The keynote recordings of our conference on reform in scholarly publishing www.horizondiamond.nl are online and posted on the website.
First up, Mark Hanson who kicked off the event in a fabulous way @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
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Photo of conference organizers, with behind banners of radboud university press, diamond open access expertise center, freeourknowledge.org
Thats a wrap! Our conference in reform in scholarly publishing is done #horizondiamond2026 horizondiamond.nl Recorded keynotes will be posted soon. Thanks to all involved!
Laurens Kemp: Still receiving signatures. One diamond open access article in five years, only if 500 signed! This is NOTHING, many great journals out there already as we have seen during the conference freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
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Our current chair at free our knowledge Laurens Kemp telling the story of founder @coopersmout.bsky.social and how we are carrying on the torch!
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Photo of the presenter Maria Constantin
Maria Constantin - Check out the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center's guide "How to flip your journal"
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Prof. Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University press) about how to flip a journal to Diamond Open Access. The story of Lingua (Elsevier) to Glossa www.glossa-journal.org
diamas.org provides a quality assessment tool for diamond open access journals to drive professionalization in scholar-led non-profit publishing.
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Also shout out to the global diamond open access summit in India www.diamondoasummit.org we hope you had a good conference!
Graham Stone on the European Diamond Capacity hub at #horizondiamond2026 national meeting on reform in scholarly publishing.
*THE* European network we need for coordinated reform.
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Really lovely, energetic and funny talk by Prof. Gibson @openmindjournal.bsky.social
"The value that copy editing from the journals provide? Well they change the thats to whiches, and they mess up the math. A lot of correction is needed AFTER copy-editing. "
Starting slide of Prof Gibson on OpenMind the diamond access journal
@openmindjournal.bsky.social Ted Gibson from MIT discussing the successful case of Diamond Open Access Journal OpenMind in the field of cognitive science. Starting to outcompete paywalled and APC-based journals like cognition (Elsevier) and cognitive science (Wiley).
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Jan-Willem Wijnen introducing @openjournalsnl.bsky.social
"openjournals.nl provides a platform that manages the editorial process, sets them up with a website, and the publication of articles (indexed, archived, findable). All Diamond Open Access."
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Jan-Willem Wijnen introducing @openjournalsnl.bsky.social
"openjournals.nl provides a platform that manages the editorial process, sets them up with a website, and the publication of articles (indexed, archived, findable). All Diamond Open Access."
#horizondiamond2026
Ending slide from Mark Hanson's @hansonmark.bsky.social excellent talk at #horizondiamond2026 with qr to the main papers strain, drain, and PISS paper.
He also concludes "Funders can make diamond competitive".
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@markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy really good overview of the drain, strain, and 'special-issuefication' of publishing
"Special issue is like a fast food menu with relaxed editor control"
"MDPI has a massive impact inflation, more than anything else"
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Lift off! Mihaela Cimpian has started the conferenceon reform in scholarly publishin. "We are at an impasse in scholarly publishing" "We are here to build a network" #horizondiamond2026 @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy will be the first keynote! horizonriamond.nl
This is a very much needed meeting on scholarly publishing. Sadly, I'll not be able to attend it in person but encourage all who can to do so.
The conference on reform in scholarly publishing happening this Thursday and Friday in Nijmegen!
For those on Bluesky lets use this tag: #horizondiamond2026
www.horizondiamond.nl
Were approaching a full house, but last-minute sign ups are welcomed.
#publishing #science #research
Could not find all organisers on here, but thanks to @wimpouw.bsky.social @bregtlameris.bsky.social Laurens Kemp, Jos Baeten, Elisabeth Elbers, and Mihaela Cimpian!
Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb
#cognitivescience Don't forget our pledge to publish one article in a scholar-led diamond open access journal in five years is still live. Were half way through! After another 250 sign ups the pledge will activate!
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
Keynote announcement! Editor in chief of Diamond Open Access journal OpenMind direct.mit.edu/opmi will tell their story. 5-6th of February Nijmegen - one can still sign up at www.horizondiamond.nl
New keynote announcement! You can still sign up for this event in Nijmegen, NL in February! www.horizondiamond.nl
And another keynote! www.horizondiamond.nl
Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL.
Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl
Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025.
Open for comments and additions:
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