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Tracy Creagh
@creaght.bsky.social

AFHEA Librarian supporting research & scholarship, advocating for #OpenAccess passionate about #equity and education, committed to #bibliodiversity in #OpenScholarship

Education 81%
Medicine 7%

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JOIN US! for series of 1 hour Watch Parties over 3 days to view curated talks from last week's OAI Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication @oai-ge.bsky.social Timed to suit folks in Australasia.
Details: oai.events/oai14/satell...
Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkS1MEFrJ...
OAI14 Satellite Events – OAI
oai.events

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

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🌏 Open Access Week 2025 - Thank You!
Open Access Australasia was pleased to present three distinct webinars with a diverse international and regional array of speakers #OAWeek2025
🎥event recordings are now available for you to watch at your convenience
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...
Open Access Week | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org

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Upcoming free webinar - #OpenPublishing professional development opportunity October 30 9 AM PT

Open around the world!

For journal editors, managers, educators, learners, and anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of community-led open publishing

www.eventbrite.ca/e/shaping-th...
Shaping the Future of Open Publishing: Introducing New Online Courses
Join us to learn about the Open Publishing Courses offered through PKP + SFU with registration open to non-credit students around the world.
www.eventbrite.ca

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🧭 Final webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia underway

Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back🤺

What does it mean to “own” your research in 2025? How can academic authors make informed choices about where and how people (and/or machines!) can access and build on their work?

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🧭 Final webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia underway

Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back🤺

What does it mean to “own” your research in 2025? How can academic authors make informed choices about where and how people (and/or machines!) can access and build on their work?

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Join us on 5 November 2025 at 9–10am UTC for Wayfinders #6.
"Diamond OA communities-of-practice in action" will dispel myths and explore the facets and features of diamond open access: bit.ly/47CAwla
With Femi Arogundade, @jbuggle.bsky.social, @creaght.bsky.social & Malavika Legge.
#OA #OpenAccess

Particular thanks to the panelists and their discussions about community and understandings of knowledge - including @theblochian.bsky.social with an overview of the Open Journals Collective
🌏Second webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia is underway
Unpacking the concept of knowledge ownership within community and collective contexts - community-based understandings of knowledge foreground collective stewardship, reciprocal relationships, and respect for cultural protocols
#OpenAccess

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🌏Second webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia is underway
Unpacking the concept of knowledge ownership within community and collective contexts - community-based understandings of knowledge foreground collective stewardship, reciprocal relationships, and respect for cultural protocols
#OpenAccess

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🚀First webinar for #OAWeek2025 in Australasia is underway
This session brings together speakers from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia to explore how government administrations are exerting ownership and control over knowledge, shaping narratives and gatekeeping access #OpenAccess 🌏

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📣 There's still time to register!
📅 29 October 2025, 16:00 – 17:30 CET
Join the Diamond OA Policy Forum and explore the future of #OpenAccess publishing with policymakers and funders from Africa, Europe and Latin America!
👉 Find out more and register for free: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...
Join us for #OAWeek!

Webinar: Mainstreaming Diamond – Regional Perspectives, Shared Futures

With @joedeville.bsky.social, @theblochian.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @rupertgatti.bsky.social, @joannaball.bsky.social & @paulaclemente.bsky.social

🗓️ 24/10 - 1:00 pm BST

🔗 shorturl.at/eFIvX

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📣The Diamond Discovery Hub has officially launched during the final confernce in #Göttingen. @eudch.bsky.social Join the #DDH today : ddh.diamas.org/en
First photo by Martin Liebetruth.

Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 3 👇
Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back
🗓️ Thursday October 23
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...
OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 3 | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org

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Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 3 👇
Vive la révolution! Taking our knowledge back
🗓️ Thursday October 23
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...
OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 3 | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org

OERs offer a practical, impactful way to widen access and rethink inclusion ... It means embedding openness into strategy, not treating it as a side project or fringe benefit @lseimpactblog.bsky.social #OpenAccess blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences
Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.
blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 2 👇
Community ownership: relation, reciprocity and responsibility
🗓️ Wednesday October 22
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...
OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 2 | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org

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Have you registered for any webinars for #OAWeek2025?
OAA as three webinars featuring regional and international speakers - Event 1 👇
The politics of knowledge: Who controls the story and who has access to it?
🗓️ Tuesday October 21
oaaustralasia.org/events/oa-we...
OA Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? Event 1 | Open Access Australasia
oaaustralasia.org

🌏Looking forward to #OAWeek2025 - a diverse international and regional array of speakers this year @oaaustralasia.bsky.social
📢 Registration is now open for Open Access Australasia’s International Open Access Week 2025 webinars

🔶2025 Theme: Who owns our knowledge?

#OpenAccess #OAWeek2025 #OA2025

Details and registration:
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

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📢 Registration is now open for Open Access Australasia’s International Open Access Week 2025 webinars

🔶2025 Theme: Who owns our knowledge?

#OpenAccess #OAWeek2025 #OA2025

Details and registration:
oaaustralasia.org/open-access-...

According to the new regulation:
a) The Editor-in-Chief of Journals linked to the university may devote up to 20 hours a week to editorial functions
b) The Deputy Editor of Journals linked to the university will have up to 5 hours a week
#DiamondOA

So - how can we sustain Diamond #OpenAccess journals?
Well, here's an idea 👇💡
In Brazil, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina published a 'Normative Ordinance' that officially regulates the workload for professors who work as editors of their journals. periodicos.bu.ufsc.br/portaria-nor...
Portal de Periódicos UFSC
periodicos.bu.ufsc.br

@lseimpactblog.bsky.social Publishers increasingly require (and academics are increasingly willing) to acknowledge and credit the role played by AI in their research papers
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
What do researchers acknowledge ChatGPT for in their papers? - Impact of Social Sciences
A new study finds LLMs to be acknowledged for only a narrow set of academic tasks.
blogs.lse.ac.uk

@beneltham.bsky.social and the closure of @meanjin.bsky.social

“If an institution this venerable and important can be killed off with the click of a mouse, few cultural organisations in the country can feel safe.”

theconversation.com/the-decision...
The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better
The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.
theconversation.com

@samuelmoore.org explores the "importance of collectivity and democratic governance within the transition to open access publishing" #OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #ScholComms
Publishing Beyond the Market 📚https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
Publishing Beyond the Market
Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...
press.umich.edu

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STATEMENT: Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override www.ifla.org/news/time-to...
The Statement ... calls on governments to protect limitations and exceptions ... & look at how to ensure libraries benefit from effective protections against unfair contracts
Time to stop the undermining of library rights: IFLA statement on contract override
IFLA’s Governing Board has approved a new statement prepared by IFLA’s Advisory Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters. This sets out the risk of licensing practices fo...
www.ifla.org

Excellent overview of the rise of scholarly publishing in the
#GlobalSouth 👇
"The future of scholarly publishing does not lie in reproducing the prestige-driven models of the past, but in building systems that reflect the world’s full intellectual diversity"
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication
Publishing initiatives in Latin America, Africa, and Asia are promoting diamond open access, multilingualism, and non-profit, scholarly-led governance structures.
doi.org