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Li Bo
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Librarian, Open science advocate
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December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market"

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Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control. Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024. Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor. Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence. Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies. At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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December 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Who owns our knowledge? Rethinking Publishing in a ScholarLed World https://scholarworks.uni.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=oaweek
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-off...
New offers from big five ‘still too costly’ for UK universities
‘Significant’ number of institutions predicted to drop deals with main scholarly imprints, leaving journal access much reduced
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October 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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The rise of China and the fall of open access
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The rise of China and the fall of open access
The theme of Open Access Week is "Who owns our knowledge?". The answer is increasingly likely to be "China".
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October 27, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...
September 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH
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September 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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ARL Comments on NIH “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” — Association of Research Libraries
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) requested information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs.” The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to provid...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A review of open access policy options for development research funders www.inasp.info/open-access-...
A review of open access policy options for development research funders | INASP
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August 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Guest Post — From Overhead to Essential: The FAIR Model Recognizes Research Information Services as Essential to the Research Enterprise - The Scholarly Kitchen
FAIR represents the best opportunity of the models under consideration to ensure that research information services receive appropriate recognition and sustainable funding.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Guest Post — Society Publishers at a Crossroads: New Evidence of an Accelerating Crisis scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/30/g...
Guest Post - Society Publishers at a Crossroads: New Evidence of an Accelerating Crisis - The Scholarly Kitchen
A recent survey of 66 learned societies (primarily in the UK) revealed a revenue crisis which threatens the very existence of community-driven publishing, and by extension learned societies themselves...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post - Beyond Access: Untangling Copyright Confusion in Asian Open Access Journals - The Scholarly Kitchen
In Asia, open access adoption is accelerating, yet the legal and structural underpinnings of this openness remain fragile, with significant licensing and copyright confusion.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Open Science governance: the role of persistent identifiers and metadata standards https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Preprint.-Open-Science-governance_-the-role-of-persistent-identifiers-and-metadata-standards.pdf
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Does anyone still need to be convinced that we need a strong, academic-led, equitable Diamond OA scholarly communication system that is immune to commercial capture and political pressure? www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t...
Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant
The administration has questioned editorial practices and whether journals are partisans in scientific debates
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June 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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🆕Blog: A librarian’s perspective on the core role of #DOAJ including discovering, accessing, and analyzing high-quality #OpenAccess journals - practical applications in journal selection, data analysis & promoting #OpenScience #librarians #metadata
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Guest DOAJ Blog Post with a head shot of Li Bo
June 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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International comparison of the UK research base, 2025 www.gov.uk/government/p...
International comparison of the UK research base, 2025
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June 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Teaching Open Science: Slide set Supports Lecturers https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/05/teaching-open-science-slide-set-supports-lecturers/
Teaching Open Science: Slide set Supports Lecturers | ZBW MediaTalk
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May 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📙The @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Annual Review 2024 is out, providing an overview of policy progress, tools, services, and ongoing initiatives that aim to make scholarly communication more open and accessible.
Read it here: 🔓 www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-annua...
#Plan_S #OpenAccess #scholcomm
cOAlition S Annual Review 2024
May 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Ross Mounce (@rmounce@mastodon.social)
IEEE trying to monetize authors who need to deposit their accepted author manuscripts under the CC BY licence 🤮 "The Repository Licence Fee (RLF) price is $1,275 for periodical articles and $400 fo...
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May 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Open Access Trends in Scholarly Publishing 2015–2024 - pulse49.com https://pulse49.com/2025/05/15/open-access-trends-in-scholarly-publishing-2015-2024/
Open Access Trends in Scholarly Publishing 2015–2024 - pulse49.com
Open Access rose to 59% of article output by 2023 before dropping to 47% in 2024. Gold OA dominates; Diamond remains stable but marginal.
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May 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/germanys-plan-for-an-open-and-independent-pubmed-safety-net/
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May 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Announcing the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) Registry & Forum @eudch.bsky.social

As an active project partner #DOAJ is delighted to see this project go live!

Supporting publishers, service providers, tools & technology providers

#DiamondOA #OpenAccess

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The EDCH Community
A forum where people involved in Diamond Open Access connect, collaborate, and innovate.
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May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM