UC #Libraries Expand Support for Diamond Open Access with Strategic Investments in the Open Journals Collective and Biogeography (via Office of Scholarly Communication,
Univ. of California) osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2026/04/uc-l... #OA #libraries #publishing #scholcomm

New applications now welcome for new publishers wanting to join @ojcollective.bsky.social. You'll be in great company - alongside @lsepress.bsky.social journals 😊

📣 Diamond Open Access publishers!

OJC are open for new publisher members. It’s a wonderful community-led collective seeking to strengthen the future of Diamond OA. Apply to become a part of it!

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OJC press release - University of Edinburgh Library joins the Open Journals Collective We are delighted to announce that University of Edinburgh Library has joined the Open Journals Collective. Edinburgh has joined us as a Silver supporter of our multidisciplinary collections, which represents a very significant investment. The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated, and the support of Edinburgh will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

OJC press release - University of Edinburgh Library joins the Open Journals Collective. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

Time to share details of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social member - we are delighted to announce that University of Edinburgh Library has joined us!

Edinburgh is a pioneer of open access and the home of @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social. We are delighted to have their support!

Spotlight on Ian Caswell: Journals Manager at UCL Press | UCL Open@UCL Blog UCL Homepage

The latest in our spotlight series features Ian Caswell, Journals Manager at @uclpress.bsky.social

Have a read to find out about his career journey within #OpenAccess publishing, his involvement with @ojcollective.bsky.social and how he unwinds from work.

#DiamondOpenAccess #UCL

We are delighted to share that TU Delft Library has joined the Open Journals Collective. The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. TU Delft’s support for the OJC will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access. If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

If you require a copy of this press release in an alternative format please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

What better way to start the week than by sharing news of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member - we are delighted to welcome @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social, our first library member in continental Europe!

Apply to become a publishing partner with the Open Journals Collective The Open Journal Collective (OJC) works with mission-aligned nonprofit publishing organisations and platforms that support high-quality, community-led open access journals. Publishing partners play a...

Calling all nonprofit publishing organisations that want to help build a better future for academic journal publishing! @ojcollective.bsky.social is open for applications for new publishers to join us - see: forms.gle/GeACG7YQo5re...

Congratulations to our Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social), on her inaugural lecture next week! 🥳👏

A screenshot of the opening slide for Prof. Caroline Edwards' inaugural lecture featuring a black and white image of Bowerman's Nose, Dartmoor and the text "where is hope taking us? the utopian art of desecration amidst capitalist ruins."

I've been writing my inaugural lecture this week - lots of weirdness about woods, rocks, mycelium, intimate cross-species relations & some quite personal bits about my childhood. Goodness! Still time to grab a ticket for Tues 14 April (in-person or live-streaming): www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

InTransition journal cover featuring a ballerina in a white dress dancing against a red background, with floating text excerpts and repeated “DANCE” captions around her

New issue of [in]Transition is out! Issue 13.1 features 7 peer-reviewed videographic works on mediation in video games, AI & philosophy, data centers & environmental studies, Joaquim Jordà, folk music in Coen brothers’ films, and early cinema aesthetics. Explore: intransition.openlib...

Image of a text: a screenshot of the cover picture of the latest issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

New issue of @zygonjournal.bsky.social is out!

Featuring work on mystical naturalism, religious humanism, cosmic belonging, and poetic, cosmological languages of reverence beyond supernaturalism, and more.

Read the full issue here: www.zygonjournal.org/issue/1905/i...

Your body: you, or yours? Each of us ought to decide what others can do to our bodies. This is so obvious it does not cry out for explanation; and philosophers have not given it much. What few philosophical explanations there ...

In “Your body: you, or yours?” Sean Aas seeks to ground our rights in our bodies, by appeal to public-reason liberalism, without appealing to contentious metaphysical premises.

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Can Contractualism Be an Account of What We Owe to Each Other? According to contractualism, very roughly, an action x of type X is wrong, at least in one unified and distinct way, iff and because any principle permitting actions of type X could be reasonably reje...

New in Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs / @freeandequal.bsky.social: "Can Contractualism Be an Account of What We Owe to Each Other?" by Niko Kolodny: doi.org/10.16995/fe....

Great to share details of our next @ojcollective.bsky.social library member!

Iowa State University Library is a committed supporter of open access to research publications. They are dedicated to creating services and using their resources to benefit Iowans and the world by pursuing an ideal where everyone has access to online scholarly information.

Welcome, Iowa! 👏

The support of Iowa State for our Multidisciplinary Collections will be instrumental in helping us achieve our objectives of making journals free to read and publish in, offering a viable alternative to commercial transformative agreements, and empowering journals to flip to diamond open access.

Open Journals Collective press release. Iowa State University Library joins the Open Journals collective. If you require this press release in an alternative format, please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

Open Journals Collective press release. Iowa State University Library joins the Open Journals collective. If you require this press release in an alternative format, please email info@openjournalscollective.org.

We are delighted to announce that Iowa State University has joined the Open Journals Collective 🎉

The OJC is dedicated to transforming the way that academic research is supported and disseminated.

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Academics risk ‘losing craft of feedback’ if outsourced to AI Productivity gains from using technology to mark students’ work a ‘false economy’ given loss of skills and relationships, argues new paper

AI tools risk undoing “20 years’ worth of progress” in developing effective marking and feedback practices within universities, academics warn www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

Many congrats to @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social on this major platform update. Thoth are not just one of our members, but our metadata management partner. They power our own collective catalogue and are making it far easier for small publishers to manage and disseminate their works. Well done all!

From Muse to Machine: A Scoping Literature Review of AI in Cultural Production This paper is a scoping literature review of research on artificial intelligence (AI) in cultural production, a field that is being shaped by rapid technological change and unresolved debates. Results identified four areas of interest in the current literature on AI in cultural production: methodological challenges, creativity and aesthetics, copyright and policy, and ethics. AI appears in the reviewed papers both as collaborator and disruptor, challenging established notions of authorship, originality, and artistic integrity. While some studies emphasise increased efficiency and democratisation, others highlight risks of bias, opacity, and the extraction of cultural value through data colonialism and platformisation. A key finding is the dominance of conceptual and normative work over empirical evidence. With AI reshaping the cultural, ethical, and legal foundations of creativity, the field requires more empirically grounded research that remains attentive to the normative and ethical implications of AI in cultural production.

New in Genealogy+Critique: "From Muse to Machine: A Scoping Literature Review of AI in Cultural Production" by Yulia Belinskaya, Christian Holst and Olga Kolokytha:

I don’t have any intel re. CRUK. It’s not a government-backed funding agency.

Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN - Minerva Minerva - This article deals with the early development of preprint communication in high-energy physics (HEP), specifically with how preprint communication was formalized in the early 1960s at the...

How did the whole #preprint thing start? 🤔 In my #OA article, I look closely at how the #library at @cern.bsky.social formalized preprint #communication in #physics in the 1960s; while my Comment in @natrevphys.nature.com gives a general overview: doi.org/10.1038/s422...
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Nigerian academics oppose Coventry’s Lagos plans Union boss says British institutions should not be opening sites in Africa while UK continues to reject study visa applications at home

'The head of a Nigerian academic union has spoken out against British universities opening campuses...while Nigerians are being denied visas to study in the UK. This comes after Coventry University confirmed...it is in talks to establish a presence in Lagos.'

Who could have predicted that? 1/3

I think they are privately more aligned with our values than you might think. Commercial publishers routinely take funding agencies to court to sue so they have to walk a very difficult tightrope.

We had lots of fun at the @comicsgrid.com @openlibhums.org webinar on graphic scholarship earlier today. Thanks once again to everyone who attended. Great questions and comments. Recording will be made available asap. Have now shared the slides: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... Meanwhile, happy Easter! 🐇🌼

Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 …

Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle - Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics - Open Library of Humanities https://www.openlibhums.org/news/930/

"Openness at the level of the output does not translate into openness at the level of the system." Been thinking about what Openness means in academic libraries recently due to the theme for #ALN26 this year so this was excellent and thought provoking reading.

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