This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

miriam butt kann also auf 30 jahre aktivitäten rund um #openaccess zurückblicken. ein fazit: "es braucht nicht sehr viele ressourcen – es braucht leute, die daran glauben!"
ein tolles beispiel aus der (ja genrell erfreulich open-access-affinen) #sprachwissenschaft. #oat25

I am currently conducting my very first #metaanalysis (on the psycholinguistic effect of #genderfair writing). First pleasant surprise: on the 14 studies selected to be included in the meta-analysis, we were able to obtain the raw data for 13 (either because the data was #OpenAccess or provided by the authors upon request). Second pleasant surprise: the funnel plot shows no indication of publication bias, results are symmetrically distributed, with as many studies underestimating the effect as overestimating it..

I am currently conducting my very first #metaanalysis (on the psycholinguistic effect of #genderfair writing). First pleasant surprise: on the 14 studies selected to be included in the meta-analysis, we were able to obtain the raw data for 13 (either because the data was #OpenAccess or provided by the authors upon request). Second pleasant surprise: the funnel plot shows no indication of publication bias, results are symmetrically distributed, with as many studies underestimating the effect as overestimating it..

#travel #tourism #OpenAccess #API #Sweden

'The API (Application Programming Interface) consolidates content from all of Sweden’s 21 regions and structures it using the global data standard schema.org.

The result is a flexible, open system where around 14,000 tourism-related data entries—including destinations, accommodations, events, and experiences—can be freely accessed, reused, and integrated into digital services worldwide. '

https://news.cision.com/nl/visit-sweden/r/visit-sweden-launches-national-api-to-boost-global-reach-of-swedish-tourism,c4234310

We're at #OSFair2025 @span osfair this week!

Emma Green is facilitating a panel on building bridges between open + commercial players, while Sarah Lippincott joins a discussion on responsible research assessment via #OpenInfrastructure.

If you're around, let's chat about your needs:
✨ Maintainers: sustainability & governance support?
✨ Organizations: adoption barriers & solutions?

#OpenScience#OpenAccess

We're at #OSFair2025 @span osfair this week!

Emma Green is facilitating a panel on building bridges between open + commercial players, while Sarah Lippincott joins a discussion on responsible research assessment via #OpenInfrastructure.

If you're around, let's chat about your needs:
✨ Maintainers: sustainability & governance support?
✨ Organizations: adoption barriers & solutions?

#OpenScience#OpenAccess

Enacting Citizenship : Kurdish Women's Resilience, Activism and Creativity by Joanna Bocheńska et al, 2025

This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, and political fields.

#OpenAccess

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105492

@books
#books
#Kurds
#KurdishWomen

CLOCKSS @clockssarchive.bsky.social stepping in to support diamond #openaccess journals with their stuggles with long term preservation: clockss.org/new-pilot-di...

New Pilot: Diamond Open Access...

CLOCKSS @clockssarchive.bsky.social stepping in to support diamond #openaccess journals with their stuggles with long term preservation: clockss.org/new-pilot-di...

New Pilot: Diamond Open Access...

"This review draws upon insights from a curated body of recently published research papers to highlight structural injustices in academic publishing, their adverse effects on global research output, and the excessive pressure placed on faculty members to fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies."

https://jscires.org/10.5530/jscires.20250015

#scholcomm #publishing #academicchatter #openaccess

Enacting Citizenship : Kurdish Women's Resilience, Activism and Creativity by Joanna Bocheńska et al, 2025

This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, and political fields.

#OpenAccess

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105492

@books
#books
#Kurds
#KurdishWomen

reading https://liberdon.com/@linux/115163461488053805

What if @zotero had a #fediverse plugin and that plugin would listen to certain hashtags, like #icanhazpdf, and would reply to the requesting account and the fediverse account linked to the person of the Zotero account, or just send the URL for (green) #openaccess version of the article immediately?

#openscience #openerscience

reading https://liberdon.com/@linux/115163461488053805

What if @zotero had a #fediverse plugin and that plugin would listen to certain hashtags, like #icanhazpdf, and would reply to the requesting account and the fediverse account linked to the person of the Zotero account, or just send the URL for (green) #openaccess version of the article immediately?

#openscience #openerscience

Ahoy!

Call for sessions for Everything Open is out and loud and proud!

Canberra, Australia

21-23 January 2026

https://2026.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/

#OpenSource#OpenData#OpenScience
#OpenGovernment#OpenGLAM#OpenAccess#OpenEducation#OpenWeb
#OpenHardware#OpenStreetMap
#CreativeCommons
#EverythingOpen
#AllThingsOpen

Please boost.
Please propose a session.
Please discuss with friends and colleagues.

And yes! If you have an idea or a project to share, please go ahead and submit a session.

Your voice is unique and we want to hear it!

Sorry @brembs, but Open Research Europe is a recipe for disaster. It's centered around the idea of big publishing, i,e., there is one huge contract awarded to a big player who runs the entire platform. Currently, it's Taylor & Francis, but if that changes to one of the other big ones, it will hardly make a difference.

There is zero transparency on who the editors are and how they are being chosen. And editors have much much greater power compared to normal journals because by selecting suitable reviewers they can permanently prevent proper publication of an article by not obtaining approval status. In contrast to normal publishers, you are forbidden to take your rejected article elsewhere.

If I were to build a system designed for easy outside influence on the scientific record, it would look a lot like that.
Exactly the opposite of what we need these days.

I'm much more in favor of publishing with journals run by respectable scientific societies (like the APS journals we have in #physics).

#openaccess