Demmy Verbeke
@viroviacum.bsky.social
Head of Artes at KU Leuven Libraries and Associate Professor of Open Research. Scholarly Communications & Cultures in the Humanities with a pinch of 16thC humanism.
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"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
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How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-fanfiction-can-help-reimagine-scholarly-publishing
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
katinamagazine.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-fanfiction-can-help-reimagine-scholarly-publishing
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"Journal articles are the lifeblood of living scholarship."
...errr, I beg to differ.
The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
...errr, I beg to differ.
The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Journal articles are the lifeblood of living scholarship."
...errr, I beg to differ.
The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
...errr, I beg to differ.
The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
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Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.
'“We need a more long-term strategic partnership,” he said, noting that this could mean fewer but larger grants being awarded across the research landscape.' 2/3
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.
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I'm very excited to be part of the vibrant FUTURES Festival this year, inviting people to get involved with exciting research happening in the South West.
Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social
Programme 👇
Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social
Programme 👇
Join us at the *free* FUTURES Festival (11–12 Oct Exeter) for inspiring events celebrating history, archaeology, science & culture!
With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
October 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I'm very excited to be part of the vibrant FUTURES Festival this year, inviting people to get involved with exciting research happening in the South West.
Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social
Programme 👇
Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social
Programme 👇
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[VIDEO] Open Book Collective in action!
Hear from @openbookcollective.bsky.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books ⚖️
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Hear from @openbookcollective.bsky.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books ⚖️
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Open Book Collective in action: hear from our community
Hear from the Open Book Collective's members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books.
The Open Book Collective is dedicated to advocating for the…
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
[VIDEO] Open Book Collective in action!
Hear from @openbookcollective.bsky.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books ⚖️
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Hear from @openbookcollective.bsky.social members and partners about why we need a fairer and more sustainable future for scholarly books ⚖️
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Big news for #DiamondOA! The #EDCH receives a 3-year grant from the Gates Foundation to boost services & build a #community of OA publishers in Europe.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/pxcyTxd
👉 Read more: buff.ly/pxcyTxd
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Big news for #DiamondOA! The #EDCH receives a 3-year grant from the Gates Foundation to boost services & build a #community of OA publishers in Europe.
👉 Read more: buff.ly/pxcyTxd
👉 Read more: buff.ly/pxcyTxd
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Demmy name-checked @openlibhums.org and @openbookcollective.bsky.social as reasons to be hopeful in scholarly publishing. He finished by arguing that the future belongs to those who can discover new ways of publishing research outside of commercial models (I paraphrase). #OASPA25
September 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Demmy name-checked @openlibhums.org and @openbookcollective.bsky.social as reasons to be hopeful in scholarly publishing. He finished by arguing that the future belongs to those who can discover new ways of publishing research outside of commercial models (I paraphrase). #OASPA25
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ACCOUNTABILITY of where support is happening for open infrastructure with Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure tsosi.org explained in this Katina story katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
TSOSI - Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure
A data-driven platform to broaden funding for open science infrastructure.
tsosi.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ACCOUNTABILITY of where support is happening for open infrastructure with Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure tsosi.org explained in this Katina story katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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Yeah well whose fault is that??
September 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yeah well whose fault is that??
Reconstructed that I must have written and submitted this chapter in …. 2009, and never heard anything about it any more until receiving a copy in 2025. Luckily, my chapter does not present the cure for cancer. (4) (end of rant)
September 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reconstructed that I must have written and submitted this chapter in …. 2009, and never heard anything about it any more until receiving a copy in 2025. Luckily, my chapter does not present the cure for cancer. (4) (end of rant)
Then tried to reconstruct when I would have written/submitted this. Traced an email from 2016 when I asked editor about an update about the book / my contribution (to which I never received an answer, and then forgot about it altogether). (3)
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Then tried to reconstruct when I would have written/submitted this. Traced an email from 2016 when I asked editor about an update about the book / my contribution (to which I never received an answer, and then forgot about it altogether). (3)
Publisher invokes a “contributor protocol” that I cannot imagine ever having agreed to, so I asked for written proof that I did. (2)
September 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Publisher invokes a “contributor protocol” that I cannot imagine ever having agreed to, so I asked for written proof that I did. (2)
Just received a copy of a book chapter I can’t remember writing (topic makes sense from a previous life, but no recollection having written this piece). Can’t remember ever getting feedback and have certainly not seen proofs (I would have corrected an obvious mistake). (1)
September 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just received a copy of a book chapter I can’t remember writing (topic makes sense from a previous life, but no recollection having written this piece). Can’t remember ever getting feedback and have certainly not seen proofs (I would have corrected an obvious mistake). (1)
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The main thing I'm taking from this talk in #OpenFest25 with @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org and Hannah Hillan is that if we want an open access movement that is equitable and diverse, the process of publishing matters at least as much as whether or not outputs are open
September 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The main thing I'm taking from this talk in #OpenFest25 with @simonxix.com @kjsanders.bsky.social @samuelmoore.org and Hannah Hillan is that if we want an open access movement that is equitable and diverse, the process of publishing matters at least as much as whether or not outputs are open
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The new book "Publishing Beyond the Market" by Samuel A. Moore @samoore.bsky.social reimagines a more ethical, noncommercial approach to open access publishing. Start reading the #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
September 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The new book "Publishing Beyond the Market" by Samuel A. Moore @samoore.bsky.social reimagines a more ethical, noncommercial approach to open access publishing. Start reading the #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
highly recommend! nuanced analysis of what we are trying to achieved what can go wrong on the way there. oa not the end (and certainly not at all cost).
New open access book out from our MORPHSS project lead @samuelmoore.org:
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
"By deploying theoretical literature on science & technology studies, care ethics, & the commons, the book critically interrogates open access & reimagines a more ethical future for researcher-led publishing."
#OA #AHSS
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
highly recommend! nuanced analysis of what we are trying to achieved what can go wrong on the way there. oa not the end (and certainly not at all cost).
weekend plans? sorted
August 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
weekend plans? sorted
Libraries are not given budget to buy content but to support scholarly communications. Buying content is a means to an end, not the end.
August 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Libraries are not given budget to buy content but to support scholarly communications. Buying content is a means to an end, not the end.
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Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.
Incredibly frustrating title to this article 'OA economic model branded ‘fundamentally broken’ by Jisc' what they mean (and say in the article) is TA's don't work, not OA "https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-open-access-2025-7-open-access-economic-model-branded-fundamentally-broken/
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Can't repost this enough. A very misleading headline to a very clear message in the content of the article: OA is not the problem, big publishers and APCs & TAs are the problem.
Never thought about it this way, but this sounds very right to my ears and one of those light bulbs moments explaining the lack of progress I’ve been struggling with for a long time now.
OA policies/mandates don't regulate actual *publishers*, especially corporate publishers
And this is one of the reasons why "policy" is a flawed tactic in changing scholarly publishing
And this is one of the reasons why "policy" is a flawed tactic in changing scholarly publishing
July 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Never thought about it this way, but this sounds very right to my ears and one of those light bulbs moments explaining the lack of progress I’ve been struggling with for a long time now.
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NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
July 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
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New article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.
Comment yours below 👇
Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.
Comment yours below 👇
How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?
As infrastructures, policymaking activities, and funding for open access book publishing evolve, the question of how diamond OA might best be implemented for books becomes more pressing. A review of d...
katinamagazine.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New article in Katina Magazine: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'
Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.
Comment yours below 👇
Intended as an intervention into the ongoing discussions & activity around #DiamondOA to bring books into focus, the authors want to foster further conversations on this topic & invite feedback.
Comment yours below 👇