Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

Update. Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #WoltersKluwer) falsely asserting that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/SAP.0000000000004612
(#paywalled)

General thesis: Paying APCs is a hardship (true) and the prices are going up (true). Therefore, to help medical students publish OA, medical schools should fund their APCs.

The article never mentions no-fee OA journals (#DiamondOA) or no-fee OA repositories (#GreenOA).

#ScholComm

Mit der Publikationsplattform Open Research Europe will Europa die Wissenschaft aus dem Würgegriff profitorientierter Großverlage befreien.

Ein Schritt, der längst überfällig ist, meint BJÖRN BREMBS ( @brembs )

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

Mit der Publikationsplattform Open Research Europe will Europa die Wissenschaft aus dem Würgegriff profitorientierter Großverlage befreien.

Ein Schritt, der längst überfällig ist, meint BJÖRN BREMBS ( @brembs )

#OpenAccess #DiamondOA

https://verfassungsblog.de/rechnungshof-statt-redaktionsschluss/

Diethard Tautz and Paul Rainey propose criteria for journal quality entirely apart from citation impact and reputation. While you think over their proposal, don't overlook their case for some of the ways we'd benefit from having good criteria (no matter who first proposed them):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00649-5

1. They could help us assess the justification for "public payments for journal services, such as #OpenAccess fees" or #APCs.

2. They could help "immunize against the predatory and fraudulent practices that are currently threatening the scientific publication system."

3. They could help funders "finance journals according to the Diamond open-access [#DiamondOA] standards as a basic infrastructure for science."

#ScholComm

Kudos to the editors of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, published by #SpringerNature, who just resigned to launch a new #DiamondOA journal on the same topics, published by @openlibhums.
https://www.openlibhums.org/media/press/Final_Open_Letter.pdf

Here's the new journal, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤.
https://www.philosophical-logic.org/

Also see the entry I just created for it in the #OpenAccessDirectory list of journal #DeclarationsOfIndependence.
https://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Journal_declarations_of_independence#2025

UPDATE: The announcement letter (first link above) was initially undated, but is now dated December 10, 2025.

#Editors #OpenAccess #Philosophy #Resignations

🌐Sámi dieđalaš áigečála (Sámi Scientific Journal) publishes exclusively in Sámi

🌐Editor-in-chief, Harald Gaski provides some information about the journal and the value of supporting and amplifying Indigenous voices

#DOAJ #DiamondOA #IndigenousResearch #ScholComms #sámiallaskuvla #samiuniversity #samiuniversityofappliedsciences #SamiskForskning

https://blog.doaj.org/2025/12/18/amplifying-indigenous-voices-sami-scientific-journal-included-in-doaj/

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

"Research Groups Oppose Capping #NIH Funding of Publisher Fees."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2025/12/16/research-groups-oppose-capping-nih-funding

PS: These universities seem to be saying: "We accept the growth of the APC model. We just need help paying APCs." They don't take any responsibility for steering authors toward high-prestige, high-JIF, high-APC journals, and don't acknowledge their ability to change those incentives while upholding their historic standards of quality. They could say instead, "We will revise our research assessment (promotion and tenure) procedures to focus on the quality of research more than where it is published." Insofar as universities succeed at shifting those incentives -- admittedly a long game -- authors could submit work to no-fee or diamond OA journals, bypass APC-based journals, and face no blowback from their P&T committees. All researchers and research institutions would win, including those institutions that now want govt help in paying APCs.

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #APCs #Assessment #DiamondOA #OAintheUSA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Universities

@OpenScienceNL's largest funding round ever supports 45 projects strengthening #OpenScience infrastructure in the #Netherlands!

🥳 Our University of Groningen Press is involved in 2 projects:

➡️ Joint metadata system for better accessibility and discoverability of Diamond #OpenAccess #books (w/ Delft, Maastricht, Nijmegen & Tilburg presses)

➡️ A national #publication infrastructure for #DiamondOA

🔗 https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure

CRAFT-OA ends on 31 Dec 2025. Do you follow us to stay informed about the #DiamondOpenAccess movement? If so, please follow the social media channels for European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) on BlueSky and LinkedIn. #CRAFT-OA helped build the EDCH, which is here to stay & to unite the European #DiamondOA community.

https://diamas.org/

#AcademicPublishing #NoFeePublishing

Diethard Tautz and Paul Rainey propose criteria for journal quality entirely apart from citation impact and reputation. While you think over their proposal, don't overlook their case for some of the ways we'd benefit from having good criteria (no matter who first proposed them):
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s44319-025-00649-5

1. They could help us assess the justification for "public payments for journal services, such as #OpenAccess fees" or #APCs.

2. They could help "immunize against the predatory and fraudulent practices that are currently threatening the scientific publication system."

3. They could help funders "finance journals according to the Diamond open-access [#DiamondOA] standards as a basic infrastructure for science."

#ScholComm

Thanks to @boukacemzeg for naming me one of the notable contributors to the ( #DiamondOA) 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 over the last 30 years.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/8761/