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Publish one diamond open access article in 5 years
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Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025.
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Agenda draft for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025
During 2024, the Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre has taken shape by acquiring partners, advisors, and members. For the year 2025, the following results and concrete activities are planned for our...
zenodo.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025.
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Agenda draft for the Netherlands Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025.
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Open for comments and additions:
zenodo.org/records/1493...
Agenda draft for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre Year 2025
During 2024, the Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre has taken shape by acquiring partners, advisors, and members. For the year 2025, the following results and concrete activities are planned for our...
zenodo.org
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
More diamond open access awareness happening!
New event series for high-quality, non-profit Diamond OA in linguistics at @zasberlin.bsky.social
Keynote lecture on the future of equitable and inclusive open access publishing, 7th of May, 2pm Berlin time, Participation is free, but registration is required, eveeno.com/187816783
Keynote lecture on the future of equitable and inclusive open access publishing, 7th of May, 2pm Berlin time, Participation is free, but registration is required, eveeno.com/187816783
Lecture by Johan Rooryck (Leiden University) "Towards equitable and inclusive Open Access in linguistics"
Professor Johan Rooryk will discuss the challenges and opportunities of running Diamond Open Access linguistics journals in terms of their governance, guidelines, and sustainability.
eveeno.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
More diamond open access awareness happening!
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Researchers, please consider filling in this Survey for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center "exploring the motivations and challenges that early-career researchers face when engaging with DOA publishing."
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Qualtrics Survey | Diamond OA
The purpose of this questionnaire is to better understand the motivations and challenges that researchers face regarding open access publishing. Specifically, we are focusing on Diamond Open Access (D...
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Researchers, please consider filling in this Survey for the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center "exploring the motivations and challenges that early-career researchers face when engaging with DOA publishing."
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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who says that science doesn't generate profit?
April 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
who says that science doesn't generate profit?
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Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Collective Action In Science Diamond
Publish one diamond open access article in 5 years
freeourknowledge.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Please consider signing up for change in scientific publishing
Were still collecting pledges to make room for community-led academic publishing! Please sign, and publish one of your articles in 5 years with a diamond open access journal.
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
February 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Please consider signing up for change in scientific publishing
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Remarkable long thread by @jeremymberg.bsky.social , ex-editor of Science, explaining how the sausage is made at AAAS . I hope he'll post this somewhere as a blog or article as these long threads are a bit tedious to scroll through and all too transitory.
Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Remarkable long thread by @jeremymberg.bsky.social , ex-editor of Science, explaining how the sausage is made at AAAS . I hope he'll post this somewhere as a blog or article as these long threads are a bit tedious to scroll through and all too transitory.
Were still collecting pledges to make room for community-led academic publishing! Please sign, and publish one of your articles in 5 years with a diamond open access journal.
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Collective Action In Science Diamond
Publish one diamond open access article in 5 years
freeourknowledge.org
January 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Were still collecting pledges to make room for community-led academic publishing! Please sign, and publish one of your articles in 5 years with a diamond open access journal.
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
A baby step! And you only need to do it when we have a critical mass of 500!
Commercial publishers have been happily corrupting the scientific process for profits. It is really time to organize ourselves differently
Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested
January 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Commercial publishers have been happily corrupting the scientific process for profits. It is really time to organize ourselves differently
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Funny that there was just one hold out who decided not to resign.
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes
All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned, saying the “sustained actions of Elsevier are fundamentally incompatible with th…
retractionwatch.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Funny that there was just one hold out who decided not to resign.
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...
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Nu ook op VOXweb www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/bezui...
Bezuinigen op wetenschap? Begin met een open access revolutie - Vox magazine
OPINIE - In tijden van bezuiniging kan de academische wereld veel geld besparen door commerciële uitgevers links te laten liggen en over te stappen op Diamond Open Access journals. Nederland zou hieri...
www.voxweb.nl
December 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Nu ook op VOXweb www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/bezui...
So what if you feel that pledges for individual actions are doomed to fail when it comes to changing for-profit scholarly publishing? Then we can also help lobby for change of investments! Sign this and support a step in the right direction openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-comm...
Call to Commitment: Future-proof OA Publishing
In March 2024, during the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl, NL, participants came together to discuss a new ‘Narrative for sustainable Open Access’. This resulted in the following Call to Commitment, w...
openscienceretreat.eu
December 17, 2024 at 7:20 AM
So what if you feel that pledges for individual actions are doomed to fail when it comes to changing for-profit scholarly publishing? Then we can also help lobby for change of investments! Sign this and support a step in the right direction openscienceretreat.eu/call-to-comm...
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Concerns are growing about the reliance on a small group of commercial publishers and the high costs involved, which threaten accessibility for less well-funded regions in the world. NWO is therefore advocating for a more equitable and diverse publishing landscape.
December 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Concerns are growing about the reliance on a small group of commercial publishers and the high costs involved, which threaten accessibility for less well-funded regions in the world. NWO is therefore advocating for a more equitable and diverse publishing landscape.
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Several Dutch academic stakeholders take an important step towards the sustainability of Openjournals.nl as a national platform offering (technical) publishing solutions for diamond #openaccess journals.
Read more about it here:
openjournals.nl/index.php/20...
Read more about it here:
openjournals.nl/index.php/20...
Press release: Dutch academic organizations will jointly support the development of the Openjournals platform as a national infrastructure for Diamond Open Access publishing of scholarly articles...
openjournals.nl
December 13, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Several Dutch academic stakeholders take an important step towards the sustainability of Openjournals.nl as a national platform offering (technical) publishing solutions for diamond #openaccess journals.
Read more about it here:
openjournals.nl/index.php/20...
Read more about it here:
openjournals.nl/index.php/20...
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"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024."
Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year...
www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...
Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year...
www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...
Updates on access to Library resources (journals).
In January, there will be changes to access to some Library resources (journals).
www.sheffield.ac.uk
December 12, 2024 at 9:07 AM
"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024."
Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year...
www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...
Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year...
www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...
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Now also English translation (author copy): wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n
Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n
December 3, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Now also English translation (author copy): wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n
Dutch: wimpouw.com/files/PouwBa...
Online copy: archive.ph/bfn1n
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A wind of change is blowing in Europe when it comes to awareness and a renewed interest for the diamond #openaccess (DOA). National coordinated and funded journal platforms play an important role in the further uptake of DOA. Who and what are they? Time for a (long) ! 1/x
December 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
www.science.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Lets make sure diamond open access becomes the norm, and reduce for-profit incentives to publish or perish. This pledge only activates when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
November 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Lets make sure diamond open access becomes the norm, and reduce for-profit incentives to publish or perish. This pledge only activates when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
Collective Action In Science Diamond
Publish one diamond open access article in 5 years
freeourknowledge.org
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Do you also see problems with the for-profit academic publishing system? Take action with us! Publish one(!) pub with diamond open access in 5 years after the pledge activates. Activation happens when a critical mass is reached. freeourknowledge.org/2024-01-30-c...
This is alarming
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 25, 2024 at 6:24 PM
This is alarming