« Understanding the sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers
(IPSPs) constitutes a key step in the DIAMAS project. This research report has one main
objective: to investigate what financial sustainability means for institutional publishing
in Europe and the workforce involved in it. (…) »
« Academic institutions have made significant investments to support public access to research data requirements, yet little to no data about these services, infrastructure, and costs currently exist or are widely shared. For public access to research data to be optimized, funding agencies, institutions, and organizations must better understand the investments…
« Two years have sailed by since Europe PMC adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) in February 2021. POSI is a set of guidelines for open scholarly infrastructure providers and outlines how these organisations should be run and sustained. It offers a framework to uphold transparency and accountability. (…)
« The Essex Student Journal is a diamond open access journal that publishes the work of undergraduate and postgraduate taught students at the University of Essex. The journal editor and all peer reviewers are postgraduate research students at Essex. The Essex Student Journal therefore prides itself on being run by students,…
« On 27 September 2023 DIAMAS hosted the Open Science Fair 2023 Workshop: Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Institutional OA Publishing. The workshop addressed a range of challenges faced by institutional Open Access publishers, paying special attention to ‘diamond’ publishing models that are scholar-led and do not…
« Today, STM released a new white paper — Generative AI in Scholarly Communications: Ethical and Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI in the Publication Process. A followup to AI Ethics in Scholarly Communication which STM released in April 2021, this new publication is a resource for stakeholders in…
« (…) In our draft proposal, we propose a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system should aspire to, along with a mission that enables research funders – in collaboration with other key stakeholders – to deliver this.
For such a scholar-led system to be…
« The purpose of this survey is to capture early feedback from the scholarly community on cOAlition S’s « Towards Responsible Publishing » proposal. The proposal, which is available via Zenodo, seeks to facilitate the transition to an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem fit for the 21st century. The information…
« The group behind the radical open-access initiative Plan S has announced its next big plan to shake up research publishing — and this one could be bolder than the first. It wants all versions of an article and its associated peer-review reports to be published openly from the outset, without…
« In this blog post, Bodo Stern, Chief of Strategic Initiatives at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Johan Rooryck, Executive Director of cOAlition S, outline the new proposal from cOAlition S aimed at facilitating the transition to an open, scholar-led communication ecosystem. (…) »
