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Key Themes: *generative AI disruption is an immediate risk *the evolution of funder policies from suggestions to mandates *preprints as a catalyst for change *monitoring, compliance, and open infrastructure *reduce commercial system dependence *strategic funder alignment and systems change

Next Steps: *Finalize and operationalize policy guidance *Address shared infrastructure challenges *Improve compliance and support norms *bridge global access gaps

📣 The Executive Summary from the ORFG 2026 Annual Meeting is here!

Read more about the key themes that arose and the next steps we identified - all aiming to improve the open ecosystem! 👇
www.orfg.org/news/2026/3/...

#OpenScience #OpenData #ResearchFunders #OpenAccess #OpenPolicy

#openscience #openoutputs #philanthropy #genai #openresearch #opendata | Open Research Funders Group ✨ Last Friday ORFG members and guests gathered in a cold (and snowy!) Seattle at the Gates Foundation headquarters for our Annual meeting. We could not be more grateful to our host Ashley Farley for ...

Wowza! We had fun last Friday at our Annual Meeting. So many shoutouts to make, but for now, extra special thanks to @openaccessmaven.bsky.social for hosting us at the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social!!!

#OpenOutputs #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #OpenData

#openscience #openoutputs #sciencefunding #philanthropy | Emily Ford ✨ Getting super jazzed for how I'll be spending this afternoon, evening, and all day tomorrow: with members of the Open Research Funders Group at our Annual meeting in the soggy Emerald City - Seattle...

ORFG Annual meeting in soggy Seattle today and tomorrow! ✨🌧️ 💖

ORFG Submits Comments to NIH on Allowable Costs — Open Research Funders Group In September 2025 several ORFG member organizations signed a joint letter in response to the National Institutes of Health’s Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable...

Now that the NIH has publicly shared all of the responses to its RFI on Limiting Allowable Publishing costs, we wanted to share a response crafted and signed by a subset of ORFG member organizations. Read more on our blog. www.orfg.org/news/2025/12... #OpenScience #OpenData #Preprints

DataCite Annual Community Survey 2025 Your ideas and feedback are essential in guiding the vision and direction of DataCite. Please complete the survey before 01 December 2025. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at i...

The DataCite Community Survey 2025 is open!
Share your thoughts on #metadata, #PIDs & open infrastructure, and help us improve our services & engagement.
Thank you for helping us shape the future of open & connected research: bit.ly/4850AFT
Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
#OpenResearch #OpenScience

URSSI applications for winter school are open! Funded by the Sloan Foundation, participants will engage in a 3-day hands on workshop. This is a good opportunity for grad students and post docs. More details below!

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#OpenScience #OpenCode #OpenSource

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data, text and image fabrication....

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing:

1. Academia resumes control of publishing

2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity

3. Independent fraud detection and prevention

4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

ORFG Members celebrated @openrxiv.bsky.social at the @cziscience.bsky.social meeting!
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social
@hhmi.org
@asapresearch.parkinsonsroadmap.org
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social
and others!

We're excited about the future of preprints!

#preprints #OpenScience #OpenFunders

A graphic titled “Open Access Week 2025 | An Invitation to Collaborate” appears against a gradient background of purple, blue, and teal. Below the title, the logos of 18 collaborating organizations are displayed in three rows: Top row (left to right): The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research Parkinson’s Foundation Parkinson’s UK Cure Parkinson’s Allen Institute Middle row (left to right): Catalyst Neuro DataSeer DataTecnica DNAstack Stratos Bottom row (left to right): Verily YLD AMP PD Open Research Funders Group Plan S

Open Access Week highlights the power of free, immediate access to research by ensuring science benefits all. Proud to join @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social, @parkinsons.org.uk, @cureparkinsons.org.uk, @alleninstitute.org, @dataseerai.bsky.social, @strategiesos.bsky.social, @orfg.bsky.social & others 🔓

Open Research Beacon Launches New Platform — Open Research Funders Group Open Research Beacon , a community-driven resource catalog of open projects, has launched on a new platform showcasing nearly 100 projects and growing. It aims to connect organizations and individuals...

@icoropen.bsky.social launched Open Research Beacon, a hub for those in the open community to connect products, projects, and services. It's a great way to find out what's going on in "open" especially if you're a funder. #OpenScience #OpenResearch #OpenData #OpenCode www.orfg.org/news/2025/10...

Very exciting to see funders pushing for change in how outputs are communicated. Moving towards an interoperable knowledge stack every day. 👏👏👏 Nice work @hhmi.org @asterainstitute.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social #Preprints #OpenScholarship #OpenData #OpenScience

Dependence on foreign data infrastructure threatens EU research, Parliament hears Europe must reduce its dependence on foreign-controlled databases, particularly those in the US, the European Parliament has heard. Dependence on these resources leaves European researchers and…

Europe’s #research still leans on foreign #datainfrastructure, a risk, warns the #EuropeanParliament. Dependence could undermine #openscience and #innovation, spurring calls for stronger EU capacity.

🔎Read here:

ASAPbio Response To NIH Request For Information On “Maximizing Research Funds By Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” (NOT-OD-25-138) – ASAPbio NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝

We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

Immediate Access to Research | Open Research Funders Group Folks at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) moving the open needle forward... great work in support of #Preprints #OpenScience #OpenData and #OpenResearch. Kudos! 🎊

Big news! @hhmi.org has released an Immediate Access to Research policy that requires preprint deposit with CC-BY licenses and eliminates financial support for APCs. Congrats to all the folks at HHMI for making this happen! 🎊 #OpenScience #OpenResearch #Preprints www.linkedin.com/posts/orfg_i...

"We respectfully recommend that NIH prioritize direct investment—centrally and/or through allowable costs—in existing open infrastructure to disseminate research outputs." 👍 #OpenScience #Preprints

Great work coming out of the @americanheart.bsky.social in support of #OpenData and #OpenScience!

How Wall Street Broke The College Bookstore | Open Research Funders Group Shoutout to Nicole Allen of SPARC and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation who spoke to The Lever about the problems at university bookstores, particularly the use of automatic textbook billing. ...

@txtbks.bsky.social of @sparcopen.bsky.social and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation talked with @thelever.bsky.social about automatic textbook billing. Great to see this problem getting news coverage. AND awesome to see funders doing something about it. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenFunder

poster of IOI's reasonable costs webinar

🗓 1week to go!

Join us Sept 4, 11 AM ET, for the wrap-up of IOI’s Reasonable Costs project: findings, tools, and implementations for public access to research.

Register now: investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/even...

Delighted to welcome @tracykteal.bsky.social as the CEO of @openrxiv.bsky.social - Tracy brings a wealth of experience in non-profit leadership and open science to the the team, and we're all so excited to be working with her openrxiv.org/announcing-c...

Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons YouTube video by Creative Commons

@creativecommons.bsky.social has released this new video on open licenses. 🎥 Take a peek and share with others who want/need to understand how CC licenses work. 🔁 #OpenAccess #copyright #OpenLicense #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Congress may be on recess, but there are still things coming out of DC that will have far-reaching effects on science funding and that continue to contribute to the the funding instability faced by many researchers.
#SciencePolicy #funding

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information Publisher "committed to equity, transparency, and author empowerment, eliminating barriers to knowledge dissemination"

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information www.researchinformation.info/news/u-s-book-publisher-...

"Transparency filtered through the lens of editorial acceptance is not true transparency; it is selective disclosure." 👏👏👏
@bodorama.bsky.social

#openscience #preprints #peerreview #nature

Schmidt Sciences Joins ORFG — Open Research Funders Group The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome Schmidt Sciences as a supporting member. Founded in 2024, Schmidt Sciences brings together the science-focused efforts of Eric and Wendy ...

Please help us welcome @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as the newest ORFG supporting member! 🎉www.orfg.org/news/2025/8/4/schmidt-sc...

#openscience #philanthropy #openresearch #opendata #sciencefunding

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Launches YouTube Channel (via @barcelonadori.bsky.social) barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025072... #openresearch #libraries

Open Education 101 Series - SPARC

Our #OpenEducation 101 kicks off Aug. 13 @ 2pm EDT. Intro session will cover core principles, key terms & how #OpenEd connects to #OpenAccess & #OpenScience. Learn how OE can remove barriers & expand opportunities for students & educators. Free & open to all. Register: sparcopen.org/news/2025/op...

Capping APCs May Backfire on NIH Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees ar...

A reaction to the NIH APC price caps announcement on @upstreamblog.bsky.social. Christopher Steven Marcum asks: "Will they backfire?" upstream.force11.org/capping-apcs...

#openaccess #publicaccess #openscience #nih #publicaccesspolicy #apcs #pricecaps #scholarlycommunication #repositories

💖 these key insights from the @investinopen.bsky.social project. "1. Start with governance, not technology... 2. Transparency isn't negotiable... 3. Meet your community where they are... 4. Design for evolution." #openscience #openinfrastructure #openscholarship #openresearch #opendata

The current academic publishing system is expensive and outdated. What can be done about it?
Join us for a critical conversation on how we can build an open, community-led alternative.

#OpenScience
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Excellent work to show alignment with funder preprint policies! Keeping the work going in the #openscience and #openoutput space. #preprints #funderpolicies