Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Should publishers charge authors fees for exercising a right they already have? Here’s why the new fees from IEEE & @acs.org miss the mark and what could replace them. By @bodorama.bsky.social & @rachelbruce.bsky.social www.coalition-s.org/blog/yes-to-... #OpenAccess #OAweek #ScholComm

👀 ICYMI: "in today’s rapidly changing landscape of scientific communication, the decision feels less like a visionary leap and more like an uninspired nod to the status quo" #Nature #PeerReview #ScholComm

Can authors afford APCs for #openaccess publishing if NIH caps its payments for them? Institutional read-and-publish deals offer an APC-free alternative, but NIH also wants to lower the indirect cost rate to 15%, which could squeeze money for such deals. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... @ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

1️⃣ From @timeshighered.bsky.social: The UK is calling for a fundamental shift in how to fund & structure #AcademicPublishing, breaking the link between publisher profits & article volume. A powerful case for thinking #OpenAccess at scale 🔗Read more: shorturl.at/PbFRi

New study reveals concerns over scientific paper quality due to overwhelming publication volume. A retracted paper with AI-generated errors highlights the issue. Royal Society to review publishing. #ScientificPublishing #News

After a successful period leading our strategic direction, @rkiley.bsky.social concludes his role as cOAlition S Head of Strategy in June. 📰 www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-...

📙The @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Annual Review 2024 is out, providing an overview of policy progress, tools, services, and ongoing initiatives that aim to make scholarly communication more open and accessible. Read it here: 🔓 www.coalition-s.org/plan-s-annua... #Plan_S #OpenAccess #scholcomm

📢 Just released: Updated "How Equitable Is It?" tool with clearer definitions for assessing #equity in #ScholComm models. 👉 coalitions.typeform.com/Equity-Tool 📰 www.coalition-s.org/updated-vers... By the beyond article-based charges working group, cOAlition S, @jisc.bsky.social, @plos.org

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

“I will be resigning my position as associate editor at the Royal Society’s journal Open Science with immediate effect. I will no longer submit my research to Royal Society journals or act as a peer reviewer for them. I would urge my colleagues to do the same” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PLOS statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos... #scientificpublishing

Update. From @hildabast: "What if We Can’t Rely on PubMed?" https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/what-if-we-cant-rely-on-pubmed/ "#pubmed is incredibly reliable…That said, between the risks of an exodus of key personnel, understaffing, or goodness-knows-what vandalism when a goon squad […]

Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

When researchers can’t afford to publish or access research, science loses vital perspectives. 📽️Watch how the #EquitablePricing Framework, developed by #informationpower for @cOAlitionS_OA, can make #ScholComm more accessible & equitable for researchers worldwide. #OpenAccess #OpenScience

Innovation in scholarly comms & uptake of new models are hampered by scholarly infrastructures continuing to use increasingly outdated approaches. This collectively authored piece recommends 4 criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases upstream.force11.org/criteria-for...

The @wellcometrust.bsky.social update their #openaccess policy making it clear that their funding can no longer be used to support APCs for journals that are part of Jisc-approved transformative agreements. See: wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Between predatory publications and preprints with no subsequent journal publication, there is a lot of dross out there the general public cannot fully put into context. #AcademicPublishing

A very thoughtful essay on the urgent need to start recognizing the crucial role peer-reviewers in the process of knowledge generation 🧐 📝 @cbo.bsky.social #OpenScience #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing undark.org/2024/07/04/o...

'Upon accepting NIH funding, recipients grant to NIH the right to make Author Accepted Manuscripts resulting from the funding publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication' Rights retention baked into the new US federal OA policy. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

At the @boilerroom-tv.bsky.social Guildford, looking forward to seeing @GracePetrie.

India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few The yearly fee of $241m to access 13k journals is high, but access is also restricted to researchers, when the ambition was to give access to every individual in India #openaccess See: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I cannot shout this loud enough - WE NEED IDENTITY CERTIFICATION IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING

The #Indian government's One Nation One Subscription #onos plan fails to address the problems of scholarly publishing and represents a half-baked plan at best. Also does nothing to get rid of the evils of commercial #sciencepublishing#indian Edit in The Hindu […]

How does Web of Science's decision to stop indexing @elife.bsky.social work against the interest of science? Bodo Stern, Chief of Strategic Initiatives at @hhmi.bsky.social, explains: ✍️ coalition-s.org/blog/how-the... #ScholComm #OpenScience #OpenAccess

How the Web of Science takes a step back Great post by Bodo Stern, @hhmi.bsky.social on the how Clarivate’s decision to stop indexing @elife.bsky.social articles works against the interest of science. www.coalition-s.org/blog/how-the... #openaccess #openscience @[email protected]

“Our entire epistemology of science and research relies on the chain of footnotes.”