This presentation introduces how a relatively new, non-profit initiative – the Open Book Collective (OBC) – is furthering open science in a closing world via its diamond approach to funding open access (OA) book publishers. These range from small scholar-led publishers (e.g. Open Book Publishers, African Minds) to larger university presses (e.g. LSE Press, Leuven University Press). The OBC also addresses key gaps in the research infrastructures required for OA books to flourish, by providing funding to its service provider members (OAPEN, PKP, and Thoth Open Metadata).

The presentation concludes by examining how AI chatbots are reshaping human-computer interaction and what this means for maintaining accessible, user-centered scientific information systems in an era of changing user expectations. Disclaimer: my A.I. wrote this.

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This panel explores how open science practices can safeguard both innovation and platform independence in an era where knowledge itself is a strategic commodity.

Research information, or scholarly metadata, is important for decision making around strategic priorities, distribution of resources, and evaluation of researchers and institutions. It is also used by funders, institutions and governments to assess the effect of policies, and by researchers and societal stakeholders to find and assess research results. The value of openly available research information is increasingly recognized, as it supports fair research assessment and makes it possible for everyone to find and assess relevant research.

The pursuit of scientific transparency is not a simple matter in small-language countries.

Professor at Institute of Library Science and Documentation - University of Algiers II. Main areas of research: Open access, Open Peer Review , Global South Issues , Predatory Publishing.

In this presentation, we present the results of a large-scale analysis investigating the correlation between the level of metadata that publishers deposit with Crossref and the submission and hosting  systems that they deploy for their journals.

The question of rights in Indigenous research contains a set of conflicting principles: If the result of the research is decided by people outside of the relevant research project, we no longer have a free research, and might as well hand over the job to spindoctors. We will thus argue for free research when it comes to research results; any alternative to that will undermine the validity of the research conducted.

Sigrid Hegna Ingvaldsen, PhD, is a Researcher and Research Advisor at Stiftelsen Dam. She has a background in clinical research fields and neuroscience, and her current research focus includes initiatives for open research and social sustainability in health.

Diamond Open Access journals are a vital part of scholarly communication but they often lack the technical capacity to meet visibility standards set by major aggregators, indexes, and funders. With limited staff and budgets, many editorial teams face systemic barriers to interoperability, discoverability, and compliance with open science policies. The EU-funded CRAFT-OA project aims to address this by strengthening the most widely used open-source journal software in the Diamond ecosystem: Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Emerald has had varying success with its open initiatives; our zero embargo Green OA policy on the author accepted manuscript continues to be valued, our current Diamond programme is going from strength to strength, however the market was not ready for the innovative Emerald Open Research.

Institutional repositories are a cornerstone of the open science ecosystem, enabling global access to scholarly work and supporting long-term preservation. Yet in an era of automated data extraction and rapidly advancing AI technologies, these repositories face a new and largely unaddressed threat: large-scale, covert scraping of academic content by commercial entities, often for training proprietary AI models. This practice bypasses scholarly norms, offers no transparency or attribution, and exploits institutional infrastructure without consent. Despite the ethos of openness, such unchecked reuse risks distorting scholarly communication, undermining author rights, and compromising the trust that underpins open research infrastructure.

Bernt Glaser is a PhD student at the PsychGen Centre for genetic epidemiology and mental health, at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. His research focusses on the roles of genetics and the family environment in the context of neurodevelopmental conditions.

Our presentation will showcase a variety of innovative open metadata management, hosting, and distribution solutions tailored to tackle the problems of getting OA works into the wider book supply chain. We will show how Thoth enables publishers to create rich, fully open data in industry-standard formats, incl. ONIX (2.1, 3.0, 3.1) MARC21 & KBART for free, encouraging uptake of good metadata practice e.g. by integrating PIDs and controlled vocabularies as well as adhering to recent legislative reporting regulations. The resulting metadata is automatically released into the public domain (CC0), to facilitate easy re-use by e.g. libraries. Publishers can also either use the self-service option to export fully Crossref-compliant XML to directly register DOIs for books and chapters with Crossref themselves, or benefit from a dedicated Sponsorship route (via Thoth) and automated registration workflows that are available through the Thoth Plus service model.

This story is about an open agricultural knowledge sharing platform in the Pacific Islands, designed to serve the interests of the real grassroots – the famers, foresters and fishers – as well as policy makers, planners, researchers, technical advisors and community workers.

In our view, URGE will not only improve and simplify the process of creating a ReadMe file, but also serves as a driving force in the development of the ReadMe file, making it a definitive “must have” document in complying with the FAIR principles and best practice in Open Science.