» DIAMAS is launching an online consultation on the first draft of a set of actionable recommendations and guidelines for Diamond OA.
The recommendations are currently being developed through a co-creation exercise involving stakeholders at European, national and institutional levels. (…) The feedback collected through this process will be…
« OA Switchboard has announced a plugin for PKP’s Open Journal Systems (OJS), designed to enhance visibility and streamline reporting for diamond open access journals. The development has been made possible by funding from the Max Planck Digital Library. (…) »
« (…) The OSMI Coordination Committee will outline the issues and the reasons behind establishing the Initiative, and OSMI’s goals in brief. We will then update the community on the status of the consultation of the Principles of Open Science Monitoring. We will…
« (…) Titled, Why EOSC is pivotal for European Competitiveness, the paper elaborates an easy-to-understand narrative for EOSC linked to the most recent political and policy-related developments. The document briefly describes how EOSC could contribute to the challenges highlighted in the Letta report. (…) »
« For a second year in a row, “Community over Commercialization” proved to be a powerful galvanizing theme for International Open Access Week, held on October 21-27, 2024. All around the world, advocates hosted creative events, shared research, and produced resources to help move open scholarship forward in the public interest.…
« There is a long history of attempts to unify and rationalise academic research. Taking the example of VINITI, the Soviet Union’s centralised approach to organising global research, Björn Hammarfelt and Johanna Dahlin explore how an organisation that at its height employed tens of thousands, provides a parallel and precursor to…
« The humanities have distinct publication practices compared to the sciences, with books and local language literature being essential. This study aims to identify and analyze the publication patterns of humanities scholars in Spanish-speaking countries, revealing unique publication behaviors and fostering diverse perspectives rather than linear knowledge progression. We analyzed the…
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights into the changing landscape of society publishing. It identifies a rapid decline in the number of self-published societies and an increasingly complex outsourcing landscape. New publishing partnerships are emerging with…
« Helsinki Initiative organizes 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET a webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with three presentations ranging from researchers’ use of different languages in scholarly work and communication to coverage of publication languages in OpenAlex database. The speakers include Ginevra Peruginelli, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia and Lucía Céspedes. The event…
« Single platform will continue to streamline decision making in open access publication and compliance for authors and institutions
We have combined the three Sherpa services, Sherpa Fact, Sherpa Romeo and Sherpa Juliet, into a single platform with a new name, open policy finder.
The new platform…
