It’s Green OA Day!

TSpace supports open scholarship by preserving and sharing UTSC research with the world. Deposit once, reach many, and help knowledge grow openly. 🍀💚

utsc.library.utoronto.ca/green-oa-day...

#GreenOA #OpenAccess #TSpace #UTSC #UTSCLibrary

Big news from #arXiv:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-execu...

1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization.
2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC.
3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k.

#Preprints #ScholComm

COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance In January 2026, COAR and ASAPbio formed in Interim Working Group to discuss the establishment of a more coordinated effort to advance the publish, review, curate (PRC) model. In the first six mont…

Watching with interest.

"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #COARNotify, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess #Repositories.

#GreenOA #OpenPeerReview #ScholComm

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Watching with interest.

"COAR Notify and the Launch of a Publish, Review, Curate Alliance."
coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify...

PS: I'm a big fan of #COAR, #PRC, #Preprints, and taking full advantage of #OpenAccess […]

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.

JCU Library's 'Bring Out Your Dead' campaign shows the value of green open access as "one of the most scalable and cost-effective ways to improve access to research."

Thousands of paywalled research papers could be freed with this simple fix
#OA #GreenOA #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #JCULibrary

Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP....
(#paywalled)

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals ( #DiamondOA ) or no-fee OA repositories ( #GreenOA ).

#ScholComm

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[Veille] vidéos des 2 journées "30 ans de Mathdoc" en ligne sur @canal-u.bsky.social => www.canal-u.tv/chaines/cm/m...
Supports ici indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/14572/...
#maths #openaccess #openscience #journals #commons #DiamondOA #GOldOA #GreenOA #researchdata

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"For Researchers in the Humanities, Is Open Really Fair?"
katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-kno...

PS: This article objects to #APCs and "transformative" (#ReadAndPublish) agreements, especially in the humanities. So […]

SocArXiv submission rule changes **Context** SocArXiv is experiencing record high submission rates. In addition, now that we have paper versioning – which is great – our moderators have to approve every paper revision. As a result, our volunteer workload is increasing. In addition we are receiving many non-research, spam, and AI-generated submissions. We do not have a technological way of identifying these, and it is time-consuming to read and assess them according to our moderation rules. We also don’t have moderation workflow tools that allow us to, for example, sort incoming papers by subject, to get them to specific expert moderators. So all our moderators look at all papers as they come in. That encourages us to think about narrowing the range of subjects we accept. The two rule changes below are intended to help manage the increased moderator burden. More policy changes may follow if the volume keeps increasing. **1. ORCID requirement** We require the submitting author to have a publicly accessible ORCID linked from the OSF profile page, with a name that matches that on the paper and the OSF account. In the case of non-bibliographic submittors (e.g., a research assistant submitting for a supervisor), the first author must have an ORCID. We can make exceptions for institutional submitters upon request, such as journals that upload their papers for authors. At present we are not requiring additional verification or specific trust markers on the ORCID (such as email or employer verification), just the existence of an account that lists the author’s name. It’s not a foolproof identity verification, obviously, but it adds a step for scammers, and also helps identify pseudonymous authors, which we do not permit. We may take advantage of ORCID’s trust markers program in the future and require additional elements on the ORCID record. We are happy to host papers by independent scholars, but a disproportionate share of non-research, spam, and AI-generated submissions come from independent scholars, many of whom do not have ORCIDs. For those scholars with institutional affiliations, we urge you to get an ORCID. This is a good practice that we should all endorse. **2. Focus on social sciences** At its founding, SocArXiv did not want to maintain disciplinary boundaries. It was our intention to be the big paper server for all of social sciences, and we couldn’t draw an easy line between social sciences and some humanities subjects, especially history, philosophy, religious studies, and some area studies, which are humanities in the taxonomy we use, but have significant overlap with social sciences. It was more logical just to accept them all. As the volume has increased, this has become less practical. In addition, a lot of junk and AI submissions are in the areas of religion, philosophy, and various language studies. We also don’t have moderators working in arts and humanities, and our moderators trained in social sciences are not expert at reviewing these papers. Finally, there is an excellent, open humanities archive: Knowledge Commons (KC Works), which is freely available for humanities scholars. With approval from that service, we will now direct authors to their site for papers we are rejecting in arts and humanities subjects. We continue to accept papers in education and law, which are also generally adjacent to social science. For a limited time we will accept revisions of papers we already host in arts and humanities, but urge those authors to include links to Knowledge Commons or somewhere else that can host their work in the future. We will assess papers that include arts/humanities as well as social science subject identifiers, and if we determine they are principally in art/humanities, reject them. We will continue to host all work we have already accepted. ### Share this: * Tweet * * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * More * * * Like Loading...

Update. #SocArXiv (@socarxiv) is dealing with a similar problem by requiring submitters to have #ORCIDs and tightening its focus on the social sciences.
socopen.org/2025/11/19/socarxiv-subm...

#GreenOA #Preprints #Repositories

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I applaud the new #StockholmDeclaration for the reform of academic publishing.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805

It calls for action on four high-level principles, and makes 34 specific recommendations under those four heads. Here are the four:

"(i) Academia should […]

Original post on fediscience.org

I applaud the new #StockholmDeclaration for the reform of academic publishing.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805

It calls for action on four high-level principles, and makes 34 specific recommendations under those four heads. Here are the four:

"(i) Academia should […]

Nice webinaire with stats and case studies on how AI bots impact open access repositories
#openaccess #GreenOA #AI #LLM #GenAI

ACS Open Access quota exhausted for 2025 | Lib4RI

‼️ACS Open Access Quota for 2025 now exhausted‼️Free of charge OA publishing will not be possible in 2025. #GreenOA is still possible.
www.lib4ri.ch/acs-open-acc...
Negotiations for 2026 are ongoing. Curious about the background? Join our coffee lecture on 2 Dec! www.lib4ri.ch/coffee-lectu...

Original post on openbiblio.social

Wussten Sie, dass Sie Ihre Publikation auch nach der Verlagsveröffentlichung frei zugänglich machen können? 🌱

Green Open Access macht’s möglich – TORE hilft Ihnen dabei!

#OAWeek #OpenAccess #GreenOA #TORE […]

Science should be shared as widely as possible. 🌍
When you publish with us, you can self-archive your research in a public repository immediately upon acceptance—no fees, no embargo period.
🎥 Learn more about our #GreenOA policies: https://aippub.org/3KYYgHn
#OpenScience #OAweek2025

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Jack Baker was falsely accused of #plagiarism (by his plagiarist!) and now recommends #GreenOA, especially for #preprints, to establish your priority.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02947-3
(#paywalled)

I've been making this point for years and welcome this chance to reiterate […]

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The federal govt shutdown is halting or slowing operations at #OpenAccess #repositories like #PubMedCentral: "Because of a lapse in government funding, the information on this website may not be up to date, transactions submitted via the website may not be processed, and the agency may not be […]

Visibility, Discoverability, Findability, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Academic SEO in Digital Repositories: A scoping review – BiD

🍂 This paper offers 22 techniques to improve visibility in #digital_repositories. Must read for institutional repository managers! @danreyesl.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1344/bid2...

#greenOA #OA #SEO

[Online] très intéressant webinaire du CCSD "Vers un déploiement national de la validation technique" avec la dream team #HAL
#openaccess #GreenOA #openscience #repositories #workflow

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"Open access publishing: is urology ready? A survey of authors, readers, and editorial board’s knowledge, impressions and satisfaction."
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00345-0...
(#paywalled)

Not a good way to run a survey or report the results.

* The results are paywalled […]

@ifla.org journal has a #repository article out
#skybrarians #scholcomms #openaccess #open #greenoa

Public Access - AIP Publishing LLC Immediate, Open Access to Your Research At AIP Publishing, our commitment to open science means that authors can meet public access mandates no matter where you choose […]

Zero embargo. 100% compliant.
The new NIH Public Access Policy is here — and AIP Publishing is ready.

Our Green OA policy lets authors:
✅ Deposit accepted manuscripts immediately
✅ Skip embargoes & APCs
✅ Stay fully compliant with NIH & other US funders

🔗 aippub.org/3GHT8py
#GreenOA #OpenAccess

Climate/AI: looked at closed articles (AAM) deposited IRs #GreenOA #OSMonitoring2025
- higher topic persistence
- higher academic impact (citations)

French HAL/OpenEdition.org
- high engagement by economic/societal/civil sectors
- preferred for OA content (VOR vs. #preprint)

Hopefully there is an open access version in a repository #GreenOA #RightsRetention

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3/ The #NIH policy is all-green (#GreenOA). It requires deposit in an OA repository, PubMed Central (#PMC). It does not require publishing in an OA journal.

If you're an NIH-funded author and a journal tells you that you must pay an #APC to comply with the policy, it's lying. Compliance is free […]

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#SPARC has released its own new info on the new #NIH #OpenAccess policy.
sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/...

Excerpt:

<blockquote>
● The Policy requires immediate public access to articles -- #embargoes are no longer allowed.
● NIH reiterates […]

Original post on fediscience.org

The #NIH just released new info on its zero-embargo #OpenAccess policy, which takes effect next week (July 1).
grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/po...

This includes:

* a new overview of the policy itself […]

Original post on fediscience.org

The Royal Society of Chemistry (#RSC) just issued a vague and puzzling statement about its plans.
www.rsc.org/news/our-evolving-approa...

It once planned to convert all its journals to #OpenAccess by 2028. By which it apparently meant #APC-based OA. But after talking with […]

Journées CasuHAL 2025 - Sciencesconf.org

⏰ Aujourd'hui 23 juin et jusqu'au 25, c'est #casuhal2025 !
Merci aux collègues qui font vivre ce formidable réseau d'utilsiateurs de @hal-science.bsky.social =>
casuhal2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr
#HAL #openaccess #openscience #openaccessrepositories #greenOA

Original post on fediscience.org

New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher […]