It is not open access that is the problem, it is profit-driven publishing models.
Cancer Research UK withdraws funding for open access charges www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it.
👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
#OpenAccess #ScholComm
As we used to say back in the day: THIIIIIIIIIIS
"This framing also hides the labor behind TAs, the complexities of the systems, and the lack of transparency in the publishing costs."
"Framing outcomes as “savings” or “cost avoidance” may obscure the fact that these agreements often redirect funds rather than reduce overall expenditure."
Libraries need to critically engage with language we use when assessing TAs/R&Ps.
Out now: doi.org/10.5860/crln...
with my fantastic co-authors @leighbutler.bsky.social, Jaclyn McLean, Jason Friedman, Erin Fields, and Monica Ward
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
We've done it again! @openlibhums.org has flipped another flagship journal to #diamond #openaccess! This follows the mass resignation of the Journal of Philosophical Logic's editorial boards from Springer Nature. The JPL editors will launch Philosophical Logic: www.openlibhums.org/news/875/.
Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing.
Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
NIH policy had 5% compliance when it was voluntary, 50-70% compliance when it was mandatory, and got to 90% when funds were held back until compliance was fulfilled. #OASPA2025
Our analysis on possible effects of APC caps, which would limit grant money spending on publication fees, just like the NIH is considering for their updated public access policy, in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today 👇🏼#ScholCommLab #openaccess #publishingmarket
Yes:
"Policymakers tend to see publishers as mere service providers who can be given money in exchange for open access. The reality is that good publishing is not a transaction but a community effort. Publishing cannot stand outside the communities that produce the research; it is part of research."
It's so saddening to see how a movement with such good intentions has been co-opted and commercialised to such an extent that it's effectively now just a means for channelling public money in corporate pockets. For me, if it's not Diamond I don't want to know. #OpenAccess
Proud to have played even a small role on this project! Great summary post and an excellent job by the entire IOI team.
After two years of intensive research, IOI's project “Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded.
NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...
Springer Nature makes clear that federally-funded authors who want to publish in SN journals will have to pay #APCs.
www.springernature.com/gp/open-science/us-feder...
Submitting articles to one of SN's non-OA or subscription-based journals, to avoid the APC, is not an […]
Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
This article offers a pretty sensible argument for bringing more of publishing back under university control. There's no reason to frame it in such a clickbaity way; it has nothing to do with anything Kennedy is pushing for.
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...
So excited to see this work finally published!
New video: Championing Open Scholarship at the #USask Library
#USaskResearch
library.usask.ca/news/2025/ch...
The University Library #USask is now hosting diamond open access journals! No fees for readers or authors. Equitable & sustainable.
We recently welcomed the Engaged Scholar Journal to our new service & helped them celebrate 10 years of publishing.
#USaskResearch
library.usask.ca/news/2025/10...
I disagree. Peer review offers some degree of quality assurance, but still many articles in reputable journals have major flaws.
Good science can be found in reputable journals, but also on preprint servers. Conversely, bad science can be found on preprint servers, but also in reputable journals.
"As national and international conversations on scholarly publishing evolve, it is vital to recognize libraries not just as contributors, but as key players driving a more equitable and sustainable publishing system."
By @ahemnason.bsky.social and colleagues.
ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cj...
Save the dates: April 30, May 14 & June 4 to learn more about #OpenAccess! SPARC is partnering w/ the Scholarly Communications Notebook team to host a 2nd round of our OA101 series. Webinars are free & open to anyone working in libraries. Register for one or all: sparcopen.org/news/2025/oa...
"Research assessment and scientific publishing are interwoven in complex ways, which means the agendas of the assessment and publishing reform movements need to be aligned as closely as possible."
@ludowaltman.bsky.social
www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass...
Excited to be launching Open Journals Collective today! We're working with librarians, academics & university-based publishers to replace commercial TAs with a community-led alternative. This is designed to save libraries money & tackle the rampant inequalities of global academic publishing. #UKSG25
Our response is to fight, to protect, and to build.
