03.07.2025
Mot-clé : scholarly-communication
03.07.2025
Knowledge Exchange begins exploring how alternative platforms can help shape the future of scholarly publishing
« This work defines « alternative publishing platforms » as innovative channels for scholarly communication that operate outside traditional book and journal publishing…02.07.2025
Posters submitted for the Diamas conference « The Future of Diamond OA Publishing in Europe and Beyond » held in Brussels on June 3rd, 2025
« The DIAMAS project proudly invited poster submissions from the scholarly community for the inspiring conference “The Future of Diamond OA…25.06.2025
Works-magnet: Accelerating Metadata Curation for Open Science
« The transition to Open Science necessitates robust and reliable metadata. While national initiatives, such as the French Open Science Monitor,…25.06.2025
EUA | Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system – Challenges and opportunities for universities
« Despite the deeply entrenched nature of the current publishing system and the significant challenges of transforming it, universities have a…24.06.2025
Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe
« Global scholarly publishing is often described as being dominated by international commercial publishers, particularly those indexed in Web of Science…13.06.2025
The Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG): Expanding participation in post-publication peer review
« Investigating the integrity of the published scientific literature is a crucial part of the scientific process. However, such investigations often…04.06.2025
Open infrastructures in conflict zones: a case study of DOAJ and Ukrainian journals
« This case study explores the role of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in increasing the visibility and accessibility…23.05.2025
Plan S: Annual Review 2024
« (…) In this annual review, we provide an overview of our activities in 2024, along with the latest advancements regarding…07.05.2025
Barriers and benefits of transitioning to an equitable open access model: interviews with LIS journal editors
« Not all library and information science (LIS) journals operate under an equitable open access (OA) model, despite librarianship’s emphasis on…15.04.2025
Research Ireland release interim Open Research Policy
« Research Ireland has released it’s interim open research policy, effective from 7 April 2025, applying to all research publications submitted…02.04.2025
Helping small publishers in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK with OA
« Thousands of smaller publishers in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom play a key role in…26.03.2025
Challenging Scientific Categorizations Through Dispute Learning
« Scientific dispute and scholarly debate have traditionally served as mechanisms for arbitrating between competing scientific categorizations. However, current AI technologies…20.03.2025
AI and LLMs as tools for open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities (video)
« Recording of the OPERAS workshop on « AI and LLMs as tools for open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities »,…05.03.2025
Meet the Libroscope: a new vision for ‘liberating’ data from biodiversity publications
« Some of the world’s leading institutions, experts and scientific infrastructures relating to biodiversity information are uniting around a new 10-year…25.02.2025
Gold, Green, Diamond: What You Should Know About Open Access Publishing Models
« The Open Access (OA) movement is quite complex: it involves diverse principles, models, and policy frameworks. The goal of this…19.02.2025
Jisc raises the curtain on OPERAS in the UK
« OPERAS is a European research infrastructure that supports greater visibility and impact across social sciences and humanities (SSH). As…18.02.2025
Tracking transformative agreements through open metadata: method and validation using Dutch Research Council NWO funded papers
« Transformative agreements have become an important strategy in the transition to open access, with almost 1,200 such agreements registered by…04.02.2025
Open But Hidden: Open Access Gaps in the National Science Foundation Public Access Repository
« In 2022, the U.S. government released new guidelines for making publicly funded research open and available. For the National Science…31.01.2025
Statement of Intent on Open Research Europe
« This Statement of Intent is signed by public research funding bodies, research performing organisations, and national ministries (hereinafter referred to…29.01.2025
Moving Open Repositories out of the Blind Spot of Initiatives to Correct the Scholarly Record
« Open repositories were created to enhance access and visibility of scholarly publications, driven by open science ideals emphasising transparency and…14.01.2025
Aligning and Mutualizing Nonprofit Open Access Publishing Services Internationally (ALMASI)
« The objective of ALMASI is to provide the research community with an aligned, nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem…10.01.2025
Fostering Trust in the Digital Age | Report from the TrustOn2024 international workshop
« OPERAS, the research infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities, collectively gathered a landmark report…27.11.2024
Octopus.ac integrates with UK government database to enhance collaboration between policy and academia
« The new feature automatically updates the Octopus platform with government priorities to transform how researchers and policymakers collaborate. (…) »14.11.2024
Webinar: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Leading the way | November 6th 2024 (video)
« The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community…04.11.2024
4th Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication | 2 December 2024
« Helsinki Initiative organizes 2 December 2024 15:00-16:30 CET a webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with three presentations ranging from…22.10.2024
ALLEA Calls for EU-Wide Harmonisation of Secondary Publication Rights for Scholarly Research
« In a recent statement, ALLEA expresses its strong support for Secondary Publication Rights (SPRs), a legal…05.08.2024
Should scientists be paid when AI chatbots use their work?
« Scientists should be compensated and credited when artificial intelligence chatbots pull information from their papers, a collecting society has said.18.06.2024
2018-2023: 5 years of building a strategy to support open scholarly communication – The example of the Université de Lorraine
« In 2018, the Université de Lorraine (UL) laid the foundations for its Open Science (OS) policy by making its open…18.06.2024
DIAMAS project | D5.2 National overviews on sustaining institutional publishing in Europe
« The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in…14.05.2024
Exploratory studies for the creation of a technology-aided collaborative translation service in open scholarly communication
« Since the Helsinki Initiative in 2019, language diversity and multilingualism have become key concerns in scholarly communication. (…) This…13.05.2024
Open Access Projects in Europe : from a general perspective to monographs and ebooks
« The development of policies in favour of open science and the transformation of publication channels for academic literature and research…02.05.2024
DIAMAS Conversation series for libraries: Advancing diamond OA in Europe
« Libraries are vital pillars of the Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem, providing infrastructure, services, and expert support to institutional publishers.19.04.2024
Better together: BTAA Libraries, CDL and Lyrasis commit to strengthen Diamond Open Access in the United States
« Representatives from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries (BTAA Libraries), California Digital Library (CDL) and Lyrasis attended the Global Summit…04.04.2024
DIAMAS Project | D5.1 IPSP Sustainability Research Report
« Understanding the sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers (IPSPs) constitutes a key step in the DIAMAS project. This…04.03.2024
Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expenses
« Academic institutions have made significant investments to support public access to research data requirements, yet little to no data about…01.03.2024
Europe PMC POSI update – 2 years on
« Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI…14.12.2023
The Essex Student Journal: demonstrating the benefits of diamond open access across the University of Essex and beyond
« The Essex Student Journal is a diamond open access journal that publishes the work of undergraduate and postgraduate taught students…11.12.2023
Improving the Efficiency & Quality of Institutional Publishing: Reflections from the OS Fair
« On 27 September 2023 DIAMAS hosted the Open Science Fair 2023 Workshop: Improving the Efficiency and Quality…05.12.2023
[STM] New white paper launch: Generative AI in Scholarly Communications
« Today, STM released a new white paper — Generative AI in Scholarly Communications: Ethical and Practical Guidelines for the Use…05.12.2023
Towards responsible publishing: a proposal from cOAlition S
« (…) In our draft proposal, we propose a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system…10.11.2023
cOAlition S’s « Towards Responsible Publishing » proposal: Early feedback survey
« The purpose of this survey is to capture early feedback from the scholarly community on cOAlition S’s « Towards Responsible Publishing »…31.10.2023
Open-access reformers launch next bold publishing plan
« The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing…31.10.2023
Introducing the “Towards Responsible Publishing” proposal from cOAlition S
« In this blog post, Bodo Stern, Chief of Strategic Initiatives at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johan Rooryck, Executive…31.10.2023
SciELO as a space for thinking through scholarly communication
« The history of SciELO can be understood as the search for a solution to a local problem with a view…26.10.2023
2nd Helsinki Initiative Webinar on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication – 1 December 2023
« Helsinki Initiative organizes a webinar series on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with speakers representing different expert communities and strands of…04.10.2023
A new way for researchers to deposit files in HAL, the French Open Archive
« HAL is the French national open repository for publications. Part of the Ministry’s research infrastructure roadmap and…04.10.2023
Seismica: Open science and community building in a new diamond open access journal
« Seismica, a pioneering diamond open access journal in Seismology and Earthquake Science, launched in July 2022. Seismica is an independent…27.09.2023
Journal Production Guidance for Software and Data Citations
« Software and data citation are emerging best practices in scholarly communication. This article provides structured guidance to the academic publishing…25.09.2023
Knowledge Exchange: Alternative publishing platforms. What have we learnt?
« Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly…28.08.2023
Accelerating open access: cOAlition S takes bold action to propel change
« KEY TAKEAWAYS – cOAlition S plans to drop 1,589 titles from its transformative journal programme due to insufficient progress…02.08.2023
#OAI13 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, 4-8 September 2023
« One of the underlying themes of this year’s meeting is the impact of open science practices on the nature of…01.08.2023
DIAMAS Project: D.1.3 Towards an enhanced and aligned institutional publishing landscape in the ERA
« This preliminary policy document calls for increased alignment in institutional publishing along several dimensions: (1) geographical (i.e. national, regional, and…23.05.2023
Advancing a publicly owned and not-for-profit scholarly communication ecosystem based on the principles of open science (.pdf)
« Joint response by the European University Association (EUA), Science Europe, Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), European Federation of Academies…23.05.2023
Open access at a crossroads: library publishing and bibliodiversity
« (…)This article argues that the gold open access model is destructive to the knowledge production ecosystem by addressing the importance…11.05.2023
Supporting diamond open access journals. Interest and feasibility of direct funding mechanisms
« More and more academics and governements consider that the open access model based on Article Processing Charges (APC) is problematic,…21.03.2023
SciELO MarketPlace – commercialization platform for scholarly communication products and services
« In 2023, the SciELO Program launches the SciELO MarketPlace as a platform to promote the supply and demand of scholarly…16.03.2023
EMBO Press to be fully Open Access
« From 2024 on, all papers published in The EMBO Journal and EMBO Reports and the source data in all EMBO…09.03.2023
Open access publication of public health research in African journals
« There are many claims to the benefits of open access publishing in general and for Africa in particular. This study…03.03.2023
Scholarship for the Public Good: Paths to Open Access (vidéo)
(…) The first event in the Graduate Center’s “Scholarship for the Public Good” series explored various paths to open access.24.02.2023
European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms
« This study investigates the relationship between scholarly journal publishing and public funding, specifically concerning the context of small- and mid-sized…21.02.2023
Crossref as a bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanities
« Crossref is an official digital object identifier (DOI) registration agency launched in 2000 as a joint effort between publishers to…17.02.2023
Diamond future of open access
« Diamond OA journals face similar challenges around the world. Funding and support are needed to make the transition to high-quality…17.02.2023
COAR Annual Meeting 2023, May 16-18, 2023, San José, Costa Rica
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18,…15.02.2023