The recommendations aim to provide a basis for keeping the publication process as free as possible from barriers for authors with weak institutional ties, in order to enable an inclusive and epistemically just scientific publication system. The recomendations were developed at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in the course of the IDAHO project (IDentificAtion of Hurdles to Open Access Publishing for Researchers with Weak Institutional Ties: Epistemic Injustice in Scientific Publishing). The project focused on the obstacles faced by researchers with weak institutional ties in open access publishing. The recommendations were derived based on qualitative and quantitative studies with weakly-affiliated researchers and scientific journals editors.

Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...

Rigorous, ethical, and timely research is being conducted beyond the walls of traditional universities and research institutions - and it deserves equitable opportunities for dissemination. Yet affiliation-based barriers often stand in the way. We propose a set of recommendations for academic publishers and editors to mitigate obstacles to open access publishing faced by researchers with weak institutional ties, thereby fostering a more inclusive and epistemically just scholarly communication system.

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

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.

Skills4EOSC ‘Skills for the European Open Science commons: creating a training ecosystem for Open and FAIR science’ is funded by the European Commission Horizon Europe programme (GA 101058527)

The current publishing system doesn’t reflect how science is done – or how it should be assessed, writes Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

In this chapter, we identify four specific subtypes of epistemic injustice that target Indigenous knowledge systems, practices, products, and methods of transmission. These four subtypes of epistemic ...

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In this paper we describe how current efforts to reform science create oligarchic power structures within science and prepare scientific products for the uptake by existing oligarchic actors like Big ...

Science+ meeting organised by Professor Geoffrey Boulton FRS FRSE MAE and Professor Michela Massimi FRSE FRAS MAE