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🏷️Introducing the Publication Facts Label: Another tool in your research integrity toolkit 🧰
In this guest blog post, open research consultant @alicemeadows.bsky.social introduces the Publication Facts Label (PFL) by the @pkp.sfu.ca (PKP)
🔗 blog.doaj.org/2026/04/22/i...

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...

OAA welcomes UNESCO’s commitment to equity in scholarly communication | Open Access Australasia

OAA welcomes UNESCO's commitment to equity in scholarly communication submitting feedback on their draft factsheet “Equity in scholarly communication for the implementation of open science” #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #multilingualism #IndigenousKnowledge
🔗 oaaustralasia.org/oaa-welcomes...

Research calls for Indigenous agency in academic publishing - First Nations News New research is calling for a fundamental shift in how Australian universities and scientists publish research that draws on Indigenous Knowledges. The

“Indigenous groups must be treated as active partners in research”

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Why funders shouldn’t withdraw money from open access publishing Cancer Research UK’s decision to stop funding article processing charges marks a significant shift in how they approach open access. In its April 1st announcement (not an April Fool), the org…

“Open access is a good thing and can be achieved in a variety of different ways that do not simply bow down to individual incentives to publish in the most prestigious way possible” @samuelmoore.org
www.samuelmoore.org/2026/04/14/w...

The ABCs of Diamond OA The global diamond open access community gathered in Bengaluru for conversation over kaapi and chai. Malavika Legge reports.

💎A comprehensive overview of the recent 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access in Bengaluru, India from Malavika Legge @oaspa.bsky.social

“E is for Everyone … Those working to advance diamond OA are united by the desire to build a more equitable system.”

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March 2026 Newsletter | Open Access Australasia

🔷 The March newsletter is now available
🔸 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand
🔸 What’s new in OA & scholarly publishing globally
🔸 Recent writing & resources
🔸 Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing
#OpenAccess
📰 oaaustralasia.org/march-2026-n...

Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond O...

From the Diamond papers👇
Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? @johanrooryck.bsky.social reply to Herb (2026) #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess
🔗 thd.hypotheses.org/560

New Report: Usage of Higher Education Institutional #Repositories and “Green” Open Access for Longform Publications (via @britishacademy.bsky.social) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications... #oa #scholcomm #publishing

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 …

@openlibhums.org Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle 👇
"Join the fight to make knowledge free, it declares, urging institutions to divest from commercial academic publishing and support community-led alternatives instead"
www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

📣 Our new global study on longform Open Access is out now!

💡 Read the full report:
🔗 eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

More details on the KEN website:
🔗 lnkd.in/eYZum9Rs

#OpenAccess #KnowledgeEquity #LongformPublications

Despite significant progress, misconceptions about #OpenAccess still persist. In the absence of a national or coordinated approach to Diamond OA, Australia needs to engage more actively with global initiatives #ScholarlyComms #LibraryPublishing
🔗 openinterview.org/2026/03/30/t...

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

“Universities are not just buying access to content, but are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures”
@openlibhums.org
www.openlibhums.org/news/931/

Europe is getting serious about #OpenScience and #DiamondOA at the launch of Open Research Europe at CERN. A two-year development of Open Journal Systems (OJS) from Public Knowledge Project, @pkp.sfu.ca that will be fully and freely available to the global community of 55,000 journals via OJS3.6

‘Manners for machines’: how new rules could stop AI scrapers destroying the internet The age of AI is leading to barriers being put up across the open web. This could be the fix.

💡Creative Commons project - a voluntary framework: CC Signals
@aunz.theconversation.com @tjthomson.bsky.social @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social
"The proposed CC Signals framework lets creators decide if or how they want their material to be used by machines."
theconversation.com/manners-for-...

🔊The Australian Research Council #ARC has provided an update to their #OpenAccess policy
➕journal articles and conference papers made #OA immediately on publication
➕new requirements for research conducted with, by or for Aboriginal &Torres Strait Islander peoples
www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub...

Launch of global consultation: Equitable scholarly communication for implementation of open science #UNESCO #OpenAccess #OpenScience

www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

⭐ A very warm welcome to new members of the OAA Executive Committee announced at the March 19 AGM -
and a huge thank you to outgoing executive members whose contributions have significantly progressed the #OpenAccess agenda in Australasia
⭐ Details: oaaustralasia.org/executive-co...

CONGRATULATIONS to Universities NZ on developing and launching a new Open Research Statement www.universitiesnz.ac.nz/about-univer...

Research integrity is locked into an arms race with agentic AI slop - LSE Impact Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers. Adr...

🌊The rising tide of scientific slop @aidybarnett.bsky.social and Matt Spick @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

“Agentic AI has no regard to the quality, ethicality or suitability of the data it exploits”

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What a Librarian is Reading in Times of Moral Nausea and Psychological Despair A reading list for when more information makes things worse.

What a Librarian is Reading in Times of Moral Nausea and Psychological Despair

"Instead of accumulating more information, what I need are practices for holding unbearable knowledge without being destroyed by it."

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Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers In this article, we discuss the growing problem of hallucinated citations produced by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in scholarly research and writing. We argue that GenAI hallucinated ...

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝

"Hallucinated citations produced by generative artificial intelligence may constitute research misconduct when citations function as data in scholarly papers"

David B. Resnik & @mhmdhsini.bsky.social

→ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#HallucinatedCitation

Bibliodiversity for life might be my new motto 👍

I'm a huge proponent of green open access, but diamond journals are fantastic, too! Nice to get a mention in this article about why we shouldn't sleep on free-to-publish open-access journals! Bibliodiversity for life!

💎 Diamond is the new Green 🟢
New article from Romain Vaucher and Camille Thomas - Diamond is the new Green—Why Green Open Access is not a sustainable long-term model for scientific publishing
Published in Sedimentologika #DiamondOA #OpenAccess doi.org/10.57035/jou...

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Have you noticed something different?

We're delighted to unveil our new look! Fun and friendly, we hope you enjoy interacting with a refreshed DOAB.

Read all about it in this press release: doabooks.org/en/article/d...

January/February 2026 Newsletter | Open Access Australasia

📢 The first newsletter for 2026 is now available
🔓 What’s new in #OpenAccess & scholarly publishing in Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand - and globally
🔓 Recent writing & resources on OA
🔓 Upcoming events in OA & scholarly publishing
oaaustralasia.org/january-febr...

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♾️ CFP OUT NOW: M/C Journal '#immortality' issue, edited by Angelique Nairn and Deepti Bhargava. Article submissions due 17 Apr. 2026; issue launch date 17 June 2026. #mcjournal ♾️

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Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix ‘Green open access’ has existed for decades – and it’s not hard to get academics to use it more.

👍"When research is easier to access, its value increases. Policymakers can draw on stronger evidence, practitioners can apply research findings more directly, journalists and community organisations can engage with original sources ..."
@nonwayne.bsky.social
theconversation.com/thousands-of...

The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it Peer review is so integral to the scholarly system that research would grind to a halt without it.

❓And why does this matter?👇
"This crisis affects all of us who rely on published research. It threatens the viability of journals, particularly local or independent journals not owned by big publishers."
theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...