both the progress made and the direction we envision for the future. Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:04:00 -0500 https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nuefj_v1 oa.publishing oa.societies oa.europe oa.mit_press oa.journals oa.taylor&francis Access to scientific knowledge should have become easier and more affordable thanks to the digital revolution. This chapter explains why this hasn’t happened yet and provides guidance for the future.   Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:16:00 -0500 https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/34620 oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.access oa.jif oa.fees oa.nonprofit oa.dutch Open Access (OA) model in scientific journals has brought about a range of benefits in terms of information accessibility. However, the high costs associated with Article Processing Charges (APCs) have posed a significant challenge for many scientists, leaving them in a ‘limbo’, where their ability to publish in reputable journals is contingent upon their financial capacity. Here, we intend to highlight the challenges faced by Latin American scientists that have arisen as a direct consequence of the implementation of the OA, specifically: (i) difficulties in disseminating our scientific work due to the impossibility of covering the high APCs imposed by journals, and (ii) the strong emergence and consolidation in our region of publishers with predatory practices. We urge the scientific community to establish policies that contribute to equity in OA models and to defend the right of Latin American scientists not only to read science freely but also to be read. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:56:00 -0500 https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae073 oa.paywalled oa.fees oa.dei oa.predatory oa.journals oa.south From DeepL's English: "The library Open Access community in the German-speaking world is very well established and offers a regular exchange of ideas with the Open Access Days as well as the open-access.network, a productive platform for information, training and services, including on the subject of infrastructures. Nevertheless, it can be difficult for those at the beginning of their careers or external researchers to quickly gain an overview. In addition, the funding programmes of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) have initiated a number of new infrastructure projects, some of which have yet to become established." Chapter in: Johannsen, Jochen, Mittermaier, Bernhard, Schäffler, Hildegard and Söllner, Konstanze. Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111046341 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:02:00 -0500 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111046341-022/html oa.libraries oa.germany oa.europe oa.infrastructure oa.communities oa.german From DeepL's English: "...This makes it clear that repositories are currently developing into comprehensive research-supporting platforms for science. The functional expansion of repositories from a sustainable, distributing presentation platform to a starting point for extended and comprehensive services that enable the qualitative and quantitative re-utilisation of publications and their management offers great potential. It creates a smooth transition to university presses and comparable self-publishing activities as well as institutional and specialist services and advisory services similar to those offered by publishers. It is important to take a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of this development. The loss of selectivity means that there is an increasing need to differentiate, redefine or reorganise services in order to create the best solutions for science. This also includes continuing to be guided by digital openness (open access, open science) and leaving responsibility in the hands of scientific institutions." Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:56:00 -0500 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111046341-023/html oa.germany oa.europe oa.libraries oa.repositories oa.publishers oa.german oa.open_science oa.up From DeepL's English: "Thanks to numerous initiatives and great commitment, especially from libraries but also from research itself, open access to books has developed into a dynamic field in recent years. Gaps in the supply of information can be prevented by shifting publication structures to public institutions, improved funding opportunities and the decoupling of publication and assumed reputation. A cost spiral in the acquisition of books can also be counteracted by reallocating budgets in favour of science's own publication services (cf. chapter 4.5). If the idea of free access also becomes more established for monographs, open access could indeed be the surprising way out of the much-vaunted monograph crisis. However, in order to further strengthen the acceptance of open access for books as well as the academic and non-profit publication infrastructures and services, non-transparent publication costs and the still strongly represented reputational logic as well as the brand-dependent leap of faith must be overcome, and important synergies can be generated through cooperation between publishers that do not primarily pursue a profit-oriented business model and academic publication services. Since university publishers are usually as much a part of the information facilities of the respective research institution as publication funds, it can be assumed that many of the important impulses for the Open Access movement will continue to come from the libraries in the future." Chapter in: Johannsen, Jochen, Mittermaier, Bernhard, Schäffler, Hildegard and Söllner, Konstanze. Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111046341 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:52:00 -0500 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111046341-021/html oa.books oa.germany oa.europe oa.libraries oa.funding oa.budgets oa.publishers oa.german From DeepL's English: The publication of journals in the OA paradigm affects the operation of academic libraries in many ways. Some libraries have already taken an active role in shaping the publication system by operating their own publication infrastructures. In addition, the acquisition and associated management of APCs as well as the participation and co-design of consortia in the field of OA are central fields of activity for libraries in the area of academic journals. As a cross-cutting topic, OA affects diverse aspects of library management beyond the journal sector. It is desirable for libraries to further expand their activities in this area. The Science Council's recommendations on OA transformation and those from 2023 identify some of the diverse fields of action. It is also important to expand advisory activities and support the formulation of policies at academic institutions. In all of these areas, where cooperation between institutions, also in close dialogue with funding organisations, is of central importance, there are options for action for libraries to further develop the publication system. This is a chapter in: Johannsen, Jochen, Mittermaier, Bernhard, Schäffler, Hildegard and Söllner, Konstanze. Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111046341 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:54:00 -0500 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111046341-020/html oa.history_of oa.germany oa.europe oa.journals oa.libraries oa.policies oa.german CC BY 4.0 From DeepL's English: "In the current debate, the open access transformation is often abbreviated as a requirement for libraries and universities to cover the new demand for publication to cover the new demand for publication costs by adapting processes and distribution mechanisms. It is sometimes forgotten that the goal of the open access transformation is not to finance the publishing of researchers; rather, this is only a means of realising it. The actual goal is is to create free access to scientific literature - and this goal the core function of libraries, namely the provision of literature." Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:42:00 -0500 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111046341-018/html oa.libraries oa.germany oa.europe oa.licensing oa.german "My views on the proliferation and quality of open-access medical journals are informed by 2 investigations I made in preparation, the presentations I heard at the forum, and further reading since. It is a complex question with no easy answers." Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:06:00 -0400 https://academic.oup.com/ejcts/article/66/3/ezae320/7754286 oa.predatory oa.quality oa.fees oa.misconduct oa.journals "My views on the proliferation and quality of open-access medical journals are informed by 2 investigations I made in preparation, the presentations I heard at the forum, and further reading since. It is a complex question with no easy answers." Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:06:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezae320 oa.predatory oa.quality oa.fees oa.misconduct oa.journals In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Ron Oostdam argues that diamond open access is morally worth striving for, but may be difficult to achieve.  Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:30:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/18808 oa.no-fee oa.journals oa.publishers oa.funding oa.business_models In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Peeters discusses how quantification of research quality and dataism negatively affect the uptake of DOA-publishing in particular and academia in general.  Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:29:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19125 oa.no-fee oa.incentives oa.impact oa.journals oa.funding In this response to Andringa et al. (2024), Mirjam Broersma discusses two pitfalls of the current system of academic publishing: ‘openwashing’ and ‘greenwashing’. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:28:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19184 oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.publishing oa.profits oa.business_models oa.sales oa.licensing oa.libre oa.no-fee oa.openwashing In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Plonsky extends the call for DOA-Journals to the context of book publishing in academia. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:25:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19185 oa.books oa.journals oa.publishing oa.strategies oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.no-fee In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Pascal Braak discusses open science practices from a bibliographic perspective and among other things, sketches how a fully open and transparent knowledge generation process may break the power of commercial publishers. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:22:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19240 oa.no-fee oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.publishers oa.funding oa.benefits oa.policies oa.strategies Response to the article 'Diamond is a Scientist's Best Friend,' from the perspective of applied sciences. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 07:14:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19207 oa.no-fee oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.hei oa.policies In this response to Diamond is a scientist's best friend, Emma Marsden reflects on her past roles as author and editor. She discusses the challenges for flipping journals to diamond models and for publishing in diamond journals and offers ways forward.  Fri, 05 Jul 2024 01:40:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19162 oa.no-fee oa.journals oa.impact oa.assessment oa.authors oa.conversions oa.ethics As the chair of Anéla (Dutch Society for Applied Linguistics) and chair of VIOT (Vereniging Interuniversitair Overleg Taalbeheersing) we respond to the position paper by Andringa, Mos, van Beuningen, Gonzalez, Hornikx and Steinkraus (2024) titled ‘Diamond is a scientist’s best friend. Counteracting systemic inequality in open-access publishing.’ We suggest some additional actions we can undertake as associations within the fields of applied linguistics and language and communication to achieve the goal set out by the authors: making Diamond Open Access publishing the standard in publishing. We conclude by adding two more benefits when doing so.  Tue, 07 May 2024 05:44:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19250 oa.netherlands oa.europe oa.journals oa.benefits oa.citations oa.impact oa.incentives oa.no-fee oa.linguistics oa.recommendations oa.ssh In this contribution, Ali Al-Hoorie considers open science from a global South perspective and proposes a three-stage roadmap towards scholarship that is truly equitable. Tue, 07 May 2024 05:20:00 -0400 https://dujal.nl/article/view/19167 oa.open-science oa.publishers oa.profits oa.ethics oa.south oa.dei oa.accessibility "The study highlights a significant and independent association of OA publishing with increased citation counts, page views, and PDF downloads in PMJ, suggesting that OA articles have broader reach and greater visibility. Further research, including randomized controlled studies across various journals, is needed to confirm these findings and explore the full impact of OA publishing." Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:32:00 -0400 https://doi.org/10.1093/postmj/qgae047 oa.citations oa.downloads oa.impact oa.usage oa.ecr oa.journals oa.case.journals oa.medicine