We are grateful to US Rep. Zoe Lofgren @lofgren.house.gov for recognizing SPARC as "thoughtful advocates of open access" & entering our letter into the Congressional Record. Our core message: #OpenAccess is a remedy for publishing dysfunction — not its cause. Read here: sparcopen.org/wp-content/u...
With the full SPARC team and Steering Committee today. Just adore these people!
Great @archive.org talk btw @samuelmoore.org + @hjoseph.bsky.social abt reimagining open-access through small, sustainable, scholar-led publishing (Heather reminds us that the commercial academic journal publishing market is an $11B industry, w/ 20-40% profit margins "because of the free labor")
A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”
📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.
📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...
@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social
“Good taste?” Really? Ouch….
“Who Owns Our Knowledge?” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week. The 2025 theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAweek www.openaccessweek.org/theme
Today, July 1, the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access policy goes into effect. Learn more at the new NIH policy overview web page: grants.nih.gov/policy-and-c... & get answers to your FAQs here: grants.nih.gov/faqs#/public....
The NIH Public Access Policy goes into effect today, July 1, 2025.
We and @sparcopen.bsky.social have made a form to collect challenges or questions faced by authors, librarians and their institutions in complying with the new federal public access policies:
www.authorsalliance.org/2025/07/01/n...
So important…publishers once again demonstrating that they prioritize profits over researchers being able to communicate the results of their own work.
Quite a vote confidence for the immediate, free sharing of taxpayer funded research today: www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...
For those of you working with us closely: If you haven't been in Mattermost in a while, please check the urgent channel if you have a few minutes today. I know it is a holiday for many, but we have some datasets that could potentially use rescue.
Follow @apduorg.bsky.social to see what it means to take action on public data access!
If you want to do something meaningful, a great place to start would be to support the crucial work of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:
A peek inside the busy home of the Internet Archive
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
This a very bad move…cutting high-quality society published journals instead of ditching over-priced commercial journal bundles at a US federal agency library:
www.science.org/content/arti...
A gut punch…but the work to ensure openness and transparency in our government will continue wherever we can collectively make it happen…
americalabs.org/2025/02/25/s...
Do I dare to eat a peach?
Immensely proud to play a small part in securing this landmark declaration on access to knowledge as a human right and to be a part of this global community. #DiamondOpenAccess
This is a *really* disappointing outcome…these funds could be used to support local, community driven research communication efforts rather than continuing to feed commercial profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
"Adopting Secondary Publishing Rights in Canada will significantly improve public access to research, strengthen Canada's global research impact, and create a more equitable scholarly publishing landscape."
Great work looking at the opportunites of Secondary Publishing Rights in a Canadian context.
We created Privacy Badger to be an easy way to block any tracker or ad that violates the principle of user consent. Learn more about the tool at privacybadger.org and give @privacybadger.bsky.social a follow!
Love seeing @curvenote.com featured for our work integrating Research Organization Registry id's (ROR).
Scientific metadata initiatives like ROR, ORCiD, DOI, etc. sound dry but they're EVERYTHING for making science easier to search.
@researchorgs.bsky.social
Open Source Post Training is going strong! In last 2 weeks, we got data or recipes released for OpenCoder, SmolLM-2, Orca Agent Instruct, and Tülu 3. Read it, learn, and iterate:
Anyone who is concerned about the way AI is exacerbating social and economic problems should be citing this report. Excellent work from @kevindeliban.bsky.social and @techtonicjustice.bsky.social
The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, a palatial Beaux-Arts temple to study, filled with marble columns and fine statuary, and lighted research areas arranged around a central information desk of carved mahogany
A giant welcome for the @flaminghydra.com debut of @sarahlamdan.bsky.social, author of DATA CARTELS and supercool librarian and law nerd, today in conversation with @littlewow.bsky.social on trust, publishing, libraries, copyright, and sanity, only imagine
flaminghydra.com/issue-139/#t...
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
MetaROR is here! The free, open peer review platform by @rorinstitute.bsky.social & @aimosinc.bsky.social, aims to change how research is reviewed and shared. Their Publish-Review-Curate model makes the publication process faster and more open.
Details: researchonresearch.org/introducing-...
One important motivation for open access was the lack of transparency from publishers around subscription prices, but it sounds like they're being just as opaque with APCs. This is a really helpful piece of work showing the huge sums paid to commercial publishers in APCs.
