"Diamond OA journals struggle for legitimacy not because they lack quality, but because they are poorly integrated into prestige-based evaluation frameworks." #DiamondOA #scienceaspublicgood codata.org/blog/2026/02...
"If we’re being honest, a system that extracts value from global knowledge while concentrating prestige, access, and profit in the North looks like colonialism slipping in through the back door." -- yet another point for #DiamondOA! (from discussion under scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/06/g...)
A man at a lectern sharing a slide showing a picture of a woman and the quote: "Librarians this is a call to arms - for change to happen we need to be courageous leaders, even though it seems an impossible task - if we don't at least try then once again we have defeated ourselves before we have even begun. There is a better future ahead, but only if we are willing to stand up for it. Fear is a reaction, courage is a decision. Elaine Sykes 2025"
Tom shares a quote from Elaine in closing #UKSG2026
... "Revenue growth driven by Research (7%+) through market leadership in OA". Honestly, I think it’s time for academia to take #academicpublishing back through #DiamondOA and #INPOApublishing right now.
"TBH, it was a surprise to me that you can find big companies’ financial performance presentations online. But it turns out you can – for example, @springernature.com reports "strong FY2025 results with 6% underlying revenue growth and 9% growth in AOP", as well as…
"The story here isn't that publishers profit from research. It is that they are quietly occupying the infrastructure around it. (...) Universities are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures." Great analysis by @openlibhums.org: www.openlibhums.org/news/931/
We are HIRING! The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties. The position is fully funded and open to funded PhD students at CHASE institutions. Deadline 📅 31/03: www.openlibhums.org/news/883/
Regular reminder that RELX -- owner of academic publisher Elsevier -- is one of those brokers providing data to ICE.
OMG, the book bans are coming from US to Europe 🤯
The Northern lights were spectacular last night!
New year, new project! I am glad to be part of this wonderful #DiamondOA community! 🩷
Have a look for support resources in Book 9 of #CopimCompass
Thanks to @jofitz.bsky.social @jordyfindanis.bsky.social @rupertgatti.bsky.social for creating and updating!
👉 compass.copim.pub/books/09-ope...
This. Here. Is the crux of the matter!
Scholars while being the main recipient - or victims - of most decisions in the scholarly communication space, are at the same time, the least involved in co-creating these frameworks that impact them.
Credit: @openreflections.bsky.social
#CopimConference
OASPA is delighted to share the recording of our lively "Beyond the Ivory Tower” webinar about the real world importance of open access today: bit.ly/4bKiHmZ
Huge thanks to our speakers for showing why there has never been a better time to engage with the potential of OA as a real world benefit.
Lots of groups are responsible for the mess that open access has become, but special recognition goes to publishers creating journals to capture as many APCs from "growth areas" as possible.
New Report Urges Broader Definition of “Open Research" to Include #Arts, #Humanities and Social Science Practices (via @theul.bsky.social) www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morp...
#openresearch #socialscience @morphss.bsky.social
"Through this special issue, we invite broader discussion on Diamond OA and its future(s), from the highly conceptual to the deeply infrastructural. What is next for Diamond OA as it oscillates between the potential for either a technocratic or community-led and commons-based future?"
🚀 GRAPHIA’s Call for Pilots is live!
GRAPHIA is inviting industry & commercial organisations in #SSH based in the European Research Area to explore use cases for an open knowledge graph: early access, co-design, & visibility included.
👉 https://graphia-ssh.eu/call-for-pilots/
#KnowledgeGraphs
📢 🆂🅰🆅🅴 🆃🅷🅴 🅳🅰🆃🅴!!
The OASPA 2026 annual conference will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from September 21 - 23 2026.
OASPA conference page: www.oaspa.org/events/annua...
Get in touch to hear about being a conference sponsor.
Registration will open soon - we hope to see you in Zagreb!
"We stopped thinking about the value of the research itself and we think ‘Is this publishable?’ instead. Yes, it goes to that extent." Yensi Flores Bueso at the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access on the need of #ResearchAssessmentReform
"Most of the science is publicly funded and therefore we have a social contract to ensure that everyone can benefit from science." Yensi Flores Bueso from Global Young Academy in her contribution on #DiamondOA and #ResearchAssessment during the 3rd Diamond Summit.
"If we don't get the incentives in the right direction, #DiamondOA will not happen." Henk Kummeling, chair of @coarassessment.bsky.social, at the 3rd Diamond Summit on the need to reform #ResearchAssessment.
Not saying it was me, but… it was me. 🥳
It was always going to be a hiding to nothing, but the lawsuit accusing six major publishers of anti-competitive practices has been dismissed by a judge.
Preliminary Evidence Linking Open Science to Research Integrity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/28/p...
🌎 Check out these newly published #DiamondOA resources from the @almasiproject.bsky.social
If you work on open access, research policies, advocacy or community-led, non-profit publishing mechanisms, these are well worth your time 👇
I just filled the #ERAAct public consultation questionnaire - and you should too! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
