Lyrasis, Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries, and California Digital Library Receive Grant to Advance Diamond Open Access in the United States
great to see this work happening
Great to see the society journal 'European Societies' moving away from Taylor & Francis and now being published with MIT Press under a diamond open access model (no paywall for readers and no fees for authors either)
https://direct.mit.edu/euso/article/27/1/1/130542/Transforming-European-Societies-through-open
I wonder when it will get listed in @DOAJ , maybe from 2026?
The American Medical Association (#AMA) just killed off its #OpenAccess _Journal of Ethics_.
Here's the uninformative good-bye editorial.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/breaking-bad-news/2025-11
Here's a somewhat more informative news story about it.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/118526
Neither piece tells us why the AMA came to this decision.
hauschke
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I'm glad to see the launch of the Scottish Journal of Open Research. Here's the inaugural issue.
https://journals.gla.ac.uk/SJOR/issue/view/41
Andreas Wagner
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»insgesamt immer beispielhaft«: Wir freuen uns über die Lobhudelei von @anwagnerdreas , wissen aber auch, dass wir den Autor*innen, Herausgeber*innen, Gutachter*innen und allen anderen Beteiligten einiges abverlangen an #Flexibilität, #Entdeckergeist und #Experimentierfreude! Wir geben den Dank also gern an alle Beteiligten und Assoziierten weiter und hoffen, dass wir gemeinsam noch lange weitermachen können! #jubiläum #DH #openscience #diamondoa #openaccess #DigitalHumanities
»insgesamt immer beispielhaft«: Wir freuen uns über die Lobhudelei von @anwagnerdreas , wissen aber auch, dass wir den Autor*innen, Herausgeber*innen, Gutachter*innen und allen anderen Beteiligten einiges abverlangen an #Flexibilität, #Entdeckergeist und #Experimentierfreude! Wir geben den Dank also gern an alle Beteiligten und Assoziierten weiter und hoffen, dass wir gemeinsam noch lange weitermachen können! #jubiläum #DH #openscience #diamondoa #openaccess #DigitalHumanities
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Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️
Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.
Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️
Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.
Laetitia Bracco
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I applaud the new #StockholmDeclaration for the reform of academic publishing.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.251805
It calls for action on four high-level principles, and makes 34 specific recommendations under those four heads. Here are the four:
"(i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity."
I just signed it and hope you will too. When you sign, you can weigh in separately on each of the 34 specific recommendations.
https://sciii-it.org/stockholm-declaration/
#AI #Assessment #DiamondOA #GreenOA #Integrity #Nonprofit #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenSource #Publishing #Repositories #RightsRetention #ScholComm